3 Recorded popular music

• "Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris )
  - Byron G. Harlan on Edison Records
  
• "Any Rags?" (w.m. Thomas S. Allen )
  - Arthur Collins on Edison
  
• "The Arrow And The Song" (w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Michael William Balfe)
  - Herbert Goddard on Victor Records
  
• "Badinage" (m. Victor Herbert)
  - Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
  
• "Bedelia" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
  - Edward M. Favor on Columbia
  - Billy Murray on Edison
  
• "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" (w.m. Dan McAvoy )
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  - Dan W. Quinn on Victor
  
• "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann)
  - banjos Vess L. Ossman & Bill Farmer on Victor
  
• "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann)
  - Kendle's Band on Victor
  
• "By The Sycamore Tree" (w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  - Bob Roberts on Columbia
  - Billy Murray on Victor
  
• "Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" (w. Robert B. Smith m. John Stromberg )
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
  
• "Congo Love Song" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson )
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
  
• "Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown?" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards)
  - Harry Macdonough on Victor
  
• "The Country Girl" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards )
  - Vesta Victoria on Gramophone Records
  
• "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders )
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  
• "Down On The Farm" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
  
• "Flowers Of Dixieland" (w. Edgar Smith m. J. Rosamond Johnson)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
  
• "The Gambling Man(1)" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Silas Leachman on Victor
  
• "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - Arthur Collins on Edison
  
• "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  
• "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" (w. Arthur L. Robb m. John W. Bratton )
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  
• "He Was A Sailor" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Collins & Harlan on Edison
  
• "Heidelberg Stein Song" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison & Victor
  
• "Hiawatha" (w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret)
  - Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  - Metropolitan Orchestra on Victor
  - Sousa's Band on Victor
  
• "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse)
  - Collins & Harlan on Edison
  - Dan W. Quinn on Victor
  
• "I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen )
  - Harry West on Edison
  
• "I Like You, Lil, For Fair" (Ade, Loraine)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
  
• "I Never Could Love Like That" (Bowman, Johns)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
  
• "I Want To Be A Lidy" (w. George Dance m. George Dee)
  - Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
  
• "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" (w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome)
  - Arthur Collins on Victor & Edison
  
• "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford)
  - John H. Bieling & Harry Macdonough on Victor
  
• "I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Victor
  - Arthur Collins on Edison & Victor
  
• "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" (Reed Jnr)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
  
• "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
  - Harry Macdonough & John H. Bieling on Victor
  
• "In Silence" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane )
  - Arthur Clifford on Edison
  
• "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills)
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
  
• "In The Good Old Summertime" (w. Ren Shields m. George Evans)
  - Haydn Quartette on Victor
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough with Sousa's Band on Victor
  - Harry Macdonough on Victor
  
• "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" (w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Edison
  
• "In The Village By The Sea" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Stanley Crawford )
  - Byron G. Harlan on Edison
  
• "It Takes The Irish To Beat The Dutch" (w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse )
  - Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
  
• "It Was The Dutch" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen)
  - Collins & Harlan on Edison
  
• "Juanita" (w. Caroline Norton m. trad Sp.)
  - Haydn Quartette on Victor
  
• "Julie" (w. Wiliam Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  
• "Just For Tonight(1)" (w.m. Frank O. French )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison
  
• "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" (w. Robert H. Smith m. Melville Ellis)
  - Clarke's Band of Providence on Victor
  
• "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" (w. Arthur Lamb m. Kerry Mills)
  - Joe Natus on Victor
  
• "The Maid Of Timbucktoo" (w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  
• "Massa's In De Cold Ground" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
  - Edison Male Quartette on Edison
  
• "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer)
  - William H. Thompson on Victor
  
• "Melody Of Love" (w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann)
  - Edison Symphony Orchestra on Edison
  
• "The Message Of The Rose" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Leo Edwards )
  - George Seymour Lenox on Edison
  
• "The Message Of The Violet" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders)
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
  
• "Mighty Lak' A Rose" (w. Frank L. Stanton m. Ethelbert Nevin)
  - Arthur Clifford on Edison
  
• "Moriaty" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Fred V. Bowers )
  - Collins & Harlan on Edison
  
• "My Cosy Corner Girl" (w. Charles Noel Douglas m. John W. Bratton)
  - Henry Burr on Columbia
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  
• "My Little Coney Isle" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer)
  - Harry Tally on Edison
  
• "My Little 'Rang Outang" (Madden, Morse)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
  
• "My Own United States" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards)
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
  
• "My Sulu Lulu Loo" (w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann)
  - Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
  
• "Only A Dream Of A Golden Past" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
  
• "Out Where The Breakers Roar" (w. Harlow Hyde m. H. W. Petrie )
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison
  
• "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards)
  - Byron G. Harlan on Victor & Edison
  
• "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" (w.m. J. B. Mullen)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  
• "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" (w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall)
  - Joe Natus on Victor
  
• "Sal" (w.m. Paul Rubens)
  - Madge Crichton with piano Landon Ronald on Gramophone & Typewriter Records
  
• "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  
• "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson)
  - Henry Burr on Columbia
  
• "Sly Musette" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  
• "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" (w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson)
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Victor
  
• "Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life" (w.m. George M. Cohan)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  
• "There's One In A Million Like You" (w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Walter Van Brunt on Edison
  
• "Two Eyes Of Blue" (w. George H. Taylor m. Leslie Stuart)
  - Harry Macdonough on Victor
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
  
• "Under The Bamboo Tree" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson)
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
  
• "Up In A Coconut Tree" (Madden, Morse)
  - Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
  
• "Upper Broadway After Dark" (w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  
• "The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root )
  - Byron G. Harlan on Edison
  
• "Wait At The Gate For Me" (w. Ren Shields m. Theodore F. Morse )
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
  
• "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
  - Arthur Clifford on Edison
  
• "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" (w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
  
• "When We Were Two Little Boys" (w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
  

4 Classical music

• The Apostles ( oratorio)by Edward Elgar

5 Opera

6 Musical theater

• Babes In Toyland Broadway production
• The Cherry Girl London production
• The Duchess Of Dantzic London production
• The Earl And The Girl London production
• In Dahomey Broadway production
• In Dahomey London production
• The Jersey Lily Broadway production
• Madame Sherry Vienna production
• Madame Sherry London production
• The Medal And The Maid London production
• The Orchid London production
• The Rogers Brothers In London Broadway production
• Véronique London production
• The Wizard of Oz [1] Broadway production

7 Births

• January 4 - Carroll Gibbons
• February 12 - Todd Duncan, American baritone, first Porgy in Porgy and Bess
• March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke
• May 3 - Bing Crosby, US singer and actor
• May 26 - Bob Hope, English-born US actor, comedian and singer
• June 6 - Aram Khachaturian, composer
• June 18 - Jeanette MacDonald, US singer and actress
• July 3 - Dick Robertson , US singer
• July 10 - Helen Pickens of the Pickens Sisters US singing group
• July 16 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer, composer and saxophonist
• August 4 - Helen Kane , US singer
• September 15 - Roy Claxton Acuff, Country and Western singer
• September 16 - Joe Venuti, US jazz violinist
• October 10 - Vladimir Dukelsky aka Vernon Duke, composer

8 Deaths

• January 28 - Robert Planquette, French composer (b. 1850)
• January 28 - Augusta Holmès, French composer
• February 11 - Henryk Szulc , composer (b. 1836)
• February 22 - Hugo Wolf, composer (b. 1860)

1903

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