1946 in music

See also: \n1945 in music, \nother events of 1946, \n1947 in music and the \nlist of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hit records 4 Other recorded popular music 5 Published popular music 6 Classical music 7 Opera 8 Musical theater 9 Musical films 10 Births 11 Deaths

Events

\n*February 8 - Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premiered posthumously by György Sándor with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra\n*Al Jolson rerecords his old hits for the soundtrack of his Columbia biopic The Jolson Story, and becomes a superstar to the post-war generation as well\n*Dean Martin's musical career begins\n*Little Walter's musical career begins\n*B.B. King's musical career begins\n*Lightnin' Hopkins' musical career begins\n*Chet Atkins' musical career begins\n*Georgia Gibbs signs with the Majestic label\n*Frankie Laine records "That's My Desire"

Albums released

\n*King Cole trio volume 2 - Nat King Cole \n*Merry Christmas music - Perry Como \n*Voice of Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra

Top hit records

\n*"Bumble Boogie" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra featuring piano Jack Fina\n*"Candy" by Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers\n*"Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti)" by Rocky Coluccio with Alvino Rey & his Orchestra\n*"Choo Choo Ch' Boogie" by Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five\n*"The Christmas Song" by the King Cole Trio\n*"The Coffee Song" by Frank Sinatra\n*"Day By Day" by Frank Sinatra\n*"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" by Betty Hutton (first charted December 1945)\n*"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" by Les Brown & his Orchestra with vocal Butch Stone\n*"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" by Dinah Shore with Spade Cooley & his Orchestra\n*"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by Glenn Hughes & the Martin Men\n*"Five Minutes More" by Frank Sinatra\n*"Five Minutes More" by the Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller Orchestra with vocal by Tex Beneke\n*"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" by the King Cole Trio\n*"The Gypsy" by The Ink Spots\n*"The Gypsy" by Dinah Shore\n*"The Gypsy" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Mary Marlow\n*"Hawaiian War Chant" by Spike Jones & his City Slickers\n*"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" by Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra\n*"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" by The Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller Orchestra with vocal by Tex Beneke\n*"Huggin' And Chalkin' " by Hoagy Carmichael\n*"I'm A Big Girl Now" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Betty Barclay\n*"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Perry Como\n*"Laughing On The Outside" by Dinah Shore\n*"Laughing On The Outside" by Andy Russell\n*"Laughing On The Outside" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Billy Williams\n*"Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" by Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra with vocal by Vaughn Monroe (first charted December 1945)\n*"Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" by Woody Herman and his Orchestra with vocal by Woody Herman\n*"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Frankie Carle & his Orchestra with vocal by Marjorie Hughes\n*"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Frank Sinatra\n*"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Charlie Spivak & his Orchestra with vocal by Jimmy Saunders\n*"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest\n*"The Old Lamplighter" by Kay Kyser & his Orchestra with vocal by Michael Douglas\n*"The Old Lamplighter" by Hal Derwin & his Orchestra\n*"The Old Lamplighter" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Billy Williams\n*"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Hoagy Carmichael\n*"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Helen Carroll & The Satisfiers\n*"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Paul Weston & his Orchestra with vocal by Matt Dennis\n*"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Kay Kyser & his Orchestra with vocal by Michael Douglas & the Campus Kids\n*"One-Zy Two-Zy" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by The Martin Men\n*"One-Zy Two-Zy" by Phil Harris\n*"Personality" by Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers\n*"Pretending" by Andy Russell\n*"Prisoner Of Love" by The Ink Spots\n*"Prisoner Of Love" by Perry Como\n*"Rumors Are Flying" by Frankie Carle & his Orchestra with vocal by Marjorie Hughes\n*"Rumors Are Flying" by Andrews Sisters with Les Paul\n*"Rumors Are Flying" by Betty Rhodes\n*"Rumors Are Flying" by Tony Martin\n*"Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" by Stan Kenton & his Orchestra with vocal by June Christy\n*"Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" by Dinah Shore\n*"Sioux City Sue" by Bing Crosby and The Jesters\n*"South America, Take It Away" by Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with vocal by Buddy Clark\n*"South America, Take It Away" by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters\n*"Stone Cold Dead In The Market" by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan\n*"Surrender" by Perry Como\n*"Symphony" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by Clyde Rogers (first charted December 1945)\n*"Symphony" by Benny Goodman & his Orchestra with vocal by Liza Morrow\n*"Symphony" by Bing Crosby\n*"Symphony" by Jo Stafford\n*"They Say It's Wonderful" by Perry Como\n*"They Say It's Wonderful" by Frank Sinatra\n*"To Each His Own" by Eddy Howard\n*"To Each His Own" by Tony Martin\n*"To Each His Own" by the Modernaires with Paula Kelly\n*"To Each His Own" by The Ink Spots\n*"To Each His Own" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by Stuart Wade\n*"Winter Wonderland" by Perry Como\n*"You Won't Be Satisfied" by Les Brown & his Orchestra with vocal by Doris Day

