1923 in music

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1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Hit songs on record 4 Other important recordings 5 Classical music 6 Opera 7 Musical theater 8 Births 9 Deaths

Events

• November 19 - At a concert celebrating the 50th anniversery of the union of Buda and Pest (thus creating Budapest), Béla Bartók's Dance Suite and Zoltán Kodály's Psalmus hungaricus both receive their world premieres
• Explosion of recordings of African American musicians; Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, many others make their first recordings.

• "Annabelle" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Back To Croa-Jingo-Long" w.m. Pat Dunlop
• "Bambalina" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Vincent Youmans
• "Barney Google" w.m. Billy Rose & Con Conrad
• "Beside A Babbling Brook" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "Charleston" w.m. Cecil Mack & James P. Johnson
• "Chimes Blues" m. Joseph "King" Oliver
• "Come On, Spark Plug!" w.m. Billy Rose & Con Conrad
• "Covered Wagon Days" w.m. Will Morrisey & Joe Burrows
• "Dizzy Fingers" m. Zez Confrey
• "Frasquita Serenade" m. Franz Lehar
• "Gulf Coast Blues" w.m. Clarence Williams
• "Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up" w.m. Walter Hirsch & Bert Kaplan
• "I Cried For You" w. Arthur Freed m. Gus Arnheim & Abe Lyman
• "I Love Life" w. Irwin M. Cassel m. Mana-Zucca
• "I Love You" w. Harlan Thompson m. Harry Archer
• "I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "I'm Goin' South" w.m. Abner Silver & Harry Woods
• "I'm Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City" w.m. Lou Davis, Henry Santly & Abel Baer
• "Indiana Moon" w. Benny Davis m. Isham Jones
• "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" w.m. Wendell Hall
• "I've Got The Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues" w. Lew Brown m. James F. Hanley & Robert King
• "Just A Girl That Men Forget" w. Al Dubin & Fred Rath m. Joe Garron
• "Just One More Chance" m. Steiger
• "King Porter Stomp" m. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
• "Last Night On The Back Porch" w. Lew Brown m. Carl Schraubstader
• "Linger Awhile" w. Harry Owens m. Vincent Rose
• "Louisville Lou" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "Mama Goes Where Papa Goes" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "Mama Loves Papa" w.m. Cliff Friend & Abel Baer
• "March Of The Cameron Men" w.m. Campbell
• "Mexicali Rose" w. Helen Stone m. Jack B. Tenney
• "Milenberg Joys" m. Leon Rappolo, Paul Mares & Jelly Roll Morton
• "Mon Paradis (Sérénade d'Aujourd'hui)" m. Cuthbert Clarke
• "Moon Love" w. George Grossmith & P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
• "My Sweetie Went Away" w. Roy Turk m. Lou Handman
• "Nashville Nightingale" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
• "No, No, Nora" w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito & Ernie Erdman
• "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" w.m. Jimmy Cox
• "Oh Didn't It Rain" w.m. Eddie Leonard
• "Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly I'm In Love" w. Ole Olsen & Chic Johnson m. Ernest Breuer
• "Old Fashioned Love" w. Cecil Mack m. James P. Johnson
• "Old King Tut" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "On The Mall" m. Edwin Franko Goldman
• "Once In A Blue Moon" w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern
• "An Orange Grove In California" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Out Where The Blue Begins" Graff, McHugh, Grant
• "(Home In) Pasadena" w.m. Harry Warren, Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie
• "Raggedy Ann" w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern
• "Rememb'ring" w.m. Vivian Duncan & Rosetta Duncan
• "La Rosita" w. Allan Stuart m. Paul Dupont
• "Seven Or Eleven" w. Lew Brown m. Walter Donaldson
• "Sittin' In A Corner" w. Gus Kahn m. George W. Meyer
• "Sleep" w.m. Earl Lebieg
• "A Smile Will Go A Long Long Way" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst
• "Snake Rag" m. King Oliver
• "Sobbin' Blues" w.m. Art Kassel
• "Some Sweet Day" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper & Louis A. Hirsch
• "Stella" w.m. Al Jolson, Benny Davis & Harry Akst
• "Swingin' Down The Lane" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "Tell Me With A Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "That Old Gang Of Mine" w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson
• "Tin Roof Blues" m. Paul Mares, Walter Melrose, Ben Pollack, Mel Stitzel, George Brunies & Leon Rapplol
• "Waitin' For The Evenin' Mail" B. Baskette
• "When Clouds Have Vanished And Skies Are Blue" w. William R. Clay m. Charles L. Johnson
• "When It's Night-Time In Italy, It's Wednesday Over Here" w.m. James Kendis & Lew Brown
• "When June Comes Along With A Song" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Rise Of Rosie O'Reilly
• "When You Walked Out Someone Else Walked Right In" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Who'll Buy My Violets" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Jose Padilla
• "Who's Sorry Now?" w. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby m. Ted Snyder
• "Wild Flower" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Vincent Youmans & Herbert Stothart
• "Wolverine Blues" w.m. Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, Benjamin Spikes & John C. Spikes
• "Yes! We Have No Bananas" w.m. Frank Silver & Irving Cohn
• "You Can't Do What My Last Man Did" w.m. J. C. Johnson & Allie Moore
• "You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night" w.m. Con Conrad & Billy Rose

• "Everything is K.O. in K.Y." by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "Swinging Down The Lane" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
• "Down Hearted Blues" by Bessie Smith
• "Waitin' For The Evenin' Mail" by Al Bernard
• "Cut Yourself A Piece of Cake (and Make Yourself at Home) by Billy Jones
• "I Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself)" by Billy Murray
• "Yes, We Have No Bananas" by Billy Murray
• "Yes, We Have No Bananas" by Billy Jones
• "Yes, We Have No Bananas" by Ben Selvin & His Orchestra
• "No No Nora/I've Got the Yes We Have No Bananas Blues" by Eddie Cantor
• "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "(Nothing Could Be Finer Than to be in) Carolina in the Morning" by Van & Schenck
• "Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses" by Carl Fenton & His Orchestra
• "Dreamy Melody" by Art Landry & His Orchestra

• "Dippermouth Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
• "Milenburg Joys" by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Jelly Roll Morton
• "Wild Cat Blues/Kansas City Man Blues" by Clarence Williams Blue 5, featuring Sidney Bechet

• Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp
• Edgar Varèse - Hyperprism
• William Walton - Toccata for Violin and Piano
• Alexander Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony

• Joaquín Turina - Jardin de Oriente

• Madame Pompadour Vienna production
• Madame Pompadour London production
• The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 25 and ran for 97 performances

• January 5 - Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records
• March 2 - Doc Watson
• April 25 - Albert King
• May 13 - Bea Arthur, US actress and singer
• May 28 - György Ligeti, composer
• July 31 - Amhet Ertegun, record executive
• September 17 - Hank Williams
• October 5 - Glynis Johns
• October 16 - Bert Kaempfert
• October 20 - Robert Craft, musicologist
• November 10 - Anne Shelton, English singer
• December 2 - Maria Callas