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1947 in music

See also: 1946 in music, other events of 1947, 1948 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

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

Events

• Patti Page signs with Mercury
• Frankie Laine earns his first, of 21, gold records
• Kay Starr signs with Capitol
• George Jones begins performing
• Jimmy Rogers begins recording
• the Weavers begin performing

Albums released

Top hit records

• "Across The Alley From The Alamo" - The Mills Brothers
• "All Of Me" - Frankie Laine
• "Almost Like Being In Love" - Jo Stafford
• "Always" - Frank Sinatra
• "Anything You Can Do" - The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby & Dick Haymes
• "April Showers" - Al Jolson
• "Autumn In New York" - Jo Stafford
• "Ballerina" - Vaughn Monroe
• "But Beautiful" - Frankie Laine
• "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba" - Perry Como
• "Daddy-O (I’m Gonna Teach You Some Blues") - Dinah Shore
• "Do It Again" - Jane Russell
• "Feudin' And Fightin'" - Dorothy Shay
• "Fool That I Am" - Georgia Gibbs
• "Frankie And Johnny" - Guy Lombardo & Kenny Gardner
• "Galway Bay" - Bing Crosby
• "Golden Earrings" - Peggy Lee
• "Haunted Heart" - Jo Stafford
• "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" - Frank Sinatra
• "Heartaches" - Ted Weems
• "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" - Dick Haymes
• "Huggin' And Chalkin'" - Hoagy Carmichael
• "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" - Vaughn Monroe
• "If I Loved You" - Jo Stafford
• "In The Still Of The Night" - Jo Stafford
• "Inspiration Point" - Frankie Laine
• "It Only Happens Once" - Frankie Laine
• "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" - Al Jolson
• "I've Got A Crush On You" - Frank Sinatra
• "Ivy" - Jo Stafford
• "Linda" - Buddy Clark & The Ray Noble Orchestra
• "Loaded Pistols, Loaded Dice" - Phil Harris
• "The Lonesome Road" - Dinah Shore
• "Mam'selle" - Frankie Laine
• "Mam'selle" - Art Lund
• "Mam'selle" - Frank Sinatra
• "Make Believe" - Jo Stafford
• "Managua, Nicaragua" - Freddy Martin
• "Mean To Me" - Frank Sinatra
• "Near You" - The Andrews Sisters
• "Near You" - Francis Craig
• "Nevertheless" - Frankie Laine
• "Night And Day" - Frank Sinatra
• "Peg O' My Heart" - Buddy Clark
• "Peg O' My Heart" - The Harmonicats
• "Peg O' My Heart" - The Three Suns
• "Put 'Em In A Box" - Frankie Laine
• "Put Yourself In My Place, Baby" - Frankie Laine
• "Serenade Of The Bells" - Jo Stafford
• "Shine" - Frankie Laine
• "Sincerely Yours" - The Ink Spots
• "Singing The Blues" - Frankie Laine
• "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" - Tex Williams
• "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life - Al Jolson & Bing Crosby
• "A Sunday Kind Of Love" - Frankie Laine
• "That Ain't Right" - Frankie Laine
• "Time After Time" - Frank Sinatra
• "Too Fat Polka" - Arthur Godfrey
• "We'll Be Together Again" - Frankie Laine
• "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" - Perry Como
• "The Whiffenpoof Song" - Bing Crosby
• "You Do" - Vaughn Monroe
• "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" - Johnny Mercer

Published popular music

• "Across The Alley From The Alamo" w.m. Joe Green
• "Ah, But It Happens" w. William Dunham m. Walter Kent
• "Almost Like Being In Love" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe
• "And Mimi" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon
• "Apalachicola F.L.A." w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "An Apple Blossom Wedding" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Nat Simon
• "April In Portugal" w. Jose Galhardo (Port) Jimmy Kennedy (Eng) m. Raul Ferrao Portuguese
• "Autumn Leaves" ("Les Feuilles Mortes") w.(Eng) Johnny Mercer (Fr) Jacques Prevert m. Joseph Kosma
• "Ballerina" w.m. Bob Russell & Carl Sigman
• "Beg Your Pardon" w.m. Francis Craig & Beasley Smith
• "Big Brass Band From Brazil" w.m. Bob Hilliard & Carl Sigman
• "Bloop Bleep" w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Blue Shadows On The Trail" w. Johnny Lange m. Elliot Daniel
• "Bouquet Of Roses" w.m. Steve Nelson & Bob Hilliard
• "Busy Doing Nothing" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "But Beautiful" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "Buttons And Bows" w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
• "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba" w.m. Mack David, Jerry Livingston & Al Hoffman
• "Cigarettes, Whisky, And Wild, Wild Women" w.m. Tim Spencer
• "Civilization" w.m. Bob Hilliard & Carl Sigman
• "Clancy Lowered The Boom" w.m. Hy Heath & Johnny Lange
• "Come To Me, Bend To Me" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe
• "Come To The Mardi Gras" w. (Eng) Ervin Drake & Jimmy Shirl (Port) Max Bulhoes & Milton De Oliviera m. Max Bulhoes & Milton De Oliviera
• "Confess" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
• "Cuanto Le Gusta" w. Ray Gilbert m. Gabriel Ruiz
• "Don't Smoke In Bed" w.m. Willard Robison
• "Don't Telephone, Don't Telegraph, Tell A Woman" w.m. Al Stewart & Tex Williams
• "Down By The Station" adapted from a children's song by Lee Ricks & Slim Gaillard
• "Down The Old Spanish Trail" Kenneth Leslie-Smith & Jimmy Kennedy
• "The Dream Of Olwen" w. Winifred May m. Charles Williams
• "Everybody Loves Somebody" w. Irving Taylor m. Ken Lane
• "Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There" Lee Roy Abernathy
• "Ev'ry Day I Love You" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
• "A Fella With An Umbrella" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Fun And Fancy Free" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George Weiss
• "Galway Bay" w.m. Dr Arthur Colahan
• "The Gentleman Is A Dope" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
• "Good Rockin' Tonight" w.m. Roy Brown
• "Haunted Heart" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
• "The Heather On The Hill" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe
• "Here Comes Santa Claus" w.m. Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman
• "Here I'll Stay" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Kurt Weill
• "A Hundred And Sixty Acres" w.m. David Kapp
• "Hurry On Down" w.m. Nellie Lutcher
• "I Still Get Jealous" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
• "I Tipped My Hat And Slowly Rode Away" w.m. Larry Marks & Dick Charles
• "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Ichabod" Don Raye & Gene De Paul
• "If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "I'll Dance At Your Wedding" w. Herb Magidson m. Ben Oakland
• "I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe
• "I'm My Own Grandpaw" w.m. Dwight Latham & Moe Jaffe
• "It Only Happens When I Dance With You" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "It Takes A Long, Long Train With A Red Caboose" w.m. Larry Markes & Dick Charles
• "It Was Written In The Stars" w. Leo Robin m. Harold Arlen
• "It's A Most Unusual Day" w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh
• "It's Magic" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
• "Ivy" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
• "Kokomo, Indiana" w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow
• "Laroo Laroo Lilli Bolero" w. Sylvia Dee & Elizabeth Moore m. Sidney Lippman
• "Lazy Countryside" w.m. Bobby Worth
• "Life Gets Tee-jus, Don't It" w.m. Carson Robison
• "A Little Bird Told Me" w.m. Harvey O. Brooks
• "Look To The Rainbow" w. E.Y. Harburg m. Burton Lane
• "Love Is Where You Find It" w. Earl K. Brent m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Love Somebody" w.m. Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer
• "The Maharajah Of Magador" w.m. Lewis Harris & John Jacob Loeb
• "Mam'selle" w. Mack Gordon m. Edmund Goulding
• "Manana" w.m. Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour
• "Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner" w.m. Hubert Gregg
• "Maybe You'll Be There" w. Sammy Gallop m. Rube Bloom
• "Nature Boy" w.m. Eden Ahbez
• "Near You" w. Kermit Goell m. Francis Craig
• "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" w. Buddy Bernier m. Jerry Brainin
• "Now Is The Hour" w.m. Maewa Kaihan, Clement Scott & Dorothy Stewart
• "On A Slow Boat To China" w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Once And For Always" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "Papa Won't You Dance With Me?" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
• "Pass That Peace Pipe" w. Ralph Blane m. Hugh Martin
• "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" w.(Eng) Joe Davis (Span.) Osvaldo Farres m. Osvaldo Farres Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
• "Put 'Em In A Box, Tie 'Em With A Ribbon, And Throw 'Em In The Deep Blue Sea" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
• "Rhode Island Is Famous For You" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
• "Save The Bones For Henry Jones" w.m. Danny Barker & Michael H. Goldsen
• "Serenade Of The Bells" w.m. Kay Twomey, Al Goodhart & Al Urbano
• "Sixteen Tons" w.m. Merle Travis
• "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" w.m. Merle Travis & Tex Williams
• "Steppin' Out With My Baby" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Tallahassee" w.m. Frank Loesser
• "There But For You Go I" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe
• "Too Fat Polka" w.m. Ross MacLean & Arthur Richardson
• "Toolie Oolie Doolie" w.(Eng) Vaughn Horton (Ger) Arthur Beul m. Arthur Beul
• "The Turntable Song" w. Leo Robin m. John Green
• "Waitin' For My Dearie" w. Alan Jay Lerner m. Frederick Loewe
• "The Wedding Samba" w.m. Abraham Ellstein, Allan Small & Joseph Liebowitz
• "We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll" Teddy Reig, William Moore
• "When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love" w. E. Y.Harburg m. Burton Lane from the Broadway production ''Finian's Rainbow
• "Woody Woodpecker" w.m. George Tibbles & Ramez Idriss
• "You Do" w. Mack Gordon m. Josef Myrow
• "You Don't Have To Know The Language" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "You Were Only Fooling" w. William E. Faber & Fred Meadows m. Larry Fotine
• "You, You, You Are The One" w. Milton Leeds & Fred Wise m. Tetos Demey

