Events December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays "Auld Lang Syne" for the first time Cab Calloway's musical career begins Charley Patton's musical career begins T-Bone Walker's musical career begins Memphis Minnie's musical career begins Gene Autry's musical career begins Published popular music "Adios Muchachos" Raven, Cesar Vedani m. Julio Sanders "Ain't Misbehavin" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn m. Art Kassel "The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)" w.m. Cole Porter "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" w.m. Carson Robison & Frank Luther "Big City Blues" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad "Bilbao Song" w. (Eng) Johnny Mercer w. (Ger) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill English lyrics 1961 "Black And Blue" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "Bolero" m. Maurice Ravel "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis m. J. Fred Coots "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noel Coward "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee m. Charlie Henderson "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept "Do What You Do" w. Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn m. George Gershwin "Don't Ever Leave Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "Dream Lover" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "Every Little Moment" w.m. Vivian Ellis "Feeling Sentimental" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "Find Me A Primitive Man" w.m. Cole Porter "Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do" w.m. Charles Straight, Joe Bennett & George Little "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" w. Andy Razaf & Don Redman m. Don Redman "Great Day!" w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans "Happy Days Are Here Again" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager "Have A Little Faith In Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren "Here Am I" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "He's A Good Man To Have Around" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager "High And Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz "Honeysuckle Rose" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "How Am I To Know?" w. Dorothy Parker m. Jack King "I Got A Code In My Dose" w.m. Arthur Fields, Fred Hall & Billy Rose "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz "I Have To Have You" Robin, Whiting "I Lift Up My Finger" w.m. Leslie Sarony "I May Be Wrong" w. Harry Ruskin m. Henry Sullivan "If I Can't Have You" w. Al Bryan m. George W. Meyer "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "If Love Were All" w.m. Noel Coward "I'll See You Again" w.m. Noel Coward "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "I'm A Gigolo" w.m. Cole Porter "I'm In Seventh Heaven" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Leon Zimmerman "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling" w. Billy Rose m. Fats Waller & Harry Link "Kansas City Kitty" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Keepin' Myself For You" w. Sidney Clare m. Vincent Youmans "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" w.m. Irving Berlin "Little By Little" w.m. Walter O'Keefe & Robert Emmet Dolan "The Little Things You Do" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Liza" w. Gus Kahn & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "Looking At You" w.m. Cole Porter "Louise" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting "Lovable And Sweet" w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" w. Elsie Janis m. Edmund Goulding "March Of The Grenadiers" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting "Mean To Me" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert "The Minor Drag" m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "Miss Hannah" w.m. Don Redman & John Nesbitt "Miss You" w.m. Harry Tobias, Charles Tobias & Henry Tobias "Moanin' Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Ralph Rainger "More Than You Know" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans "My Ideal" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase "My Kinda Love" w. Jo Trent m. Louis Alter "My Love Parade" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "My Mother's Eyes" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer "My Sin" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Nobody's Using It Now" Clifford Grey, Victor Schertzinger "On The Amazon" w. Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Vivian Ellis "Orange Blossom Time" w. Joe Goodwin m. Gus Edwards "Pagan Love Song" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke "Paris, Stay The Same" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "Piccolo Pete" w.m. Phil Baxter "Puttin' On The Ritz" w.m. Irving Berlin "Raisin' The Roof" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh "Reaching For Someone" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Rockin' Chair" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael "Romance" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Satisfied!" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar "Seventh Heaven" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Lew Pollack "She's Such A Comfort To Me" w. Douglas Furber, Max Lief, Nathaniel Lief & Donovan Parsons m. Arthur Schwartz "She's Wonderful" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson "A Ship Without A Sail" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Should I?" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Siboney" w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona "Singin' In the Bathtub" w.m. Herb Magidson, Ned Washington & Michael H. Cleary "Singin' In The Rain" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" w. Billy Moll m. Harry Barris "S'posin"' w. Andy Razaf m. Paul Denniker "Spread A Little Happiness" w.m. Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers & Greatrex Newman "Star Dust" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael Music 1927. "Sunny Side Up" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Thank Your Father" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Then You've Never Been Blue" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ted Fiorito "Thinking Of You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby "True Blue Lou" w.m. Sam Coslow, Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting "Wait 'Til You See Ma Cherie" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting "Waiting At The End Of The Road" w.m. Irving Berlin "Wake Up And Dream" w.m. Cole Porter "Walk Right In" Cannon, Woods, Darling, Suanoe "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine" w. Irving Kahal & Willie Raskin m. Sammy Fain "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "What Is This Thing Called Love?" w.m. Cole Porter "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney "When It's Springtime In The Rockies" w. Mary Hale Woolsey & Milton Taggert m. Robert Sauer "Why Can't I?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Why Do You Suppose?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Why Was I Born?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "With A Song in My Heart" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Without A Song" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans "You Do Something To Me" w.m. Cole Porter "You Were Meant For Me" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Yours Sincerely" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "You've Got That Thing" w.m. Cole Porter "Ziguener" w.m. Noël Coward Musical theater Bitter Sweet London production Bitter Sweet Broadway production Die Dreigroschenoper Vienna production Fifty Million Frenchmen Broadway production Follow Thru Broadway production Follow Through London production Hold Everything London production Hot Chocolates Broadway production Das Land Des Lächelns Berlin production The Little Show Broadway production Mr Cinders London production Show Boat Paris production Spring Is Here Broadway production Toad Of Toad Hall London production Wake Up And Dream London production Wake Up And Dream Broadway production Musical films The Broadway Melody The Cocoanuts The Desert Song The Glad Rag Doll Glorifying the American Girl Gold Diggers Of Broadway Hollywood Revue Of 1929 Honky Tonk The Love Parade Rio Rita Sally Show Boat Sunny Side Up Top hit recordings "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith "Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards "Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee Births January 6 - Wilbert Harrison May 1 - Sonny James June 9 - Johnny Ace June 23 - June Carter Cash July 18 - Screaming Jay Hawkins August 12 - Buck Owens August 24 - William Winfield, The Harptones October 26 - Neal Matthews The Jordanaires November 11 - LaVern Baker November 28 - Berry Gordy Jr, record producer November 30 - Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand December 25 - Billy Horton, The Silhouettes December 25 - Chris Kenner Deaths June 2 - Don Murray, jazz clarinetist