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1929 in music
See also:
1928 in music
,
other events of 1929
,
1930 in music
and the
list of 'years in music'
.
Table of contents
1 Events
2 Top Hit Songs
3 Top Hit Recordings
4 Births
5 Deaths
Events
December 31
-
Guy Lombardo
plays "
Auld Lang Syne[?]
" for the first time
Cab Calloway
's musical career begins
Charley Patton[?]
's musical career begins
T-Bone Walker
's musical career begins
Memphis Minnie
's musical career begins
Gene Autry
's musical career begins
Top Hit Songs
"
Stardust
" by
Hoagy Carmichael
&
Mitchell Parish
"Singing in the Rain" by
Nacio Herb Brown[?]
&
Arthur Freed
"My Love Parade" by
Clifford Grey[?]
"Serenade of Love" by
Irving Caesar[?]
"Without a Song" by
William Rose[?]
"Romance" by
Edgar Leslie[?]
"My Kinda Love" by
Jo' Trent[?]
"Satisfied" by
Irving Caesar[?]
"Why Can't I" by
Lorenz Hart
"Piccolo Pete" by
Phil Baxter[?]
"Waiting at the End of the Road" by
Irving Berlin
"After You've Gone" by
Henry Creamer
&
J. Turner Layton[?]
Top Hit Recordings
"Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by
Rudy Vallee
"Button Up Your Overcoat" by
Helen Kane[?]
"
Stardust
" by
Isham Jones[?]
& His Orchestra
"Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by
Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys[?]
, featuring
Bing Crosby
"Am I Blue?" by
Ethel Waters
"
Singin' In The Rain
" by
Cliff Edwards[?]
"I Want To Be Bad" by
Annette Hanshaw[?]
"You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by
Rudy Vallee
"I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by
Aileen Stanley[?]
"Makin' Whoopie" by
Eddie Cantor
"Maybe, Who Knows?" by
Kate Smith[?]
"What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by
Louis Armstrong
& His Orchestra
"I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by
Ted Lewis
& His Jazz Band
"Louise" by
Maurice Chevalier
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by
Bessie Smith
"If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by
Johnny Hamp[?]
's Kentucky Serenaders
Births
January 6
-
Wilbert Harrison[?]
May 1
-
Sonny James[?]
June 9
-
Johnny Ace[?]
June 23
-
June Carter Cash
July 18
-
Screaming Jay Hawkins
August 12
-
Buck Owens[?]
August 24
-
William Winfield[?]
,
The Harptones[?]
October 26
-
Neal Matthews[?]
The Jordanaires[?]
November 11
-
LaVern Baker
November 28
-
Berry Gordy Jr.[?]
,
record producer
November 30
-
Dick Clark[?]
, host of
American Bandstand
December 25
-
Billy Horton[?]
,
The Silhouettes[?]
December 25
-
Chris Kenner[?]
Deaths
June 2
-
Don Murray
,
jazz
clarinetist
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