Classical music

• Milton Babbitt - Three Compositions for Piano'
• Maurice Duruflé - Requiem
• Harold Shapero - Symphony for Classical Orchestra
• William Walton - String Quartet

Opera

• Benjamin Britten - Albert Herring
• Gian Carlo Menotti - Telephone

Musical theater

• Allegro Broadway production
• Angel In The Wings Broadway production
• Annie Get Your Gun London production
• Barefoot Boy With Cheek Broadway production
• Bless The Bride London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on April 26 and ran for 886 performances
• Bonanza Bound Philadelphia production
• Brigadoon (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe - Broadway production
• Finian's Rainbow Broadway production opened on January 10 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 725 performances.
• Finian's Rainbow London production
• High Button Shoes Broadway production
• Oklahoma London production
• The Red Mill London revival
• The Shape Of Things East Hampton production
• Street Scene Broadway production
• Tuppence Coloured London production

Musical films

• Carnival In Costa Rica
• Copacabana
• The Dancing Years
• Down To Earth
• Easy Money
• Etoile Sans Lumiere (Star Without Light)
• The Fabulous Dorseys
• Fiesta
• Fun And Fancy Free animated film includes Bongo and Mickey And The Beanstalk
• Golden Earrings
• Good News
• I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
• I'll Be Yours
• It Happened In Brooklyn
• Ladies' Man
• Living In A Big Way
• Mother Wore Tights
• My Favorite Brunette
• My Wild Irish Rose
• New Orleans
• Night Song
• Nora Prestiss
• Northwest Outpost
• The Perils Of Pauline
• The Road To Rio
• The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
• The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
• Something In The Wind
• Song Of Scheherazade
• Star Without Light
• This Time For Keeps
• The Trouble With Women
• The Unfinished Dance
• Variety Girl
• Welcome, Stranger

