1925 in music Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

See also: 1924 in music, other events of 1925, 1926 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Top Hits: Recordings 4 Classical music 5 Opera 6 Musical theater 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

• March 1 - Edgar Varèse's Intégrales is premiered in New York City
• March 21 - Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges is premiered in Monte Carlo
• April 3 - Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester
• June 6 - Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 2 is premiered in Paris
• December 11 - Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 6, the Sinfonia semplice, is premiered in Copenhagen
• December 14 - Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck is premiered in Berlin, conducted by Erich Kleiber
• Victor, Columbia, and HMV phonograph companies switch from old acoustic mechanical recording methods to new electric microphone technology
• Jimmie Rodgers begins performing
• Blind Lemon Jefferson's recording career begins
• Lonnie Johnson's recording career begins
• Louis Armstrong leaves Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, returns to Chicago, and makes his first records under his own name, leading Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five

Published popular music

• "Adios, Mariquita Linda" w. (Eng 1939) Ray Gilbert (Sp) Marcos A. Jimenez m. Marcos A. Jimenez
• "Alone At Last" w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito
• "Always" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Bam, Bam, Bamy Shore" w. Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson
• "Boneyard Shuffle" m. Hoagy Carmichael & Irving Mills
• "Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?" w. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
• "Bye And Bye" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Cecilia" w. Herman Ruby m. Dave Dreyer
• "Cheatin' On Me" w. Jack Yellen m. Lew Pollack
• "Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!" w. Billy Rose & Ballard MacDonald m. Joseph Meyer
• "Collegiate" w.m. Moe Jaffe & Nat Bonx
• "A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich And You" w. Billy Rose & Al Dubin m. Joseph Meyer
• "Davenport Blues" m. Bix Beiderbecke
• "The Death Of Floyd Collins" w. Andrew Jenkins m. Irene Spain
• "Dinah" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Akst
• "Dipper Mouth Blues" m. Joseph "King" Oliver
• "Don't Bring Lulu" w. Billy Rose & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Don't Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream" w. L.. Wolfe Gilbert m. Mabel Wayne
• "Down By The Winegar Works" w.m. Don Bestor, Roger Lewis & Walter Donovan
• "Drifting And Dreaming" w. Haven Gillespie m. Egbert Van Alstyne, Erwin R. Schmidt & Loyal Curtis
• "D'Ye Love Me?" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Marilyn Miller in the musical Sunny
• "Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ray Henderson
• "Flamin' Mamie" w.m. Fred Rose & Paul Whiteman
• "Footloose" Rupp
• "Freshie" w. Harold Berg m. Jesse Greer
• "Grandpa's Spells" m. Jelly Roll Morton
• "Headin' For Louisville" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Joseph Meyer
• "Here In My Arms" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "The Hills Of Home" w. Floride Calhoun m. Oscar J. Fox
• "I Found A New Baby" w.m. Jack Palmer & Spencer Williams
• "I Love My Baby" w. Bud Green m. Harry Warren
• "I Might Have Known" Lucas
• "I Miss My Swiss" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer
• "I Never Knew" w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito
• "I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "Ida, I Do" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
• "If I Had A Girl Like You" w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson
• "If You Knew Susie" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Joseph Meyer
• "I'm A Little Bit Fonder Of You" w.m. Irving Caesar
• "I'm Gonna Charleston Back To Charleston" w.m. Roy Turk & Lou Handman
• "I'm Gonna Cry" Martha Boswell
• "I'm In Love Again" w.m. Cole Porter
• "I'm Knee-Deep In Daisies (And Head Over Heels In Love)" Ash, Shay, Goodwin, Little, Stanley
• "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ray Henderson
• "In Your Green Hat" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "I've Confessed To The Breeze" w. Otto Harbach m. Vincent Youmans
• "Jalousie" (aka "Jealousy") w. Vera Bloom m. Jacob Gade
• "Just A Cottage Small" w. B. G. De Sylva m. James F. Hanley
• "Keep Your Skirts Down, Mary Ann" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Robert A. King & Ray Henderson
• "Leander" w. Harry Graham m. Jean Gilbert from the musical theater production 'Katja The Dancer'
• "Let it Rain! Let It Pour!" w. Cliff Friend m. Walter Donaldson
• "Looking For A Boy" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Love Me Tonight" w. Brian Hooker m. Rudolf Friml
• "Manhattan" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" w. Edgar Leslie m. James V. Monaco
• "Moonlight And Roses" w. Ben Black m. Neil Moret
• "My Bundle Of Love" w.m. Georgie Price & Abner Silver
• "My Sweetie Turned Me Down" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "My Yiddishe Momme" w. Jack Yellen m. Lew Pollack
• "Neapolitan Nights (Nights Of Splendour)" w. Harry D. Kerr m. J. S. Zumecnik
• "No, No, Nanette" w. Otto Harbach m. Vincent Youmans
• "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" w.m. Benny Davis, Joe Burke & Mark Fisher
• "Only A Rose" w. Brian Hooker m. Rudolf Friml
• "Paddlin' Madelin Home" w.m. Harry Woods
• "Pal Of My Cradle Days" w. Marshall Montgomery m. Al Piantadosi
• "The Pearls" m. Jelly Roll Morton
• "Poor Little Rich Girl" w.m. Noel Coward
• "Remember" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Roll 'Em Girls" w.m. Archie Fletcher & Bobby Heath
• "Rose Of Samarkand" m. Eric Coates
• "Save Your Sorrow For Tomorrow" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Al Sherman
• "Sentimental Me" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Shake That Thing" Charlie Jackson
• "She Showed Him This, She Showed Him That" Stone & David
• "Show Me The Way To Go Home" w.m. Irving King
• "Sleepy Time Gal" w. Joseph R. Alden & Raymond B. Egan m. Ange Lorenzo & Richard A. Whiting
• "Some Day" w. Brian Hooker m. Rudolf Friml
• "Sometime" w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito
• "Sometimes I'm Happy" w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans
• "Song Of The Flame" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. George Gershwin & Herbert Stothart
• "Song of The Vagabonds" w. Brian Hooker m. Rudolf Friml
• "Stack O'Lee Blues" trad w.m. Lopez, Colwell
• "Sugar Foot Stomp" (aka "Dipper Mouth Blues") w. Walter Melrose m. Joseph "King" Oliver
• "Sunny" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "Sweet And Low-Down" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Sweet Georgia Brown" w.m. Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard & Ken Casey
• "Thanks For The Buggy Ride" w.m. Jules Buffano
• "That Certain Feeling" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "That Certain Party" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "That Saxophone Waltz" w. Jules Mingo & Berry J. Sisk m. Berry J. Sisk
• "Then I'll Be Happy" w. Sidney Clare & Lew Brown m. Cliff Friend
• "Too Many Rings Around Rosie" w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans
• "Two Little Bluebirds" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "Ukulele Lady" w. Gus Kahn m. Richard Whiting
• "Valentine" w. Albert Willemetz (Fr) Herbert Reynolds (Eng) m. Henri Christin
• "Waters Of The Perkiomen" w. Al Dubin m. F. Henri Klickmann
• "When The Sergeant Major's On Parade" w.m. Ernest Longstaffe
• "Who Takes Care Of The Caretaker's Daughter?" w.m. Chick Endor
• "Who?" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "Why Do I Love You?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Yearning" w. Benny Davis m. Joe Burke
• "Yes Sir! That's My Baby" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson

Top Hits: Recordings

• "Everything Is Hotsy Totsy Now" by The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
• "Charleston" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "Dinah" by Ethel Waters
• "Ah-Ha!" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "Saint Louis Blues" by Bessie Smith
• "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" by Ace Brigode & His Fourteen Virginians
• "While We Danced 'Til Dawn" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie & His Orchestra
• "Everybody Loves My Baby" by Blossom Seeley
• "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ethel Waters
• "If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)" by Eddie Cantor
• "All Alone" by John McCormack
• "All Alone" by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
• "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart
• "Remember" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra

Classical music

• George Gershwin - Concerto in F
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1 F minor, Op. 10 (1924-1925)
• Kurt Weill - Violin Concerto
• Stefan Wolpe - Three Songs by Heinrich von Kleist
• Edgar Varèse - Intégrales (1924-25)

Opera

• Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Musical theater

• Big Boy Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 7 and later moved to the 44th Street Theatre for a total run of 168 performances
• The Cocoanuts Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 8 and ran for 375 performances
• The Dollar Princess London revival
• Garrick Gaieties Broadway revue opened at the Garrick Theatre on June 8 and ran for 211 performances
• Mercenary Mary Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on April 13 and ran for 136 performances
• No, No, Nanette (Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, and Vincent Youmans) - London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 11 and ran for 665 performances; Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on September 16 and ran for 321 performances
• On With The Dance London revue opened at the Pavilion on April 30 and ran for 229 performances
• Rose-Marie London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on March 20 and ran for 851 performances
• Sunny Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 22 and ran for 517 performances
• Tip-Toes Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 28 and ran for 194 performances
• The Vagabond King Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on September 21 and ran for 511 performances

Births

• January 13 - Gwen Verdon
• April 26 - Jorgen Ingmann, Jorgen Ingmann & His Guitar
• May 28 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• June 27 - Doc Pomus
• July 6 - Bill Haley, (+ 1981)
• July 11 - Nicolai Gedda, tenor
• July 30 - Antoine Duhamel, French composer
• August 15 - Oscar Peterson
• September 6 - Jimmy Reed
• September 8 - Peter Sellers, English actor and sometime singer (escapes through little hole in middle of record)
• September 11 - Alan Bergman, US songwriter
• September 13 - Mel Torme
• September 16 - B.B. King
• October 15 - Mickey Guitar Baker, Mickey & Sylvia;
• October 16 - Angela Lansbury, English actress and singer
• October 24 - Luciano Berio, composer
• October 25 - Virginia Zeani, soprano
• November 17 - Sir Charles Mackerras

Deaths

• May 25 - Henry W. Petrie, US songwriter
• June 16 - Emmett Hardy, jazz musician
• July 1 - Erik Satie, composer

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