This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1929.
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Specific genres 1929 in country music 1929 in jazz
Events January 1 – Pianist and composer Abram Chasins makes his professional debut playing his own piano concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. January 11 – Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is premiered. January 22 – Gordon Jacob's First String Quartet is premiered by the Spencer Dyke Quartet in London. February 4 – First recording of George Gershwin's An American in Paris, by Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Symphony Orchestra February 19 – UK première of Béla Bartók's still-unpublished Third String Quartet, by The Hungarian String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, London. April 10 – Nicholas Laucella joins with Giuseppe De Luca, Giulio Setti and the Metropolitan Opera in a recording of I gioielli della Madonna Serenata for RCA Victor. April 29 – Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Gambler premiers in Brussels, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. May 17 – Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3 is premiered in Paris. May 21 Season opening of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in Paris, with the first performances of Igor Stravinsky's Renard and Sergei Prokofiev's Le Fils prodigue. First recording date for a commercially issued RCA Victor rpm LP: Victor Salon Suite No. 1 arranged and directed by Nathaniel ShilkretVictor Recording Book, p. 8282. (Victor's daily log at Victor Archives (SONY)) May 22 – Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly establish music publishing house Campbell, Connelly & Co, Ltd. June 13 – Eugene Goosens conducts the UK premieres of Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, with the composer as soloist, and of Ottorino Respighi's Feste Romane, at the Queen's Hall, London. June 14 – Charley Patton makes the first recording of his career. June 27 – First London performances of two ballets by Igor Stravinsky, Apollon musagète and Le Baiser de la fée, conducted by the composer at the Kingsway Hall and broadcast on the wireless. September 11 – Louis Armstrong records his hit song "When You're Smiling". October 14 – the London Symphony Orchestra opens its winter season, conducted by Alfred Coates, in a programme including Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor orchestrated by Alexander Goedicke, Respighi's Roman Festivals, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto (with soloist Shura Cherkassky), and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. December 31 – Guy Lombardo plays "Auld Lang Syne" for the first time. December – Release in the United States of short film The Singing Brakeman starring country singer Jimmie Rodgers. The Musashino Academia Musicae is founded in Tokyo, Japan. Edison Records closes, ending production of Diamond Discs and Blue Amberols. Bessie Smith shoots a short film for "St Louis Blues", which would become her only known film appearance. T-Bone Walker's recording career begins with release of the single 78 "Wichita Falls Blues"/"Trinity River Blues," on Columbia Records. This was made in 1929 under the name Oak Cliff T-Bone. Memphis Minnie makes the first recordings of her career in 1929 with Columbia Records. These were six shellac record sides recorded with Johnny Shines; the first of which was the song "Bumble Bee". Amédé Ardoin makes his first zydeco record in Louisiana in 1929; an event often credited as the first recording made by a Creole musician (although one scholar notes that it is possible but not certain that the Creole fiddle player Douglas Bellard made an earlier recording).
Published popular music
"Ain't Misbehavin'" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn m. Art Kassel "The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)" w.m. Cole Porter "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" w.m. Carson Robison & Frank Luther "Big City Blues" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad "Black and Blue" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown. Introduced by Joan Crawford in the film Untamed. "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis m. J. Fred Coots "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noël Coward "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee m. Charlie Henderson "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept "Do What You Do" w. Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn m. George Gershwin "Don't Ever Leave Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "Dream Lover" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "Every Little Moment" w.m. Vivian Ellis "Feeling Sentimental" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "Find Me A Primitive Man" w.m. Cole Porter "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" w. Andy Razaf & Don Redman m. Don Redman "Great Day!" w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans "Happy Days Are Here Again" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager "Have A Little Faith In Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren "Here Am I" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "He's A Good Man To Have Around" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager "He's So Unusual" w.m. Al Sherman, Al Lewis and Abner Silver "High And Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz "Honeysuckle Rose" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "How Am I To Know?" w. Dorothy Parker m. Jack King "I Got A Code In My Dose" w.m. Arthur Fields, Fred Hall & Billy Rose "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz. Introduced by Clifton Webb in the revue The Little Show "I Have To Have You" Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting "I Lift Up My Finger" w.m. Leslie Sarony "I May Be Wrong" w. Harry Ruskin m. Henry Sullivan. Introduced in the revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac by Trixie Friganza and Jimmie Savo. "If I Can't Have You" w. Al Bryan