1949 in music

Table of contents

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

Events

45 rpm discs are introduced

Albums released

Top hit records

"Some Enchanted Evening" by Perry Como
"That Lucky Old Sun" by Frankie Laine
"Mule Train" by Frankie Laine
"Slippin' Around" by Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
"Cruising Down the River" by Blue Barron, also Russ Morgan
"Riders In the Sky" by Vaughn Monroe
"Forever and Ever" by Russ Morgan
"A Little Bird Told Me" by Evelyn Knight
"You're Breaking My Heart" by Vic Damone
"A You're Adorable" by Perry Como
"The Fat Man", by Fats Domino, first record with back beat all the way through
"Goodnight Irene" by the Weavers sells four million copies and launches the group's success

Published popular music

"Again" w. Dorcas Cochran m. Lionel Newman

"Bali Ha'i" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Bamboo" w. Buddy Bernier m. Nat Simon
"Beyond The Reef" w.m. Jack Pitman
"Blame My Absent-Minded Heart" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
"Bloody Mary" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Blue Ribbon Gal" Irwin Dash & Ross Parker
"Bluebird On Your Windowsill" w.m. Elizabeth Clarke & Robert Mellin
"Bonaparte's Retreat" w.m. Pee Wee King
"Brush Up Your Shakespeare" w.m. Cole Porter
"Bye Bye Baby" w. Leo Robin m. Jule Styne
"Cafe Mozart Waltz" m. Anton Karas
"C'Est Si Bon" w. (Eng) Jerry Seelan (Fr) Andrez Hornez m. Henri Bett
"Clopin Clopant" Bruno Coquatrix, Pierre Dudan & Kermit Goell
"A Cock-Eyed Optimist" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Count Every Star" w. Sammy Gallop m. Bruno Coquatrix
"Crazy, He Calls Me" w. Bob Russell m. Carl Sigman
"Daddy's Little Girl" w.m. Bobby Burke & Horace Gerlach
"Dear Hearts And Gentle People" w. Bob Hilliard m. Sammy Fain
"Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" w. Leo Robin m. Jule Styne
"Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?" w.m. Buddy Johnson
"Dites-Moi" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Don't Cry, Joe" w.m. Joe Marsala
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" w.m. Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston
"Dreamer With A Penny" w.m. Allan Roberts & Lester Lee
"A Dreamer's Holiday" w. Kim Gannon m. Mabel Wayne
"Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" w. Herb Magidson m. Carl Sigman
"The Fat Man" w. Antoine Domino m. Dave Bartholomew
"The Four Winds And The Seven Seas" w. Hal David m. Don Rodney
"Happy Talk" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"He's A Real Gone Guy" w.m. Nellie Lutcher
"Homework" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Honey Bun" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Hop-Scotch Polka" w.m. William "Billy" Whitlock, Carl Sigman & Gene Rayburn
"The Horse Told Me" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"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 m. Sonny Burke
"The Hucklebuck" w. Roy Alfred m. Andy Gibson
"Hyme ÃÂÃÂ¡ L'amour" w. Edith Piaf m. Marguerite Monnot
"I Almost Lost My Mind" w.m. Ivory Joe Hunter
"I Didn't Know The Gun Was Loaded" w.m. Hank Fort & Herb Leighton
"I Love You Because" w.m. Leon Payne
"I Said My Pajamas" w.m. Edward Pola & George Wyle
"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" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" w.m. Hank Williams
"It's A Great Feeling" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
"It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House" w. Jack Elliott m. Harold Spina
"Just One Way To Say I Love You" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk" w.m. Irving Berlin
"A Little Girl From Little Rock" w. Leo Robin m. Jule Styne
"Lush Life" w.m. Billy Strayhorn
"Maybe It's Because" w. Harry Ruby m. Johnnie Scott
"Melodie D'Amour" w.(Eng) Leo Johns m. Henri Salvador
"Mona Lisa" w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
"Mule Train" w.m. Johnny Lange, Hy Heath & Fred Glickman
"My Bolero" Kennedy, Simon
"My Foolish Heart" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
"My One And Only Highland Fling" w. Ira Gershwin m. Harry Warren
"Now That I Need You" w.m. Frank Loesser
"The Old Master Painter" w. Haven Gillespie m. Beasley Smith
"Paris Wakes Up And Smiles" w.m. Irving Berlin
"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
"Put Your Shoes On, Lucy" w.m. Hank Fort
"Quicksilver" w.m. Irving Taylor, George Wyle & Eddie Pola
"Rag Mop" 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 & Adolph Green m. Roger Edens from the film 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
"Saturday Night Fish Fry" w.m. Louis Jordan, Ellis Walsh & Al Carters
"Scarlet Ribbons" w. Jack Segal m. Evelyn Danzig
"La Seine" w. Geoffrey Parsons m. Berkeley Fase
"Sentimental Me" w.m. James T. Morehead & James Cassin
"Sing Soft, Sing Sweet, Sing Gentle" w.m. Jimmy Durante & Jack Barnett
"Slipping Around" w.m. Floyd Tillman
"Some Day My Heart Will Awake" w. Christopher Hassall m. Ivor Novello
"Some Enchanted Evening" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"A Strawberry Moon (In A Blueberry Sky)" Bob Hilliard & Sammy Mysels
"Sunshine Cake" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"Swamp Girl" w.m. Michael Brown
"That Lucky Old Sun" w. Haven Gillespie m. Beasley Smith
"There Is Nothin' Like A Dame" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Third Man Theme" m. Anton Karas
"This Nearly Was Mine" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Through A Long And Sleepless Night" w. Mack Gordon m. Alfred Newman
"Too Darn Hot" w.m. Cole Porter
"Too-Whit! Too-Whoo!" Billy Reid
"Twenty-Four Hours Of Sunshine" w. Carl Sigman m. Peter De Rose
"Up Above My Head" w.m. Sister Rosetta Tharpe
"The Wedding Of Lili Marlene" w.m. Tommie Connor & Johnny Reine
"When The Wind Was Green" w.m. Don Hunt
"Where Is The Life That Late I Led?" w.m. Cole Porter
"A Wonderful Guy" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Yingle Bells" adapt. Harry Stewart
"You Can Have Him" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Younger Than Springtime" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers

Musical theater

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Broadway production
King's Rhapsody London production
Lost In The Stars Broadway production
Miss Liberty Broadway production
South Pacific Broadway production

Musical films

On The Town
Red, Hot And Blue

Births

January 2 - Chick Churchill, Ten Years After
January 5 - George Brown, Kool and the Gang
January 11 - Frederick Dennis Greene, Sha Na Na
January 15 - Ronnie Van Zandt, Lynyrd Skynyrd
January 19 - Robert Palmer, singer
January 22 - Steve Perry, Journey
January 24 - John Belushi, The Blues Brothers
February 5 - Nigel Olsson
February 11 - Charlie Hargrett, rock guitarist
February 12 - Stanley Knight, Black Oak Arkansas
February 21 - Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads
February 23 - Terry Comer, Ace
March 2 - Rory Gallagher
March 13 - Donald York, Sha Na Na
March 21 - Eddie Money
March 24 - Nick Lowe
March 26 - Fran Sheehan, Boston
April 3 - Richard Thompson, Fairport Convention
April 7 - John Oates, Hall and Oats
April 15 - Tonio K
April 21 - Patti LuPone
May 9 - Billy Joel
May 13 - Overend Pete Watts, Mott The Hoople
May 16 - William Spooner, The Grateful Dead
May 18 - Rick Wakeman, Yes
May 19 - Dusty Hill, Z.Z. Top
May 26 - Hank Williams, Jr
May 26 - Vicki Lawrence
June 11 - Frank Beard, Z.Z. Top
June 13 - Dennis Locorriere, Dr. Hook
June 14 - Alan White, The Plastic Ono Band, Yes
June 15 - Russell Hitchcock, Air Supply
June 15 - Michael Sam Lutz, Brownsville Station
June 20 - Lionel Richie
June 22 - Alan Osmond, The Osmonds
June 26 - Larry Taylor, Canned Heat
June 26 - John Illsey, Dire Straits
June 30 - Andrew Scott, Sweet
July 3 - Fontella Bass
July 3 - John Verity, Argent
July 6 - Michael Shrieve, Santana
July 10 - Dave Smalley, The Raspberries
July 10 - Ronnie James Rio, Rainbow
July 12 - John Wetton, Asia
July 16 - Ray Major, Mott the Hoople
July 17 - Terry Butler, Black Sabbath
July 18 - Wally Bryson, The Raspberries
July 26 - Roger Taylor, Queen
July 27 - David Weck, Brownsville Station
July 27 - Maureen McGovern
July 28 - Simon Kirke, Free, Bad Company)
July 28 - Steven Took, T. Rex
August 3 - B.B. Dickerson, War
August 11 - Eric Carmen, The Raspberries
August 12 - Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits
August 17 - Sib Hashian, Boston
August 23 - Rick Springfield
August 25 - Gene Simmons, Kiss
August 26 - Bob Cowsill, The Cowsills
August 27 - Jeff Cook, Alabama
September 1 - Greg Errico, Sly and The Family Stone
September 5 - Clem Clempson, Humble Pie
September 7 - Gloria Gaynor
September 10 - Barriemore Barlow, Jethro Tull
September 14 - Steve Gaines, Lynyrd Skynyrd
September 18 - Kerry Livgren, Kansas
September 20 - Chuck Panozzo, Styx
September 20 - John Panozzo, Styx
September 23 - Bruce Springsteen, singer, songwriter
October 5 - B.W. Stevenson
October 6 - Thomas McClary, The Commodores
October 8 - Michael Rosen, Average White Band
October 17 - Bill Hudson, Hudson Brothers
October 23 - Wurzel, MotÃÂÃÂ¶rhead
October 27 - Garry Tallent, E Street Band
November 6 - Arturo Sandoval, Jazz performer
November 8 - Bonnie Raitt
November 10 - Donna Fargo
November 13 - Terry Reid, singer, guitarist
November 14 - James Young, Styx
November 28 - Paul Shaffer, Late Show with David Letterman
December 7 - Tom Waits, singer, composer, actor
December 13 - Tom Verlaine, Television
December 14 - Cliff Williams, Home, AC/DC
December 14 - Randy Owen, Alabama
December 16 - Billy Gibbons, Z.Z. Top
December 17 - Paul Rodgers, Free, Bad Company, The Firm
December 22 - Robin Gibb, The Bee Gees
December 23 - Adrian Belew
December 23 - Luther Grosvenor, Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople

Deaths

July 7 - Bunk Johnson, jazz trumpeter
September 8 - Richard Strauss, composer
September 12 - Harry T. Burleigh, composer and singer
October 4 - Chris Smith, composer