Other recorded popular music

• "Ain't That Just Like A Woman" - Frankie Laine\n*"Aren't You Glad You're You?" - Bing Crosby\n*"Black And Blue" - Frankie Laine\n*"Blue Skies" - Bing Crosby\n*"Blue Turning Grey Over You" - Frankie Laine\n*"By The River Sainte Marie" - Frankie Laine \n*"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" - Dinah Shore\n*"Come Rain Or Come Shine" - Dinah Shore\n*"The Darktown Poker Club" - Phil Harris\n*"Frim Fram Sauce" - Louis Armstrong\n*"A Gal In Calico"-Bing Crosby\n*"Gee, It's Good To Hold You" - Woody Herman (Frances Wayne, vocal)\n*"Give Me The Moon Over Brooklyn" - Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio\n*"I Cover The Waterfront" - The Ink Spots\n*"I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home" - The Mills Brothers\n*"Ol' Man Mose" - Georgia Gibbs\n*"On The Sunny Side Of The Street" - Frankie Laine\n*"Passe" - Tex Beneke\n*"Put The Blame On Mame"-Dinah Shore\n*"September In The Rain" - Frankie Laine\n*"September Song" - Frank Sinatra\n*"Seems Like Old Times" - Guy Lombardo\n*"Seems Like Old Times" - Vaughn Monroe with The Norton Sisters \n*"Some Little Bug" - Phil Harris \n*"That Old Black Magic" - Frank Sinatra \n*That's What I Like About The South" - Phil Harris\n*Time After Time" - Frank Sinatra\n*"Les Trois Cloches (The Three Clocks)" - Edith Piaf\n*"La Vie En Rose" - Edith Piaf\n*"West End Blues" - Frankie Laine\n*"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" - Bing Crosby\n*"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - Bing Crosby\n*"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - Georgia Gibbs\n*"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - Jo Stafford\n*"Your Father's Moustache" - Woody Herman\n*"You Won't Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart"-Freddy Martin\n*"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"-Johnny Mercer

