1922 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular songs 3 Top hits on records 4 Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
• Kid Ory makes his first recordings
• Maurice Ravel releases his orchestral arrangement of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
• All songs written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States

Published popular songs

• "Aggravatin' Papa"     w.m. Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt
• "Ain't It A Shame" w.m. W. A. Hann, Joseph Simms & Al W. Brown
• "All Over Nothing At All" w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule
• "Along The Road To Gundagai" w.m. Jack O'Hagan
• "L’Amour, Toujours L'Amour (Love Everlasting)"     w.(Eng) Catherine Chisholm Cushing m. Rudolf Friml
• "Angel Child"     w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis m. Abner Silver
• "Baby Blue Eyes"     w.m. Jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel
• "Bee's Knees" by Leo Wood & Ray Lopez
• "Blue (And Broken Hearted)" w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman
• "A Brown Bird Singing"     w. Rodney Richard Bennett m. Haydn Wood
• "Bugle Call Rag"     m. Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel
• "Carolina In The Morning"     w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "Carolina Shout"     m. James P. Johnson
• "Chicago"     w.m. Fred Fisher
• "China Boy"     w.m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje
• "Crinoline Days"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Dancing Fool"     w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
• "Dearest (You're The Nearest To My Heart)"     w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst
• "Do It Again"     w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
• "Down In MIdnight Town"     w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Downhearted Blues"     w.m. Alberta Hunter
• "Dreamy Melody"     w.m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C. Naset
• "Farewell Blues" w.m. Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel
• "Fate" by Byron Gay
• "Georgette" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Georgia"     w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson
• "Goin' Home"     w.m. Williams Arms Fisher
• "Hot Lips"     w.m. Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis
• "I Found A Four Leaf Clover"     w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
• "I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down"     w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert
• "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "In The Little Red Schoolhouse"     w.m. Al Wilson & James A. Brennan
• "A Kiss In The Dark"     w. B. G. De Sylva m. Victor Herbert
• "The Lady In Ermine"     w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman
• "Lady Of The Evening"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Limehouse Blues"     w. Douglas Furber m. Philip Braham
• "Lovesick Blues"     w. Irving Mills m. Cliff Friend
• "Lovin' Sam, The Sheik Of Alabam"     w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "March With Me!"     w. Douglas Furber m. Ivor Novello
• "Mary, Dear"     w.m. Harry DeCosta & M. K. Jerome
• "Mister Gallagher And Mister Shean"     w.m. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean
• "My Buddy"     w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "My Honey's Loving Arms"     w. Herman Ruby m. Joseph Meyer
• "My Rambler Rose"     w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
• "My Sweet Hortense"     w. Joe Young & Sam Lewis m. Walter Donaldson
• "My Word You Do look Queer"     w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
• "'Neath The South Sea Moon"     w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
• "Nellie Kelly I Love You"     w.m. George M. Cohan
• "On The Alamo"     w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "On The Gin Gin Ginny Shore"     w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
• "Oo-oo Ernest Are You Earnest With Me"     w. Sidney Clare & Harry Tobias m. Cliff Friend
• "Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Robinson Crusoe's Isle"     w. Harry Graham m. Robert Stolz
• "Rosalie"     w.m. Hugo Frey
• "Rose Of The Rio Grande"     w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Warren & Ross Gorman
• "Round On The End And High In The Middle (O-Hi-O)"     w.m. Alfred Bryan & Bert Hanlon
• "Runnin' Wild"     w. Joe Grey & Leo Wood m. A. Harrington Gibbs
• "Say It While Dancing"     w. Bennie Davis m. Abner Silver
• "Some Sunny Day"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Stumbling"     w.m. Zez Confrey
• "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do"     w.m. Clarence Williams, Porter Grainger & Graham Prince
• "That Da Da Strain"     w. Mamie Medina m. Edgar Dowell
• "Three O'Clock In The Morning"     w. Dorothy Terris m. Julian Robledo
• "Throw Me A Kiss"     w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
• "Thru' The Night"     w. Virginia K. Logan m. Frederic Knight Logan
• "Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye"     w.m. Ted Fio Rito, Robert A. King, Gus Kahn & Ernie Erdman
• "Trees"     w. Joyce Kilmer m. Oscar Rasbach
• "'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans"     w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
• "The West, A Nest, And You"     w. Larry Yoell m. Billy Hill
• "When Hearts Are Young"     w. Cyrus Wood m. Sigmund Romberg & Al Goodman
• "When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down"     w.m. Richard Howard
• "When You And I Were Young, Maggie, Blues"     w.m. Jack Frost & Jimmy McHugh
• "Who Cares?"     w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "Wonderful One"     w. Dorothy Terris m. Paul Whiteman & Ferde Grofe
• "You Know You Belong To Somebody Else"     w. Eugene West m. James V. Monaco
• "You Remind Me Of My Mother"     w.m. George M. Cohan
• "You Tell Her, I S-t-u-t-t-e-r"     w. Billy Rose m. Cliff Friend

• "April Showers" by Al Jolson
• "Hot Lips" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" by Gallagher & Shean
• "My Buddy" by Henry Burr
• "Oh, Is She Dumb!/Susie" by Eddie Cantor
• "On the Alamo" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
• "Three O'Clock In the Morning" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "Toot Toot Tootsie, Goo'bye" by Al Jolson
• "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" by Margaret Young

• February 17 - Tommy Edwards
• April 7 - Mongo Santamaria
• April 5 - Gale Storm
• April 22 - Charles Mingus

• Bert Williams