1927 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Musical theater
6 Musical film
7 Popular Hit Recordings
8 Other important recordings
9 Births
10 Deaths

Events

January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna
July 1 - Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premired in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting
December 5 - Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass is premiered in Brno
Blind Willie McTell's recording career begins
The Soul Stirrers' recording career begins
Big Bill Broonzy's recording career begins
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven record
Carter Family recording career begins

Published popular music

"Ain't She Sweet" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"Among My Souvenirs" w. Edgar Leslie m. Horatio Nicholls
"At Sundown" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"The Babbitt And The Bromide" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"The Best Things In Life Are Free" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Black And Tan Fantasy" m. Duke Ellington
"Bless This House" w. Helen Taylor m. May Brahe
"Blue Skies" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Broken Hearted" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Changes" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"Chlo-e" w. Gus Kahn m. Neil Moret
"Creole Love Call" w.m. Edward "Duke" Ellington
"Dew-Dew-Dewy Day" w.m. Al Sherman, Charles Tobias & Howard Johnson
"Diane" w.m. Ernie Rapee & Lew Pollack
"Did You Mean It?" w. Abe Lyman & Sid Silvers m. Phil Baker
"The Doll Dance" m. Nacio Herb Brown
"Everywhere You Go" w.m. Larry Shay, Joe Goodwin & Mark Fisher
"Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" w. Willie Raskin & Billy Rose m. Fred Fisher
"Four Or Five Times" w.m. Byron Gay
"Funny Face" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Girl Of My Dreams" w.m. Sunny Clapp
"Good News" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Hallelujah!" w. Leo Robin & Clifford Grey m. Vincent Youmans
"High Hat" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Hoosier Sweetheart" w.m. Billy Baskette, Paul Ash & Joe Goodwin
"I Don't Know How" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"I Feel At Home With You" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"I Left My Sugar Standing In The Rain" w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain
"I Scream You Scream" w.m. Robert King, Howard Johnson & Billy Moll
"I Still Suits Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"I'll Take Care Of Your Cares" w. Mort Dixon m. James V. Monaco
"I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now" w. Benny Davis m. Jesse Greer
"I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
"I'm Proud Of A Baby Like You" Schoenberg, Stevens, Helmick
"In A Mist" m. Bix Beiderbecke
"It All Belongs To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Just Like A Butterfly" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
"Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella" w. Irving Kahal & Francis Wheeler m. Sammy Fain
"Let's Kiss And Make Up" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Lindbergh" w.m. Al Sherman & Howard Johnson
"The Lonesome Road" w. Gene Austin m. Nathaniel Shilkret
"Lucky Lindy" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer
"Mary, (What Are You Waiting For)" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"Maybe It's Me" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"Me And My Shadow" w.m. Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose & Al Jolson
"Miss Annabelle Lee" w.m. Lew Pollack, Sidney Clare & Harry Richman
"Mississippi Mud" w. James Cavanaugh m. Harry Barris
"My Blue Heaven" w. George Whiting m. Walter Donaldson
"My Heart Stood Still" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"My One And Only" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Ol' Man River" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"Plenty Of Sunshine" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Preludes" by George Gershwin
"Rain" w.m. Eugene Ford, Carey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom
"Ramona" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Mabel Wayne
"A Room With A View" w.m. Noel Coward
"Russian Lullaby" w.m. Irving Berlin
"'S Wonderful" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Shaking The Blues Away" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Side By Side" w.m. Harry Woods
"The Song Is Ended" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Strike Up The Band" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Struttin' With Some Barbecue" w.m. Louis Armstrong & Lillian Hardin Armstrong
"Thou Swell" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"The Varsity Drag" w. B. G. de Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Washboard Blues" m. Hoagy Carmichael & Irving Mills
"What Does It Matter?" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Where's That Rainbow?" Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"Why Do I Love You?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"You Remind Me Of A Naughty Springtime Cuckoo" w.m. Leslie Sarony
"Your Land And My Land" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"You're Always In My Arms" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney

Classical music

Reinhold Glière - The Red Poppy (ballet)
Bohuslav Martinu - La Revue de Cuisine
Igor Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
Anton Webern - String Trio, opus 20

Opera

Musical theater

The Desert Song (Sigmund Romberg) - London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on April 7 and ran for 432 performances
Funny Face Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 22 and ran for 250 performances
Good News Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on September 6 and ran for 557 performances
Hit The Deck (Vincent Youmans and Clifford Grey) - Broadway production opened at the Belasco Theatre on April 25 and ran for 532 performances; London production opened at the Hippodrome on November 3 and ran for 277 performances
The Merry Malones Broadway production opened at the Erlanger Theatre on September 26 and ran for 216 performances
My Maryland Broadway production opened at the Jolson Theatre on September 12 and ran for 312 performances
Oh, Kay London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on September 21 and ran for 214 performances
One Dam Thing After Another London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre on May 20
Peggy-Ann London production opened at Daly's Theatre on July 27 and ran for 130 performances
Rio Rita Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on February 2 and ran for 494 performances
Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II - Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 27 and ran for 572 performances
The Vagabond King London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 19 and ran for 480 performances
Yes, Yes, Yvette Broadway production opened at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on October 3 and ran for 40 performances

Musical film

The Jazz Singer released October 6, starring Al Jolson

Popular Hit Recordings

"Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" by Ted Lewis & His Band
"My Blue Heaven" by Gene Austin
"Mine, All Mine" by the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks
"Mary (What Are You Waiting For?)" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
"Changes" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
"Blue Skys/Falling In Love With You" by Jesse Crawford
"Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Sophie Tucker with Miff Mole & His Little Molers
"Shaking The Blues Away" by Ruth Etting
"Varsity Drag" by Ruth Etting
"It All Belongs To Me" by Ruth Etting
"In A Little Spanish Town" by Carson Robison
"My Pretty Girl" by Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra
"Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith
"I'm Coming, Virginia" by Bix Beiderbecke
"Lucky Lindy" by Nat Shilkret
"I'm Gona Meet My Sweetie Now" by Jane Green
"Black and Tan Fantasy" by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

Other important recordings

"Singin' The Blues" by Frankie Trumbauer's Orch., with Bix & Lang
"Potato Head Blues" by Louis Armstrong
"Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael
"Honky Tonk Train Blues" recorded Meade Lux Lewis (not released until 1930)

Births

January 10 - Johnnie Ray, US singer, pianist and songwriter
January 17 - Eartha Kitt
February 2 - Stan Getz
February 10 - Leontyne Price
February 17 - Friedrich Cerha, composer
February 27 - Guy Mitchell
March 3 - Junior Parker
March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist
April 30 - Johnny Horton
June 23 - Bob Fosse, choreographer
July 16 - Mindy Carson, US singer
October 25 - Barbara Cook, US singer and actress
November 8 - Patti Page

Deaths

May 3 - Ernest R. Ball, US composer
June 5 - Paul Lacombe, composer
October 1 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer