1930 in music

Events

*The BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed.
*Festival Puccini is launched at Torre del Lago.
*Frankie Laine sings to an audience of 5,000 at The Merry Garden Ballroom.
*Bukka White makes his first recording.
*Gorni Kramer finishes double bass conservatory study and begins performing.
*John Serry, Sr. begins his musical career.
*Nicholas Slonimsky premieres Charles Ives's Three Places in New England.

Published popular songs

* "Across The Breakfast Table" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "All I Want Is Just One Girl" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting
* "Any Little Fish" w.m. Noël Coward
* "A Bench in the Park" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
* "Betty Co-Ed" w.m. J. Paul Fogarty & Rudy Vallee
* "Beyond the Blue Horizon" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & W. Franke Harling
* "Bidin' My Time" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "Blue Again" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh. Introduced by Evelyn Hoey in "The Vanderbilt Revue".
* "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
* "Body and Soul" w. Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton m. Johnny Green
* "Boy! What Love Has Done To Me!" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "But Not For Me" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "By the Sleepy Lagoon" (aka "Sleepy Lagoon") m. Eric Coates (lyrics by Jack Lawrence added in 1940)
* "Bye Bye Blues" w.m. Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray, Fred Hamm & Dave Bennett
* "Can This Be Love?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift. Introduced by Alice Boulden in the musical "Fine and Dandy".
* "Can't We Talk It Over?" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
* "Casa Loma Stomp" m. Eugene Gifford
* "Cheerful Little Earful" w. Ira Gershwin & Billy Rose m. Harry Warren
* "The Chum Song" Jack Hylton, Louis Freeman
* "Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love" w. Billy Rose m. Henry Tobias
* "A Cottage For Sale" w. Larry Conley m. Willard Robison
* "Dancing on the Ceiling" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
* "Dangerous Nan McGrew" w. Dan Hartman m. Al Goodhart
* "Don't Tell Him What Happened To Me" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
* "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days" w.m. Arthur Fields & Fred Hall
* "Embraceable You" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "Exactly Like You" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
* "Falling in Love Again" w. (Eng) Sammy Lerner m. Frederick Hollander
* "Fine and Dandy" w. Paul James (pseudonym for James Warburg) m. Kay Swift
* "For You" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
* "Gee, But I'd Like To Make You Happy" w.m. Larry Shay, Ward & Montgomery
* "Georgia On My Mind" w. Stuart Gorrell m. Hoagy Carmichael
* "Get Happy" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
* "Goofus" w. Gus Kahn m. Wayne King & William Harold
* "Happy Feet" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
* "I Am Only Human after All" w. Ira Gershwin & E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke
* "I Bring a Love Song" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg from the musical film "Viennese Nights
* "I Got Rhythm" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "I Love You So Much" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
* "If Your Kisses Can't Hold the Man You Love" w. Jack Yellen m. Vivian Ellis
* "I'm Confessin' That I Love You" w. Al J. Neiburg m. Doc Daugherty & Ellis Reynolds
* "I'm Glad I Waited" w.m. Vincent Youmans
* "I'm In the Market for You" w. Joseph McCarthy m. James F. Hanley
* "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" w.m. A. P. Carter
* "Into My Heart" w. Roy Turk m. Fred Ahlert. Introduced by Ramon Novarro in the film "In Gay Madrid"
* "It Happened In Monterey" w. Billy Rose m. Mabel Wayne
* "It Must Be True" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Barris & Gordon Clifford
* "I've Got a Crush on You" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "J'ai Deux Amours" w. Georges Koger & H. Varna m. Vincent Scotto
* "Just a Gigolo" w. (Eng) Irving Caesar (Ger) Julius Brammer m. Leonello Casucci
* "The Kiss Waltz" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
* "Lady, Play Your Mandolin" w. Irving Caesar m. Oscar Levant
* "Lazy River" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael & Sidney Arodin
* "The Little Things in Life" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Little White Lies" w.m. Walter Donaldson
* "Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight" w. Al Lewis m. Al Sherman
* "Love for Sale" w.m. Cole Porter
* "Lucky Seven" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
* "Memories of You" w. Andy Razaf m. Eubie Blake
* "Mule Skinner Blues" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers
* "My Future Just Passed" w. George Marion Jr m. Richard A. Whiting
* "Mysterious Mose" w.m. Walter Doyle
* "Nina Rosa" m. Irving Caesar
* "Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee" w.m. Al Sherman & Al Lewis & Con Conrad
* "Ninety-Nine Out of a Hundred (Wanna Be Loved) w.m. Al Sherman & Al Lewis
* "On the Sunny Side of the Street" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
* "Our Don Bradman" w.m. Jack O'Hagan
* "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" w. Sidney Clare m. Sam H. Stept
* "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid" w. Andy Razaf m. James P. Johnson
* "Rockin' In Rhythm" m. Duke Ellington & Irving Mills
* "Sam and Delilah" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
* "Send for Me" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Shout, Sister, Shout" w.m. J. Tim Brymn, Alexander Hill & Clarence Williams
* "Sing, You Sinners" w.m. W. Franke Harling & Sam Coslow. Introduced by Lillian Roth in the film "Honey"
* "Someday I'll Find You" w.m. Noel Coward
* "Something to Remember You By" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
* "The Song of the Dawn" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager from the film "King Of Jazz"
* "Sweepin' the Clouds Away" w.m. Sam Coslow
* "Sweet Jennie Lee" w.m. Walter Donaldson
* "Telling it to the Daisies" w. Joe Young m. Harry Warren
* "Ten Cents a Dance" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
* "Them There Eyes" w.m. Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey & Doris Tauber
* "They All Fall In Love" w.m. Cole Porter
* "They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree" w.m. Edward Eliscu, Billy Hill & Willie Raskin
* "Three Little Words" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
* "Time on My Hands" w. Harold Adamson & Mack Gordon m. Vincent Youmans
* "Two Loves Have I" w. (Eng) J. P. Murray & Barry Trivers m. Vincent Scotto
* "Walking My Baby Back Home" w.m. Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert
* "The Waltz You Saved For Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Wayne King & Emil Flindt
* "What Kind of Noise Annoys an Oyster" Frank Crumit, Curtis
* "When I'm Looking At You" w. Clifford Grey m. Herbert Stothart. Introduced by Lawrence Tibbett in the film "The Rogue Song"
* "When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver" w. Charles Tobias m. Peter De Rose
* "The White Dove" w. Clifford Grey m. Franz Lehár
* "Why Am I So Romantic?" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
* "Would You Like To Take A Walk?" w. Mort Dixon & Billy Rose m. Harry Warren
* "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" w.m. Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal & Pierre Norman
* "You Will Remember Vienna" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
* "You're Driving Me Crazy" w.m. Walter Donaldson

