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1929 in music

See also: \n1928 in music, \nother events of 1929, \n1930 in music and the \nlist of 'years in music'.

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Musical theater
6 Musical films
7 Recorded popular music
8 Births
9 Deaths

Events

Published popular music

  • "Adios Muchachos" Raven, Cesar Vedani m. Julio Sanders \n* "Ain't Misbehavin'" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks \n* "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst \n* "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers \n* "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn m. Art Kassel \n* "The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" w.m. Carson Robison & Frank Luther \n* "Big City Blues" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad \n* "Bilbao Song" w. (Eng) Johnny Mercer w. (Ger) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill English lyrics 1961\n* "Black And Blue" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller \n* "Bolero" m. Maurice Ravel \n* "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante \n* "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift \n* "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman \n* "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis m. J. Fred Coots \n* "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren \n* "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow \n* "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noel Coward \n* "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee m. Charlie Henderson \n* "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept \n* "Do What You Do" w. Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn m. George Gershwin \n* "Don't Ever Leave Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern \n* "Dream Lover" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger \n* "Every Little Moment" w.m. Vivian Ellis \n* "Feeling Sentimental" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin \n* "Find Me A Primitive Man" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do" w.m. Charles Straight, Joe Bennett & George Little \n* "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" w. Andy Razaf & Don Redman m. Don Redman \n* "Great Day!" w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans \n* "Happy Days Are Here Again" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager \n* "Have A Little Faith In Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren \n* "Here Am I" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern \n* "He's A Good Man To Have Around" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager \n* "High And Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz \n* "Honeysuckle Rose" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller \n* "How Am I To Know?" w. Dorothy Parker m. Jack King \n* "I Got A Code In My Dose" w.m. Arthur Fields, Fred Hall & Billy Rose \n* "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz \n* "I Have To Have You" Robin, Whiting \n* "I Lift Up My Finger" w.m. Leslie Sarony \n* "I May Be Wrong" w. Harry Ruskin m. Henry Sullivan \n* "If I Can't Have You" w. Al Bryan m. George W. Meyer \n* "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson \n* "If Love Were All" w.m. Noel Coward \n* "I'll See You Again" w.m. Noel Coward \n* "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson \n* "I'm A Gigolo" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "I'm In Seventh Heaven" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson \n* "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Leon Zimmerman \n* "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling" w. Billy Rose m. Fats Waller & Harry Link \n* "Kansas City Kitty" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson \n* "Keepin' Myself For You" w. Sidney Clare m. Vincent Youmans \n* "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Little By Little" w.m. Walter O'Keefe & Robert Emmet Dolan \n* "The Little Things You Do" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers \n* "Liza" w. Gus Kahn & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin \n* "Looking At You" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "Louise" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting \n* "Lovable And Sweet" w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant \n* "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" w. Elsie Janis m. Edmund Goulding \n* "March Of The Grenadiers" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger \n* "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting \n* "Mean To Me" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert \n* "The Minor Drag" m. Thomas "Fats" Waller \n* "Miss Hannah" w.m. Don Redman & John Nesbitt \n* "Miss You" w.m. Harry Tobias, Charles Tobias & Henry Tobias \n* "Moanin' Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Ralph Rainger \n* "More Than You Know" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans \n* "My Ideal" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase \n* "My Kinda Love" w. Jo Trent m. Louis Alter \n* "My Love Parade" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger \n* "My Mother's Eyes" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer \n* "My Sin" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson \n* "Nobody's Using It Now" Clifford Grey, Victor Schertzinger \n* "On The Amazon" w. Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Vivian Ellis \n* "Orange Blossom Time" w. Joe Goodwin m. Gus Edwards \n* "Pagan Love Song" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke \n* "Paris, Stay The Same" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger \n* "Piccolo Pete" w.m. Phil Baxter \n* "Puttin' On The Ritz" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Raisin' The Roof" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh \n* "Reaching For Someone" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson \n* "Rockin' Chair" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael \n* "Romance" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson\n* "Satisfied!" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend\n* "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar\n* "Seventh Heaven" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Lew Pollack \n* "She's Such A Comfort To Me" w. Douglas Furber, Max Lief, Nathaniel Lief & Donovan Parsons m. Arthur Schwartz \n* "She's Wonderful" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson \n* "A Ship Without A Sail" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers \n* "Should I?" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "Siboney" w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona \n* "Singin' In the Bathtub" w.m. Herb Magidson, Ned Washington & Michael H. Cleary \n* "Singin' In The Rain" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" w. Billy Moll m. Harry Barris \n* "S'posin"' w. Andy Razaf m. Paul Denniker \n* "Spread A Little Happiness" w.m. Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers & Greatrex Newman \n* "Star Dust" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael Music 1927. \n* "Sunny Side Up" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson \n* "Thank Your Father" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson \n* "Then You've Never Been Blue" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ted Fiorito \n* "Thinking Of You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby \n* "True Blue Lou" w.m. Sam Coslow, Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting \n* "Wait 'Til You See Ma Cherie" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting \n* "Waiting At The End Of The Road" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Wake Up And Dream" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "Walk Right In" Cannon, Woods, Darling, Suanoe \n* "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine" w. Irving Kahal & Willie Raskin m. Sammy Fain \n* "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "What Is This Thing Called Love?" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney \n* "When It's Springtime In The Rockies" w. Mary Hale Woolsey & Milton Taggert m. Robert Sauer \n* "Why Can't I?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers \n* "Why Do You Suppose?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers \n* "Why Was I Born?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern \n* "With A Song in My Heart" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers \n* "Without A Song" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans \n* "You Do Something To Me" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "You Were Meant For Me" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown \n* "Yours Sincerely" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers \n* "You've Got That Thing" w.m. Cole Porter \n* "Zigeuner" w.m. Noël Coward

