1918 In Music

Events

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

Published popular music

• "After You've Gone" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
• "At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
• "Bagdad" w.Harold Atteridge m.Al Jolson
• "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 Donaldson
• "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 Berlin
• "Every Day" by Shelton Brooks
• "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!" 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

Top hit recordings

• "Tiger Rag/Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
• "Over There" by Enrico Caruso
• "After You've Gone" by Marion Harris
• "Smiles" by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
• "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
• "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
• "Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" by Al Jolson
• "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by Henry Burr

Classical music

• Frederick Delius - A Song Before Sunrise
• Alexander Glazunov - Romance of Nina
• Augustin Barrios Mangor - Un sueo en la foresta
• Karol Szymanowski - Songs of the Muezzin the Mad

Opera

• Charles Wakefield Cadman - Shanewis
• Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico (consisting of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)
• Gabriel von Wayditch - Jesus Before Herod

Musical theater

• As You Were London production
• The Better 'Ole Broadway production
• Buzz-Buzz London production
• The Canary Broadway production
• The Girl Behind The Gun Broadway production
• Hullo, America London production
• The Lilac Domino London production
• Phi-Phi Paris production
• Sinbad Broadway production

Births

• January 27 - Skitch Henderson, bandleader
• February 15 - Hank Locklin, singer
• March 29 - Pearl Bailey, singer
• April 25 - Ella Fitzgerald
• May 15 - Eddy Arnold
• August 25 - Leonard Bernstein
• August 31 - Alan Jay Lerner, US lyricist
• September 26 - John Zacherle
• December 19 - Professor Longhair

Deaths

• March 25 - Claude Debussy, composer
• June 10 - Arrigo Boito, composer
• August 26 - Cecil Coles, composer
• October 7 - Hubert Parry, composer
• October 16 - Felix Arndt, pianist & tunewriter

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