Biggest hit songs

The following songs achieved the highest [http://tsort.info/music/yr1930.htm chart positions] in the limited set of charts available for 1930.

Top hits on record

*"Amos 'n Andy" by Billy Murray and Walter Scanlan
*"Beyond the Blue Horizon" by George Olsen & His Music
*"Body and Soul" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
*"Betty Coed" by Rudy Vallee
*"A Brown Bird Singing" by Webster Booth
*"Crazy Feet" by Fred Astaire
*"Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" by The Nat Shilkret Orchestra
*"Dream Lover" by Gracie Fields
*"Embraceable You" by Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
*"Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Meroff & His Band
*"If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" by Jack Hylton
*"I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
*"I'm One Of The Queens Of England" by Douglas Byng
*"I Remember Dear" by Bing Crosby
*"It Happened In Monterey (In Old Mexico)" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
*"Little White Lies" by Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians
*"The Lonesome Road" by Paul Robeson
*"March Of The Musketeers" by Paul Whiteman
* "Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee" by Duke Ellington
* "Ninety-Nine Out of a Hundred (Wanna Be Loved) by Rudy Vallee
*"On the Sunny Side Of the Street" by Ted Lewis & His Band
*"Oh, It's A Lovely War" by Jolly Old Fellows
*"A Perfect Day" by Paul Robeson
*"Private Lives" by Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
*Puttin' On The Ritz by Fred Astaire
*"She's My Secret Passion" by Ambrose
*"The Jitterbug Waltz" by Fats Waller
*"The Stein Song" by Rudy Vallee
*"Ten Cents A Dance" by Ruth Etting
*"Terence's Farewell To Kathleen" by John McCormack
*"Three Little Words" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys with Duke Ellington & His Jungle Band
*"Valentine" by Maurice Chevalier
*"You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians

Top blues records

*"Sitting on Top of the World" - Mississippi Sheiks
*"Preachin' Blues" - Son House
*"Clarksdale Moan" - Son House
*"Razor Ball" - Blind Willie McTell
*"Somebody's Been Using That Thing" - Big Bill Broonzy
*"Skoodle Do Do" - Big Bill Broonzy

