Events

• February 4 – Ljuba Welitsch
  Ljuba Welitsch
  Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...
  
   makes her Metropolitan Opera
  Metropolitan Opera
  The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
  
   début in Salome
  Salome (opera)
  Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer....
  
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• September 5 - Wagnerian tenor Walter Widdop
  Walter Widdop
  Walter Widdop was a British operatic tenor who is best remembered for his Wagnerian performances. His repertoire also encompassed works by Verdi, Leoncavallo, Handel and Bach.-Career:...
  
   appears at The Proms
  The Proms
  The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London...
  
  , singing "Lohengrin's Farewell", the day before his sudden death at the age of 51.
• December 15 – Birdland jazz club
  Birdland (jazz club)
  Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one night in 1979...
  
   opens in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
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• December 24 – At the start of the Holy Year, Charles Gounod
  Charles Gounod
  Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
  
  's Inno e Marcia Pontificale
  Inno e Marcia Pontificale
  The Pontifical Anthem or Papal Anthem is the official anthem of the Pope, which serves also as the anthem of the Holy See and the Vatican City State. It is played at solemn occasions of the State and ceremonies in which the Pope or one of his representatives, such as a nuncio, is present...
  
  is adopted as the new papal anthem.
• December 29 – Les Paul
  Les Paul
  Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations...
  
   and Mary Ford
  Mary Ford
  Mary Ford , born Iris Colleen Summers, was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits...
  
   marry.
• The Boccherini Quintet
  Boccherini Quintet
  The Boccherini Quintet was a string quintet founded in Rome in 1949 when two of its original members, Arturo Bonucci and Pina Carmirelli, discovered and bought, in Paris, a complete collection of the first edition of Luigi Boccherini's 141 string quintets, and set about to promote this long...
  
   is formed in Rome.
• Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
  
   becomes music director of All India Radio
  All India Radio
  All India Radio , officially known since 1956 as Akashvani , is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks...
  
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• Mitch Miller
  Mitch Miller
  Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive...
  
   begins his career as one of the 20th century's most successful record producers at Mercury
• Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher , was an American entertainer. He was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered...
  
   is "discovered" by Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...
  
   and signs with RCA.
• Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
  
   suggests that Anthony Benedetto change his stage name from "Joe Bari" to "Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
  
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• Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
   records "Mule Train
  Mule Train
  "Mule Train" is a popular song written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, Doc Tommy Scott and Fred Glickman. It is a cowboy song, supposedly sung by an Old West wagon driver spurring on his team of mules as he recites the mail-order goods he is delivering to far-flung customers.-Charting versions:Charting...
  
  ", considered by some critics as marking the beginning of the rock era.
• Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular...
  
   makes her first recording on the London label.
• The Ames Brothers
  Ames Brothers
  The Ames Brothers were a singing quartet from Malden, Massachusetts, who were particularly famous in the 1950s for their traditional pop music hits.-Biography:The Ames Brothers got their beginning in Malden, where all four were born...
  
   become the first artists to record for Coral Records
  Coral Records
  Coral Records was a Decca Records subsidiary formed in 1949. It recorded pop artists McGuire Sisters and Teresa Brewer, as well as rock and roller Buddy Holly....
  
  , a subsidiary of Decca.
• Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality.-Early life:John Alvin Ray was born in...
  
   performs at the Flame Showbar in Detroit.
• The legendary Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
   records the soundtrack to "Jolson Sings Again," the sequel to his hugely successful biopic "The Jolson Story" (1946)
• 45 rpm discs are introduced
• Gorni Kramer
  Gorni Kramer
  Gorni Kramer was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.- Biography :He was born Kramer Gorni at Rivarolo Mantovano . Despite the exotic sound of Gorni Kramer in Italian language, which lead part of his audience to believe he was a foreigner or had adopted a fancy pseudonym, it was his...
  
   starts working for musical impresarios Garinei and Giovannini.
• Country singer Bill Haley
  Bill Haley
  Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".-Early life and career:...
  
   enters into a partnership with musicians Johnny Grande
  Johnny Grande
  John A. Grande , better known as Johnny Grande, was a member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets.-Life and Career:...
  
   and Billy Williamson to form Bill Haley and His Saddlemen; in 1952 the group is renamed Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of...
  
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Albums released

• Der Bingle – Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  
• Jerome Kern Songs – Bing Crosby
• Merry Christmas – Bing Crosby
• Stephen Foster Songs – Bing Crosby
• Lights, Cameras, Action – Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
  
• Djangology – Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  
• You're My Thrill
  You're My Thrill (Doris Day album)
  You're My Thrill was Doris Day's first LP album, issued August 1, 1949 by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6071, a 10" LP. At the same time, Columbia issued it as an album set of 78 rpm records as C-189.-Legacy Information:...
  
  – Doris Day
• Frankie Laine – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• Frankie Laine Favorites – Frankie Laine
• Songs from the Heart – Frankie Laine
• The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger
  The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger
  A classic folk album by Burl Ives , The Return of the Wayfaring Stranger is an 78-rpm set consisting of four 10-inch discs. Released in 1949, the album was concurrently presented as a 10-inch LP, assigned the catalog number CL-6058...
  
  – Burl Ives
  Burl Ives
  Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice .....
  
  
• Dinah Shore – Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
  
  
• The Voice of Frank Sinatra
  The Voice of Frank Sinatra
  The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1946.It was released on Columbia Records, Set C-112, March 4, 1946. It was first issued as a set of four 78 rpm records totaling eight songs, and went to #1 on the fledgling Billboard chart. It stayed...
  
  – Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  
• Jo Stafford with Gordon McRae – Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
   & Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer, best known for his appearances in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! and Carousel and films with Doris Day like Starlift.-Early life:Born Albert Gordon MacRae in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from...
  
  

US No. 1 hit singles

Biggest hit singles

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Vaughn Monroe Vaughn Monroe Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...	Ghost Riders In The Sky	1949		US BB 1 of 1949, US 1 for 11 weeks May 1949, POP 1 of 1949, Europe 33 of the 1940s, RIAA 297, Acclaimed 1303
2	Frankie Laine Frankie Laine Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...	Mule Train Mule Train "Mule Train" is a popular song written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, Doc Tommy Scott and Fred Glickman. It is a cowboy song, supposedly sung by an Old West wagon driver spurring on his team of mules as he recites the mail-order goods he is delivering to far-flung customers.-Charting versions:Charting...	1949		US 1940s 1 – Nov 1949, US 1 for 6 weeks Nov 1949, US BB 7 of 1949, POP 12 of 1949, RYM 38 of 1949, Europe 51 of the 1940s, Italy 73 of 1955
3	Frankie Laine Frankie Laine Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...	That Lucky Old Sun That Lucky Old Sun "That Lucky Old Sun" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Like "Ol' Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's life with the obliviousness of the natural world.-1949 recordings:...	1949		US 1940s 1 – Sep 1949, US 1 for 8 weeks Oct 1949, US BB 2 of 1949, POP 10 of 1949, Europe 40 of the 1940s, RYM 57 of 1949
4	The Andrews Sisters The Andrews Sisters The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews , soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews...	I Can Dream, Can't I? I Can Dream, Can't I? "I Can Dream, Can't I?" is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal. The song was published in 1938, included in a flop musical, Right This Way...	1949		US 1940s 1 – Oct 1949, US 1 for 4 weeks Jan 1950, Europe 4 of the 1940s, US BB 11 of 1950, POP 23 of 1950, RYM 69 of 1949
5	Gene Autry Gene Autry Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer is a fictional reindeer with a glowing red nose. He is popularly known as "Santa's 9th Reindeer" and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team's path through...	1949		US 1940s 1 – Dec 1949, US 1 for 1 weeks Jan 1950, RYM 4 of 1949, RIAA 31, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1949, Acclaimed 1051

Top hit records

• "'A' — You're Adorable
  'A' — You're Adorable
  "'A' – You're Adorable" is a popular song with music by Sid Lippman and lyrics by Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise, published in 1948.The biggest hit version was recorded by Perry Como, with The Fontane Sisters on March 1, 1949...
  
  " – Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "Again
  Again (1949 song)
  "Again" is a popular song, recorded by many singers. The music was written by Lionel Newman, the words by Dorcas Cochran. It first appeared in the movie Road House , sung by Ida Lupino An instrumental rendition was used in the movie "Pickup on South Street"...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements...
    
     (Joe Graydon, vocal)
  • Vic Damone
    Vic Damone
    Vic Damone is an American singer and entertainer.- Early life :Damone was born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York to French-Italian immigrants based in Bari, Italy—Rocco and Mamie Farinola. His father was an electrician; and his mother taught piano. His cousin was the actress and singer...
    
    
  • Doris Day
    Doris Day
    Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
    
    
  • Tommy Dorsey
    Tommy Dorsey
    Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
    
    
  • Vera Lynn
    Vera Lynn
    Dame Vera Lynn, DBE is an English singer-songwriter and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during World War II. During the war she toured Egypt, India and Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops...
    
    
  • Art Mooney
    Art Mooney
    Art Mooney was an American popular bandleader. His biggest hits were "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" and "Baby Face" in 1948 and "Nuttin' For Christmas," with Barry Gordon, in 1955...
    
    
  • Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
    
    
• "At The End Of The Road" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Baby, I Need You" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Baby, It's Cold Outside
  Baby, It's Cold Outside (song)
  "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a pop standard with words and music by Frank Loesser.-Background:Loesser wrote the duet in 1936 and premiered the song with his wife, Lynn Garland, at their Navarro Hotel housewarming party...
  
  " – Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
  
   & Buddy Clark
  Buddy Clark
  Buddy Clark was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the...
  
  
• "Baby, Just For Me" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Bali Ha'i
  Bali Ha'i
  "Bali Ha'i", also spelled "Bali Hai", is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.-In musical South Pacific:...
  
  " – Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "Bamboo" – Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Bebop Spoken Here" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginney" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Coquette" – Guy Lombardo
  Guy Lombardo
  Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.Forming "The Royal Canadians" in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest...
  
   & Jimmy Brown
  Jimmy Brown (musician)
  Jimmy Earle Brown was an American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer, who was the first husband of R&B singer Ruth Brown. He was also known as Jumpin' Jimmy Brown from his performing style of jumping from the stage into the audience with his trumpet. In his early career he played trumpet with Paul...
  
  
• "Cruising Down the River", recorded by
  • Blue Barron
    Blue Barron
    Blue Barron , born Harry Freidman, was an American orchestra leader in the 1940s and early 1950s during the "Big Band" era....
    
    
  • Russ Morgan
    Russ Morgan
    Russ Morgan was a big band orchestra leader and musical arranger in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
    
    
• "Dear Hearts and Gentle People
  Dear Hearts and Gentle People
  "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" is a popular song published in 1949 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Bob Hilliard. They were inspired to write the song based on a scrap of paper with the words "Dear friends and gentle hearts" written on it that was found on the body of Stephen Foster when he...
  
  " , recorded by
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
    
    
  • Ralph Flanagan
    Ralph Flanagan
    Ralph Flanagan , was a famed big band leader, conductor, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey.-Biography:He was educated at Lorain High School, where he was a member of the National Honors...
    
    
• "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" – Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , Woody Herman
  Woody Herman
  Woodrow Charles Herman , known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders...
  
   & His Woodchoppers
• "Don't Cry Little Children" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "A Dreamer's Holiday
  A Dreamer's Holiday
  "A Dreamer's Holiday" is a popular song.The music was written by Mabel Wayne, the lyrics by Kim Gannon. The song was published in 1949.Hit versions of the song were recorded by Perry Como and Buddy Clark....
  
  ", recorded by
  • Perry Como
    Perry Como
    Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
    
    
  • Buddy Clark
    Buddy Clark
    Buddy Clark was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the...
    
    
• "Far Away Places
  Far Away Places
  "Far Away Places" is an American popular song. It was written by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer and published in 1948.The recording by Bing Crosby was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24532. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on December 31, 1948 and lasted 18 weeks...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
    
    
  • Margaret Whiting
    Margaret Whiting
    Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.-Youth:...
    
    
• "Forever and Ever" – Russ Morgan
  Russ Morgan
  Russ Morgan was a big band orchestra leader and musical arranger in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Georgia On My Mind" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" – Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...
  
  
• "God Bless The Child" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Jealous Heart
  Jealous Heart
  "Jealous Heart" is a classic C&W song which has also been recorded by several Pop singers.-Early versions:The first recording of "Jealous Heart" was made in 1944 by its composer Jenny Lou Carson...
  
  " – Al Morgan
  Al Morgan
  Al Morgan was an American producer of The Today Show during the 1960s, was a novelist best known for his trenchant look at media personalities, The Great Man , which reviewers compared to The Hucksters and Citizen Kane...
  
  
• "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
  Lavender Blue
  "Lavender Blue," also called "Lavender's Blue," is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the seventeenth century, which has been recorded in various forms since the twentieth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3483...
  
  " – Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, and television personality...
  
  
• "A Little Bird Told Me
  A Little Bird Told Me
  "A Little Bird Told Me" is a popular song. It was written by Harvey O. Brooks and was published in 1947.-Recordings:*The recording by Evelyn Knight was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24514. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on November 12, 1948, and lasted 21 weeks on...
  
  " – Evelyn Knight
  Evelyn Knight
  Evelyn Knight was a popular American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, she recorded "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months...
  
  
• "My Hero" – Ralph Flanagan
  Ralph Flanagan
  Ralph Flanagan , was a famed big band leader, conductor, pianist, composer, and arranger for the orchestras of Hal McIntyre, Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron, Charlie Barnet, and Alvino Rey.-Biography:He was educated at Lorain High School, where he was a member of the National Honors...
  
  
• "Mule Train
  Mule Train
  "Mule Train" is a popular song written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, Doc Tommy Scott and Fred Glickman. It is a cowboy song, supposedly sung by an Old West wagon driver spurring on his team of mules as he recites the mail-order goods he is delivering to far-flung customers.-Charting versions:Charting...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
    
    
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Ernest Jennings Ford , better known as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres...
    
    
  • Frankie Laine
    Frankie Laine
    Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
    
    
  • Vaughn Monroe
    Vaughn Monroe
    Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...
    
    
• "No Orchids For My Lady" – The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...
  
  
• "'O Sole Mio
  'O Sole Mio
  "O sole mio" is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the melody was composed by Eduardo di Capua. Though there are versions in other languages, "'O sole mio" is usually sung in the original Neapolitan language...
  
  " – Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
  
  
• "On The Alamo" – Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
  
• "Powder Your Face with Sunshine
  Powder Your Face with Sunshine
  "Powder Your Face with Sunshine" is a popular song written by Carmen Lombardo and Stanley Rochinski, and published in 1948. The two biggest hit versions of the song were recorded by Evelyn Knight and by the Sammy Kaye Orchestra....
  
  " – Evelyn Knight
  Evelyn Knight
  Evelyn Knight was a popular American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, she recorded "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months...
  
  
• "Rockin' Chair" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Satan Wears A Satin Gown" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Slap 'Er Down Agin, Paw" – Arthur Godfrey
  Arthur Godfrey
  Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead...
  
  
• "Slippin' Around" – Margaret Whiting
  Margaret Whiting
  Margaret Whiting was a singer of American popular music and country music who first made her reputation during the 1940s and 1950s.-Youth:...
  
   & Jimmy Wakely
  Jimmy Wakely
  James Clarence Wakeley , better known as Jimmy Wakely, was an American country-Western singer and actor, one of the last crooning cowpokes following World War II...
  
  
• "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
  Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)
  "Someday " is a popular song. It was written by Jimmie Hodges and was published in 1944.The song has become a standard, recorded by many pop and country music singers.-Charting versions:...
  
  " – The Mills Brothers
  Mills Brothers
  The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed as The Four Mills Brothers, were an American jazz and pop vocal quartet of the 20th century who made more than 2,000 recordings that combined sold more than 50 million copies, and garnered at least three dozen gold records...
  
  
• "Some Enchanted Evening
  Some Enchanted Evening (song)
  "Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.In the musical, it is sung as a solo by Emile de Becque, the French plantation owner, who falls in love with the American navy nurse Nellie Forbush. In this song he sings of seizing the moment so...
  
  " – Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "Swamp Girl" – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• The Huckle-Buck", recorded by
  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
    
    
  • Paul Williams
    Paul Williams (saxophonist)
    Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams was an American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist and songwriter. In his Honkers and Shouters, Arnold Shaw credits Williams as one of the first to employ the honking tenor sax solo that became the hallmark of rhythm and blues and rock and roll in the 1950s and...
    
     and His Hucklebuckers
  • Tommy Dorsey
    Tommy Dorsey
    Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
    
    
• "That Lucky Old Sun
  That Lucky Old Sun
  "That Lucky Old Sun" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Like "Ol' Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's life with the obliviousness of the natural world.-1949 recordings:...
  
  " – Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "They Didn't Believe Me
  They Didn't Believe Me
  "They Didn't Believe Me" is a song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Herbert Reynolds.First introduced in the 1914 musical The Girl from Utah it was one of five numbers added to the show by Kern and Reynolds for its Broadway debut at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 14, 1914...
  
  " – Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
  
  
• "You're Breaking My Heart
  You're Breaking My Heart
  "You're Breaking My Heart" is a popular song. The song was published in 1948. Though credited to Pat Genaro and Sunny Skylar, the song is just an American version of the famous Italian song 'Mattinata' written by Ruggero Leoncavallo in the beginning of 20th century.Popular versions on the charts...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Buddy Clark
    Buddy Clark
    Buddy Clark was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the...
    
    
  • Vic Damone
    Vic Damone
    Vic Damone is an American singer and entertainer.- Early life :Damone was born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York to French-Italian immigrants based in Bari, Italy—Rocco and Mamie Farinola. His father was an electrician; and his mother taught piano. His cousin was the actress and singer...
    
    
  • The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...
    
    
  • Jan Garber
    Jan Garber
    Jan Garber was an American jazz bandleader.-Biography:Garber was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had his own band by the time he was 21 . He became known as "The Idol of the Airwaves" in his heyday of the 1920s and 1930s, playing jazz in the vein of contemporaries such as Paul Whiteman and Guy...
    
    

Top R&B and Country hit records

• "The Fat Man", by Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, Jr. is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language....
  
  , first record with back beat
  Beat (music)
  The beat is the basic unit of time in music, the pulse of the mensural level . In popular use, the beat can refer to a variety of related concepts including: tempo, meter, rhythm and groove...
  
   all the way through
• "When Things Go Wrong With You (It Hurts Me Too)" by Tampa Red
  Tampa Red
  Tampa Red , born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician....
  
  , later covered by Elmore James
  Elmore James
  Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.-Biography:James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in...
  
   among others

Published popular music

• "Again
  Again (1949 song)
  "Again" is a popular song, recorded by many singers. The music was written by Lionel Newman, the words by Dorcas Cochran. It first appeared in the movie Road House , sung by Ida Lupino An instrumental rendition was used in the movie "Pickup on South Street"...
  
  " w. Dorcas Cochran
  Dorcas Cochran
  Dorcas Cochran was an American lyricist and screenwriter. She is also referenced by her married name, Dorcas Cochran Jewell.-Biography:...
  
   m. Lionel Newman
  Lionel Newman
  Lionel Newman was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
  
  
• "Bali Ha'i
  Bali Ha'i
  "Bali Ha'i", also spelled "Bali Hai", is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.-In musical South Pacific:...
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Juanita Hall
  Juanita Hall
  Juanita Hall was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary and Flower Drum Song as Auntie Liang.-Biography:Born in Keyport, New Jersey, Hall received...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  
• "Bamboo" w. Buddy Bernier m. Nat Simon
• "Beyond The Reef" w.m. Jack Pitman
• "Blame My Absent-Minded Heart" w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Bloody Mary" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   from the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  
• "Blue Ribbon Gal" Irwin Dash & Ross Parker
• "Bluebird On Your Windowsill" w.m. Elizabeth Clarke & Robert Mellin
• "Bonaparte's Retreat
  Bonaparte's Retreat (Pee Wee King song)
  "Bonaparte's Retreat" is the title of a song written by American country music artist Pee Wee King. Various versions of the melody themes exist as traditional fiddle tunes dating back to before the turn of the 20th Century, and probably well before that. King's version was released as a single in...
  
  " w.m. Pee Wee King
  Pee Wee King
  Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski , known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "The Tennessee Waltz"....
  
  
• "Bye Bye Baby" w. Leo Robin
  Leo Robin
  Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
   introduced by Carol Channing
  Carol Channing
  Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
  
   and Jack McCauley
  Jack McCauley
  - Background :McCauley has authored research papers in the field of artificial intelligence and mathematical modeling of AI-based systems. His inventions, patents, and intellectual property span multiple technologies...
  
   in the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos...
  
  . Performed in the film version by Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
  .
• "Cafe Mozart Waltz" m. Anton Karas
  Anton Karas
  Anton Karas was a Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man.-Early life:...
  
   played by Karas on the soundtrack of the film The Third Man
  The Third Man
  The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
  
  .
• "C'Est Si Bon
  C'est si bon
  "C'est si bon" is a popular song, sometimes also referred to by the English translation of the title, "It's So Good". The music was written in 1947 by Henri Betti, the French lyrics by André Hornez, and the English lyrics by Jerry Seelen...
  
  " w. (Eng) Jerry Seelen (Fr) Andre Hornez m. Henri Betti
• "Clopin Clopant" Bruno Coquatrix
  Bruno Coquatrix
  Bruno Coquatrix, was born in Ronchin, Nord on 5 August 1910 and died in Paris on 1 April 1979, buried in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery . He is mainly known as the owner and manager of the music hall Paris Olympia...
  
  , Pierre Dudan & Kermit Goell
• "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  . Mitzi Gaynor
  Mitzi Gaynor
  -Life and career:Gaynor was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago, Illinois to Pauline Fisher, a dancer, and Henry von Gerber, a violinist, cellist, and music director. The family first moved to Detroit and when she was eleven to Hollywood, California.She trained as a ballerina...
  
   sang it in the film version.
• "Count Every Star" w. Sammy Gallop m. Bruno Coquatrix
• "Crazy, He Calls Me" w. Bob Russell
  Bob Russell (songwriter)
  Sidney Keith "Bob" Russell, was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey.In 1968, Russell along with songwriting partner Quincy Jones was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category...
  
   m. Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...
  
  
• "Daddy's Little Girl" w.m. Bobby Burke & Horace Gerlach
• "Dear Hearts and Gentle People
  Dear Hearts and Gentle People
  "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" is a popular song published in 1949 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Bob Hilliard. They were inspired to write the song based on a scrap of paper with the words "Dear friends and gentle hearts" written on it that was found on the body of Stephen Foster when he...
  
  " w. Bob Hilliard
  Bob Hilliard
  Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs; "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", "Any Day Now", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Our Day Will Come", "My Little Corner of the World", and "Seven Little Girls ".-Career:Born in New York City, New York, and after...
  
   m. Sammy Fain
  Sammy Fain
  Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music.-Biography:Sammy Fain was born in New York City. In 1923, Fain appeared with Artie Dunn in a short film directed by Lee De Forest filmed in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. In 1925, Fain left the Fain-Dunn act to devote himself to...
  
  
• "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
  Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
  "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song introduced by Carol Channing in the original Broadway production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , which was written by Jule Styne and Leo Robin...
  
  " w. Leo Robin
  Leo Robin
  Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
  . Introduced by Carol Channing
  Carol Channing
  Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
  
   in the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos...
  
  . Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
   performed the number in the film version.
• "Did You See Jackie Robinson
  Jackie Robinson
  Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947...
  
   Hit That Ball?" w.m. Buddy Johnson
  Buddy Johnson
  Not to be confused with Budd Johnson.Buddy Johnson was an American jazz and New York blues pianist and bandleader, active from the 1930s through the 1960s...
  
  
• "Dites-Moi" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Michael de Leon and Barbara Luna in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  
• "Don't Cry, Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)
  Don't Cry, Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)
  "Don't Cry, Joe " is a popular song written by Joe Marsala and recorded by Johnny Desmond on May 21, 1949.The recording was released by MGM and reached #22 on the Billboard chart. Frank Sinatra recorded an effective version that reached #6 the same year...
  
