1918 in music

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1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Top hit recordings
4 Classical music
5 Opera
6 Musical theater
7 Births
8 Deaths

[edit] Events

March 3 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premiered in Budapest
May 24 - Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest.
Toivo Kuula is killed in the Finnish Civil War.
First documented racially integrated jazz recording session.
Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year

[edit] Published popular music

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"After You've Gone" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"Bagdad" w.Harold Atteridge m.Al Jolson
"Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
"Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"Dallas Blues" w. Hart A. Wand m. Lloyd Garrett
"Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
"Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
"The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter Donaldson
"Dear Little Boy Of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
"Dear Old Pal Of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
"Ding Dong" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Every Day" by Shelton Brooks
"Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
"Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
"Fidgety Feet" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
"Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!" w.m. Robert Lloyd
"Good-bye, France" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
"Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" by Edward Rowland
"How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
"I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy
"I Want To Shimmy" by Shelton Brooks
"If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany" w. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer
"I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson
"In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
"Ja-Da w.m. Bob Carleton
"K-K-K-Katy" w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara
"Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
"Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
"Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
"My Baby Boy" w. Will Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
"Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Pete Wendling
"Oh! Frenchy!" w. Sam Ehrlich m. Con Conrad
"Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning" w.m. Irving Berlin
"On The Road To Calais" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Jolson
"Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. Joe Jordan (musician), Nick LaRocca & J. Russell Robinson
"Oui Oui Marie" w. Alfred Bryan & Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"The Rose Of No Man's Land" w. Jack Caddingan m. Joseph A. Brennan
"Russian Rag" m. George L. Cobb
"Somebody Stole My Gal" w.m. Leo Wood
"Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young
"Tell That To The Marines" w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson m. Jean Schwartz
"That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
"That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
"There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. Con Conrad
"They Were All Out Of Step But Jim" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Those Draftin' Blues" w.m. Maceo Pinkard
"Till We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
"Tishomigo Blues" Spencer Williams
"Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
"When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
"When Tony Goes Over The Top" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
"When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
"Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
"Without You" w. Nora Bayes m. Irving Fisher
"Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
"You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, Gus Kahn & Egbert van Alstyne

[edit] Top hit recordings

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"Tiger Rag/Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
"Over There" by Enrico Caruso
"After You've Gone" by Marion Harris
"Smiles" by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
"Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" by Al Jolson
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by Henry Burr

[edit] Classical music

Frederick Delius - A Song Before Sunrise
Alexander Glazunov - Romance of Nina
Augustin Barrios Mangoré - Un sueño en la foresta
Karol Szymanowski - Songs of an infatuated Muezzin

[edit] Opera

Charles Wakefield Cadman - Shanewis
Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico (consisting of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)
Gabriel von Wayditch - Jesus Before Herod

[edit] Musical theater

As You Were London production opened at the Pavilion on August 3
The Better 'Ole Broadway production opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on October 19, transferred to the Cort Theatre on November 18 and transferred to the Booth Theatre on June 16, 1919 for a total run of 353 performances
Buzz-Buzz London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 20 and ran for 612 performances
The Canary Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 4 and ran for 152 performances
Fiddlers Three Broadway production opened at the Cort Theatre on September 3 and ran for 87 performances
The Girl Behind The Gun Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 160 performances
Hullo, America London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 25
The Lilac Domino London production opened at the Empire Theatre on February 21 and ran for 747 performances
Listen Lester (Music: Harold Orlob Book and Lyrics: Harry L. Cort & George E. Stoddard. Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 23 and ran for 272 performances. Starring Mary Milburn, Eddie Garvie, Johnny Dooley, Clifton Webb, Ada Mae Weeks, Ada Lewis and Gertrude Vanderbilt.
Oh, Lady! Lady! Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on February 1, transferred to the Casino Theatre on June 17 and ran for a total of 219 performances.
The Passing Show of 1918 Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on July 25 and ran for 142 performances
Phi-Phi Paris operetta opened at the Bouffes-Parisiens on November 12
Sinbad Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 14 and ran for 164 performances
Toot-Toot! Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on March 11 and ran for 40 performances
Very Good, Eddie London production opened at the Palace Theatre on May 18 and ran for 341 performances