1922 in music

Table of contents

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
• 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
• 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
• "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
• "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

• "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

• Edgar Varèse - Offrandes
• William Walton - Façade (with Edith Sitwell)

• 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
• 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

• January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist
• February 1 - Renata Tebaldi, operatic soprano
• February 17 - Tommy Edwards
• April 7 - Mongo Santamaria
• April 5 - Gale Storm
• April 22 - Charles Mingus
• May 17 - Dennis Brain
• May 25 - Kitty Kallen, US singer
• May 29 - Iannis Xenakis, composer
• July 15 - Joan Roberts, US actress and singer
• September 3 - Salli Terri, mezzo soprano

• March 4 - Bert Williams
• May 22 - Ada Jones, US singer
• June 5 - Lillian Russell, US singer and actress
• October 7 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer
• November 14 - G. H. Chirgwin, English music hall comedian and singer