1946 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hit records
4 Other recorded popular music
5 Published popular music
6 Classical music
7 Opera
8 Musical theater
9 Musical films
10 Births
11 Deaths

Events

February 8 - BÃÂ©la BartÃÂ³k's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premiered posthumously by GyÃÂ¶rgy SÃÂ¡ndor with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
Al Jolson rerecords his old hits for the soundtrack of his Columbia biopic The Jolson Story, and becomes a superstar to the post-war generation as well
Dean Martin's musical career begins
Little Walter's musical career begins
B.B. King's musical career begins
Lightnin' Hopkins' musical career begins
Chet Atkins' musical career begins
Georgia Gibbs signs with the Majestic label
Frankie Laine records "That's My Desire"

Albums released

King Cole trio volume 2 - Nat King Cole
Merry Christmas music - Perry Como
Voice of Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra

Top hit records

"Bumble Boogie" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra featuring piano Jack Fina

"Candy" by Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers

"Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti)" by Rocky Coluccio with Alvino Rey & his Orchestra

"Choo Choo Ch' Boogie" by Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five
"The Christmas Song" by the King Cole Trio
"The Coffee Song" by Frank Sinatra
"Day By Day" by Frank Sinatra
"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" by Betty Hutton (first charted December 1945)
"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" by Les Brown & his Orchestra with vocal Butch Stone
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" by Dinah Shore with Spade Cooley & his Orchestra
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by Glenn Hughes & the Martin Men
"Five Minutes More" by Frank Sinatra
"Five Minutes More" by the Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller Orchestra with vocal by Tex Beneke
"(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" by the King Cole Trio
"The Gypsy" by The Ink Spots
"The Gypsy" by Dinah Shore
"The Gypsy" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Mary Marlow
"Hawaiian War Chant" by Spike Jones & his City Slickers
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" by Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" by The Tex Beneke-Glenn Miller Orchestra with vocal by Tex Beneke
"Huggin' And Chalkin' " by Hoagy Carmichael
"I'm A Big Girl Now" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Betty Barclay
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Perry Como
"Laughing On The Outside" by Dinah Shore
"Laughing On The Outside" by Andy Russell
"Laughing On The Outside" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Billy Williams
"Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" by Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra with vocal by Vaughn Monroe (first charted December 1945)
"Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" by Woody Herman and his Orchestra with vocal by Woody Herman
"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Frankie Carle & his Orchestra with vocal by Marjorie Hughes
"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Frank Sinatra
"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Charlie Spivak & his Orchestra with vocal by Jimmy Saunders
"Oh What It Seemed To Be" by Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest
"The Old Lamplighter" by Kay Kyser & his Orchestra with vocal by Michael Douglas
"The Old Lamplighter" by Hal Derwin & his Orchestra
"The Old Lamplighter" by Sammy Kaye & his Orchestra with vocal by Billy Williams
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Hoagy Carmichael
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Helen Carroll & The Satisfiers
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Paul Weston & his Orchestra with vocal by Matt Dennis
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" by Kay Kyser & his Orchestra with vocal by Michael Douglas & the Campus Kids
"One-Zy Two-Zy" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by The Martin Men
"One-Zy Two-Zy" by Phil Harris
"Personality" by Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers
"Pretending" by Andy Russell
"Prisoner Of Love" by The Ink Spots
"Prisoner Of Love" by Perry Como
"Rumors Are Flying" by Frankie Carle & his Orchestra with vocal by Marjorie Hughes
"Rumors Are Flying" by Andrews Sisters with Les Paul
"Rumors Are Flying" by Betty Rhodes
"Rumors Are Flying" by Tony Martin
"Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" by Stan Kenton & his Orchestra with vocal by June Christy
"Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" by Dinah Shore
"Sioux City Sue" by Bing Crosby and The Jesters
"South America, Take It Away" by Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with vocal by Buddy Clark
"South America, Take It Away" by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
"Stone Cold Dead In The Market" by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
"Surrender" by Perry Como
"Symphony" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by Clyde Rogers (first charted December 1945)
"Symphony" by Benny Goodman & his Orchestra with vocal by Liza Morrow
"Symphony" by Bing Crosby
"Symphony" by Jo Stafford
"They Say It's Wonderful" by Perry Como
"They Say It's Wonderful" by Frank Sinatra
"To Each His Own" by Eddy Howard
"To Each His Own" by Tony Martin
"To Each His Own" by the Modernaires with Paula Kelly
"To Each His Own" by The Ink Spots
"To Each His Own" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra with vocal by Stuart Wade
"Winter Wonderland" by Perry Como
"You Won't Be Satisfied" by Les Brown & his Orchestra with vocal by Doris Day