Published popular music

• "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" w.m. Alex Kramer & Joan Whitney \n* "Ain't That Just Like A Woman?" w.m. Fleecie Moore & Claude Demetrius \n* "All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)" w.m. Don Gardner \n* "All The Cats Join In" A. Wilder, R. Gilbert, E. Sauter \n*"Along With Me" w.m. Harold Rome Introduced by Danny Scholl and Paula Bane in the musical Call Me Mister\n* "The 'Ampstead Way" w. Johnny Burke m. Jimmy Van Heusen\n* "The Anniversary Song" w.m. Al Jolson & Saul Chaplin \n* "Anything You Can Do" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin \n* "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" w.m. Bill Monroe \n* "Bumble Boogie" m. Jack Fina \n* "The Christmas Song" w. Robert Wells m. Mel Tormé \n* "Coax Me A Little Bit" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon \n* "The Coffee Song" w.m. Bob Hilliard & Dick Miles \n* "Come Rain Or Come Shine" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen \n* "Country Style" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen \n* "A Couple Of Song And Dance Men" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?" w. Eddie De Lange m. Louis Armstrong \n* "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Everybody's Got A Laughing Place" Allie Wrubel \n*"The Face on the Dime" w.m. Harold Rome. Introduced by Lawrence Winters in the musical revue Call Me Mister. \n* "Feudin' And Fightin' " w. Al Dubin & Burton Lane m. Burton Lane \n* "Five Minutes More" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne \n* "For You, For Me, For Evermore" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin \n* "A Gal In Calico" w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz \n* "The Girl That I Marry" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "Golden Earrings" w. Jay Livingstone & Ray Evans m. Victor Young \n* "The House Of Blue Lights" w.m. Don Raye & Freddie Slack \n* "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane \n* "Huggin' And Chalkin' " w.m. Clancy Hayes & Kermit Goell \n* "I Got Lost In His Arms" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "I Got The Sun In The Morning" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "I Guess I'll Get The Papers" w.m. Hughie Prince & Hal Kanner \n* "If This Isn't Love" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane \n* "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia" w.m. John N. Kamano, William E. Faber & Maurice Merl \n* "I'm An Indian Too" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "It's A Good Day" w.m. Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour \n* "It's A Pity To Say Goodnight" w.m. Billy Reid \n* "Laughing On The Outside" w. Ben Raleigh m. Bernie Wayne \n* "Legalise My Name" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen \n* "Linda" w.m. Jack Lawrence \n* "Lost In The Stars" w. Maxwell Anderson m. Kurt Weill \n* "Managua Nicaragua" w. Albert Gamse m. Irving Fields \n*"Military Life" aka "The Jerk Song" w.m. Harold Rome from the musical revue Call Me Mister\n* "Moonshine Lullaby" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "My Defences Are Down" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "My Heart Is A Hobo" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen \n* "My Sugar Is So Refined" w. Sylvia Dee m. Sidney Lippman \n* "Old Devil Moon" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane \n* "The Old Lamp-Lighter" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon \n* "The Old Soft Shoe" w. Nancy Hamilton m. Morgan Lewis \n* "Ole Buttermilk Sky" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael \n* "On The Boardwalk In Atlantic City" w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow \n* "One-zy Two-zy" w.m. Dave Franklin & Irving Taylor \n* "Open The Door, Richard" w. "Dusty" Fletcher & John Mason m. Jack McVea & Dan Howell \n* "Put The Blame On Mame" w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher \n* "A Rainy Night In Rio" w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz \n*"The Red Ball Express" w.m. Harold Rome. Introduced by Lawrence Winters in the musical revue Call Me Mister. \n* "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" w.m. Robert Troup \n* "Rumors Are Flying" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss \n* "Sooner Or Later" w. Ray Gilbert m. Charles Wolcott \n* "South America, Take It Away" w.m. Harold Rome Introduced by Betty Garrett in the musical revue Call Me Mister. \n* "Stella By Starlight" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young \n* "Stone Cold Dead In De Market" w.m. Wilmoth Houdini \n* "A Sunday Kind Of Love" w.m. Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes & Louis Prima \n* "Tenderly" w. Jack Lawrence m. Walter Gross \n* "That's All Right" w.m. Arthur Crudup \n* "There's Good Blues Tonight" Edna Osser, Glenn Osser \n* "There's No Business Like Show Business" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "They Say It's Wonderful" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "The Things We Did Last Summer" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne \n* "Time After Time" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne \n* "To Each His Own" w. Ray Evans m. Jay Livingston \n* "Uncle Remus Said" w.m. Johnny Lange, Hy Heath & Eliot Daniel \n* "La Vie En Rose" w. (Eng) Mack David (Fr) Edith Piaf m. Louiguy \n* "Who Do You Love, I Hope" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "A Woman's Prerogative" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen \n* "You Call Everybody Darling" w.m. Sam Martin, Ben Trace & Clem Watts \n* "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun" w.m. Irving Berlin \n* "You Make Me Feel So Young" w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow \n* "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" w. Ray Gilbert m. Allie Wrubel

Classical music

\n*Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra\n*Erich Korngold - Cello Concerto\n*William Walton - score for Henry V

Opera

\n*Benjamin Britten - The Rape of Lucretia

Musical theater

\n* Call Me Mister Broadway revue opened at the National Theatre on April 18 and ran for 734 performances\n* Show Boat Broadway revival opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on January 5 and ran for 418 performances\n* Song Of Norway London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 7 and ran for 526 performances\n* St. Louis Woman Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 30 and ran for 113 performances \n* Sweetest And Lowest London revue opened at the Ambassador Theatre on May 9 and ran for 791 performances \n* Yours Is My Heart Broadway production opened on September 5 at the Shubert Theatre and ran for 36 performances

Musical films

\n* Do You Love Me\n* The Harvey Girls\n* The Jolson Story\n* The Shocking Miss Pilgrim\n* Song Of The South\n* St. Louis Woman\n* Till The Clouds Roll By