Births

• January 6 - Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention
• January 8 - David Bowie, Pop star
• January 8 - Terry Sylvester, The Hollies
• January 20 - George Grantham, Poco
• January 21 - Pye Hastings, Caravan
• January 24 - Warren Zevon
• January 28 - David Byron, Uriah Heep
• January 30 - Steve Marriott, Small Faces, Humble Pie
• February 3 - Dave Davies, The Kinks
• February 3 - Melanie
• February 9 - Joe Ely
• February 14 - Tim Buckley
• February 15 - David Brown, Santana
• February 17 - Dodie Stevens
• February 18 - Dennis DeYoung, Styx
• February 24 - Lonnie Turner, Steve Miller Band
• February 24 - Rupert Holmes
• February 26 - Sandie Shaw
• March 3 - Jennifer Warnes
• March 6 - David Gilmour, Pink Floyd
• March 6 - Kiki Dee
• March 8 - Michael Allsup, Three Dog Night
• March 10 - Tom Scholz, Boston
• March 11 - Mark Stein, Vanilla Fudge
• March 15 - Ry Cooder
• March 18 - Robert Harrison, Procol Harum
• March 22 - Harry Vanda, The Easybeats
• March 24 - Mike Kellie, Spooky Tooth
• March 25 - Elton John, Pop star
• March 25 - John Rowles, New Zealand singer
• March 29 - Bobby Kimball, Toto
• April 2 - Emmylou Harris
• April 7 - Patricia Bennett, The Chiffons
• April 8 - Steve Howe, Yes
• April 8 - Larry Norman
• April 10 - Bunny Wailer, The Wailers
• April 16 - Gerry Rafferty, Stealers Wheel
• April 19 - Mark Volman, The Turtles
• April 21 - Iggy Pop
• April 23 - Glenn Cornick, Jethro Tull
• April 24 - Hubert Ann Kelly, Hues Corporation
• April 26 - Pete Ham, Badfinger
• April 29 - Tommy James
• May 10 - Jay Ferguson, Spirit
• May 11 - Butch Trucks, The Allman Brothers
• May 14 - Al Ciner, Three Dog Night
• May 15 - Graham Goble, The Little River Band
• May 16 - Barbara Lee, The Chiffons
• May 19 - Jerry Hyman, Blood, Sweat & Tears
• May 25 - Mitchell Margo, The Tokens
• May 25 - Jessi Colter
• May 31 - John Bonham, Led Zeppelin
• June 1 - Ron Wood, Faces, The Rolling Stones
• June 8 - Mick Box, Uriah Heep
• June 8 - Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity
• June 14 - Barry Melton, Country Joe & the Fish
• June 17 - Gregg Rolie, Santana
• June 22 - Howard Kaylan, The Turtles, The Mothers of Invention, Flo & Eddie
• July 7 - David Hodo, The Village People
• July 10 - Arlo Guthrie
• July 19 - Bernie Leadon, Flying Burrito Brothers, The Eagles
• July 19 - Brian May, Queen
• July 20 - Carlos Santana
• July 22 - Don Henley, The Eagles
• July 23 - David Essex
• August 5 - Rick Derringer, The McCoys
• August 5 - Gregory Leskiw, The Guess Who
• August 9 - Barbara Mason
• August 10 - Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull
• August 10 - Dimitri Alexeev, pianist
• August 11 - Jeff Hanna, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• August 17 - Gary Talley, The Box Tops
• August 20 - Jim Pankow, Chicago
• August 22 - Donna Godchaux, The Grateful Dead
• August 23 - Keith Moon, The Who
• September 3 - Eric Bell, Thin Lizzy
• September 14 - John Bowser Bauman, Sha Na Na
• September 17 - Lol Creme, 10cc
• September 21 - Don Felder, The Eagles
• September 23 - Jerry Corbetta, Sugarloaf
• September 27 - Meat Loaf
• September 28 - Peter-Hop-Evans, Medicine Head
• September 30 - Marc Bolan, T-Rex
• October 1 - Martin Turner, Wishbone Ash
• October 3 - Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac
• October 4 - Jim Fielder, Blood, Sweat & Tears
• October 10 - Norman Carl Odam, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy
• October 13 - Sammy Hagar, Montrose, Van Halen
• October 16 - Bob Weir, The Grateful Dead
• October 17 - Michael McKean, Spinal Tap
• October 18 - Laura Nyro
• October 19 - Wilbert Hart, The Delfonics
• October 21 - Tetsu Yamauchi Free, Faces
• October 23 - Greg Ridley, Spooky Tooth, Humble Pie
• October 25 - John Hall, Orleans
• October 30 - Timothy B. Schmidt, Poco, The Eagles
• October 31 - Russ Ballard, Argent
• November 2 - Dave Pegg, Uglys, Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull
• November 5 - Peter Noone, Herman's Hermits
• November 6 - George Young, The Easybeats
• November 8 - Minnie Riperton
• November 10 - Greg Lake, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• November 10 - Dave Loggins
• November 12 - Buck Dharma, Blue Öyster Cult
• November 20 - Joe Walsh, James Gang, The Eagles
• December 5 - Jim Messina
• December 8 - Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers
• December 10 - Walter Orange, The Commodores
• December 12 - Vin Scelsa, Disc Jockey
• December 14 - Patty Duke
• December 20 - Peter Criss, Kiss
• December 28 - Dick Diamonde, The Easybeats
• December 30 - Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra, Traveling Wilburys
• December 31 - Burton Cummings of The Guess Who, John Denver

Deaths

• January 11 – Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star
• July 15 - Walter Donaldson
• December 14 - Will Fyffe, Scottish comedian and singer

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