1932 in music

Events

*January 14 - Maurice Ravel's "Piano Concerto" is premiered in Paris
*October 19 - Frankie Laine and Ruthie Smith set the all-time dance marathon record of 3,501 hours (145 days) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey
*October 31 - Sergei Prokofiev's "Piano Concerto No. 5" is premiered in Berlin
*Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
*Thomas Beecham founds the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
*Ruth Porter Crawford marries Charles Seeger.
*Sydney Symphony came into existence

Published popular music

* "After You, Who?" w.m. Cole Porter
* "Alone Together" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
* "And Love Was Born" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
* "And So To Bed" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
* "April in Paris" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke
* "As You Desire Me" w.m. Allie Wrubel
* "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" w.m. Al Hoffman, Ed G. Nelson, Al Goodhart & Milton Ager
* "Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
* "Chinese Laundry Blues" Cottrell
* "The Clouds Will Soon Roll By" w.m. Billy Hill & Harry Woods
* "Dance Of The Cuckoos" w.m. T. Marvin Hatley & Harry Steinberg
* "Darkness On The Delta" w. Marty Symes & Al Neiburg m. Jerry Livingston
* "Eadie Was A Lady" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Richard Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown
* "The Echo Of A Song" Peter Mendoza
* "Eres Tú" Miguel Sandoval
* "Fit As A Fiddle" w.m. Arthur Freed, Al Hoffman & Al Goodhart
* "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis
* "Give Her A Kiss" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Goodnight My Love" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias & Jules Lemare
* "Goodnight Vienna" w.m. Holt Marvell & George Posford
* "Got The South In My Soul" w.m. Ned Washington, Victor Young & Lee Wiley
* "Happy-Go-Lucky You (And Broken-Hearted Me)" w.m. Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman & J. F. Murray
* "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" w. Billy Hill (as George Brown) m. Peter De Rose
* "Here Lies Love" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
* "How Deep Is The Ocean?" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" w. Bing Crosby & Ned Washington m. Victor Young
* "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
* "If It Ain't Love" w.m. Andy Razaf, Don Redman & Fats Waller
* "I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy" w.m. Ray Noble
* "I'll Never Be The Same" w. Gus Kahn m. Matty Malneck & Frank Signorelli from the revue "After Dinner"
* "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" w. Ned Washington m. George Bassman
* "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" w. Joe Young m. Ira Schuster & Jack Little
* "In Egern On The Tegern Sea" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Ivy Scott in the musical "Music in the Air"
* "Isn't It Romantic?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" w. Irving Mills m. Duke Ellington
* "It Was So Beautiful" w. Arthur Freed m. Harry Barris
* "I've Got You On My Mind" w.m. Cole Porter
* "I've Told Every Little Star" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
* "Just An Echo In The Valley" w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
* "Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
* "Lawd, You Made The Night Too Long" w. Sam M. Lewis m. Isham Jones
* "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing" w. Robert Hargreaves & Stanley J. Damerell m. Tolchard Evans & H. Tilsley
* "Let's Call It A Day" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
* "Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep" w.m. Herman Hupfeld
* "A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet" w. Gus Kahn m. Harry Woods
* "Look What You've Done" w. Bert Kalmar & Irving Caesar m. Harry Ruby & Harry Akst
* "Looking On The Bright Side" w.m. Howard Flynn
* "Louisiana Hayride" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
* "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble
* "Love Me Tonight" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Lover" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Mad About The Boy" w.m. Noel Coward
* "A Million Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. J. C. Lewis Jr
* "Mimi" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Mine" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
* "My Silent Love" w. Edward Heyman m. Dana Suesse
* "My Sweet Virginia" w.m. Vincent Rose
* "Night And Day" w.m. Cole Porter introduced by Fred Astaire in "Gay Divorce"
* "Oh! That Mitzi" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film "One Hour with You".
* "Old Yazoo" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
* "One Hour With You" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. From the film of the same name
* "The Party's Over Now" w.m. Noel Coward
* "Pink Elephants" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
* "Play, Fiddle, Play" w. Jack Lawrence m. Emery Deutsch & Arthur Altman
* "Please" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
* "The Poor Apache" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Precious Lord Take My Hand" by Thomas A. Dorsey, first major gospel music hit
* "Pu-leeze! Mr Hemingway" w. Walter Kent & Milton Drake m. Abner Silver
* "Say It Isn't So" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia" w. Mitchell Parish m. Frank Perkins
* "Sleep, Come On And Take Me" w.m. Joe Young & Boyd Bunch
* "Smoke Rings" w. Ned Washington m. Gene Gifford
* "Snuggled On Your Shoulder" w. Joe Young m. Carmen Lombardo
* "So Do I" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Vincent Youmans
* "Soft Lights And Sweet Music" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Somebody Loves You" w. Charlie Tobias m. Peter DeRose
* "The Song is You" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
* "Street Of Dreams" w. Sam M. Lewis m. Victor Young
* "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" w.m. Ralph Butler & Noel Gay
*"Three's a Crowd" w. Al Dubin & Irving Kahal m. Harry Warren
* "Too Many Tears" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
* "Try a Little Tenderness" w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
* "Underneath The Harlem Moon" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
* "Wanderer" w.m. Bud Flanagan
* "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" w.m. Harry Woods
* "We've Got The Moon And Sixpence" Oscar Levant, Clifford Grey
* "We've Got To Put That Sun Back In The Sky" Kahal, Meyer
* "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble
* "What Would You Do?" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film "One Hour with You"
* "Why Don't Women Like Me?" Cottrell, Bennett, Formby
* "Willow Weep for Me" w.m. Ann Ronell
* "Wintergreen For President" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "You Are Too Beautiful" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "The Younger Generation" w.m. Noel Coward
* "You're An Old Smoothie" w.m. B. G. De Sylva, Richard A. Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown
* "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
* "You've Got What Gets Me" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin

Biggest hit songs

The following songs achieved the highest [http://tsort.info/music/yr1932.htm chart positions] in the limited set of charts available for 1932.

Top hit records

*"All of Me" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra; also version by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
*"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" - Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
*"Got The South In My Soul" by Paul Robeson
*"I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind" by Billy Cotton Band
*"In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" by Ted Lewis & His Band
*"Love Is The Sweetest Thing" by Al Bowlly
*"Love Me Tonight" by Jeanette MacDonald
*"Mad Dogs And Englishmen" by Noel Coward
*"Mah Lindy Lou" by Paul Robeson
*"Ooh That Kiss" by Frances Day
*"Please" by Bing Crosby
*"Say It Isn't So" by George Olsen & His Music
*"The Thrill Is Gone" by Rudy Vallee
*"Was That the Human Thing To Do?" by The Boswell Sisters
* "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" by Bing Crosby
*"The Younger Generation" by Ray Noble and Al Bowlly

Top blues recordings

*"Worrying You Off My Mind" - Big Bill Broonzy
*"Mistreatin Mama" - Big Bill Broonzy
*"How You Want It Done" - Big Bill Broonzy
*"Searching the Desert For the Blues" - Blind Willie McTell
*"Winnie The Wailer" - Lonnie Johnson

Classical music

*Jean Françaix - Piano Concerto
*Gunnar de Frumerie - Variations and Fugue
*Percy Grainger - "Handel in the Strand"
*Camargo Guarnieri - String Quartet No. 1
*Jascha Heifetz - arrangement of Grigoraş Dinicu's "Hora staccato"
*Dmitri Kabalevsky - Symphony No. 1
*László Lajtha - Cello Sonata
*Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55
*Miklós Rózsa - Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 12

Opera

*Amy Beach - "Cabildo"
*Ottorino Respighi - "Maria Egiziaca"

Musical theater

* "After Dinner" London revue opened at the Gaiety Theatre on October 21
* "L'Auberge Du Cheval Blanc" Paris production
* "Ball im Savoy" Berlin production
* "Ballyhoo" (Music: William Waller Lyrics: Robert Nesbitt) London revue opened at the Comedy Theatre on December 22
* "Casanova" London production
* "The Cat and the Fiddle" London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 4 and ran for 329 performances
* "The Dubarry" London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on April 14 and ran for 398 performances
* "The Dubarry" Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on November 22 and ran for 87 performances
* "Face the Music" Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on February 17 and ran for 165 performances
* "Gay Divorce" Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933 for a total run of 248 performances
* "Music in the Air" Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 8 and ran for 342 performances
* "Out of the Bottle" London production opened at the Hippodrome on June 11 and ran for 109 performances
* "Over She Goes" London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on August 27.
* "Show Boat" Broadway revival opened at the Casino Theatre on May 19 and ran for 180 performances
* "Take a Chance" Broadway production opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 26 and ran for 243 performances
* "Tell Her the Truth" London production opened at the Saville Theatre on June 14 and ran for 234 performances

* "Wild Violets" opened at the Theatre Royal on October 31 and ran for 291 performances
* "Words and Music" London revue (Noël Coward) opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 16.