Other recorded popular music

"Ain't That Just Like A Woman" - Frankie Laine
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" - Bing Crosby
"Black And Blue" - Frankie Laine
"Blue Skies" - Bing Crosby
"Blue Turning Grey Over You" - Frankie Laine
"By The River Sainte Marie" - Frankie Laine
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" - Dinah Shore
"Come Rain Or Come Shine" - Dinah Shore
"The Darktown Poker Club" - Phil Harris
"Frim Fram Sauce" - Louis Armstrong
"A Gal In Calico"-Bing Crosby
"Gee, It's Good To Hold You" - Woody Herman (Frances Wayne, vocal)
"Give Me The Moon Over Brooklyn" - Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio
"I Cover The Waterfront" - The Ink Spots
"I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home" - The Mills Brothers
"Ol' Man Mose" - Georgia Gibbs
"On The Sunny Side Of The Street" - Frankie Laine
"Passe" - Tex Beneke
"Put The Blame On Mame"-Dinah Shore
"September In The Rain" - Frankie Laine
"September Song" - Frank Sinatra
"Seems Like Old Times" - Guy Lombardo
"Seems Like Old Times" - Vaughn Monroe with The Norton Sisters
"Some Little Bug" - Phil Harris
"That Old Black Magic" - Frank Sinatra
That's What I Like About The South" - Phil Harris
Time After Time" - Frank Sinatra
"Les Trois Cloches (The Three Clocks)" - Edith Piaf
"La Vie En Rose" - Edith Piaf
"West End Blues" - Frankie Laine
"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" - Bing Crosby
"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - Bing Crosby
"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - Georgia Gibbs
"You Keep Coming Back Like A Song" - Jo Stafford
"Your Father's Moustache" - Woody Herman
"You Won't Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart"-Freddy Martin
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah"-Johnny Mercer

Published popular music

"Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" w.m. Alex Kramer & Joan Whitney

