- 1915 in music
Events
* Tom Brown's band from
New Orleans goes toChicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band"
*Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).Published popular music
* "Alabama Jubilee" w.m.
Jack Yellen &George L. Cobb
* "All For You" w.Henry Blossom m.Victor Herbert
* "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w.Joe Young m. Bert Grant
* "America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
* "Araby" w.m.Irving Berlin
* "Are You From Dixie?" w.m.Jack Yellen &George L. Cobb
* "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
* "The Army Of Today's All Right" w.m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh
* "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m.Sigmund Romberg , from the musicalThe Blue Paradise
* "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene &Jerome Kern m.Jerome Kern
* "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m.Al Piantadosi
* "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, &James V. Monaco
* "Blame It On The Blues" Cooke
* "Canadian Capers " w. Earl Burnett m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
* "Close To My Heart" byA.B. Sterling
* "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
* "Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan
* "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
* "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m.Irving Berlin
* "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge &Sigmund Romberg
* "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay, Brown
* "Georgia Grind" w.m.Spencer Williams
* "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m.Irving Berlin
* "Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch
* "Hello Hawaii, How Are You?" w.Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m.Jean Schwartz
* "The Hesitating Blues" w.m.W. C. Handy
* "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m.Clarence Williams &Armand J. Piron
* "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" w.Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi
* "I Love A Piano" w.m.Irving Berlin
* "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w.Henry Blossom m.Victor Herbert
* "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt
* "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Hermann Darewski
* "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m.James V. Monaco
* "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w.William Jerome &E. Ray Goetz m.Jean Schwartz
* "In A Monastery Garden" m.Albert William Ketèlbey
* "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara &J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
* "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m.Richard A. Whiting
* "I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River" w.Bert Kalmar m. Joe Cooper
* "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas"Irving Berlin
* "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w.William Jerome m.Walter Donaldson
* "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m.Raymond Hubbell
* "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
* "Love Is The Best Of All" w.Henry Blossom m.Victor Herbert
* "Love, Here Is My Heart" w.Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu
* "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m.Jerome Kern
* "Memories" w.Gustave Kahn m.Egbert Van Alstyne
* "Molly Dear It's You I'm After" w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether
* "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson m.Theodore F. Morse
* "My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon m.Albert Von Tilzer
* "My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
* "My Sweet Adair" w.m.L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
* "Neapolitan Love Song" w.Henry Blossom Jr m.Victor Herbert
* "Nola" m.Felix Arndt
* "Norway" by Joe McCarthy
* "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai
* "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag " w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell
* "Paper Doll " w.m.Johnny S. Black
* "The Perfect Song" w.Clarence Lucas m.Joseph Carl Breil
* "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m.Elsa Maxwell
* "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole
* "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w.Harold J. Atteridge m.Sigmund Romberg from therevue "A World of Pleasure "
* "Railroad Jim" byNat H. Vincent
* "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. Ernest R. Ball
* "Siam" w. Howard Johnson m.Fred Fisher
* "So Long Letty" byEarl Carroll
* "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w.Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein. Introduced byRoy Atwell in the musical "Alone at Last ".
* "Some Sort Of Somebody" w.Elsie Janis m.Jerome Kern
* "Song Of The Islands" w.m.Charles E. King
* "That Hula Hula" w.m.Irving Berlin
* "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
* "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson m.Fred Fisher
* "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
* "Underneath The Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer
* "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m.Walter Donaldson
* "When I Get Back To The USA" w.mIrving Berlin
* "When I Leave The World Behind" w.m.Irving Berlin
* "When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" w.m. Charles McCarron & Nat Vincent
* "When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi
* "Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" David, Barnett & Darewski
* "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" byShelton Brooks
* "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m.Jerome Kern
* "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" w.Andrew B. Sterling m.Harry Von Tilzer Hit recordings
* "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" by
Alma Gluck
* "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" byJohn McCormack
* "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" byMorton Harvey Classical music
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Claude Debussy - "En blanc et noir"
*Jesus Guridi - "Así cantan los chicos"
*Federico Mompou - "L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)"
*Heitor Villa-Lobos - String Quartets 1 & 2Opera
*
Umberto Giordano - "Madame Sans-Gene"
*Scott Joplin - "Treemonisha" (the only performance during his lifetime)Musical theater * "
Alone at Last " Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre onOctober 14 and ran for 180 performances
* "Betty" London production opened at Daly's Theatre onApril 24 and ran for 391 performances
* "Bric-A-Brac " London production opened at the Palace Theatre onSeptember 18 .
* "5064 Gerrard " Londonrevue opened at theAlhambra Theatre onMarch 19 .
* "Hip-Hip-Hooray " Broadwayrevue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre onSeptember 30 and ran for 425 performances.
* "Maid in America " Broadway production opened at theWinter Garden Theatre onFebruary 18 and ran for 108 performances.
* "The Blue Paradise " Broadway production opened at theCasino Theatre onAugust 5 and ran for 356 performances.
* "The Only Girl " London production opened at theApollo Theatre onSeptember 25 and ran for 107 performances.
* "The Passing Show Of 1915" Broadwayrevue opened at theWinter Garden Theatre onMay 29 and ran for 145 performances.