Births

• January 3 - John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin\n*January 4 - Arthur Conley\n*January 6 - Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd\n*January 7 - Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine\n*January 7 - Andy Brown, The Fortunes\n*January 8 - Robby Krieger, The Doors\n*January 10 - Aynsley Dunbar, John Mayall, Jefferson Starship\n*January 11 - Naomi Judd\n*January 12 - Cynthia Robinson, Sly & the Family Stone\n*January 16 - Ronnie Milsap\n*January 19 - Dolly Parton\n*January 26 - Deon Jackson\n*January 27 - Nedra Talley, The Ronettes\n*January 31 - Terry Kath, Chicago\n*February 7 - Sammy Johns\n*February 8 - Adolfo De La Parra, Canned Heat\n*February 20 - Randy California, Spirit\n*February 20 - Jerome Geils, J.Geils Band\n*February 23 - Rusty Young, Poco\n*March 7 - Peter Wolf, J. Geils Band\n*March 7 - Matthew Fisher, Procol Harum\n*March 8 - Randy Meisner, Poco, The Eagles\n*March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager\n*March 14 - Jim Pons, The Turtles\n*March 15 - Howard Scott, War\n*March 17 - Harold Brown, War\n*March 19 - Paul Atkinson, The Zombies\n*March 19 - Ruth Pointer, The Pointer Sisters\n*March 24 - Lee Oskar, War\n*March 31 - G. Allan Nichol, The Turtles\n*April 13 - Al Green\n*April 13 - Roy Loney, Flaming Groovies\n*April 13 - Jim Pons, The Leaves, The Turtles, Mothers Of Invention\n*April 16 - Bobby Vinton\n*April 18 - Lenny Baker, Sha Na Na\n*April 26 - John Bucky Wilkin, Ronny & the Daytonas\n*April 26 - Vito Balsamo, Vito & The Salutations\n*May 2 - Lesley Gore\n*May 2 - Randy Cain, The Delfonics\n*May 2 - Robert Henrit, Argent\n*May 7 - Ray Monette, Rare Earth\n*May 7 - Arcelio Garcia, Malo\n*May 10 - Cher\n*May 10 - Dave Mason, Traffic\n*May 10 - Donovan\n*May 10 - Graham Gouldman, 10cc\n*May 12 - Ian McLagan, Faces\n*May 13 - Danny Klein, J. Geils Band\n*May 24 - Steve Upton, Wishbone Ash\n*June 3 - Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople\n*June 5 - Freddy Stone, Sly & the Family Stone\n*June 7 - Bill Kreutzmann, The Grateful Dead\n*June 9 - John Mitch Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix Experience\n*June 11 - John Lawton, Uriah Heep (band)\n*June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade\n*June 17 - Barry Manilow\n*June 25 - Ian McDonald, record producer, (Foreigner)\n*June 30 - Ian Matthews\n*July 1 - June Monteiro, Toys\n*July 5 - Michael Monarch, Steppenwolf\n*July 15 - Linda Ronstadt\n*July 19 - Alan Gorrie, Average White Band\n*July 20 - Kim Carnes\n*July 22 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer \n*July 23 - Andy Mackay, Roxy Music\n*July 28 - Jonathan Edwards\n*July 30 - Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, Jethro Tull\n*July 31 - Bob Welch, Fleetwood Mac\n*July 31 - Gary Lewis, Gary Lewis & The Playboys\n*August 5 - Jimmy Webb\n*August 14 - Larry Graham, Sly & The Family Stone\n*August 16 - Gordon Fleet, The Easybeats\n*August 19 - Beat Raaflaub, conductor\n*September 1 - Barry Gibb, The Bee Gees\n*September 4 - Gary Duncan, Quicksilver Messenger Service\n*September 4 - Greg Elmore, Quicksilver Messenger Service\n*September 5 - Freddie Mercury, Queen\n*September 5 - Buddy Miles\n*September 5 - Loudon Wainwright III\n*September 5 - Dean Ford, Marmalade\n*September 7 - Alfa Anderson, Chic\n*September 9 - Billy Preston\n*September 9 - Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly\n*September 11 - Dennis Tufano, The Buckinghams\n*September 18 - Alan King, Ace\n*September 28 - Helen Shapiro\n*September 30 - Sylvia Peterson, The Chiffons\n*October 6 - Millie Small\n*October 10 - John Prine\n*October 14 - Justin Hayward, The Moody Blues\n*October 15 - Richard Carpenter, Carpenters\n*October 17 - Jim Tucker, The Turtles\n*October 21 - Lee Loughname, Chicago\n*October 24 - Jerry Edmonton, Steppenwolf\n*October 29 - Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac\n*November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch rock 'n' roll artist \n*November 5 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician \n*November 8 - Roy Wood, The Move\n*November 19 - Joe Correro Jr, Paul Revere and The Raiders\n*November 20 - Duane Allman, The Allman Brothers\n*November 22 - Aston Barret, The Upsetters, The Wailers\n*November 25 - Bev Bevan, Electric Light Orchestra\n*December 1 - Gilbert O'Sullivan\n*December 5 - Andy Kim\n*December 14 - Joyce Vincent-Wilson, Tony Orlando & Dawn\n*December 15 - Carmine Appice, Vanilla Fudge, Cactus\n*December 16 - Benny Andersson, ABBA\n*December 21 - Carl Wilson, The Beach Boys\n*December 22 - Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick\n*December 25 - Jimmy Buffett\n*December 28 - Edgar Winter\n*December 29 - Marianne Faithfull\n*December 30 - Patti Smith\n*Geoff Emerick, legendary engineer and producer

Deaths

\n*January 10 - Harry Von Tilzer\n*January 18 - Lew Pollack, US composer\n*September 16 - Mamie Smith\n*November 14 - Manuel de Falla, composer