"Ain't That Just Like A Woman?" w.m. Fleecie Moore & Claude Demetrius

"All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)" w.m. Don Gardner

"All The Cats Join In" A. Wilder, R. Gilbert, E. Sauter

"Along With Me" w.m. Harold Rome Introduced by Danny Scholl and Paula Bane in the musical Call Me Mister
"The 'Ampstead Way" w. Johnny Burke m. Jimmy Van Heusen
"The Anniversary Song" w.m. Al Jolson & Saul Chaplin
"Anything You Can Do" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Aren't You Kind Of Glad We Did?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Blue Moon Of Kentucky" w.m. Bill Monroe
"Bumble Boogie" m. Jack Fina
"The Christmas Song" w. Robert Wells m. Mel TormÃÂ©
"Coax Me A Little Bit" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon
"The Coffee Song" w.m. Bob Hilliard & Dick Miles
"Come Rain Or Come Shine" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen
"Country Style" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"A Couple Of Song And Dance Men" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?" w. Eddie De Lange m. Louis Armstrong
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Everybody's Got A Laughing Place" Allie Wrubel
"The Face on the Dime" w.m. Harold Rome. Introduced by Lawrence Winters in the musical revue Call Me Mister.
"Feudin' And Fightin' " w. Al Dubin & Burton Lane m. Burton Lane
"Five Minutes More" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"For You, For Me, For Evermore" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"A Gal In Calico" w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz
"The Girl That I Marry" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Golden Earrings" w. Jay Livingstone & Ray Evans m. Victor Young
"The House Of Blue Lights" w.m. Don Raye & Freddie Slack
"How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane
"Huggin' And Chalkin' " w.m. Clancy Hayes & Kermit Goell
"I Got Lost In His Arms" w.m. Irving Berlin
"I Got The Sun In The Morning" w.m. Irving Berlin
"I Guess I'll Get The Papers" w.m. Hughie Prince & Hal Kanner
"If This Isn't Love" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane
"I'm A Lonely Little Petunia" w.m. John N. Kamano, William E. Faber & Maurice Merl
"I'm An Indian Too" w.m. Irving Berlin
"It's A Good Day" w.m. Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour
"It's A Pity To Say Goodnight" w.m. Billy Reid
"Laughing On The Outside" w. Ben Raleigh m. Bernie Wayne
"Legalise My Name" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen
"Linda" w.m. Jack Lawrence
"Lost In The Stars" w. Maxwell Anderson m. Kurt Weill
"Managua Nicaragua" w. Albert Gamse m. Irving Fields
"Military Life" aka "The Jerk Song" w.m. Harold Rome from the musical revue Call Me Mister
"Moonshine Lullaby" w.m. Irving Berlin
"My Defences Are Down" w.m. Irving Berlin
"My Heart Is A Hobo" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"My Sugar Is So Refined" w. Sylvia Dee m. Sidney Lippman
"Old Devil Moon" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane
"The Old Lamp-Lighter" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon
"The Old Soft Shoe" w. Nancy Hamilton m. Morgan Lewis
"Ole Buttermilk Sky" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
"On The Boardwalk In Atlantic City" w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow
"One-zy Two-zy" w.m. Dave Franklin & Irving Taylor
"Open The Door, Richard" w. "Dusty" Fletcher & John Mason m. Jack McVea & Dan Howell
"Put The Blame On Mame" w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher
"A Rainy Night In Rio" w. Leo Robin m. Arthur Schwartz
"The Red Ball Express" w.m. Harold Rome. Introduced by Lawrence Winters in the musical revue Call Me Mister.
"(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" w.m. Robert Troup
"Rumors Are Flying" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
"Sooner Or Later" w. Ray Gilbert m. Charles Wolcott
"South America, Take It Away" w.m. Harold Rome Introduced by Betty Garrett in the musical revue Call Me Mister.
"Stella By Starlight" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
"Stone Cold Dead In De Market" w.m. Wilmoth Houdini
"A Sunday Kind Of Love" w.m. Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes & Louis Prima
"Tenderly" w. Jack Lawrence m. Walter Gross
"That's All Right" w.m. Arthur Crudup
"There's Good Blues Tonight" Edna Osser, Glenn Osser
"There's No Business Like Show Business" w.m. Irving Berlin
"They Say It's Wonderful" w.m. Irving Berlin
"The Things We Did Last Summer" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"Time After Time" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"To Each His Own" w. Ray Evans m. Jay Livingston
"Uncle Remus Said" w.m. Johnny Lange, Hy Heath & Eliot Daniel
"La Vie En Rose" w. (Eng) Mack David (Fr) Edith Piaf m. Louiguy
"Who Do You Love, I Hope" w.m. Irving Berlin
"A Woman's Prerogative" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen
"You Call Everybody Darling" w.m. Sam Martin, Ben Trace & Clem Watts
"You Can't Get A Man With A Gun" w.m. Irving Berlin
"You Make Me Feel So Young" w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow
"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" w. Ray Gilbert m. Allie Wrubel

Classical music

Benjamin Britten - Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Erich Korngold - Cello Concerto
William Walton - score for Henry V

Opera

Benjamin Britten - The Rape of Lucretia

Musical theater

Call Me Mister Broadway revue opened at the National Theatre on April 18 and ran for 734 performances
Show Boat Broadway revival opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on January 5 and ran for 418 performances
Song Of Norway London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 7 and ran for 526 performances
St. Louis Woman Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 30 and ran for 113 performances
Sweetest And Lowest London revue opened at the Ambassador Theatre on May 9 and ran for 791 performances
Yours Is My Heart Broadway production opened on September 5 at the Shubert Theatre and ran for 36 performances

Musical films

Do You Love Me

The Harvey Girls

The Jolson Story
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
Song Of The South
St. Louis Woman
Till The Clouds Roll By