* "Shell Out " London production opened at theComedy Theatre onAugust 24 and ran for 315 performances.
* "Stop! Look! Listen! " Broadway production opened at theGlobe Theatre onDecember 25 and ran for 105 performances.
* "Tonight's The Night" London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre onApril 18 and ran for 460 performances.
* "Very Good Eddie " Broadway production opened at thePrincess Theatre onDecember 23 and ran for 341 performances
* "A World of Pleasure " Broadwayrevue opened at theWinter Garden Theatre onOctober 14 and ran for 116 performances.
* "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915" Broadwayrevue opened at theNew Amsterdam Theatre onJune 21 and ran for 104 performancesBirths
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January 6 -Bob Copper , folk singer (d. 2004)
*January 25 -Ewan MacColl , folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
*January 27 -Jack Brymer , clarinettist (d. 2003)
*January 29 -John Serry, Sr. , concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003)
*January 30 -Dorothy Dell , actress and singer (d. 1934)
*February 4 -Ray Evans , songwriter (d. 2007)
*March 10 - SirCharles Groves , conductor (d. 1992)
*March 20 -Sister Rosetta Tharpe , gospel singer (d. 1973)
*March 20 -Sviatoslav Richter , pianist (d. 1997)
*March 28 -Jay Livingston , songwriter (d. 2001)
*March 29 - George Chisholm, jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)
*April 4 -Muddy Waters (d.1983 )
*April 7 -Billie Holiday , blues singer (d. 1959)
*April 12 -Hound Dog Taylor , blues musician (d. 1975)
*April 29 -Donald Mills , US singer of theMills Brothers (d. 1999)
*May 5 -Alice Faye , US actress and singer (d. 1998)
*May 8 -Nan Wynn , US singer (d. 1971)
*May 25 -Ginny Simms , US singer (d. 1994)
*May 27 -Midge Williams , jazz singer (d. 1952)
*June 1 -Bart Howard , composer and pianist (d. 2004)
*June 9 -Les Paul , musician, inventor of the solid bodyelectric guitar
*June 12 -Priscilla Lane , US singer and actress (d. 1995)
*June 17 -David "Stringbean" Akeman , US country musician (d. 1973)
*June 28 -David Honeyboy Edwards , blues musician
*July 9 - David Diamond, classical composer (d. 2005)
*July 15 -Frankie Yankovic , polka musician (d. 1998)
*July 23 -Emmett Berry , jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
*July 31 - George Forrest, musical theatre writer (d. 1999)
*August 6 -Jacques Abram , pianist (d. 1998)
*August 24 -Wynonie Harris , US singer (d. 1969)
*August 26 -Humphrey Searle , composer (d. 1982)
*September 3 -Memphis Slim , blues musician (d. 1988)
*September 5 -Florencio Morales Ramos , singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989)
*September 12 -Billy Daniels , US singer (d. 1988)
*September 23 -Julius Baker , flautist (d. 2003)
*September 24 -Ettore Gracis , conductor (d. 1992)
*October 10 -Sweets Edison , jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
*October 15 -Nellie Lutcher , jazz singer and pianist (d. 2007)
*November -Jane Jarvis , jazz pianist and composer
*November 9 -Hanka Bielicka , Polish singer and actress (d. 2006)
*November 14 -Billy Bauer , jazz guitarist (d. 2005)
*December 12 -Frank Sinatra , US singer and actor (d. 1998)
*December 19 -Édith Piaf , French singer (d. 1963)
*December 25 -Pete Rugolo , Italian-born US pianist and bandleader
*December 30 -Brownie McGhee , folk-blues singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
*"date unknown" -Fulgencio Aquino , Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994)Deaths
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January 2 -Karl Goldmark , composer (b. 1830)
*January 21 -Louis Gregh , composer and publisher (b. 1843)
*January 22 -Anna Bartlett Warner , songwriter (b. 1827)
*February 12
**Emile Waldteufel , composer (b. 1837)
**Fanny Crosby , hymn-writer (b. 1820)
*March 12 -Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen , composer (b. 1838)
*April 27 -Alexander Scriabin , composer (b. 1872)
*May 7 -Charles Frohman , Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in sinking of "Lusitania")
*June 9 -Enrico Rocca , violin maker (b. 1847)
*June 19 -Sergei Taneyev , pianist and composer (b. 1856)
*June 25 -Rafael Joseffy , pianist and composer (b. 1852)
*September 15 -Isidor Bajić , composer (b. 1878)
*September 29 -Rudi Stephan , composer (b. 1887) (killed in action)
*October 2 -Russell Alexander , entertainer and composer (b. 1877)
*October 5
**Otto Malling , organist and composer (b. 1848)
**Jose Maria Usandizaga , composer (b. 1887)
*October 26 -August Bungert , composer and poet (b. 1845)
*November 14 -Teodor Leszetycki , pianist and composer (b. 1830)
*December 10 - David Jenkins, composer (b. 1848)
*"date unknown"
**Henry Hart, entertainer and composer (b. 1839)
**Billy Kersands , dancer (b. c. 1842)
**Sigismund Zaremba , composer (b. 1861)
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