  " w.m. Joe Marsala
• "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
  A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes
  "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney film Cinderella . In the song Cinderella encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story.The theme of...
  
  " w.m. Mack David
  Mack David
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...
  
  , Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...
  
   & Jerry Livingston
  Jerry Livingston
  Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter, and dance orchestra pianist.-Biography:...
  
  . Ilene Woods
  Ilene Woods
  Jacqueline Ruth "Ilene" Woods was an American singer and actress who voiced Cinderella in the 1950 Disney classic film, which is what she is best known for.-Early life:...
  
   provided the vocal for the animated film Cinderella
  Cinderella (1950 film)
  Cinderella is a 1950 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault. Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film had a limited release on February 15, 1950 by RKO Radio Pictures. Directing credits go to Clyde Geronimi,...
  
  .
• "Dreamer With A Penny" w.m. Allan Roberts & Lester Lee
• "A Dreamer's Holiday
  A Dreamer's Holiday
  "A Dreamer's Holiday" is a popular song.The music was written by Mabel Wayne, the lyrics by Kim Gannon. The song was published in 1949.Hit versions of the song were recorded by Perry Como and Buddy Clark....
  
  " w. Kim Gannon m. Mabel Wayne
• "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later than You Think)" w. Herb Magidson
  Herb Magidson
  Herbert A. "Herb" Magidson was an American popular lyricist. His work was used in over 23 films and four Broadway reviews. He won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1934....
  
   m. Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...
  
  
• "The Fat Man" w. Antoine Domino
  Fats Domino
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, Jr. is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language....
  
   m. Dave Bartholomew
• "The Four Winds And The Seven Seas" w. Hal David
  Hal David
  Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
  
   m. Don Rodney
• "Happy Talk
  Happy Talk (song)
  In June 1982, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible scored an unlikely #1 single on the UK singles chart for two weeks with his version of the song, featuring backing vocals by the band Dolly Mixture.-Cover Version:...
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Juanita Hall
  Juanita Hall
  Juanita Hall was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary and Flower Drum Song as Auntie Liang.-Biography:Born in Keyport, New Jersey, Hall received...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  .
• "He's A Real Gone Guy" w.m. Nellie Lutcher
  Nellie Lutcher
  Nellie Lutcher was an African-American R&B and jazz singer and pianist, who gained prominence in the late 1940s and early 1950s...
  
  
• "Homework" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Honey Bun" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
  . Introduced by Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  . Performed in the 1958 film version by Mitzi Gaynor
  Mitzi Gaynor
  -Life and career:Gaynor was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in Chicago, Illinois to Pauline Fisher, a dancer, and Henry von Gerber, a violinist, cellist, and music director. The family first moved to Detroit and when she was eleven to Hollywood, California.She trained as a ballerina...
  
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• "Hop-Scotch Polka" w.m. William "Billy" Whitlock, Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...
  
   & Gene Rayburn
  Gene Rayburn
  Gene Rayburn was an American radio and television personality. He is best known as the host of various editions of the popular American television game show Match Game for over two decades....
  
  
• "The Horse Told Me" w. Johnny Burke
  Johnny Burke (lyricist)
  Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...
  
   m. Jimmy Van Heusen introduced by Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
   in the film Riding High
  Riding High (1950 film)
  Riding High is a black and white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra in which the songs were actually sung as the movie was being filmed instead of the customary lip-synching to previous recordings. The movie is a remake of an earlier Capra film called...
  
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• "The Hot Canary" m. Paul Nero
• "How Can You Buy Killarney?" Hamilton Kennedy, Ted Steels, Freddie Grant (Grundland) & Gerard Morrison
• "How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies!" w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
  
   m. Sonny Burke
• "The Hucklebuck" w. Roy Alfred m. Andy Gibson
• "Hymne à l'amour
  Hymne à l'amour
  "Hymne à l'amour" is a popular French song originally performed by Édith Piaf. The lyrics were written by Piaf and the music by Marguerite Monnot. She first sang this song at the cabaret Versailles in New York on September 14, 1949. It was written to her lover and the love of her life, the French...
  
  " w. Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
  
   m. Marguerite Monnot
  Marguerite Monnot
  Marguerite Monnot was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce....
  
  
• "I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded" w.m. Hank Fort & Herb Leighton
• "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore
  I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore
  "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" is a popular song, written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss and published in 1949. The song was popularized that year by Gordon Jenkins and the Stardusters and by Perry Como....
  
  " w.m. Bennie Benjamin
  Bennie Benjamin
  Claude A. Benjamin was a songwriter, often teaming with George David Weiss. He was born on November 4, 1907 in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix . At the age of twenty, he moved to New York City. There, he studied the banjo and guitar with Hy Smith...
  
   & George David Weiss
  George David Weiss
  George David Weiss was an American songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.-Career:...
  
  
• "I Love You Because
  I Love You Because (song)
  "I Love You Because" is a 1949 song written and originally recorded by Leon Payne. The single went to number four on the Billboard Country & Western Best Seller lists and spent two weeks at number one on the Country & Western Disk Jockey List, spending a total of thirty-two weeks on the chart...
  
  " w.m. Leon Payne
  Leon Payne
  Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...
  
  
• "I Said My Pajamas
  I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Pray'rs)
  "I Said My Pajamas " is a popular song.The music was written by George Wyle, the lyrics by Edward Pola. It was published in 1949....
  
  " w.m. Edward Pola
  Edward Pola
  Edward "Eddie" Pola was an actor, radio/television producer, and songwriter....
  
   & George Wyle
  George Wyle
  George Wyle , born Bernard Weissman, was an American orchestra leader and composer best known for having written the theme song to 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island.-Early Years:...
  
  
• "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas" w.m. Harry Stewart
• "I'll Never Slip Around Again" Floyd Tillman
• "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
  I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair
  "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" is a song from the musical South Pacific, sung by Nellie Forbush, the female lead, originally played by Mary Martin beginning in 1949. Her character, fed up with a man and singing in the shower, claims she will forget about him...
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  .
• "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard...
  
  " w.m. Hank Williams
• "It's a Great Feeling
  It's a Great Feeling
  It's a Great Feeling is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan in a spoof of what goes on behind-the-scenes in Hollywood movie-making. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based upon a story by I.A.L. Diamond. The film was directed by...
  
  " w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
   introduced by Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
   in the film It's a Great Feeling
  It's a Great Feeling
  It's a Great Feeling is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson, and Dennis Morgan in a spoof of what goes on behind-the-scenes in Hollywood movie-making. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based upon a story by I.A.L. Diamond. The film was directed by...
  
  
• "It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House" w. John Elliot m. Harold Spina
  Harold Spina
  Harold Spina was an American composer of popular songs. His best-known work happened in the early 1930s, when he collaborated with lyricists Johnny Burke and Joe Young on songs such as "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore", "You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew", "My Very Good Friend the Milkman" ,...
  
  
• "Just One Way To Say I Love You" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   introduced by Eddie Albert
  Eddie Albert
  Edward Albert Heimberger , known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing...
  
   and Allyn Ann McLerie in the musical Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty is a musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty in 1886...
  
  .
• "Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   introduced by Eddie Albert
  Eddie Albert
  Edward Albert Heimberger , known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing...
  
   and Allyn Ann McLerie in the musical Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty is a musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty in 1886...
  
  
• "A Little Girl From Little Rock" w. Leo Robin
  Leo Robin
  Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
   introduced by Carol Channing
  Carol Channing
  Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
  
   in the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos...
  
  . Jane Russell
  Jane Russell
  Jane Russell was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s....
  
   and Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
   were just two little girls in the film version.
• "Lush Life" w.m. Billy Strayhorn
  Billy Strayhorn
  William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include "Chelsea Bridge", "Take the "A" Train" and "Lush Life".-Early...
  
  
• "Maybe It's Because" w. Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...
  
   m. Johnnie Scott
• "Melodie d'Amour
  Melodie d'Amour
  "Melodie d'Amour" is a popular song. It was written by Henri Salvador and Leo Johns and published in 1949.The recording by The Ames Brothers was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 47-7046. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on October 7, 1957...
  
  " w.(Eng) Leo Johns m. Henri Salvador
  Henri Salvador
  Henri Salvador was a French Caribbean singer.-Biography:Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Indian from the Caribbean, were both from Guadeloupe, French West Indies...
  
  
• "Mona Lisa
  Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song)
  "Mona Lisa" is a song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. . It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 1950. The arrangement was by Nelson Riddle and the orchestral backing was played by Les Baxter and his Orchestra...
  
  " w.m. Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...
  
   & Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
  
  
• "Mule Train
  Mule Train
  "Mule Train" is a popular song written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, Doc Tommy Scott and Fred Glickman. It is a cowboy song, supposedly sung by an Old West wagon driver spurring on his team of mules as he recites the mail-order goods he is delivering to far-flung customers.-Charting versions:Charting...
  
  " w.m. Johnny Lange
  Johnny Lange
  Johnny Lange was a songwriter, author and publisher. He was educated in a Philadelphia high school. He joined the music staff at film studios in 1937 and resumed his film music career in 1946 and 1947. He also wrote special material for night club singers, and the "Ice Capades of 1950"...
  
  , Hy Heath & Fred Glickman
• "Music! Music! Music!
  Music! Music! Music!
  "Music! Music! Music!" is a popular song written by Stephen Weiss and Bernie Baum and published in 1949.The biggest-selling version of the song was recorded by Teresa Brewer on December 20, 1949, and released by London Records as catalog number 604. It became a #1 hit and a million-seller in 1950...
  
  " w.m. Stephen Weiss & Bernie Baum
  Bernie Baum
  Bernie Baum was a songwriter who worked extensively with Elvis Presley. He grew up in New York City and later worked with Harvey Zimmerman and Florence Kaye. The majority of their songs were used in Presley's musicals. Their work was also credited in the American version of Kimba the White Lion...
  
  
• "My Bolero" Kennedy, Simon
• "My Foolish Heart
  My Foolish Heart (song)
  "My Foolish Heart" is a popular song that was published in 1949.The music was written by Victor Young and the lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics' general laceration of the film...
  
  " w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
  
   m. Victor Young
  Victor Young
  Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...
  
   introduced by Susan Hayward
  Susan Hayward
  Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...
  
   in the film My Foolish Heart
  My Foolish Heart (film)
  My Foolish Heart is a 1949 American film which tells the story of a woman's reflections on the bad turns her life has taken. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward. Adapted from J. D...
  
  
• "My One And Only Highland Fling" w. Ira Gershwin
  Ira Gershwin
  Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
  
    m. Harry Warren
  Harry Warren
  Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
  
   introduced by Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
  
   in the film The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at MGM that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart...
  
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• "Now That I Need You" w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   introduced by Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.-Early life:Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum . While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for...
  
   in the film Red, Hot and Blue
  Red, Hot and Blue
  Red, Hot and Blue is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1936 and introduced the popular song, "It's De-Lovely" sung by Ethel Merman.-Synopsis:...
  
  .
• "The Old Master Painter" w. Haven Gillespie m. Beasley Smith
• "Paris Wakes Up And Smiles" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   introduced by Johnny V. R. Thompson and Allyn Ann McLerie in the musical Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty is a musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty in 1886...
  
  
• "Peter Cottontail" w.m. Jack Rollins & Steve Nelson
• "Pigalle" w.m. Georges Konyn, Charles Newman & Georges Ulmer
• "Portrait Of Jenny" w. Gordon Burge m. J. Russell Robinson
  J. Russell Robinson
  Joseph Russel Robinson was a United States ragtime and dixieland jazz pianist and a composer of jazz, blues, and popular tunes....
  
  
• "Put Your Shoes On, Lucy" w.m. Hank Fort
• "Quicksilver" w.m. Irving Taylor
  Irving Taylor (songwriter)
  Irving Taylor , was a Jewish-American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He enlisted in the US Navy the day after Pearl Harbor...
  
  , George Wyle & Edward Pola
  Edward Pola
  Edward "Eddie" Pola was an actor, radio/television producer, and songwriter....
  
  
• "Rag Mop
  Rag Mop
  "Rag Mop" was a popular American song of the late 1940s-early 1950s.The song, a 12-bar blues, was written by Johnnie Lee Wills and Deacon Anderson and published in 1949...
  
  " w.m. Johnnie Lee Wills & Deacon Anderson
• "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" w.m. Stan Jones
• "The Right Girl For Me" w. Betty Comden
  Betty Comden
  Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century...
  
   & Adolph Green
  Adolph Green
  Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday...
  
   m. Roger Edens
  Roger Edens
  Roger Edens was a Hollywood composer, arranger and associate producer, and is considered one of the major creative figures in Arthur Freed's musical film production unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the "golden era of Hollywood".-Early career and work with Judy Garland:Edens was born in...
  
   introduced by Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
   in the film Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film)
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a 1949 Technicolor musical film starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, and Gene Kelly. The movie was directed by Busby Berkeley. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"...
  
  
• "The River Seine" w. (Eng) Allan Roberts & Alan Holt m. Guy La Forge
• "Room Full Of Roses" w.m. Tim Spencer
• "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer" w.m. Johnny Marks
  Johnny Marks
  Johnny Marks was an American songwriter. Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" , "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" , and "A Holly...
  
  
• "Saturday Night Fish Fry" w.m. Louis Jordan
  Louis Jordan
  Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
  
  , Ellis Walsh & Al Carters
• "Scarlet Ribbons
  Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
  "Scarlet Ribbons " is a popular song. The music was written by Evelyn Danzig and the lyrics by Jack Segal."Scarlet Ribbons" was written in only 15 minutes in 1949 at Danzig's home in Port Washington New York after she invited lyricist Segal to hear her music...
  
  " w. Jack Segal
  Jack Segal
  Jack Segal was a composer of popular American songs...
  
   m. Evelyn Danzig
  Evelyn Danzig
  Evelyn Danzig Levine was an American songwriter best known for writing the music for the popular song "Scarlet Ribbons" with lyrics by her collaborator Jack Segal.-Life:...
  
  
• "La Seine" w. Geoffrey Parsons m. Berkeley Fase
• "Sentimental Me
  Sentimental Me
  "Sentimental Me" is a popular song.It was written by James T. Morehead and James Cassin and published in 1949.The most popular version was recorded by The Ames Brothers. Other versions were recorded by Elvis Presley, the Russ Morgan Orchestra and in England by Jackie Brown and his Quartet.The Ames...
  
  " w.m. James T. Morehead & James Cassin
• "Sing Soft, Sing Sweet, Sing Gentle" w.m. Jimmy Durante
  Jimmy Durante
  James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...
  
   & Jack Barnett
• "Slippin' Around
  Slippin' Around
  "Slippin' Around" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1949. The most popular recording was a cover version by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely which reached number one on the Retail Folk Best Sellers chart...
  
  " w.m. Floyd Tillman
  Floyd Tillman
  Floyd Tillman was an American country musician who, in the 1930s and 1940s, helped create the Western swing and honky tonk genres. Tillman was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1984.-Early life:Tillman grew up in the cotton-mill town of Post,...
  
  
• "Some Day My Heart Will Awake" w. Christopher Hassall
  Christopher Hassall
  Christopher Vernon Hassall was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame in a memorable musical partnership with the actor and composer Ivor Novello after working together in the same touring company...
  
   m. Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
  
  . Introduced by Vanessa Lee in the musical King's Rhapsody
  King's Rhapsody
  King's Rhapsody is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall.The musical was first produced at the Palace Theatre, London, on 15 September 1949 and ran for 841 performances, surviving its author, who died in 1951...
  
  .
• "Some Enchanted Evening
  Some Enchanted Evening (song)
  "Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.In the musical, it is sung as a solo by Emile de Becque, the French plantation owner, who falls in love with the American navy nurse Nellie Forbush. In this song he sings of seizing the moment so...
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza was an Italian basso opera singer with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  . Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide.-Career:Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois...
  
   dubbed for Rossano Brazzi
  Rossano Brazzi
  -Biography:Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four...
  
   in the film.
• "A Strawberry Moon (In A Blueberry Sky)" Bob Hilliard & Sammy Mysels
• "Sunshine Cake" w. Johnny Burke
  Johnny Burke (lyricist)
  Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...
  
   m. Jimmy Van Heusen
• "Swamp Girl" w.m. Michael Brown
• "That Lucky Old Sun
  That Lucky Old Sun
  "That Lucky Old Sun" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Like "Ol' Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's life with the obliviousness of the natural world.-1949 recordings:...
  
  " w. Haven Gillespie
  Haven Gillespie
  James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", "Right or Wrong," "Beautiful Love",...
  
   m. Beasley Smith
  Beasley Smith
  John Beasley Smith was an American composer. That Lucky Old Sun, one of his better known works, was covered by many well-known artists. He often worked with Haven Gillespie....
  
  
• "There Is Nothin' Like A Dame" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   from the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  .
• "Third Man Theme" m. Anton Karas
  Anton Karas
  Anton Karas was a Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man.-Early life:...
  
   played by Karas on the soundtrack of the film The Third Man
  The Third Man
  The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
  
  . Also known as "The Harry Lime Theme".
• "This Nearly Was Mine" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza was an Italian basso opera singer with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  . Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi
  Giorgio Tozzi was for many years a leading bass with the Metropolitan Opera, as well as playing lead roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide.-Career:Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois...
  
   dubbed for Rossano Brazzi
  Rossano Brazzi
  -Biography:Brazzi was born in Bologna to Adelmo and Maria Brazzi. He attended San Marco University in Florence, Italy, where he was raised from the age of four...
  
   in the film.
• "Through A Long And Sleepless Night" w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   m. Alfred Newman
  Alfred Newman
  Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over two hundred films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest...
  
  
• "Too-Whit! Too-Whoo!" Billy Reid
• "Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunshine" w. Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...
  
   m. Peter De Rose
• "Up Above My Head
  Up Above My Head
  "Up Above My Head" is a Gospel song, originally recorded in the 1940s by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight as a duo.-Style:The song is formed in the traditional call and response format, with Tharpe singing a short line followed by Knight's "response" of the same line...
  
  " w.m. Sister Rosetta Tharpe
  Sister Rosetta Tharpe
  Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an Amercian pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment...
  
  
• "The Wedding Of Lili Marlene" w.m. Tommie Connor
  Tommie Connor
  Tommie Connor was a British songwriter, credited with several hit songs over his long career. Most notable among these was "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which has been recorded by many artists, including the Jackson 5 and is among the top 25 Christmas music songs...
  
   & Johnny Reine
• "When The Wind Was Green" w.m. Don Hunt
• "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy
  I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy
  " a Wonderful Guy" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It was first introduced by Mary Martin in the original Broadway production and sung by Mitzi Gaynor in the 1958 film adaptation....
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
   in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  
• "Yingle Bells" adapt. Harry Stewart
• "You Can Have Him" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   from the musical Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty is a musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty in 1886...
  
  
• "Younger Than Springtime
  Younger Than Springtime
  "Younger Than Springtime" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It has been widely recorded as a jazz standard....
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by William Tabbert in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  
• "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
  You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
  "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific....
  
  " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   introduced by William Tabbert in the musical South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  

Classical music

• Aaron Avshalomov
  Aaron Avshalomov
  Aaron Avshalomov was a Russian-born Jewish composer.Born into a Mountain Jewish family, he was sent for medical studies to Zürich. After the October Revolution, in 1917, which made further studies in Europe impossible, his family sent him to the United States...
  
   – Second Symphony
• Marcel Bitsch
  Marcel Bitsch
  Marcel Bitsch was a French composer, teacher and analyst. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and also was professor of counterpoint there. In his latter years he concentrated on teaching and analysing the music of J. S...
  
   – Six Esquisses symphoniques
• Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...
  
   – Symphony No. 8 in B-flat Minor
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
  
   – Sonata for violin and piano
• Ferenc Farkas
  Ferenc Farkas
  Ferenc Farkas was a Hungarian composer.Farkas began his studies in composition at the Budapest Academy of Music , where his teachers were Leo Weiner and Albert Siklós. He later studied with Ottorino Respighi in Rome...
  
   – Finnish Popular Dances
• André Jolivet
  André Jolivet
  André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...
  
   – Flute Concerto
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
   – Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
• Dmitry Kabalevsky – Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op.49 (1948–9)
• Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
   – Mode de valeurs et d'intensités
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  Nikolai Myaskovsky
  Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...
  
   – Cello Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, Op.81 (1948–9); Piano Sonatas 7–9, Opp.82–4; Symphony No. 27 in C Minor, Op.85; String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Op.86
• Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
   – Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op.119
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
   – Song of the Forests
  Song of the Forests
  Dmitri Shostakovich composed his oratorio The Song of the Forests, Op. 81, in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the forestation of the Russian steppes following the end of World War II...
  
  (oratorio)
• Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
  
   – Dance for Burgess
• Mieczysław Weinberg – Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op. 47 No. 1

Musical theater

• Belinda Fair London production opened at the Strand Theatre
  Novello Theatre
  The Novello Theatre is a West End theatre on Aldwych, in the City of Westminster.-History:The theatre was built as one of a pair with the Aldwych Theatre on either side of the Waldorf Hotel, both being designed by W. G. R. Sprague. The theatre opened as the Waldorf Theatre on 22 May 1905, and was...
  
   on June 30 and ran for 131 performances
• Brigadoon London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre
  His Majesty's Theatre
  His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen is the largest theatre in north-east Scotland, seating more than 1400. The theatre is sited on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the city's Union Terrace Gardens. It was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1906...
  
   on April 14 and ran for 685 performances
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical)
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Loos...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre
  Ziegfeld Theatre
  The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theater located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1927 and, despite public protests, was razed in 1966....
  
   on December 8 and ran for 740 performances
• King's Rhapsody
  King's Rhapsody
  King's Rhapsody is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall.The musical was first produced at the Palace Theatre, London, on 15 September 1949 and ran for 841 performances, surviving its author, who died in 1951...
  
  London production opened at the Palace Theatre
  Palace Theatre, London
  The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. It is an imposing red-brick building that dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus and is located near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road...
  
   on September 15 and ran for 838 performances
• Lost in the Stars
  Lost in the Stars
  Lost in the Stars is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill, based on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton...
  
  (Maxwell Anderson
  Maxwell Anderson
  James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.-Early years:Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson, both of Scots and Irish descent...
  
   and Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  ) – Broadway production opened at the Music Box Theatre
  Music Box Theatre
  The Music Box Theater is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.The once most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C. Howard Crane and constructed by composer Irving Berlin and producer Sam H. Harris specifically to...
  
   on October 30 and ran for 273 performances
• Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty
  Miss Liberty is a musical with a book by Robert E. Sherwood and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It is based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty in 1886...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on July 15 and ran for 308 performances. Starring Eddie Albert
  Eddie Albert
  Edward Albert Heimberger , known professionally as Eddie Albert, was an American actor and activist. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1954 for his performance in Roman Holiday, and in 1973 for The Heartbreak Kid.Other well-known screen roles of his include Bing...
  
  , Allyn Ann McLerie and Mary McCarty
  Personal name
  A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...
  
  
• South Pacific
  South Pacific (musical)
  South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...
  
  (Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   and Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
  
  ) – Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 7 and ran for 1925 performances

Musical films

• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is a 1949 animated feature produced by Walt Disney. The film was released to theaters on October 5, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures and is the eleventh animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...
  
  animated film
• The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway
  The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 musical film from the Arthur Freed unit at MGM that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers after ten years apart...
  
  starring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
   and Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
  
  
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
  
  starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming , is an American film and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day...
  
  , Cedric Hardwicke
  Cedric Hardwicke
  Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was a noted English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years...
  
   and William Bendix
  William Bendix
  William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley...
  
  
• Dancing in the Dark
• Don't Ever Leave Me
  Don't Ever Leave Me
  Don't Ever Leave Me is a 1949 English romantic comedy film starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley...
  
  
• The Great Lover
  The Great Lover (1949 film)
  The Great Lover is a 1949 comedy film starring Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, and Roland Young. A scout leader takes his troop on an ocean cruise, pursues a beautiful duchess and is stalked by a murderer.-Cast:*Bob Hope as Freddie Hunter...
  
  starring Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
  
   and Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming , is an American film and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day...
  
  
• Holiday in Havana starring Desi Arnaz
  Desi Arnaz
  Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer. While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is probably best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to...
  
   and Mary Hatcher
  Mary Hatcher
  Mary Hatcher is an American singer and actress whose screen career spanned the years from 1946 to 1951. During that time she appeared in eight films, mostly in credited roles and several times as leading lady....
  
  .
• In the Good Old Summertime
  In the Good Old Summertime
  In the Good Old Summertime is a 1949 musical film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It starred Judy Garland, Van Johnson and S.Z. Sakall.The film is a musical adaptation of the 1940 film, The Shop Around the Corner, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, and...
  
  starring Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
  
  , Van Johnson
  Van Johnson
  Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II....
  
  , S. Z. Sakall and Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
  .
• The Inspector General
  The Inspector General (film)
  The Inspector General is a 1949 musical comedy film. It stars Danny Kaye and was directed by Henry Koster. The film also stars Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale Sr. and Rhys Williams. Original music by Sylvia Fine and Johnny Green.-Premise:The film is loosely...
  
  starring Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
  
• It's a Wonderful Day
• Look for the Silver Lining
  Look for the Silver Lining (film)
  Look for the Silver Lining is a 1949 film directed by David Butler. It stars June Haver and Ray Bolger. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1950.-Cast:*June Haver as Marilyn Miller*Ray Bolger as Jack Donahue*Gordon MacRae as Frank Carter...
  
  starring June Haver
  June Haver
  June Haver , was an American film actress. She is most well known as a popular star of 20th Century-Fox musicals in the late 1940s, most notably The Dolly Sisters with Betty Grable and John Payne and also for playing the 1920s Broadway actress Marilyn Miller in Look for the Silver Lining...
  
  , Ray Bolger
  Ray Bolger
  Raymond Wallace "Ray" Bolger was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hank in The Wizard of Oz.-Early life:...
  
   and Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer, best known for his appearances in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! and Carousel and films with Doris Day like Starlift.-Early life:Born Albert Gordon MacRae in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from...
  
  
• Make Believe Ballroom starring Jerome Courtland
  Jerome Courtland
  Jerome Courtland is an American actor, director and producer. He acted in films in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and in television in the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   and Ruth Warrick
  Ruth Warrick
  Ruth Elizabeth Warrick , DM, was an American singer, actress and political activist, best known for her role as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children, which she played regularly from 1970 until her death in 2005....
  
   and featuring the King Cole Trio
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
  
   and Frankie Carle
  Frankie Carle
  Frankie Carle  – , born Francis Nunzio Carlone, was a American pianist and bandleader. As a very popular bandleader in the 1940s and 1950s, Carle was nicknamed "The Wizard of the Keyboard"."Sunrise Serenade," however, was Carle's best-known composition, rising to No...
  
   & his Orchestra. Directed by Joseph Santley
  Joseph Santley
  Joseph Santley was an American actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatrical plays and motion pictures....
  
  .
• Make Mine Laughs starring Ray Bolger
  Ray Bolger
  Raymond Wallace "Ray" Bolger was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hank in The Wizard of Oz.-Early life:...
  
  , Anne Shirley, Dennis Day
  Dennis Day
  Dennis Day born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio, television and film personality.-Early life:...
  
  , Joan Davis
  Joan Davis
  Joan Davis was an American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy, I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy.Born as Madonna Josephine...
  
  , Jack Haley
  Jack Haley
  John Joseph "Jack" Haley was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and Kansas farmworker Hickory in The Wizard of Oz.-Career:...
  
  , Leon Errol
  Leon Errol
  Leon Errol , was an Australian-born American comedian and actor, popular in the first half of the 20th century.-Biography:...
  
  , Frances Langford
  Frances Langford
  Julia Frances Langford was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades.-Birth:...
  
   and Frankie Carle
  Frankie Carle
  Frankie Carle  – , born Francis Nunzio Carlone, was a American pianist and bandleader. As a very popular bandleader in the 1940s and 1950s, Carle was nicknamed "The Wizard of the Keyboard"."Sunrise Serenade," however, was Carle's best-known composition, rising to No...
  
   & his Orchestra. Directed by Richard Fleischer
  Richard Fleischer
  -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...
  
  .
• Maytime in Mayfair
  Maytime in Mayfair
  Maytime in Mayfair is a 1949 British musical comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Nicholas Phipps, and Tom Walls...
  
  starring Anna Neagle
  Anna Neagle
  Forming a professional alliance with Wilcox, Neagle played her first starring film role in the musical Goodnight Vienna , again with Jack Buchanan. With this film Neagle became an overnight favourite...
  
   and Michael Wilding
  Michael Wilding (actor)
  -Early life:Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Wilding was a successful commercial artist when he joined the art department of a London film studio in 1933. He soon embarked on an acting career.-Career:...
  
  .
• My Dream Is Yours
  My Dream Is Yours
  My Dream Is Yours is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Carson and Lee Bowman.The film is perhaps best remembered today for an extended dream sequence combining animation and live action which featured a cameo appearance by Bugs Bunny, dancing with Jack Carson and Doris...
  
  starring Jack Carson
  Jack Carson
  John Elmer "Jack" Carson was a Canadian-born U.S.-based film actor.Jack Carson was one of the most popular character actors during the 'golden age of Hollywood', with a film career spanning the 1930s, '40s and '50s...
  
   and Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
   and featuring Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny
  Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...
  
  . Directed by Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz
  Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...
  
  .
• My Friend Irma
  My Friend Irma (film)
  My Friend Irma is a comedy film directed by George Marshall and is most notable as the film debut of comedy team Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis...
  
  starring John Lund
  John Lund
  John Lund was an American film actor who is probably best remembered for his role in the film A Foreign Affair , directed by Billy Wilder.-Background:...
  
  , Marie Wilson
  Marie Wilson (American actress)
  Katherine Elisabeth Wilson , better known by her stage name, Marie Wilson, was an American radio, film, and television actress. She may be best remembered as the title character in My Friend Irma.-Career:...
  
  , Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
  
   and Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
  
  . Directed by George Marshall
  George Marshall (director)
  George E. Marshall was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history....
  
  .
• Neptune's Daughter
  Neptune's Daughter (1949 film)
  Neptune's Daughter is a 1949 musical romantic comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalbán, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and Mel Blanc...
  
  starring Esther Williams
  Esther Williams
  Esther Jane Williams is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team...
  
  , Red Skelton
  Red Skelton
  Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American comedian who is best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing...
  
  , Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning six decades and many notable roles...
  
   and Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett was an American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer who originally performed on Broadway before being signed to a film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  . Directed by Eddie Buzzell.
• Oh, You Beautiful Doll
  Oh, You Beautiful Doll
  "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" is a ragtime love song published in 1911 with words by Seymour Brown and music by Nat D. Ayer. The song was one of the first with a twelve-bar opening. It is well-known by its chorus:*...
  
  starring June Haver
  June Haver
  June Haver , was an American film actress. She is most well known as a popular star of 20th Century-Fox musicals in the late 1940s, most notably The Dolly Sisters with Betty Grable and John Payne and also for playing the 1920s Broadway actress Marilyn Miller in Look for the Silver Lining...
  
  , Mark Stevens
  Mark Stevens (actor)
  -Career:Born Richard William Stevens in Cleveland, Ohio, he first studied to become a painter before becoming active in theater work. He then launched a radio career as an announcer in Akron, Ohio....
  
   and S. Z. Sakall.
• An Old-Fashioned Girl starring Gloria Jean
  Gloria Jean
  Gloria Jean is an American singer and actress who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959. She also made radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances.-Career:...
  
   and Jimmy Lydon
  Jimmy Lydon
  Jimmy Lydon is an American movie actor and television producer, whose career in the entertainment industry began as a teenage actor in the 1930s....
  
  . Directed by Arthur Dreifuss.
• On the Town
  On the Town (film)
  On the Town is a 1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It is an adaptation of the Broadway stage musical of the same name produced in 1944, although many changes in script and score were made from the original stage...
  
  starring Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
  , Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  , Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett was an American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer who originally performed on Broadway before being signed to a film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  , Ann Miller
  Ann Miller
  Johnnie Lucille Collier, better known as Ann Miller was an American singer, dancer and actress.-Early life:...
  
  , Jules Munshin and Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye and Donald O'Connor.-Early life:...
  
  .
• Red, Hot And Blue
  Red, Hot and Blue
  Red, Hot and Blue is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1936 and introduced the popular song, "It's De-Lovely" sung by Ethel Merman.-Synopsis:...
  
  starring Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.-Early life:Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum . While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for...
  
  , Victor Mature
  Victor Mature
  Victor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to an Italian-speaking father from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol , Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, a cutler,...
  
  , William Demarest
  William Demarest
  Carl William Demarest was an American character actor. He frequently played crusty but good-hearted roles.-Early life and career:...
  
  , June Havoc
  June Havoc
  June Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, writer, and theater director. Havoc was a child Vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood and stage directed . She last appeared on television in 1990 on General Hospital...
  
   and Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
  .
• Slightly French starring Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour
  Dorothy Lamour was an American film actress. She is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope .-Early life:Lamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Carmen Louise Dorothy...
  
   and Don Ameche
  Don Ameche
  Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor with a career spanning almost sixty years.-Personal life:...
  
  .
• Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film)
  Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a 1949 Technicolor musical film starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, and Gene Kelly. The movie was directed by Busby Berkeley. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"...
  
  starring Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  , Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
  , Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett
  Betty Garrett was an American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer who originally performed on Broadway before being signed to a film contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  , Esther Williams
  Esther Williams
  Esther Jane Williams is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team...
  
   and Jules Munshin.
• That Midnight Kiss
  That Midnight Kiss
  That Midnight Kiss was the screen debut of tenor Mario Lanza, also starring Kathryn Grayson, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Among the supporting cast were Ethel Barrymore, conductor/pianist Jose Iturbi , Keenan Wynn, J. Carroll Naish, and Jules Munshin...
  
  starring Kathryn Grayson
  Kathryn Grayson
  Kathryn Grayson was an American actress and operatic soprano singer.From the age of twelve, Grayson trained as an opera singer. She was under contract to MGM by the early 1940s, soon establishing a career principally through her work in musicals...
  
  , José Iturbi
  José Iturbi
  José Iturbi was a Spanish conductor, harpsichordist and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh...
  
  , Ethel Barrymore
  Ethel Barrymore
  Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.-Early life:Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew...
  
  , Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
  
   and Jules Munshin.
• Top o' the Morning starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , Ann Blyth
  Ann Blyth
  Ann Marie Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:Blyth was born in Mount Kisco,...
  
  , Barry Fitzgerald
  Barry Fitzgerald
  Barry Fitzgerald was an Irish stage, film and television actor.-Life:He was born William Joseph Shields in Walworth Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland. He is the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He went to Skerry's College, Dublin, before going on to work in the civil service, while...
  
   and Hume Cronyn
  Hume Cronyn
  Hume Blake Cronyn, OC was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.-Early life:...
  
  . Directed by David Miller
  David Miller (director)
  David Miller was an American movie director who directed such varied films as Billy the Kid with Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy, Flying Tigers with John Wayne, and Love Happy with the Marx Brothers.-Filmography:* Bittersweet Love * Executive Action * Hail, Hero! * Hammerhead...
  
  .

Births

• January 2 – Chick Churchill
  Chick Churchill
  Chick Churchill is the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band, Ten Years After.-Career:...
  
   (Ten Years After
  Ten Years After
  Ten Years After is an English blues-rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart...
  
  )
• January 5 – George Brown (Kool and the Gang)
  Kool & the Gang
  Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
  
  
• January 11 – Frederick Dennis Greene (Sha Na Na
  Sha Na Na
  Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll group. The name is taken from a part of the long series of nonsense syllables in the doo-wop hit song "Get a Job", originally recorded in 1957 by the Silhouettes....
  
  )
• January 12 – Andrzej Zaucha
  Andrzej Zaucha (singer)
  Andrzej Zaucha was a Polish singer , actor.Zaucha was born in Kraków. He was shot and killed there at the age of 42, by French film director, Yves Goulais, along with Goulais's ex-wife Zuzanna Lesniak-Goulais, whom he suspected of having an affair with Zaucha.-Discography:with Dżamble*1971 -...
  
  , singer
• January 19 – Robert Palmer, singer (d. 2003)
• January 22
  • Joseph Hill
    Joseph Hill
    Joseph Hill was the lead singer and songwriter for the roots reggae group Culture whose other members were Kenneth Dayes and Hill's cousin Albert Walker, most famous for their 1977 hit "Two Sevens Clash", but also well known for their "International Herb" single...
    
    , reggae singer (d. 2006)
  • Steve Perry
    Steve Perry (musician)
    Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Journey from 1977–1987 and 1995–1998. Perry had a successful solo career throughout the late 1980s and early '90s.Perry's voice has garnered acclaim from musical peers and music...
    
     (Journey
    Journey (band)
    Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
    
    )
• January 24 – John Belushi
  John Belushi
  John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, The Star of the Films National Lampoon's Animal House and the The Blues Brothers and for fronting the American blues and soul...
  
  , comedian, actor and singer (d. 1983)
• February 5 – Nigel Olsson
  Nigel Olsson
  Nigel Olsson is an English rock drummer, who is best known for his work with Elton John. Olsson helped establish the Elton John sound as one of the first members of John's band, on drums, percussion and backing vocals. When not working with Elton, Olsson has taken up the role of a session musician...
  
  , drummer
• February 12
  • Stanley Knight (Black Oak Arkansas
    Black Oak Arkansas
    Black Oak Arkansas is an American Southern rock band named after the band's hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas. The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s with ten charting albums released in that decade...
    
    )
  • Joaquín Sabina
    Joaquín Sabina
    Joaquín Ramón Martínez Sabina , known artistically as Joaquín Sabina, is a singer, songwriter, and poet. He has released fourteen studio albums, two live albums, and three compilation albums...
    
    , singer, songwriter and poet
• February 21 – Jerry Harrison
  Jerry Harrison
  Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...
  
   (Talking Heads
  Talking Heads
  Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison...
  
  )
• February 22 – Joseph Hill
  Joseph Hill
  Joseph Hill was the lead singer and songwriter for the roots reggae group Culture whose other members were Kenneth Dayes and Hill's cousin Albert Walker, most famous for their 1977 hit "Two Sevens Clash", but also well known for their "International Herb" single...
  
   (Culture
  Culture (band)
  Culture was a Jamaican roots reggae group founded in 1976. Originally they were known as the African Disciples.The members of the trio were Joseph Hill , Albert Walker and Kenneth Dayes ....
  
  ) (d. 2006)
• February 23 – Terry Comer (Ace
  Ace (band)
  Ace were a British rock music band, who enjoyed moderate success in the 1970s. They are notable for their part in the early career of Paul Carrack, who later became famous as a solo artist, and as a member of several other groups...
  
  )
• February 29 – Leroy Sibbles
  Leroy Sibbles
  Leroy Sibbles is a Jamaican-Canadian reggae musician. He was the lead singer for The Heptones in the 1960s and 1970s.In addition to his work with The Heptones, Sibbles was a session bassist and arranger at Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd's Jamaica Recording and Publishing Studio and the associated Studio...
  
   (The Heptones
  The Heptones
  The Heptones are a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal trio most active in the 1960s and early 1970s. They were one of the more significant trios of that era, and played a major role in the gradual transition between ska and rocksteady with their three-part harmonies.-History:Leroy Sibbles, Earl...
  
  )
• March 6 – Mariko Takahashi
  Mariko Takahashi (singer)
  is a Japanese female singer. She is known for her ballad pop songs. She began her singing career in 1973 singing covers, but soon progressed to writing her own songs...
  
  , pop singer
• March 8 – Antonello Venditti
  Antonello Venditti
  Antonello Venditti is an Italian singer-songwriter who became famous in the 1970s for the social themes of his songs.-Biography:...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• March 13
  • Donald York (Sha Na Na
    Sha Na Na
    Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll group. The name is taken from a part of the long series of nonsense syllables in the doo-wop hit song "Get a Job", originally recorded in 1957 by the Silhouettes....
    
    )
  • Julia Migenes
    Julia Migenes
    Julia Migenes is an American mezzo-soprano working primarily in musical theatre repertoire. She was born on the Lower East Side of New York to a family of Greek and Irish-Puerto Rican descent...
    
    , operatic soprano
• March 17 – Daniel Lavoie
  Daniel Lavoie
  Daniel Lavoie is a Canadian singer–songwriter.Lavoie was born in Dunrea, Manitoba, Canada. His mother was a musician and he learned to play piano at a young age...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• March 19 – Valery Leontiev
  Valery Leontiev
  Valery Yakovlevich Leontiev is a Soviet and Russian pop singer whose popularity peaked in the early 1980s. He was titled a People's Artist of Russia in 1996...
  
  , singer
• March 20 – Carl Palmer
  Carl Palmer
  Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...
  
  , drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...
  
  )
• March 21
  • Åge Aleksandersen
    Åge Aleksandersen
    Åge Aleksandersen is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is one of his country's most famous singer/songwriters, musicians....
    
    , singer, songwriter and guitarist
  • Eddie Money
    Eddie Money
    Eddie Money is an American rock guitarist, saxophonist and singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits and platinum albums...
    
    , guitarist, Saxophonist and singer-songwriter
• March 24 – Nick Lowe
  Nick Lowe
  Nicholas Drain "Nick" Lowe , is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer.A pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave, Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. Along with vocals, Lowe plays guitar, bass guitar, piano and harmonica...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• March 26
  • Vicki Lawrence
    Vicki Lawrence
    Vicki Lawrence is an American actress, comedienne, and Billboard Hot 100 #1 singer, who was frequently a game show panelist in the 1970s and 1980s...
    
    
  • Fran Sheehan (Boston
    Boston (band)
    Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists...
    
    )
• March 30 – Lene Lovich
  Lene Lovich
  Lene Lovich is an American singer based in England, who first gained attention as part of the New Wave music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her most popular hit single was "Lucky Number", first released in 1979.-Early years:...
  
  , singer
• April 1 – Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
  , poet, musician and author
• April 3 – Richard Thompson, folk musician
• April 21 – Patti LuPone
  Patti LuPone
  Patti Ann LuPone is an American singer and actress, known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 stage musical Evita and as Madame Rose in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, and for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in the original London cast of Les...
  
  , singer
• May 9 – Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...
  
  , pianist and singer-songwriter
• May 13 – Overend Pete Watts (Mott the Hoople
  Mott the Hoople
  Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...
  
  )
• May 17 – Bill Bruford
  Bill Bruford
  William Scott "Bill" Bruford is an English drummer, percussionist, composer, producer, and record label owner. He was the original drummer for the progressive rock group Yes, from 1968-1972. Bruford has performed for numerous popular acts since the early 1970s, including a stint as touring...
  
  , drummer (Yes
  Yes (band)
  Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...
  
   and King Crimson
  King Crimson
  King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history...
  
  )
• May 18 – Rick Wakeman
  Rick Wakeman
  Richard Christopher Wakeman is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes...
  
  , multi-instrumentalist and composer
• May 19 – Dusty Hill
  Dusty Hill
  Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.-History:Hill was in Dallas, Texas and grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas...
  
  , guitarist and singer (ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
  
  )
• May 26 – Hank Williams, Jr.
  Hank Williams, Jr.
  Randall Hank Williams , better known as Hank Williams, Jr. and Bocephus, is an American country singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style is often considered a blend of Southern rock, blues, and traditional country...
  
  , country musician
• May 29 – Francis Rossi
  Francis Rossi
  Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, OBE is a British musician best known for being a co-founder of the English rock band Status Quo, in which he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar.- Career :...
  
  , guitarist and singer (Status Quo)
• June 11 – Frank Beard
  Frank Beard (musician)
  Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...
  
  , drummer (ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
  
  )
• June 13
  • Dennis Locorriere
    Dennis Locorriere
    Dennis Locorriere was the lead vocalist, guitarist of the pop group Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show, later Dr Hook...
    
     (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
    Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
    Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show was an American pop, country and soft rock band, formed around Union City, New Jersey in 1967 as The Chocolate Papers. They enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1970s with hit singles including "Sylvia's Mother", "The Cover of the Rolling Stone", "A Little Bit...
    
    )
• June 14 – Alan White
  Alan White (Yes drummer)
  Alan White is an English rock drummer known for his work with the progressive rock band Yes. White was also a member of the Plastic Ono Band, playing live in 1969 at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which was recorded and released three months later as Live Peace in Toronto 1969...
  
  , drummer (Plastic Ono Band, Yes
  Yes (band)
  Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...
  
  
• June 15
  • Russell Hitchcock
    Russell Hitchcock
    Russell Charles Hitchcock is an Australian musician and one half of the group Air Supply. He formed the group after meeting Englishman Graham Russell in 1975 on the set of a production of Jesus Christ Superstar....
    
     (Air Supply
    Air Supply
    Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Graham Russell as guitarist and singer-songwriter and Russell Hitchcock as lead vocalist. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s...
    
    ), singer
  • Michael Sam Lutz (Brownsville Station
    Brownsville Station (band)
    Brownsville Station was a rock band from Michigan that was popular in the 1970s. Original members included Cub Koda , Mike Lutz , T.J. Cronley , and Tony Driggins...
    
    )
• June 20 – Lionel Richie
  Lionel Richie
  Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Since 1968, he has been a member of the musical group Commodores signed to Motown Records...
  
  , singer
• June 22
  • Jaroslav Filip
    Jaroslav Filip
    Jaroslav Filip , known as Jaro Filip, was Slovak musician, composer, humorist, dramaturg, actor, columnist and promoter of the Internet in Slovakia with an extraordinary range of activities...
    
    , polymath (d. 2000)
  • Larry Junstrom
    Larry Junstrom
    Larry Junstrom is the bassist of American rock band .38 Special. He was also one of the founding members of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
    
     (Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...
    
    , 38 Special)
  • Alan Osmond
    Alan Osmond
    Alan Ralph Osmond was a member of the family musical group The Osmonds. He was the oldest of the seven siblings who could sing, as the two oldest brothers, Virl and Tom, are hearing impaired although Tom is currently under treatment. During much of the Osmonds' career, Alan was the leader of the...
    
     (The Osmonds
    The Osmonds
    The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...
    
    )
• June 26
  • Larry Taylor
    Larry Taylor
    Larry Taylor is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Lewis...
    
     (Canned Heat
    Canned Heat
    Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...
    
    )
  • John Illsey (Dire Straits
    Dire Straits
    Dire Straits were a British rock band active from 1977 to 1995, composed of Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers .Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, blues, and came closest...
    
    )
• June 30 – Andrew Scott (Sweet
  Sweet (band)
  Sweet was a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.Sweet was formed in 1968 and achieved their first...
  
  )
• July 3
  • Fontella Bass
    Fontella Bass
    Fontella Bass is an American soul singer, who is best known for the 1965 R&B hit "Rescue Me", which she also co-wrote.-Early life:...
    
    , singer
  • John Verity
    John Verity
    John Verity was an English guitarist with the band Argent from 1973 to 1976.When Argent split up, he formed Phoenix with Bob Henrit and Jim Rodford. The band recorded three albums with CBS Records and toured Europe before disbanding. Rodford joined the Kinks, Verity and Henrit joined Charlie, to...
    
    , Argent
    Argent (band)
    Argent are an English rock band founded in 1969 by keyboardist Rod Argent, formerly of The Zombies.-Career:The first three demos from Argent, recorded in the autumn of 1968 featured Mac MacLeod on bass guitar though he was not meant to become a member of the group.Original members of the band were...
    
    
• July 6
  • Phyllis Hyman
    Phyllis Hyman
    Phyllis Linda Hyman was an American soul singer and actress.-Early years:Phyllis Hyman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the St. Clair Village, the South Hills section of Pittsburgh...
    
    , soul singer (d. 1995)
  • Michael Shrieve
    Michael Shrieve
    Michael Shrieve is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Carlos Santana's eponymous band, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974...
    
    , Santana
    Santana (band)
    Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
    
    
• July 10 – Dave Smalley
  Dave Smalley
  Not to be confused with Dave Smalley Dave Smalley is an American musician, best known as the punk bands DYS, Dag Nasty, All and singer/guitarist with Down By Law. He is known for his influence on pop punk music and his early contributions to the emo genre...
  
   (The Raspberries
  Raspberries (band)
  Raspberries is an American power pop/pop rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. They had a run of success in the early 1970s music scene with their crisp pop sound, which Allmusic later described as featuring "exquisitely crafted melodies and achingly gorgeous harmonies." The members were known for their...
  
  )
• July 12 – John Wetton
  John Wetton
  John Kenneth Wetton is an English bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire, and grew up in Bournemouth. He has been a professional musician since the late 1960s...
  
  , bass guitarist (King Crimson, Roxy Music)
• July 16 – Ray Major, Mott the Hoople
  Mott the Hoople
  Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...
  
  
• July 17 – Geezer Butler
  Geezer Butler
  Geezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He was also involved in Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010.-Career:Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, with old friend John "Ozzy" Osbourne in the autumn of...
  
  , Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath
  Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
  
  
• July 18 – Wally Bryson, The Raspberries
  Raspberries (band)
  Raspberries is an American power pop/pop rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. They had a run of success in the early 1970s music scene with their crisp pop sound, which Allmusic later described as featuring "exquisitely crafted melodies and achingly gorgeous harmonies." The members were known for their...
  
  
• July 26 – Roger Taylor
  Roger Meddows-Taylor
  Roger Meddows Taylor , known as Roger Taylor, is a British musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of British rock band Queen. As a drummer he is known for his "big" unique sound and is considered one of...
  
   (Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
  )
• July 27
  • David Weck (Brownsville Station)
  • Maureen McGovern
    Maureen McGovern
    Maureen Therese McGovern is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar winning songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.-Early life:McGovern was...
    
    , singer and actress
• July 28
  • Simon Kirke
    Simon Kirke
    Simon Kirke is an English rock drummer best known as a member of Free and Bad Company.-Biography:...
    
     (Free
    Free (band)
    Free were an English rock band, formed in London in 1968, best known for their 1970 signature song "All Right Now". They disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become a frontman of the band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums; lead guitarist Paul Kossoff died from a...
    
    , Bad Company
    Bad Company
    Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...
    
    )
  • Steven Took (T. Rex
    T. Rex (band)
    T. Rex were a British rock band, formed in 1967 by singer/songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. The band formed as Tyrannosaurus Rex, releasing four folk albums under the name...
    
    )
• August 3 – B. B. Dickerson (War
  War (band)
  War is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider", "Spill the Wine", "The Cisco Kid" and "Why Can't We Be Friends?". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae...
  
  )
• August 11 – Eric Carmen
  Eric Carmen
  Eric Howard Carmen is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and keyboardist.He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and 1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries , and then with his solo career, including hits such as "All By Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", "She Did It",...
  
  , singer and songwriter
• August 12 – Mark Knopfler
  Mark Knopfler
  Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
  
  , guitarist and singer (Dire Straits
  Dire Straits
  Dire Straits were a British rock band active from 1977 to 1995, composed of Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers .Dire Straits' sound drew from a variety of musical influences, including jazz, folk, blues, and came closest...
  
  )
• August 16 – Bill Spooner
  Bill Spooner
  William "Sputnik" Spooner is a musician, guitarist, and songwriter, and the founder of The Tubes, a theatrical rock band. His songwriting is known for its use of humor and satire. He has released three solo albums: First Chud , Mall to Mars , and Demo-licious...
  
   (The Tubes
  The Tubes
  The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, "White Punks on Dope". During its first fifteen years or so, the band's live performances combined quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism, and politics...
  
  )
• August 17 – Sib Hashian
  Sib Hashian
  John "Sib" Hashian is a drummer who was a member of the rock band Boston during their first and most successful lineup. Hashian currently lives in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Sib is of Armenian descent.-Boston years:...
  
   (Boston
  Boston (band)
  Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists...
  
  )
• August 20 – Phil Lynott
  Phil Lynott
  Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy....
  
  , singer (Thin Lizzy
  Thin Lizzy
  Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums...
  
  , Grand Slam
  Grand Slam (band)
  Grand Slam or Phil Lynott's Grand Slam were a rock band, formed in 1984 as the brainchild of ex-Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott.The name 'Grand Slam' was invented after a plethora of other band names had been considered, including 'Reactor Factor', 'Catastrophe', 'Hell Bent On Havoc', 'Slam Anthem'...
  
   (d. 1986)
• August 23 – Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield
  Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States...
  
  , singer-songwriter and actor
• August 25
  • Fariborz Lachini
    Fariborz Lachini
    Fariborz Lachini is a film score composer originally from Iran based in Canada.-Career:He started his career in Iran writing music for children, creating "Avaz Faslha va Rangha" at the age of 18 which caught the attention of royal family of the time. The title of national Iranian TV's children...
    
    , film score composer
  • Gene Simmons
    Gene Simmons
    Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...
    
     (Kiss
    KISS (band)
    Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
    
    )
• August 26 – Bob Cowsill
  Bob Cowsill
  Robert "Bob" Cowsill is an American musician and member of the musical group The Cowsills. He is the third of the seven Cowsill children and is fraternal twins with Richard, the only Cowsill child who was not a part of the group during its 1960s incarnations...
  
   (The Cowsills
  The Cowsills
  The Cowsills are an American singing group from Newport, Rhode Island. They specialized in harmonies and the ability to sing and play music at an early age. The band was formed in the spring of 1965 by brothers Bill, Bob, and Barry, then shortly thereafter added John...
  
  )
• August 27 – Jeff Cook (Alabama)
• August 29 – Hugh Cornwell
  Hugh Cornwell
  Hugh Alan Cornwell is an English musician and songwriter, best known for being the vocalist and guitarist for the punk/new wave group, The Stranglers, from 1974 to 1990.-Career:...
  
   (The Stranglers
  The Stranglers
  The Stranglers are an English punk/rock music group.Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning five decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most "continuously successful" band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s...
  
  )
• September 1 – Greg Errico
  Greg Errico
  Greg Errico, sometimes missspelled as Gregg Errico, is an Italian American musician/record producer, best known for being the drummer for the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band, Sly & the Family Stone...
  
   (Sly & the Family Stone
  Sly & the Family Stone
  Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music...
  
  )
• September 5 – Clem Clempson
  Clem Clempson
  Clem Clempson is an English rock guitarist who has played in a number of bands including Colosseum and Humble Pie.-Career:...
  
   (Humble Pie
  Humble Pie (band)
  Humble Pie was a rock band from England, finding success both in the UK and the US. They are remembered for songs such as "Black Coffee" "30 Days in the Hole", "I Don't Need No Doctor", and "Natural Born Bugie"...
  
  )
• September 7 – Gloria Gaynor
  Gloria Gaynor
  Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...
  
  , singer
• September 10 – Barriemore Barlow
  Barriemore Barlow
  Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow is an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist for the rock band Jethro Tull, from May 1971 to June 1980....
  
   (Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
  
  )
• September 14
  • Steve Gaines
    Steve Gaines
    Steven Earl Gaines was an American musician. He is most well known as a guitarist and songwriter for southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and is the younger brother of Cassie Gaines, who was also a member of the band...
    
     (Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...
    
    ) (d. 1977)
  • Fred "Sonic" Smith (MC5
    MC5
    The MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan and originally active from 1964 to 1972. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson...
    
    )
• September 18 – Kerry Livgren
  Kerry Livgren
  Kerry Allen Livgren is an American musician and songwriter, best known as one of the founding members and primary songwriters for the 1970s progressive rock band, Kansas.-Biography:...
  
   (Kansas
  Kansas (band)
  Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on Album-Oriented Rock charts, and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"...
  
  )
• September 20
  • Chuck Panozzo
    Chuck Panozzo
    Charles Salvatore "Chuck" Panozzo is an American musician best known as the bass player for the rock band Styx. A longtime member of Styx, he founded the group with his fraternal twin brother, drummer John Panozzo, who died in July 1996, and singer Dennis DeYoung...
    
     and John Panozzo
    John Panozzo
    John Anthony Panozzo was an American drummer best known for his work with rock band Styx.Panozzo grew up in the Roseland neighborhood, the south side of Chicago, Illinois, with his fraternal twin brother, Chuck . At age 7, the twins took musical lessons from their uncle in which John took an...
    
     (Styx
    Styx (band)
    Styx is an American rock band that became famous for its albums from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Chicago band is known for melding the style of prog-rock with the power of hard rock guitar, strong ballads, and elements of American musical theater....
    
    )
• September 23 – Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Springsteen
  Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
  
  , singer, songwriter
• September 27 – Jahn Teigen
  Jahn Teigen
  Jahn Teigen is a Norwegian singer and musician. Jahn received a knighthood from H.M. King Harald V. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest three times, in 1978, 1982 and 1983. His given name was Jan, he added the silent H later. Since October 2006 he has been living in Sweden...
  
  , singer
• September 30 – Eleanor Alberga
  Eleanor Alberga
  -Life:Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and began composing short pieces. She studied music at Jamaican School of Music and in 1970 she won the biennial West Indian Associated Board Scholarship which allowed her to study at the...
  
  , Jamaican-British composer
• October 1 – André Rieu
  André Rieu
  André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.- Early life and studies :...
  
  , violinist, conductor, and composer
• October 3 – Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Buckingham
  Lindsey Adams Buckingham is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and a live album...
  
  , guitarist, singer, composer and producer
• October 5 – B. W. Stevenson, progressive country musician (d. 1988)
• October 6 – Thomas McClary (The Commodores
  Commodores
  The Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour...
  
  )
• October 8 – Michael Rosen (Average White Band)
• October 13 – Gary Richrath
  Gary Richrath
  Gary Richrath is an American guitarist, best known as a member of the band REO Speedwagon from 1970 until 1989...
  
   (REO Speedwagon
  REO Speedwagon
  REO Speedwagon is an American rock band. Formed in 1967, the band grew in popularity during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s. Hi Infidelity is the group's most commercially successful album, selling over ten million copies and charting four Top 40 hits in the US...
  
  )
• October 17 – Bill Hudson, singer (Hudson Brothers
  Hudson Brothers
  The Hudson Brothers are an American music group formed in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s and consisting of Bill Hudson, Brett Hudson and Mark Hudson...
  
  )
• October 23 – Würzel
  Würzel
  Michael Burston commonly known by the stage name Würzel, was an English musician and formerly a guitarist in the British heavy metal band, Motörhead....
  
   (Motörhead) (d. 2011)
• October 27 – Garry Tallent
  Garry Tallent
  Garry Wayne Tallent , sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being the longtime bass player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band....
  
   (E Street Band
  E Street Band
  The E Street Band has been rock musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972.The band has also recorded with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Nicks, Tom Morello, Sting, Ian...
  
  )
• November 6 – Arturo Sandoval
  Arturo Sandoval
  Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in the newest renamed Artemisa Province, Cuba....
  
  , jazz performer
• November 8 – Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
  , blues singer-songwriter
• November 12 – Cândida Branca Flor
  Cândida Branca Flor
  Cândida Branca Flor was a Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer whose career spanned for decades before ending in suicide.-Biography:...
  
  , Portuguese traditional singer and entertainer (d. 2001)
• November 13 – Terry Reid
  Terry Reid
  Terry Reid is an English rock vocalist and guitarist. He has performed with high profile musicians, as a supporting act, a session musician, and sideman.- History :...
  
  , singer, guitarist
• November 14 – James Young
  James Young (American musician)
  James "J.Y." Young is a guitarist, singer and songwriter, and member of the rock band, Styx. Young began playing keyboard and piano at the age of five. He attended Calumet High in Chicago and learned to play clarinet and guitar during those years.J.Y...
  
   (Styx
  Styx (band)
  Styx is an American rock band that became famous for its albums from the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Chicago band is known for melding the style of prog-rock with the power of hard rock guitar, strong ballads, and elements of American musical theater....
  
  )
• November 23 – Marcia Griffiths
  Marcia Griffiths
  Marcia Llyneth Griffiths is a successful female singer, also called the "Queen of Reggae". One reviewer described her noting "she is known primarily for her strong, smooth-as-mousse love songs and captivating live performances".Griffiths started her career in 1964...
  
  , reggae singer
• November 28 – Paul Shaffer
  Paul Shaffer
  Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...
  
  , bandleader, composer and actor (Late Show with David Letterman
  Late Show with David Letterman
  Late Show with David Letterman is a U.S. late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS. The show debuted on August 30, 1993, and is produced by Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated. The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is...
  
  )
• December 7 – Tom Waits
  Tom Waits
  Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
  
  , singer, composer, actor
• December 13 – Tom Verlaine
  Tom Verlaine
  Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television.-Biography:...
  
   (Television
  Television (band)
  Television was an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1973. They are best known for the album Marquee Moon and widely regarded as one of the founders of "punk" and New Wave music. Television was part of the early 1970s New York underground rock scene, along with bands like the Patti...
  
  )
• December 14
  • Ronnie McNeir
    Ronnie McNeir
    Ronnie McNeir is an American singer and songwriter born Lewis Ronald McNeir on December 14, 1951 in Camden, Alabama. As a solo artist, he recorded for the De-to, RCA, Prodigal, Motown, Capitol, Expansion and Motor City labels, recording his first song when he was seventeen...
    
    , singer
  • Randy Owen
    Randy Owen
    Randy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...
    
     (Alabama
    Alabama (band)
    Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...
    
    )
  • Cliff Williams
    Cliff Williams
    Clifford Williams is an English bassist and backing vocalist, who has been a member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC since mid-1977. He had started his professional music career in 1967 and was previously in the British groups Home and Bandit. His first studio album with AC/DC was Powerage...
    
     (Home
    Home
    A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...
    
    , AC/DC
    AC/DC
    AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
    
    )
• December 16 – Billy Gibbons
  Billy Gibbons
  William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
  
   (ZZ Top
  ZZ Top
  ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
  
  )
• December 17 – Paul Rodgers
  Paul Rodgers
  Paul Bernard Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1970s as a member of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has recently toured and recorded with...
  
  , vocalist (Free
  Free (band)
  Free were an English rock band, formed in London in 1968, best known for their 1970 signature song "All Right Now". They disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become a frontman of the band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums; lead guitarist Paul Kossoff died from a...
  
  , Bad Company
  Bad Company
  Bad Company were an English rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of two former Free band members — singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke — as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who, in years prior, was a key component of...
  
  , Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
  )
• December 22 – Robin Gibb
  Robin Gibb
  Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his twin brother Maurice , and elder brother Barry....
  
   and Maurice Gibb
  Maurice Gibb
  Maurice Ernest Gibb, CBE was a musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He was born on the Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry. He is best known as a member of the singing/songwriting trio the Bee Gees, formed with his brothers...
  
   (d. 2003) (Bee Gees
  Bee Gees
  The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
  
  )
• December 23
  • Adrian Belew
    Adrian Belew
    Adrian Belew is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer...
    
    , guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
  • Luther Grosvenor
    Luther Grosvenor
    Luther James Grosvenor is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers Wheel and, under the pseudonym "Ariel Bender", in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker....
    
     (Spooky Tooth
    Spooky Tooth
    Spooky Tooth are an English rock band principally active, with intermittent breakups, between 1967 to 1974. In recent years, the band has been reconstituted at various points, and continues to perform occasionally.-Career:...
    
    , Mott the Hoople
    Mott the Hoople
    Mott the Hoople were a British rock band with strong R&B roots, popular in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.-The early years:Mott The Hoople...
    
    )
• date unknown
  • Esmeray
    Esmeray
    Esmeray Diriker was a Turkish singer.-Biography:Esmeray is of Afro-Turkish descent was born in the Emirgan district of Istanbul. In 1960, she dropped out of her last year of Emirgan Secondary School, to join the Istanbul community theatre, and performed on stage for the first time in a children's...
    
    , singer (d. 2002)
  • Jang Sa-ik
    Jang Sa-ik
    Jang Sa-ik is a highly popular South Korean singer. His music combines elements of popular music, jazz, and Korean traditional music...
    
    , singer
  • Eduardo Gatti
    Eduardo Gatti
    Eduardo Gatti is a well known Chilean singer-songwriter in the tradition of Nueva Canción and Nueva Trova. His best known song is "Los Momentos" , originally recorded in 1970 by Gatti when he was a member of the band Los Blops....
    
    , singer-songwriter
  • Anup Ghoshal
    Anup Ghoshal
    Anup Ghoshal , is a singer in Hindi films and other vernacular Indian films, especially Bengali language films. He won the West Bengal Assembly elections of 2011 on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Uttarpara in Hooghly district, defeating his nearest rival by a large margin of 40, 000...
    
    , playback singer

Deaths

• January 14 – Joaquín Turina
  Joaquín Turina
  Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...
  
  , composer, 66
• January 19 – Charles Price Jones
  Charles Price Jones
  Charles Price Jones, Sr. . He was a religious leader and hymnist. He was the founder of the Church of Christ U.S.A.....
  
  , hymn-writer, 83
• February 1 – Herbert Stothart
  Herbert Stothart
  Herbert Stothart was a song writer, arranger, conductor, and composer. He was also nominated for nine Oscars, winning Best Original Score for The Wizard of Oz.-Biography:...
  
  , conductor and composer, 63
• February 11 – Giovanni Zenatello
  Giovanni Zenatello
  Giovanni Zenatello was an Italian opera singer. Born in Verona, he enjoyed an international career as a dramatic tenor of the first rank. Otello became his most famous operatic role but he sang a wide repertoire. In 1904, he created the part of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.-Career:Zenatello...
  
  , opera tenor, 73
• March 7 – Sol Bloom
  Sol Bloom
  Sol Bloom was an entertainment and popular music entrepreneur who billed himself as "Sol Bloom, the Music Man" and served for many years in the United States House of Representatives.-Early life:...
  
  , music industry entrepreneur, 78
• March 20 – Irving Fazola
  Irving Fazola
  Irving Fazola was an American jazz clarinetist.-Biography:Fazola or Faz was born in New Orleans, Louisiana as Irving Henry Prestopnik. He got the nickname Fazola from his childhood skill at Solfege . He decided to use the nickname as his family name, and many fellow musicians were unaware that...
  
  , jazz clarinetist, 36 (heart attack)
• March 28 – Grigoraş Dinicu
  Grigoras Dinicu
  Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for "nai"...
  
  , violinist and composer, 59
• April 3 – Basil Harwood
  Basil Harwood
  Basil Harwood was an English organist and composer.-Life:Basil Harwood was born in Woodhouse, Gloucestershire on 11 April 1859. His mother died in 1867 when Basil was eight. His parents were Quakers but his elder sister Ada, on reaching 21 in 1867, converted to the Anglican Church...
  
  , organist and composer, 89
• May 10 - Emilio de Gogorza
  Emilio de Gogorza
  Emilio Eduardo de Gogorza was an American baritone of Spanish parentage.He was born in Brooklyn, New York, but brought up and trained musically in Spain. He returned to the USA in his early 20s. He sang in many languages, including French, Italian and English, as well as Spanish...
  
  , operatic baritone, 74
• June 2 – Dynam-Victor Fumet
  Dynam-Victor Fumet
  Dynam-Victor Fumet was a French composer and organist.-Life:Born in Toulouse in 1867, son of a very strict watchmaker, Dynam-Victor Fumet began his musical studies at the municipal Conservatory where his exceptional talents were very quickly recognized, and where he received all the possible prizes...
  
  , organist and composer, 82
• June 4 – Erwin Lendvai
  Erwin Lendvai
  Erwin Lendvai was a Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamilló Lendvay....
  
  , composer and conductor, 66
• June 9 – Maria Cebotari
  Maria Cebotari
  Maria Cebotari was a celebrated Moldavian soprano and actress born in Bessarabia, Russian Empire , who made her career in Germany & Austria.-Biography:...
  
  , operatic soprano, 39 (cancer)
• July 7 – Bunk Johnson
  Bunk Johnson
  Willie Gary "Bunk" Johnson was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s....
  
  , jazz trumpeter, exact age unknown
• July 9 – Fritz Hart, composer, 75
• July 18 – Vítězslav Novák
  Vítezslav Novák
  Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
  
  , composer, 78
• September 5 - Walter Widdop
  Walter Widdop
  Walter Widdop was a British operatic tenor who is best remembered for his Wagnerian performances. His repertoire also encompassed works by Verdi, Leoncavallo, Handel and Bach.-Career:...
  
  , operatic tenor, 51
• September 8 – Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
  , composer
• September 11 – Michael Hayvoronsky, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1892)
• September 12 – Harry T. Burleigh
  Harry Burleigh
  Henry "Harry" Thacker Burleigh , a baritone, was an African American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer...
  
  , composer and singer
• September 19 – Nikolaos Skalkottas
  Nikolaos Skalkottas
  Nikos Skalkottas was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition....
  
  , Greek composer, student of Arnold Schoenberg
  Schoenberg
  Schoenberg is the surname of several persons:* Arnold Schoenberg , Austrian-American composer* Claude-Michel Schoenberg , French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer...
  
  
• September 24 – Pierre de Bréville
  Pierre de Bréville
  Pierre Onfroy de Bréville was a French composer.-Biography:Pierre de Bréville was born was born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse. Following the wishes of his parents, he studied law with the goal of becoming a diplomat. However, he abandoned his plans after a few years and entered the Conservatoire de Paris...
  
  , composer, 88
• September 28
• Ivie Anderson
  Ivie Anderson
  Ivie Anderson was an American jazz singer. She was best-known for her performances with Duke Ellington's orchestra between 1931 and 1942....
  
  , jazz singer, 44 (asthma)
  • Nancy Dalberg
    Nancy Dalberg
    Nancy Dalberg was a Danish composer.Dalberg grew up on the Danish island of Funen where she learned to play the piano. Her father, a well-off industrialist, refused her wish to study at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen and in the end she took private composition lessons from Johan Svendsen,...
    
    , Danish composer, 68
• October 1 – Buddy Clark
  Buddy Clark
  Buddy Clark was a popular American singer in the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the Let's Dance radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the...
  
  , American singer, 38 (plane crash)
• October 4
  • Chris Smith
    Chris Smith (composer)
    Chris Smith was an American composer and performer.Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante...
    
    , composer, 69
  • Edmund Eysler
    Edmund Eysler
    Edmund Samuel Eysler , was an Austrian composer.-Biography:Edmund Eysler was born in Vienna to a merchant family...
    
    , Austrian composer, 75
• October 20 – Sam Collins
  Sam Collins (musician)
  Sam Collins who was sometimes known as Crying Sam Collins and also, according to one authoritative website, as Jim Foster, Jelly Roll Hunter, Big Boy Woods, Bunny Carter, and Salty Dog Sam, was an early American blues singer and guitarist.-Biography:He was born in Louisiana, United States, and...
  
  , blues singer and guitarist, 62
• October 27 – Ginette Neveu
  Ginette Neveu
  Ginette Neveu was a French violinist.-Biography:Born in Paris into a musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist. She was also the grandniece of composer Charles-Marie Widor...
  
  , violin virtuoso, 30 (plane crash)
• November 25 – Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
  Bill Robinson
  Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was an American tap dancer and actor of stage and film. Audiences enjoyed his understated style, which eschewed the frenetic manner of the jitterbug in favor of cool and reserve; rarely did he use his upper body, relying instead on busy, inventive feet, and an expressive...
  
  , American tap dancer, singer and actor
• December 6 – Lead Belly, folk and blues musician, 61
• December 11 – Fiddlin' John Carson
  Fiddlin' John Carson
  Fiddlin' John Carson was an American old time fiddler and an early-recorded country musician.-Early life:...
  
  , country musician, 81
• date unknown
  • Euphemia Allen
    Euphemia Allen
    Euphemia Allen was a British composer. She composed the tune Chopsticks in 1877 under the pseudonym Arthur de Lulli.- External links :...
    
    , composer
  • Alice Cucini
    Alice Cucini
    Alice Cucini was an Italian contralto who had a prolific opera career in Europe and South America between 1891 and 1915. She was particularly associated with the role of Dalila in Camille Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila, which she sang in numerous houses internationally...
    
    , operatic contralto
  • King Solomon Hill
    King Solomon Hill
    King Solomon Hill was an American blues musician, who recorded a small handful of songs in 1932. His unique guitar and voice make them among the most haunting blues recorded...
    
    , blues musician (born 1897)