1922 in music

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1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Top hits on records
4 Classical music
5 Opera
6 Musical theater
7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

January 24 - Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 5 in Copenhagen.
April 21 - Death of Alessandro Moreschi, the last known castrato singer of the Vatican.
October 19 - Maurice Ravel orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris
Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Richard Tauber joins the Vienna State Opera.
Kid Ory makes his first recordings.
All songs written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States.

Published popular music

"Aggravatin' Papa" w.m. Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt
"Ain't It A Shame" w.m. W. A. Hann, Joseph Simms & Al W. Brown
"All Over Nothing At All" w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule
"Along The Road To Gundagai" w.m. Jack O'Hagan
"L'Amour, Toujours L'Amour (Love Everlasting)" w.(Eng) Catherine Chisholm Cushing m. Rudolf Friml
"Angel Child" w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis m. Abner Silver
"Baby Blue Eyes" w.m. Jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel
"Bee's Knees" by Leo Wood & Ray Lopez
"Blue (And Broken Hearted)" w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman
"A Brown Bird Singing" w. Rodney Richard Bennett m. Haydn Wood
"Bugle Call Rag" m. Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel
"Carolina in the Morning" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
"Carolina Shout" m. James P. Johnson
"Chicago" w.m. Fred Fisher
"China Boy" w.m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje
"Crinoline Days" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Dancing Fool" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
"Dearest (You're The Nearest To My Heart)" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst
"Do It Again" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
"Down In Midnight Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer
"Downhearted Blues" w.m. Alberta Hunter
"Dream On" (An Indian Lullaby) w. B.G DeSylva, m. Victor Herbert
"Dreamy Melody" w.m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C. Naset
"Farewell Blues" w.m. Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel
"Fate" by Byron Gay
"Georgette" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Georgia" w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson
"Goin' Home" w.m. Williams Arms Fisher
"Hot Lips" w.m. Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis
"I Found A Four Leaf Clover" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
"I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert
"I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"In The Little Red Schoolhouse" w.m. Al Wilson & James A. Brennan
"A Kiss In The Dark" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Victor Herbert
"The Lady In Ermine" w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman
"Lady Of The Evening" w.m. Irving Berlin. Introduced by John Steel in the Music Box Revue of 1922.
"Limehouse Blues" w. Douglas Furber m. Philip Braham
"Lovesick Blues" w. Irving Mills m. Cliff Friend
"Lovin' Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam)" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"March With Me!" w. Douglas Furber m. Ivor Novello
"Mary, Dear" w.m. Harry DeCosta & M. K. Jerome
"Mister Gallagher And Mister Shean" w.m. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean
"My Buddy" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
"My Honey's Loving Arms" w. Herman Ruby m. Joseph Meyer
"My Rambler Rose" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
"My Sweet Hortense" w. Joe Young & Sam Lewis m. Walter Donaldson
"My Word You Do Look Queer" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
"'Neath The South Sea Moon" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
"Nellie Kelly I Love You" w.m. George M. Cohan
"On The Alamo" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
"On The Gin Gin Ginny Shore" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
"Oo-oo Ernest Are You Earnest With Me" w. Sidney Clare & Harry Tobias m. Cliff Friend
"Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w. Harry Graham m. Robert Stolz
"Rosalie" w.m. Hugo Frey
"Rose Of The Rio Grande" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Warren & Ross Gorman
"Round On The End And High In The Middle (O-Hi-O)" w.m. Alfred Bryan & Bert Hanlon
"Runnin' Wild" w. Joe Grey & Leo Wood m. A. Harrington Gibbs
"Say It While Dancing" w. Bennie Davis m. Abner Silver
"Some Sunny Day" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Stumbling" w.m. Zez Confrey
"'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do" w.m. Clarence Williams, Porter Grainger & Graham Prince
"That Da Da Strain" w. Mamie Medina m. Edgar Dowell
"Three O'Clock in the Morning" w. Dorothy Terris m. Julian Robledo
"Throw Me A Kiss" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
"Thru' The Night" w. Virginia K. Logan m. Frederic Knight Logan
"Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" w.m. Dan Russo, Gus Kahn & Ernie Erdman
"Trees" w. Joyce Kilmer m. Oscar Rasbach
"'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"The West, A Nest, And You" w. Larry Yoell m. Billy Hill
"When Hearts Are Young" w. Cyrus Wood m. Sigmund Romberg & Al Goodman
"When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down" w.m. Richard Howard
"When You And I Were Young, Maggie, Blues" w.m. Jack Frost & Jimmy McHugh
"Who Cares?" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"Wonderful One" w. Dorothy Terris m. Paul Whiteman & Ferde Grofe
"You Know You Belong To Somebody Else" w. Eugene West m. James V. Monaco
"You Remind Me Of My Mother" w.m. George M. Cohan
"You Tell Her, I S-t-u-t-t-e-r" w. Billy Rose m. Cliff Friend

Top hits on records

"April Showers" by Al Jolson
"Hot Lips" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
"Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" recorded by
"My Buddy" by Henry Burr
"Oh, Is She Dumb!/Susie" by Eddie Cantor
"On the Alamo" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
"Three O'Clock In the Morning" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
"Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" by Al Jolson
"Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" by Margaret Young

Classical music

Kurt Atterberg - Cello Concerto
Vittorio Giannini - Stabat Mater
Hamilton Harty - Piano Concerto
Paul Hindemith - String Quartet No. 3 in C, Op. 22
Manuel Infante - Sevillana "Impresiones de fiesta en Sevilla"
William Walton - Façade (subsequently revised)

Opera

Jean Cras - Polyphème
Jules Massenet - Amadis
The Fakir of Benares
Igor Stravinsky - Mavra

Musical theater

The Cabaret Girl (Music: Jerome Kern, Book and Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith, Jr.) London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19 and ran for 462 performances
The Hotel Mouse Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 13 and ran for 88 performances
Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances
Make It Snappy Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 13 and ran for 96 performances. Starring Eddie Cantor, Lew Hearn, J. Harold Murray, Nan Halperin, Georgie Hale and Tot Qualters.
The Music Box Revue of 1922 opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 23 and ran for 330 performances
Phi-Phi London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre on August 16 and ran for 132 performances
Queen O' Hearts Broadway production opened at the Cohan Theatre on October 10 and ran for 40 performances
Whirled into Happiness London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on May 18 and ran for 246 performances