1930 in music

1 Events
2 Published popular songs
3 Top hits on record
4 Classical music
5 Opera
6 Musical theater
7 Musical films
8 Births
9 Deaths

Events

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed.
Frankie Laine begins performing.
Bukka White begins performing.
Gorni Kramer finishes double bass conservatory study and begins performing.

Published popular songs

"Across The Breakfast Table" w.m. Irving Berlin
"All I Want Is Just One Girl" Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting
"Any Little Fish" Noël Coward
"A Bench In The Park" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"Betty Co-Ed" w.m J. Paul Fogarty & Rudy Vallee
"Beyond The Blue Horizon" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & W. Franke Harling
"Bidin' My Time" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Blue, Turning Grey Over You" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
"Body And Soul" w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. John W. Green Published
"But Not For Me" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"By The Sleepy Lagoon" (aka "Sleepy Lagoon") m. Eric Coates
"Bye Bye Blues" w.m. Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray, Fred Hamm & John Green
"Can This Be Love?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift
"Can't We Talk It Over?" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
"Casa Loma Stomp" m. Eugene Gifford
"Cheerful Little Earful" w. Ira Gershwin & Billy Rose m. Harry Warren
"The Chum Song" Jack Hylton, Louis Freeman
"Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love" w. Billy Rose m. Henry Tobias
"A Cottage For Sale" w. Larry Conley m. Willard Robison
"Dancing On The Ceiling" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
"Dangerous Nan McGrew" w. Dan Hartman m. Al Goodhart
"Don't Tell Him What Happened To Me" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Eleven More Months And Ten More Days" w.m. Arthur Fields & Fred Hall
"Embraceable You" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Exactly Like You" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"Falling In Love Again" w. (Eng) Sammy Lerner m. Frederick Hollander
"Fine And Dandy" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift
"For You" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
"Gee, But I'd Like To Make You Happy" w.m. Larry Shay, Ward & Montgomery
"Georgia On My Mind" w. Stuart Gorrell m. Hoagy Carmichael
"Get Happy" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
"Goofus" w. Gus Kahn m. Wayne King & William Harold
"Happy Feet" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"I Am Only Human After All" w. Ira Gershwin & E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke
"I Bring A Love Song" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
"I Got Rhythm" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"I Love You So Much" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
"If Your Kisses Can't Hold The Man You Love" Vivian Ellis, Douglas Furber
"I'm Confessin' That I Love You" w. Al J. Neiburg m. Doc Daugherty & Ellis Reynolds
"I'm Glad I Waited" w.m. Vincent Youmans
"I'm In The Market For You" w. Joseph McCarthy m. James F. Hanley
"I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" w.m. A. P. Carter
"It Happened In Monterey" w. Billy Rose m. Mabel Wayne
"It Must Be True" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Barris & Gordon Clifford
"I've Got A Crush On You" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"J'ai Deux Amours" w. Georges Koger & H. Varna m. Vincent Scotto
"Just A Gigolo" w. (Eng) Irving Caesar (Ger) Julius Brammer m. Leonello Casucci
"The Kiss Waltz" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
"Lady, Play Your Mandolin" w. Irving Caesar m. Oscar Levant
"Lazy River" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael & Sidney Arodin
"The Little Things In Life" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Little White Lies" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight" w. Al Lewis m. Al Sherman
"Love For Sale" w.m. Cole Porter
"Lucky Seven" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
"Memories Of You" w. Andy Razaf m. Eubie Blake
"Mule Skinner Blues" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers
"My Baby Just Cares For Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
"My Future Just Passed" w. George Marion Jr m. Richard A. Whiting
"Mysterious Mose" w.m. Walter Doyle
"On The Sunny Side Of The Street" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"Our Don Bradman" w.m. Jack O'Hagan
"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" w. Sidney Clare m. Sam H. Stept
"A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid" w. Andy Razaf m. James P. Johnson
"Rockin' In Rhythm" m. Duke Ellington & Irving Mills
"Sam And Delilah" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Send For Me" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"Shout, Sister, Shout" w.m. J. Tim Brymn, Alexander Hill & Clarence Williams
"Sing You Sinners" w.m. W. Franke Harling & Sam Coslow
"Someday I'll Find You" w.m. Noel Coward
"Something To Remember You By" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
"The Song Of The Dawn" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager from the film King Of Jazz
"Sweepin' The Clouds Away" w.m. Sam Coslow
"Sweet Jennie Lee" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"Telling It To The Daisies" w. Joe Young m. Harry Warren
"Ten Cents A Dance" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"Them There Eyes" w.m. Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey & Doris Tauber
"They All Fall In Love" w.m. Cole Porter
"They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree" w.m. Edward Eliscu, Billy Hill & Willie Raskin
"Three Little Words" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
"Time On My Hands" w. Harold Adamson & Mack Gordon
"Two Loves Have I" w. (Eng) J. P. Murray & Barry Trivers m. Vincent Scotto
"Walking My Baby Back Home" w.m. Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert
"The Waltz You Saved For Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Wayne King & Emil Flindt
"What Kind Of Noise Annoys An Oyster" Frank Crumit, Curtis
"When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver" w. Charles Tobias m. Peter De Rose
"The White Dove" w. Clifford Grey m. Franz Lehár
"Why Am I So Romantic?" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
"Would You Like To Take A Walk?" w. Mort Dixon & Billy Rose m. Harry Warren
"You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me" w.m. Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal & Pierre Norman
"You Will Remember Vienna" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
"You're Driving Me Crazy" w.m. Walter Donaldson