Births

January 3 - John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin
January 4 - Arthur Conley
January 6 - Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd
January 7 - Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine
January 7 - Andy Brown, The Fortunes
January 8 - Robby Krieger, The Doors
January 10 - Aynsley Dunbar, John Mayall, Jefferson Starship
January 11 - Naomi Judd
January 12 - Cynthia Robinson, Sly & the Family Stone
January 16 - Ronnie Milsap
January 19 - Dolly Parton
January 26 - Deon Jackson
January 27 - Nedra Talley, The Ronettes
January 31 - Terry Kath, Chicago
February 7 - Sammy Johns
February 8 - Adolfo De La Parra, Canned Heat
February 20 - Randy California, Spirit
February 20 - Jerome Geils, J.Geils Band
February 23 - Rusty Young, Poco
March 7 - Peter Wolf, J. Geils Band
March 7 - Matthew Fisher, Procol Harum
March 8 - Randy Meisner, Poco, The Eagles
March 8 - Carole Bayer Sager
March 14 - Jim Pons, The Turtles
March 15 - Howard Scott, War
March 17 - Harold Brown, War
March 19 - Paul Atkinson, The Zombies
March 19 - Ruth Pointer, The Pointer Sisters
March 24 - Lee Oskar, War
March 31 - G. Allan Nichol, The Turtles
April 13 - Al Green
April 13 - Roy Loney, Flaming Groovies
April 13 - Jim Pons, The Leaves, The Turtles, Mothers Of Invention
April 16 - Bobby Vinton
April 18 - Lenny Baker, Sha Na Na
April 26 - John Bucky Wilkin, Ronny & the Daytonas
April 26 - Vito Balsamo, Vito & The Salutations
May 2 - Lesley Gore
May 2 - Randy Cain, The Delfonics
May 2 - Robert Henrit, Argent
May 7 - Ray Monette, Rare Earth
May 7 - Arcelio Garcia, Malo
May 10 - Cher
May 10 - Dave Mason, Traffic
May 10 - Donovan
May 10 - Graham Gouldman, 10cc
May 12 - Ian McLagan, Faces
May 13 - Danny Klein, J. Geils Band
May 24 - Steve Upton, Wishbone Ash
June 3 - Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople
June 5 - Freddy Stone, Sly & the Family Stone
June 7 - Bill Kreutzmann, The Grateful Dead
June 9 - John Mitch Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix Experience
June 11 - John Lawton, Uriah Heep (band)
June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade
June 17 - Barry Manilow
June 25 - Ian McDonald, record producer, (Foreigner)
June 30 - Ian Matthews
July 1 - June Monteiro, Toys
July 5 - Michael Monarch, Steppenwolf
July 15 - Linda Ronstadt
July 19 - Alan Gorrie, Average White Band
July 20 - Kim Carnes
July 22 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
July 23 - Andy Mackay, Roxy Music
July 28 - Jonathan Edwards
July 30 - Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, Jethro Tull
July 31 - Bob Welch, Fleetwood Mac
July 31 - Gary Lewis, Gary Lewis & The Playboys
August 5 - Jimmy Webb
August 14 - Larry Graham, Sly & The Family Stone
August 16 - Gordon Fleet, The Easybeats
August 19 - Beat Raaflaub, conductor
September 1 - Barry Gibb, The Bee Gees
September 4 - Gary Duncan, Quicksilver Messenger Service
September 4 - Greg Elmore, Quicksilver Messenger Service
September 5 - Freddie Mercury, Queen
September 5 - Buddy Miles
September 5 - Loudon Wainwright III
September 5 - Dean Ford, Marmalade
September 7 - Alfa Anderson, Chic
September 9 - Billy Preston
September 9 - Doug Ingle, Iron Butterfly
September 11 - Dennis Tufano, The Buckinghams
September 18 - Alan King, Ace
September 28 - Helen Shapiro
September 30 - Sylvia Peterson, The Chiffons
October 6 - Millie Small
October 10 - John Prine
October 14 - Justin Hayward, The Moody Blues
October 15 - Richard Carpenter, Carpenters
October 17 - Jim Tucker, The Turtles
October 21 - Lee Loughname, Chicago
October 24 - Jerry Edmonton, Steppenwolf
October 29 - Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac
November 5 - Herman Brood, Dutch rock 'n' roll artist
November 5 - Gram Parsons, country music/rock musician
November 8 - Roy Wood, The Move
November 19 - Joe Correro Jr, Paul Revere and The Raiders
November 20 - Duane Allman, The Allman Brothers
November 22 - Aston Barret, The Upsetters, The Wailers
November 25 - Bev Bevan, Electric Light Orchestra
December 1 - Gilbert O'Sullivan
December 5 - Andy Kim
December 14 - Joyce Vincent-Wilson, Tony Orlando & Dawn
December 15 - Carmine Appice, Vanilla Fudge, Cactus
December 16 - Benny Andersson, ABBA
December 21 - Carl Wilson, The Beach Boys
December 22 - Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick
December 25 - Jimmy Buffett
December 28 - Edgar Winter
December 29 - Marianne Faithfull
December 30 - Patti Smith
Geoff Emerick, legendary engineer and producer