1944 in music

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See also: 1943 in music, other events of 1944, 1945 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

1 Events
2 Top hit records
3 Published popular music
4 Classical music
5 Opera
6 Musical theater
7 Musical films
8 Births
9 Deaths

[edit] Events

Jo Stafford launches her solo career
Frank Sinatra begins his film career with the musical Higher And Higher
Frankie Laine cuts his first singles for the Beltone and Atlas labels
January 18 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
January 20 - Paul Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber is premiered in New York City.
July 28 - Sir Henry Wood, aged 75, conducts his last Promenade Concert.
August 19 - Italian singers Lucia Mannucci and Virgilio Savona get married.
December 1 - Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is premiered in Boston, Massachusetts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
December 15 - Glenn Miller is reported missing. The official explanation is that his plane went down somewhere over the English Channel, although many alternate theories have been suggested.
Flo Sandon's's musical career begins
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra loses its concert hall in an Allied air raid.

[edit] Top hit records

"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" by Stan Kenton
"Artistry In Rhythm" by Stan Kenton
"Besame Mucho" by Jimmy Dorsey
"Cherry" by Harry James
"Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" by Duke Ellington
"Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
"Don't Sweetheart Me" by Lawrence Welk
"G.I. Jive" by Louis Jordan
"Goodnight Irene" by Leadbelly
"A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
"I Love You" by Bing Crosby
"I'll Be Seeing You" by Bing Crosby
"I'll Get By" by Harry James
"Long Ago (and Far Away)" performed by
- Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
- Bing Crosby
- Jo Stafford
- Perry Como
"Is You Is or Is You Ain't" by The Andrews Sisters
"It Could Happen To You" by Jo Stafford
"It Had To Be You" by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
"It's Love, Love, Love by Guy Lombardo
"Long Ago" by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
"Mairzy Doats" by Merry Macs
"My Heart Tells Me" by The Casa Loma Orchestra
"San Fernando Valley" by Bing Crosby
"Shoo-Shoo Baby" by The Andrews Sisters
"Speak Low" by Guy Lombardo
"Straighten Up and Fly Right" by Nat King Cole
"Swinging On a Star" by Bing Crosby
"(There'll Be A) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" by The Andrews Sisters
"The Trolley Song" by Judy Garland
"Time Waits For No One" by Helen Forrest
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" by The Mills Brothers

