1933 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Top hit records
4 Musical theater
5 Musical films
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

Billie Holliday's musical career begins

Published popular music

"After All, You're All I'm After" words: Edward Heyman music: Arthur Schwartz

"Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More" w. Joe Young & Johnny Burke m. Harold Spina

"Beautiful Girl" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" w.(English language) Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin (Yiddish) Jacob Jacobs m. Sholem Secunda
"Black Moonlight" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
"Blue Jazz" m. Gene Gifford
"Blue Lou" w.m. Edgar Sampson & Irving Mills
"Blue Prelude" w.m. Joe Bishop & Gordon Jenkins
"The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Build A Little Home" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"By A Waterfall" w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain
"Carioca" w. Gus Kahn & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans
"Coffee In The Morning, Kisses In The Night" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"The Day You Came Along" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
"Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
"Dinner at Eight" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"Doin' The Uptown Lowdown" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
"Don't Blame Me" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"Down The Old Ox Road" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
"Easter Parade" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Everything I Have Is Yours" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane
"Experiment" w.m. Cole Porter
"Flying Down To Rio" w. Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn m. Vincent Youmans
"Forty-Second Street" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Gimme A Pigfoot" w.m. Wesley Wilson
"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Love" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
"A Guy What Takes His Time" w.m. Ralph Rainger
"Happy As The Day Is Long" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
"Harlem On My Mind" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Heat Wave" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Hey, Young Fella" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"How Could We Be Wrong?" w.m. Cole Porter
"How's Chances?" w.m. Irving Berlin
"A Hundred Years From Today" w. Ned Washington & Joe Young m. Victor Young
"Hustlin' And Bustlin' For Baby" w.m. Harry Woods
"I Cover The Waterfront" w. Edward Heyman m. John Green
"I Found A New Way To Go To Town" Dubois, Ellison, Harvey
"I Just Couldn't Take It Baby" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
"I Like Mountain Music" w. James Cavanaugh m. Frank Weldon
"I Took My Harp To A Party" w. Desmond Carter m. Noel Gay
"I Wanna Be Loved" w. Edward Heyman & Billy Rose m. John Green
"I'm No Angel" w.m. Gladys Du Bois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks
"I'm Satisfied" w. Mitchell Parish m. Duke Ellington
"Inka Dinka Doo" w.m. Jimmy Durante & Ben Ryan
"Isn't It A Pity?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Isn't It Heavenly" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Joseph Meyer
"It Isn't Fair" w.m. Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato
"It's Only A Paper Moon" w. E. Y. Harburg & Billy Rose m. Harold Arlen
"It's The Talk Of The Town" w. Marty Symes & Al J. Nieburg m. Jerry Livingston
"I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Keep Young And Beautiful" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"The Last Round-Up" w.m. Billy Hill
"Lazybones" w.m. Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael
"Learn To Croon" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
"Let's Fall In Love" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
"Love Locked Out" w. Max Kester m. Ray Noble
"Love Me" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
"Maria Elena" w. (Eng) S. K. Russell m. Lorenzo Barclelata
"The Moment I Saw You" w.m. Noel Gay
"Moonstruck" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
"My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt
"My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii" w.m. Billy Cogswell, Tom Harrison & Johnny Noble
"My Moonlight Madonna" w. Paul Francis Webster m. William Scotti
"My Shawl" w. (Eng) Stanley Adams (Sp) Pedro Berrios m. Xavier Cugat
"My Song Goes 'Round The World" w.m. Hans May, Ernst Neubach & Jimmy Kennedy
"Not For All The Rice In China" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Nymph Errant" w.m. Cole Porter
"Oceans Of Time" w. Douglas Furber, Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Johnny Green
"Old Father Thames" w.m. Raymond Wallace & Betsy O'Hogan
"Old Man Harlem" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Hoagy Carmichael
"On the Trail" w. Harold Adamson m. Ferdie Grofe
"One Morning In May" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael
"Oodles Of Noodles" m. Jimmy Dorsey
"Pettin' In The Park" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"The Physician" w.m. Cole Porter
"The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Birt
"Remember My Forgotten Man" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Roll Up The Carpet" w. Raymond Klages m. Raymond Kluges, Al Goodhart & Al Hoffman
"Shadow Waltz" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Shanghai Lil" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"She Loves Me Not" w. Edward Heyman m. Arthur Schwartz from the musical She Loves Me Not
"Shuffle Off To Buffalo" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
"Snowball" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
"Solomon" w.m. Cole Porter from the musical Nymph Errant
"Song Of Surrender" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Sophisticated Lady" w. Mitchell Parish & Irving Mills m. Duke Ellington
"Stormy Weather" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
"Temptation" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
"Thanks" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
"There's A Cabin In The Pines" w.m. Billy Hill
"There's Something About A Soldier" w.m. Noel Gay
"They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk" w.m. Gladys DuBois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks
"Tony's Wife" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane
"The Touch Of Your Hand" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
"We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow" Harry Woods
"We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
"We're In The Money" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"When It's Lamp Lightin' Time In The Valley" w.m. Joe Lyons, Sam C. Hart & The Vagabonds
"White Jazz" m. Gene Clifford
"Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" w.m. Frank Churchill
"Yesterdays" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
"You Gotta Be A Football Hero" w.m. Al Lewis, Al Sherman & Buddy Fields
"You Ought To See Sally On Sunday" w.m. Harry Woods
"Young And Healthy" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
"Your Mother's Son-In-Law" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
"You've Got Me Crying Again" w. Charles Newman m. Isham Jones

Top hit records

"Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
"Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
"Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's Band
"Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie
"Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin
"Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
"Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters
"You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians

Musical theater

As Thousands Cheer Broadway production
Ball At The Savoy London production
Gay Divorce London production
Nymph Errant London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 6 and ran for 154 performances
Roberta Broadway production

Musical films

Bitter Sweet
Cavalcade
Dancing Lady
Footlight Parade
Forty-Second Street
Going Hollywood
Gold Diggers Of 1933
Moonlight And Pretzels
Take A Chance

Births

January 17 - Dalida
January 20 - Ron Townson, The Fifth Dimension
February 5 - Claude King
February 17 - Bobby Lewis
February 18 - Yoko Ono (Lennon)
February 21 - Nina Simone
March 9 - Lloyd Price
March 13 - Mike Stoller, songwriter
March 14 - Quincy Jones
March 15 - Roy Clark
March 30 - Willie Nelson
April 12 - Tiny Tim
April 14 - Buddy Knox
April 24 - Freddie Scott
May 3 - James Brown
July 27 - Nick Reynolds, The Kingston Trio
August 8 - Joe Tex
August 15 - Bill Pinckney, The Drifters
August 15 - Bobby Helms
September 1 - Conway Twitty
September 15 - Pat Barrett, The Crewcuts
September 18 - Jimmie Rodgers
September 25 - Ian Tyson, Ian & Sylvia
October 27 - Floyd Cramer
November 6 - Joseph Pope, The Tams
November 16 - Garnett Mimms
November 29 - John Mayall
December 15 - Jesse Belvin