Classical music

Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 1

Opera

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Musical theater

  • Bitter Sweet London production\n* Bitter Sweet Broadway production\n*Boom Boom Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 28 and ran for 72 performances\n* Die Dreigroschenoper Vienna production\n* Fifty Million Frenchmen Broadway production\n* Follow Thru Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on January 9 and ran for 401 performances\n* Follow Through London production opened at the Dominion Theatre on October 3 and ran for 148 performances\n* Hold Everything London production\n* Hot Chocolates Broadway production\n* Das Land Des Lächelns Berlin production\n* The Little Show Broadway production\n* Mr Cinders London production\n* Show Boat Paris production\n* Spring Is Here Broadway production\n* Toad of Toad Hall London production\n* Wake Up And Dream London production\n* Wake Up And Dream Broadway production

Musical films

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Recorded popular music

\n*"Am I Blue?" by
Ethel Waters\n*"Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane\n*"Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee\n*"I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw\n*"I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley\n*"I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band\n*"If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders\n*"Louise" by Maurice Chevalier\n*"Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby\n*"Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor\n*"Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith\n*"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith\n*"Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra\n*"Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards\n*"Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra\n*"What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra\n*"You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee

Births

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January 6 - Wilbert Harrison\n*January 28 - Mr Acker Bilk\n*February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith, US composer for film and television\n*April 6 - André Previn\n*April 29 - Peter Sculthorpe, composer\n*May 1 - Sonny James\n*May 3 - Denise Lor\n*May 25 - Beverly Sills\n*June 9 - Johnny Ace\n*June 23 - June Carter Cash\n*July 18 - Screaming Jay Hawkins\n*August 12 - Buck Owens\n*August 24 - William Winfield, The Harptones\n*October 2 - Kenneth Leighton, composer\n*October 26 - Neal Matthews The Jordanaires\n*November 10 - Marilyn Bergman, US songwriter\n*November 11 - LaVern Baker\n*November 28 - Berry Gordy Jr, record producer\n*November 30 - Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand\n*December 25 - Billy Horton, The Silhouettes\n*December 25 - Chris Kenner

Deaths

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June 2 - Don Murray, jazz clarinetist

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