Musical films

* "Girl Crazy" starring Dorothy Lee, Robert Quillan, Mitzi Green and Kitty Kelly
* "Looking on the Bright Side" starring Gracie Fields.
* "Love Me Tonight" starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald.
* "The Maid of the Mountains" starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman.
* "The Midshipmaid" starring Jessie Matthews
* "Monte Carlo Madness" starring Sari Maritza and Hans Albers and featuring the Comedian Harmonists
* "One Hour with You" starring Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
* "The Phantom President" starring George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante. Directed by Norman Taurog.

Births

*January 26 - Coxsone Dodd, record producer (d. 2004)
*February 8 - John Williams, composer
*February 16 - Harry Goz, musical theatre star (d. 2003)
*February 24 - Michel Legrand, composer
*February 26 - Johnny Cash, country singer (d. 2003)
*March 4 - Miriam Makeba, singer
*March 15 - Arif Mardin, record producer (d. 2006)
*April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, actress and singer
*April 9 - Carl Perkins, rockabilly singer (d. 1998)
*April 12 - Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player (d. 1996)
*April 26 - Francis Lai, songwriter and film composer
*April 27 - Maxine Brown (The Browns)
*May 19 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
*June 7 - Tina Brooks, saxophonist (d. 1974)
*June 27 - Anna Moffo, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
*July 11 - Roquel Billy Davis, singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2004)
*September 8 - Patsy Cline, country singer (d. 1963)
*September 25 - Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
*November 15 - Petula Clark, singer and actress
*November 15 - Clyde McPhatter (The Drifters) (d. 1972)
*November 30 - Bob Moore, bassist
*December 5 - Little Richard, singer, songwriter and pianist
*December 12 - Charlie Rich, country singer (d. 1995)
*December 15 - Jesse Belvin, singer, pianist and songwriter (d. 1960)
*December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979)

Deaths

*January 27 - Mortimer Wilson, composer (born 1876)
*February 22 - Johanna Gadski, opera singer (born 1872)
*March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (born 1905) (car accident)
*March 3 - Eugen d'Albert, pianist and composer (born 1864)
*March 6 - John Philip Sousa, composer (born 1854)
*March 18 - Chancellor Olcott, songwriter (born 1858)
*April 2 - Hugo Kaun, composer and conductor (born 1863)
*April 29 - Leroy Carr, blues musician (born 1905)
*May 5 - Hilda Clark, music hall singer (born 1872)
*May 6 - Roméo Beaudry, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1882)
*May 9 - Emil Hertzka, music publisher (born 1869)
*May 20 - Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
*May 28 - Pascual Contursi, singer and guitarist (born 1888)
*June 7 - Emil Paur, conductor (born 1855)
*July 8 - Samuel Castriota, pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
*July 22 - Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impresario
*September 13 - Julius Röntgen, composer (born 1855)
*September 14 - Jean Cras, composer (born 1879)
*September 26 - Pierre De Geyter, composer of "The Internationale" (born 1848)
*October 21 - Al Hopkins, country musician (born 1889)
*November 23 - Percy Pitt, organist and conductor (born 1870)
*November 27 - Evelyn Preer, actress and blues singer (born 1896)
*November 28 - Hubert de Blanck, pianist and composer (born 1856)
*December 1 - Amadeo Vives, composer (born 1871)
*December 21 - Liana Szekely, tango dancer (born 1875)
*December 24 - Eyvind Alnæs, pianist, organist and composer (born 1872)
*December 25 - Ernst Rolf, actor and singer (born 1891)
*"date unknown"
**Hugh Blair, organist and composer (born 1864)
**Emanuele Nutile, composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)