1921 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

Clarence Williams makes his first recordings
The Harvard Glee Club takes its first trip to Europe, garnering international press attention.

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[edit] Published popular music

"Ain't We Got Fun?" w.m. Richard A. Whiting, Raymond Egan & Gus Kahn
"All By Myself" w.m. Irving Berlin
"And Her Mother Came Too" w. Peter Dion Titheradge m. Ivor Novello
"Any Time" w.m. Herbert Happy Lawson
"April Showers" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Louis Silvers
"Baltimore Buzz" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Bandana Days" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Bimini Bay" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
"Blue Jeans" w. Harry D. Kerr m. Traveller
"Coal-Black Mammy" by Laddie Cliff
"Dancing Time" w.(Eng) George Grossmith, Jr. (US) Howard Dietz m. Jerome Kern US words written 1924.
"Dapper Dan" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
"Dear Old Southland" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"Down South" w. B. G. DeSylva m. Walter Donaldson. Introduced by Al Jolson in the musical Bombo
"Down Yonder" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert
"Everybody Step" w.m. Irving Berlin
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"Hawaiian Chimes" w. Irving Bibo m. Eva Applefield
"I Ain't Nobody's Darling" w. Elmer Hughes m. Robert A. King
"I Found A Rose In The Devil's Garden" w.m. Fred Fisher & Willie Raskin
"I Wonder If You Still Care For Me" w.m. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler
"I'll Forget You" w. Annelu Burns m. Ernest R. Ball
"I'm Just Wild About Harry" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin'" w. Sidney Clare m. Lew Pollack
"I'm Nobody's Baby" w.m. Benny Davis, Milton Ager & Lester Santly
"Jazz Me Blues" m. Tom Delaney
"Keep Movin'" Helen Trix
"Kitten On The Keys" m. Zez Confrey
"Laughin' Rag" S. Moore, H. Skinner
"Learn To Smile" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
"Leave Me With A Smile" w.m. Charles Koehler & Earl Burtnett
"Love Will Find A Way" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me" w. Sidney Clare m. Con Conrad
"Make Believe" w. Benny Davis m. Jack Shilkret
"Mandy 'N' Me" w. Bert Kalmar m. Con Conrad
"My Sunny Tennessee" w.m. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby
"Peggy O'Neill" w.m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge
"Sally" w. Clifford Grey m. Jerome Kern
"Say It With Music" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Second Hand Rose" w. Grant Clarke m. James F. Hanley
"The Sheik Of Araby" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
"She's Mine, All Mine" w.m. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby
"Shimmy With Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern from the musical The Cabaret Girl
"Shuffle Along" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Song Of Love" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"Strut Miss Lizzie" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"Swanee River Moon" w.m. H. Pitman Clarke
"Sweet Lady" w. Howard Johnson m. Frank Crumit & Dave Zoob
"Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes" w. Harry Pease & Johnny White m. Ira Schuster & Ed G. Nelson
"There'll Be Some Changes Made" w. Billy Higgins m. Benton Overstreet
"Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home" w. Sam H. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
"Wabash Blues" w. Dave Ringle m. Fred Meinken
"When Big Profundo Sang Low C" w. Marion T. Bohannon m. George Botsford
"When Buddha Smiles" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
"When Francis Dances With Me" w. Ben Ryan m. Sol Violinsky
"When Shall We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
"Whip-poor-will" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Jerome Kern
"Yoo-Hoo" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Al Jolson

[edit] Top Hit Recordings

"Wang Wang Blues" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, featuring Gussie Mueller
"Look for the Silver Lining" by Marion Harris
"Margie" by Eddie Cantor
"Margie, introducing Singing the Blues/Palesteena" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
"The Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
"Say It with Music" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
"All by Myself" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
"Everybody Step" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

[edit] Classical music

Agustín Barrios - La Catedral
John Foulds - World Requiem (1919-21) (premiered 1923)
Howard Hanson - Before the Dawn
Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major
Edgard Varèse - Offrandes; Amériques (1918-21)
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Fantasia de Movimentos Mistos, for violin & orchestra

[edit] Opera

Franco Alfano - La leggenda di Sakùntala
Nicolae Bretan - Luceafarul
Leoš Janáček - Katya Kabanova
Hans Jelmoli - Die Badener Fahrt
Emmerich Kalman - Die Bajadere
Pietro Mascagni - Il Piccolo Marat
Sergei Prokofiev - The Love for Three Oranges

[edit] Musical theater

Bombo, Broadway production opened at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on October 6 and ran for 213 performances
The Broadway Whirl, Broadway revue opened at the Times Square Theatre on June 8 and ran for 85 performances
The Golden Moth (Music: Ivor Novello) London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 5. Starring Bobbie Comber and Thorpe Bates.
Good Morning, Dearie, Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 1 and ran for 347 performances
Pot Luck London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 24.
The League of Notions London revue opened at the Oxford Theatre on January 17
The Rebel Maid London production opened at the Empire Theatre on March 12 and ran for 114 performances.
The Rose Girl (Music: Anselm Goetzl Book & Lyrics: William Carey Duncan) Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on February 11 and ran for 99 performances. Starring Mabel Withee, Charles Purcell and May Boley.
Sally, London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 10 and ran for 387 performances
Shuffle Along, Broadway production opened at the 63rd Street Music Hall on May 23 and ran for 504 performances
Sybil, London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 19 and ran for 346 performances