1922 in music

See also: 1921 in music, other events of 1922, 1923 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Published popular songs
3 Top hits on records
4 Musical theater
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Kid Ory makes his first recordings
Maurice Ravel releases his orchestral arrangement of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
All songs written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States

Published popular songs

"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
"Dreamy Melody" w.m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C. Naset
"Farewell Blues" w.m. Paul Joseph Mares & Elmer Schoebel
"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
"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 Goodbye" w.m. Ted Fio Rito, Robert A. King, 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" by Gallagher & Shean
"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

Musical theater

The Hotel Mouse Broadway production
Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production
Phi-Phi London production
Queen O' Hearts Broadway production

Births

February 17 - Tommy Edwards
April 7 - Mongo Santamaria
April 5 - Gale Storm
April 22 - Charles Mingus

Deaths

Bert Williams