[edit] Published popular music

"Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen
"All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" w. (Eng) Harold Rome (Fr) Jean Marie Blanvillain m. Herpin
"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" w. Joe Greene m. Stan Kenton & Charles Lawrence
"The Boy Next Door" w.m. Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
"Candy" w.m. Mack David, Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer
"Can't Help Singing" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jerome Kern
"Dance with a Dolly" w.m. Terry Shand, Jimmy Van Eaton & David Kapp
"Don't Fence Me In" w.m. Cole Porter
"Dream" w.m. Johnny Mercer
"Fine Brown Frame" w.m. Guadalupe Cartiero & J. Mayo Williams
"First Class Private Mary Brown" w.m. Frank Loesser
"G. I. Jive" w.m. Johnny Mercer
"Going My Way" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" w.m. Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
"A Hot Time in the Town Of Berlin" w. John De Vries m. Joe Bushkin
"How Blue the Night" w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh
"How Little We Know" w. Johnny Mercer m. Hoagy Carmichael
"I Begged Her" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"I Didn't Know About You" w. Bob Russell m. Duke Ellington
"I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" w.m. Marjorie Goetschius & Edna Osser
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"I Love You" w.m. Cole Porter
"I'll Walk Alone" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" w.m. Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges & Harry James
"I'm Making Believe" w. Mack Gordon m. James V. Monaco
"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher
"Jealous Heart" w.m. Jenny Lou Carson
"Keep a Sunbeam in Your Pocket" w.m. V. Guest & M. Sherwin from the film Bees in Paradise
"Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma" w.m. Milton Berle, Gene Doyle & Spike Jones
"Like Someone in Love" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen. Introduced by Dinah Shore in the film Belle of the Yukon.
"A Little on the Lonely Side" w.m. Dick Robertson, Frank Weldon & James Cavanaugh
"Long Ago and Far Away" w. Ira Gershwin m. Jerome Kern
"Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" w.m. Don Raye & Gene De Paul
"Moonlight in Vermont" w. John Blackburn m. Karl Suessdorf
"More and More" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jerome Kern From the Universal film Can't Help Singing
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time" w. Mann Curtis m. Vic Mizzy
"Nancy" w. Phil Silvers m. James Van Heusen
"New York, New York" w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Leonard Bernstein
"Now I Know" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harry Warren
"One Meat Ball" w. Hy Zaret m. Lou Singer
"Opus No. 1" w. Sid Garris m. Sy Oliver
"Please Don't Say No" w. Ralph Freed m. Sammy Fain from the film Thrill Of A Romance
"Put It There Pal" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"Rum And Coca Cola" w.m. Morey Amsterdam, Paul Baron & Jeri Sullivan
"Saturday Night" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"Sentimental Journey" w. Bud Green m. Les Brown & Ben Homer
"Sleighride in July" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen. Introduced by Dinah Shore in the film Belle of the Yukon.
"Some Day (You'll Want Me to Want You)" w.m. Jimmie Hodges
"Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Swinging on a Star" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"There Goes That Song Again" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"There's A Fellow Waiting In Poughkeepsie" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen
"There's No You" w. Tom Adair m. Hal Hopper
"This Heart of Mine" w. Arthur Freed m. Harry Warren
"Till Then" w.m. Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus & Guy Wood
"Twilight Time" w.m. Buck Ram, Mortie Nevins & Artie Dunn
"Umbriago" w.m. Irving Caesar & Jimmy Durante
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher
"You Belong To My Heart" w. (Eng) Ray Gilbert m. Agustín Lara
"You Can't Get That No More" w.m. Louis Jordan & Sam Theard
"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" w.m. Russ Morgan, Larry Stock & James Cavanaugh

[edit] Classical music

George Antheil - Symphony No 4
Leonard Bernstein - Fancy Free (ballet)
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (ballet)
George Crumb - Two Duos for flute and clarinet
David Diamond - Rounds
John Fernström - Symphony No. 10
Vivian Fine - ''Concertante for Piano and Orchestra
Gerald Finzi - Farewell to Arms
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs - Westmoreland Symphony
Camargo Guarnieri - String Quartet No. 2
Vagn Holmboe - Symphony No. 4
Joseph Jongen - Concerto for Harp No. 1
Zoltán Kodály - Missa Brevis
Frank Martin - Petite symphonie concertante
Darius Milhaud - Suite française
Dmitri Shostakovich - Trio for violin, cello and piano No. 2 E minor, Op. 67; String Quartet No.2 in A major, Op. 68
Michael Tippett - A Child of our Time
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Symphony No. 6 - Montanhas do Brasil (The Mountains of Brazil)
Grace Williams - Sea Sketches

[edit] Opera

Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace

[edit] Musical theater

Bloomer Girl Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 5 and ran for 654 performances.
Follow The Girls Broadway production opened at the New Century Theatre on April 8 and ran for 882 performances.
Mexican Hayride Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 28 and transferred to the Majestic Theatre on December 18 for a total run of 481 performances
A Night In Venice (Johann Strauss II) London production opened at the Cambridge Theatre on May 25
On the Town (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green) - Broadway production opened at the Adelphi Theatre (New York) on December 28, transferred to the 44th Street Theatre on June 4, 1945 and transferred to the Martin Beck Theatre on July 30, 1945 for a total run of 462 performances.
Seven Lively Arts Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 7 and ran for 183 performances
Song Of Norway Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on August 21 and transferred to the Broadway Theatre on April 15, 1946 for a total run of 860 performances
Sweeter And Lower London production