Top hits on record

"The Stein Song" by Rudy Vallee
"You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians
"Ten Cents A Dance" by Ruth Etting
"Three Little Words" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys with Duke Ellington & His Jungle Band
"On the Sunny Side Of the Street" by Ted Lewis & His Band
"Little White Lies" by Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
"It Happened In Monterey (In Old Mexico)" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Meroff & His Band
"Embraceable You" by Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
"Beyond the Blue Horizon" by George Olsen & His Music
"Body and Soul" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
"I Remember Dear" by Bing Crosby
"Betty Coed" by Rudy Vallee
"A Brown Bird Singing" by Webster Booth
"Crazy Feet" by Fred Astaire
"Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" by The Nat Shilkret Orchestra
"Dream Lover" by Gracie Fields
"I'm One Of The Queens Of England" by Douglas Byng
"If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" by Jack Hylton
"The Lonesome Road" by Paul Robeson
"March Of The Musketeers" by Paul Whiteman
"A Perfect Day" by Paul Robeson
"Private Lives" by Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
"Puttin' On The Ritz" by Fred Astaire
"She's My Secret Passion" by Ambrose
"Terence's Farewell To Kathleen" by John McCormack
"Valentine" by Maurice Chevalier

Classical music

William Alwyn – Piano Concerto No. 1
Aaron Copland – Piano Variations
Arthur De Greef – Piano Concerto no. 2
Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 7
Howard Hanson – Symphony No. 2, "The Romantic"
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Turkish Fragments
Paul Juon – Quintet for Winds in B flat major
Zoltán Kodály – Dances of Marosszék
Igor Markevitch – Concerto Grosso
Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachiana brasileira no 1 for 8 Cellos
Anton Webern – Quartet, opus 22

Opera

Kurt Weill – The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Musical theater

Ever Green London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on December 3 and ran for 254 performances
Girl Crazy Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on October 14 and ran for 272 performances
Glorifying The American Girl Broadway production
Das Land Des Lächelns Vienna production
The Second Little Show Broadway production
Three's A Crowd Broadway production
Viktoria Und Ihr Husar Vienna production
White Horse Inn – Ralph Benatzky. First performed at Berlin.

Musical films

Chasing Rainbows
Follow Thru
Good News
Hit the Deck
King Of Jazz
The New Moon
Puttin' on the Ritz
Spring Is Here
Sunny
The Vagabond King
Whoopee!

Births

January 12 – Glenn Yarborough, The Limelighters
January 13 – Bobby Lester, The Moonglows
January 27 – Bobby Blue Bland
February 13 – Dorothy McGuire, The McGuire Sisters
February 26 – Chic Hetti, The Playmates
March 6 – Lorin Maazel, conductor
March 13 – Jan Howard, singer
March 16 – Harald Banter, jazz composer
March 22 – Stephen Sondheim
March 28 – Robert Ashley, composer
March 29 – Donny Conn, The Playmates
April 16 – Herbie Mann
May 1 – Little Walter
May 28 – Julian Slade
June 9 – Monique Serf
July 16 – Guy Béart
July 20 – Sally Ann Howes, English actress and singer
August 1 – Lionel Bart, English composer and lyricist
September 23 – Ray Charles
October 8 – Toru Takemitsu, composer
October 24 – Big Bopper
December 31 – Odetta

Deaths

January 16 – Art Hickman, US bandleader
January 28 – Emmy Destinn Czech opera singer
April 1 – Cosima Wagner, widow of the composer
July 15 – Leopold Auer, violinist
August 4 – Siegfried Wagner, composer and son of Richard Wagner
October 14 – Henry Creamer, US songwriter
November 4 – Buddy Bolden, jazz musician
December 17 – Peter Warlock, composer
December 22 – Charles K. Harris, US songwriter and publisher

Categories: 1930 in music

1930 in music

Table of contents

Events

Published popular songs

Top hits on record

Classical music

Opera

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths