1898 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular songs 3 Musical theater 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Scott Joplin publishes "Swipsy Cakewalk"

Published popular songs

• "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
• "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton
• "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Albert Pestalozza
• "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
• "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes
• "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy
• "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
• "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
• "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
• "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart
• "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
• "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt
• "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald DeKoven
• "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "Salome" m. William Lorraine
• "She Is The Belle Of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
• "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter
• "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton
• "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion

• April 3 - George Jessel, US actor, singer & songwriter
• Baby Dodds
• Zutty Singleton