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1 Events

• March 3 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premiered in Budapest
• May 24 - Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest
• First documented racially integrated jazz recording session
• Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year

2 Published popular music

• "After You've Gone" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
• "At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRoccaDominic James "Nick" La Rocca ( New Orleans, Louisiana April 11, 1889 New Orleans February 22 1961) was an early jazz trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. According to La Rocca himself, he was The Creator of Jazz The Christopher C, Tony Spargo & Larry ShieldsLawrence J. Larry" Shields ( September 13, 1893 November 21, 1953) was an early jazz clarinetist. Larry Shields, c. 1915 Lawrence James Shields was born in Uptown New Orleans on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived. Shields family were mus
• "Bagdad" w. Harold Atteridge m. Al JolsonAsa Yoelson ( May 26, 1886 October 23, 1950), better known as Al Jolson was an immigrant son of a Russian Jew, and was born in Seredzius, Lithuania. Jolson became a popular singer and a superstar of the Broadway stage, radio and film. He is best known, ho
• "Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
• "Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
• "Dallas Blues" w. Hart A. Wand m. Lloyd Garrett
• "Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
• "Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
• "The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter DonaldsonWalter Donaldson ( February 15, 1893 July 15, 1947) was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s. Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher. While still in school he wrote orig
• "Dear Little Boy Of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest Ball
• "Dear Old Pal Of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
• "Ding Dong" w.m. Irving BerlinIrving Berlin ( May 11, 1888 September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist. Born Israel Isidore Baline in Tyumen, Siberia, he emigrated to the United States in 1893 with the rest of his family. Following the death of his father in 1896, Irving
• "Every Day" by Shelton BrooksShelton Brooks ( May 4, 1886 September 6, 1975) was a popular music composer who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century. Brooks was born in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. His family moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1901. Shelton
• "Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
• "Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
• "Fidgety Feet" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
• "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
• " Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip is a ragtime song published as sheet music in 1918 by Leo Feist Inc. of New York City. It was one of the most popular tunes with United States soldiers during the World War I era. According to the sheet music, it was "written" w.m. Robert Lloyd
• "Good-bye, France" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
• "Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
• "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" by Edward Rowland
• "How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn
• "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
• "I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy
• "I Want To Shimmy" by Shelton Brooks
• "If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany" w. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer
• "I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson
• "In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
• "Ja-Da w.m. Bob Carleton
• "K-K-K-Katy" w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara
• "Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
• "Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
• "Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
• "Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
• "My Baby Boy" w. Will Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Pete Wendling
• "Oh! Frenchy!" w. Sam Ehrlich m. Con Conrad
• "Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "On The Road To Calais" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Jolson
• "Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. Joe Jordan (musician) , Nick LaRocca & J. Russell Robinson
• "Oui Oui Marie" w. Alfred Bryan & Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
• "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
• "The Rose Of No Man's Land" w. Jack Caddingan m. Joseph A. Brennan
• "Russian Rag" m. George L. Cobb
• "Somebody Stole My Gal" w.m. Leo Wood
• "Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young
• "Tell That To The Marines" w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson m. Jean Schwartz
• "That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
• "That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
• "There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. Con Conrad
• "They Were All Out Of Step But Jim" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Those Draftin' Blues" w.m. Maceo Pinkard
• " Till We Meet Again " w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
• "Tishomigo Blues" Spencer Williams
• "Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
• "We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
• "When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
• "When Tony Goes Over The Top" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
• "When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
• "Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
• "Without You" w. Nora Bayes m. Irving Fisher
• "Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
• "You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
• "You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, Gus Kahn & Egbert van Alstyne