Classical music

*William Alwyn - "Piano Concerto No. 1"
*Aaron Copland - "Piano Variations"
*Arthur De Greef - "Piano Concerto no. 2"
*Alexander Glazunov - "String Quartet No. 7"
*Reynaldo Hahn - "Piano Concerto in E"
*Howard Hanson - "Symphony No. 2", "The Romantic"
*Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - "Turkish Fragments"
*Paul Juon - "Quintet for Winds in B flat major"
*Zoltán Kodály - "Dances of Marosszék"
*Igor Markevitch - "Concerto Grosso"
*Heitor Villa-Lobos - "Bachiana brasileira no 1 for 8 Cellos"
*Anton Webern - "Quartet", opus 22

Opera

*Ralph Benatzky - "Im weissen Rössl"
*Leoš Janáček - "From the House of the Dead"
*Kurt Weill - "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny"

Musical theater

* "Darling, I Love You" London production openead at the Gaiety Theatre on January 22 and ran for 147 performances
* "Eldorado" London production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 3 and ran for 93 performances
* "Ever Green" London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on December 3 and ran for 254 performances
* "Fine and Dandy" Broadway musical opened at the Erlanger's Theatre on September 23 and ran for 246 performances.
* "Follow a Star" London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 17 and ran for 118 performances
* "Girl Crazy" Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on October 14 and ran for 272 performances
* "Here Comes the Bride" London production opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on February 20 and ran for 175 performances
* "Das Land Des Lächelns" Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on September 26 and ran for 105 performances
* "Little Tommy Tucker" London production opened at Daly's Theatre on November 19 and ran for 83 performances
* "The Love Race" London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on June 25 and ran for 237 performances
* "The New Yorkers" Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on December 8 and ran for 168 performances
* "Nippy" London production opened at the Prince Edward Theatre on October 30 and ran for 137 performances
* "Rio Rita" London production opened at the Prince Edward Theatre on April 3 and ran for 59 performances
* "The Second Little Show" Broadway revue opened at the Royale Theatre on September 2 and ran for 63 performances
* "Silver Wings" London production opened at the Dominion Theatre on February 14 and ran for 120 performances
* "Sons o' Guns" London production opened at the Hippodrome on June 26 and ran for 211 performances
* "Sweet and Low" Broadway revue opened at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre on November 17 and ran for 184 performances
* "The Three Musketeers" London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on March 28 and ran for 240 performances
* "Three's a Crowd" Broadway revue opened at the Selwyn Theatre on October 15 and ran for 271 performances
* "The Vanderbilt Revue" Broadway revue opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 5 and ran for 13 performances
* "Viktoria und ihr Husar" Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on December 23 and ran for 121 performances
*"Im Weissen Rössl" aka "White Horse Inn" - Ralph Benatzky. First performed at the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin on November 8.
*"Wonder Bar" London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on December 5 and ran for 210 performances