m. George W. Meyer "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "If Love Were All" w.m. Noël Coward "I'll Always Be In Love With You" w. Herman Ruby, Bud Green, & Sam H. Stept m. Sam H. Stept "I'll See You Again" w.m. Noël Coward "I'll Still Go On Wanting You" w.m. Bernie Grossman "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "I'm A Gigolo" w.m. Cole Porter "I'm In Seventh Heaven" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson "I'm Just a Vagabond Lover" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Leon Zimmerman "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" w. Billy Rose m. Fats Waller & Harry Link "Just You, Just Me" w. Raymond Klages m. Jesse Greer. Introduced in the film Marianne by Lawrence Gray and reprised by Marion Davies and Cliff Edwards. "Kansas City Kitty" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Lady Divine" w.m. Nathaniel Shilkret and Richard Kountz "Let Me Sing and I'm Happy" w.m. Irving Berlin "Little by Little" w.m. Walter O'Keefe & Robert Emmet Dolan. Introduced by Sally O'Neil and Eddie Quillan in the film The Sophomore "The Little Things You Do" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Liza" w. Gus Kahn & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by Nick Lucas in the musical Show Girl "Looking at You" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by Jessie Matthews and Dave Fitzgibbon in the musical Wake Up and Dream "Louise" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film Innocents of Paris "Lovable and Sweet" w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant. Introduced by Jack Oakie, John Harron and Ned Sparks in the film Street Girl "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" w. Elsie Janis m. Edmund Goulding "March of the Grenadiers" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger Introduced by Jeanette MacDonald in the film The Love Parade "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting "Mean to Me" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert "The Minor Drag" m. Thomas "Fats" Waller "Moanin' Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Libby Holman in the revue The Little Show "More Than You Know" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans. Introduced by Mayo Methot in the musical Great Day "My Ideal" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film Playboy of Paris "My Kinda Love" w. Jo Trent m. Louis Alter "My Love Parade" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "My Mother's Eyes" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer "My Sin" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke. Introduced by Nick Lucas in the film Gold Diggers of Broadway. "Paris, Stay the Same" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger "Piccolo Pete" w.m. Phil Baxter "Puttin' on the Ritz" w.m. Irving Berlin "Raisin' the Roof" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh "Reaching For Someone" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Rock Island Line" w.m. Clarence Wilson (written) "Rockin' Chair" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael "Romance" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Satisfied!" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar "Seventh Heaven" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Lew Pollack "She's Such A Comfort To Me" w. Douglas Furber, Max Lief, Nathaniel Lief & Donovan Parsons m. Arthur Schwartz "She's Wonderful" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson "A Ship Without A Sail" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by Jack Whiting in the musical Heads Up!. Performed in the film version by Charles "Buddy" Rogers. "Should I?" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Canto Siboney" w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona "Singin' in the Bathtub" w. Herb Magidson & Ned Washington m. Michael H. Cleary "Singin' in the Rain" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "So The Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together" w. Billy Moll m. Harry Barris "Spread A Little Happiness" w.m. Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers & Greatrex Newman "Star Dust" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael Music 1927. "Sunny Side Up" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Too Wonderful For Words" w.m. Dave Stamper "Thank Your Father" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Thinking of You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby "True Blue Lou" w.m. Sam Coslow, Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting "Turn on the Heat" w. B. G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson. Introduced by Sharon Lynn and Frank Richardson in the film Sunny Side Up "Wait 'Til You See Ma Cherie" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting "Waiting At The End Of The Road" w.m. Irving Berlin "Wake Up And Dream" w.m. Cole Porter "Walk Right In" Cannon, Woods, Darling, Suanoe "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine" w. Irving Kahal & Willie Raskin m. Sammy Fain "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Weary River" w. Grant Clarke m. Louis Silvers. Introduced by Johnny Murray in the film Weary River "What Is This Thing Called Love?" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by Elsie Carlisle in the musical Wake Up and Dream "Why Can't I?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Why Do You Suppose?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Why Was I Born?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern "With A Song in My Heart" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "Without A Song" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans "You Do Something To Me" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by William Gaxton in the musical Fifty Million Frenchmen "You Were Meant For Me" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown "Yours Sincerely" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers "You've Got That Thing" w.m. Cole Porter "Zigeuner" w.m. Noël Coward
Top popular recordings 1929