Musical films

* "Along Came Youth" starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Frances Dee and Stuart Erwin. Directed by Lloyd Corrigan and Norman McLeod.
* "Animal Crackers" starring The Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth and Margaret Dumont. Directed by Victor Heerman.
* "Be Yourself!" starring Fanny Brice, Harry Green and Robert Armstrong. Directed by Thornton Freeland.
* "Bright Lights" starring Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, Inez Courtney and Eddie Nugent. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
* "Chasing Rainbows" starring Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny and Marie Dressler
* "Dancing Sweeties" starring Grant Withers, Sue Carol and Edna Murphy
* "Follow Thru" starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley, Eugene Pallette and Thelma Todd
* "Going Wild" starring Joe E. Brown and Ona Munson
* "Golden Dawn" released on June 14 starring Walter Woolf King, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle and Lupino Lane
* "Good News" starring Mary Lawlor, Stanley Smith, Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards, Gus Shy and Penny Singleton and featuring Abe Lyman & his Band
*"High Society Blues" starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Louise Fazenda
* "Hit the Deck" starring Jack Oakie, Polly Walker and June Clyde
* "Honey" starring Nancy Carroll, Stanley Smith, Lillian Roth and Mitzi Green
* "In Gay Madrid" starring Ramon Novarro and Dorothy Jordan
* "King of Jazz" starring Paul Whiteman and John Boles and featuring The Rhythm Boys and The Brox Sisters
* "Let's Go Native" starring Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald and James Hall
* "The Lottery Bride" starring Jeanette MacDonald, Zasu Pitts, Robert Chisholm, Joe E. Brown and John Garrick. Directed by Paul L. Stein.
* "New Moon" starring Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore
* "New Movietone Follies of 1930" starring El Brendel and Marjorie White
* "No, No Nanette" starring ZaSu Pitts, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman and Mildred Harris
* "Paramount on Parade" featuring Maurice Chevalier and Clara Bow
* "Puttin' on the Ritz" starring Harry Richman, Joan Bennett and James Gleason
* "The Rogue Song" released May 10 starring Lawrence Tibbett and Catherine Dale Owen and featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
* "Song o' My Heart" released September 7 starring John McCormack.
* "Spring Is Here" starring Lawrence Gray, Alexander Gray, Bernice Claire, Inez Courtney, Frank Albertson and The Brox Sisters.
* "Sunny" starring Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray and Joe Donahue.
* "Sunny Skies" starring Benny Rubin, Marceline Day, Rex Lease and Marjorie Kane
* "The Vagabond King" starring Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald and Lillian Roth
* "Viennese Nights" released November 26 starring Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray, Jean Hersholt, Walter Pidgeon and Louise Fazenda.
* "Whoopee!" starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta and Paul Gregory, and featuring George Olsen & his Orchestra and Betty Grable

Births

*January 12 - Glenn Yarbrough (The Limelighters)
*January 13 - Bobby Lester (The Moonglows)
*January 27 - Bobby Blue Bland, blues and soul singer
*February 26 - Chic Hetti (The Playmates)
*March 6 - Lorin Maazel, conductor
*March 13 - Jan Howard, country singer
*March 22 - Stephen Sondheim, composer and songwriter
*March 28 - Robert Ashley, composer
*March 29 - Donny Conn (The Playmates)
*April 16 - Herbie Mann, jazz musician (d. 2003)
*May 1 - Little Walter, blues musician (d. 1968)
*May 28 - Julian Slade, musical theatre writer (d. 2006)
*June 3 - Dakota Staton, jazz vocalist (d. 2007)
*June 9 - Monique Serf, singer ("Barbara") (d. 1997)
*July 16 - Guy Béart, singer and songwriter
*July 20 - Sally Ann Howes, English actress and singer
*August 1 - Lionel Bart, English composer and lyricist (d. 1999)
*September 7 - Sonny Rollins, jazz saxophonist
*September 23 - Ray Charles, soul musician (d. 2004)
*October 8 - Tōru Takemitsu, composer (d. 1996)
*October 24 - The Big Bopper, DJ and singer (d. 1957)
*October 30 - Clifford Brown, jazz trumpeter (d. 1956)
*December 31 - Odetta, singer, songwriter and civil rights activist

Deaths

*January 2 - Therese Malten, operatic soprano (b. 1855)
*January 16 - Art Hickman, US bandleader (born 1886)
*January 24 - Mario Sammarco, operatic baritone (b. 1868)
*January 28 - Emmy Destinn Czech opera singer (b. 1878)
*April 1 - Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
*April 3 - Emma Albani, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
*April 5 - Gene Greene, singer and composer ("The Ragtime King") (b. 1881)
*April 26 - Beth Slater Whitson, US lyric writer, 50
*May 1 - Emil Genetz, composer (b. 1852)
*June 22 - Mary Davies, singer (b. 1855)
*July 15 - Leopold Auer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1845)
*August 4 - Siegfried Wagner, composer and son of Richard Wagner (b. 1869)
*October 1 - Riccardo Drigo, composer and conductor (born 1846)
*October 14 - Henry Creamer, US songwriter (b. 1879)
*October 27 - Evan Stephens, Mormon composer and hymn-writer (b. 1854)
*November 13 - Thomas Bulch, musician and composer (b. 1862)
*December 17 - Peter Warlock, composer (b. 1894)
*December 22 - Charles K. Harris, US songwriter and publisher (b. 1867)
*December 23 - Marie Fillunger, singer (b. 1850)
*December 24 - Oskar Nedbal, violist, conductor and composer (b. 1874)
*December 29 - Oscar Borg, composer (b. 1851)
*"date unknown"
**Johnny Burke, singer and songwriter (b. 1851)
**Tivadar Nachéz, violinist and composer (b. 1859)