1950 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hit records 4 Published popular songs 5 Musical theater 6 Musical films 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

• Sam Cooke joins The Soul Stirrers
• Albert King's musical career begins
• On January 3, Sam Phillips opened the doors at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee of what was to become the most famous music recording studio in the world, Sun Records

Albums released

• The Fat Man - Fats Domino

Top hit records

• "Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole
• "Goodnight, Irene" by The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
• "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley
• "I Can Dream, Can't I?" by The Andrews Sisters
• "The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas, also Guy Lombardo
• "The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page
• "The Thing" by Phil Harris
• "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" by Eileen Barton
• "All My Love" by Patti Page
• "Harbor Lights" by Sammy Kaye
• "Here Comes Santa Claus" - Andrews Sisters

Published popular songs

• "Adelaide's Lament"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "American Beauty Rose"     w.m. Hal David, Redd Evans & Arthur Altman
• "Be My Love"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Nicholas Brodszky
• "The Best Thing For You"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Blind Date"     w.m. Sid Robin
• "A Bushel And A Peck"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Candy And Cake"     w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"     w.m. Harry Stone & Jack Stapp
• "Choo'n Gum"     w. Mann Curtis m. Vic Mizzy
• "Cold, Cold Heart"     w.m. Hank Williams
• "The Cry Of The Wild Goose"     w.m. Terry Gilkyson
• "Dearie"     w.m. Bob Hilliard & David Mann
• "Freight Train"     w. Paul James & Fred Williams m. trad arr. Elizabeth Cotton
• "The French Can-Can Polka"     w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Jacques Offenbach
• "From This Moment On"     w.m. Cole Porter
• "Frosty The Snowman"     w.m. Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins
• "Fugue For Tinhorns"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Get Out Those Old Records"     w.m. Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb
• "Gone Fishin"'     w.m. Nick Kenny & Charles Kenny
• "Guys And Dolls"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Home Cookin"'     w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
• "Hoop-Dee-Doo"     w. Frank Loesser m. Milton De Lugg
• "The Hostess With The Mostes' On The Ball"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell"     w.m. Edward Pola & George Wyle
• "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine"     w.m. Mack David
• "I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat"     w.m. Alan Livingston, Billy May & Warren Foster
• "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake"     w.m. Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill & Clem Watts
• "If I Were A Bell"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "I'll Know"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "I'll Never Be Free"     w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
• "I'm Movin' On"     w.m. Hank Snow
• "It Is No Secret"     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
• "It's A Lovely Day Today"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I've Never Been In Love Before"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Ivory Rag"     Lou Busch, Jack Elliott
• "Little White Duck"     w.m. Walt Barrows & Bernard Zaritsky
• "The Loveliest Night Of The Year"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Juventino P. Rosa
• "Luck Be A Lady"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Lucky Lucky Lucky Me"     Berle, Arnold
• "Marry The Man Today"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Marrying For Love"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "More I Cannot Wish You"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Music! Music! Music!"     w.m. Stephen Weiss & Bernie Baum
• "My Heart Cries For You"     w.m. Carl Sigman & Percy Faith
• "My Time Of Day"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "No Other Love"     adapt from Chopin's Etude No 3 in E, Opus 10. w.m. Bob Russell & Paul Weston
• "The Old Piano Roll Blues"     w.m. Cy Coben
• "The Oldest Established"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Orange Coloured Sky"     w.m. Milton De Lugg & William Stein
• "Patricia"     w.m. Benny Davis
• "Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)"     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
• "The Roving Kind"     adapt. w.m. Jessie Cavanaugh & Arnold Stanton
• "Sam's Song"     w. Jack Elliott m. Lew Quadling
• "Shot Gun Boogie"     w.m. Tennessee Ernie Ford
• "Silver Bells"     w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
• "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Sixty Minute Man"     w.m. Billy Ward & Rose Marks
• "Sleigh Ride"     w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
• "Sue Me"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "The Syncopated Clock"     w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
• "Take Back Your Mink"     w.m. Frank Loesser
• "The Thing"     w.m. Charles R. Grean
• "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena"     adapt. trad Yiddish w. (Eng) Mitchell Parish m. Issachar Miron (Michrovsky) & Julius Grossman
• "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry"     w.m. Bob Merrill & Terry Shand
• "You're Just In Love"     w.m. Irving Berlin

Musical theater

• Ace Of Clubs London production
• Alive And Kicking
• Arms And The Girl
• Bless You All
• Blue For A Boy London production
• Call Me Madam Broadway production
• Carousel London production
• Guys And Dolls Broadway production
• Out Of This World
• Peter Pan

Musical films

• An American in Paris
• Cinderella
• Fancy Pants
• I'll Get By
• The Merry Widow
• Mr Music
• No, No, Nanette
• Pagan Love Song
• Three Little Words
• The Toast Of New Orleans
• Two Weeks With Love

Births

• January 1 - Morgan Fisher, Mott the Hoople
• January 1 - Steve Ripley, The Tractors
• January 5 - Chris Stein, Blondie
• January 9 - David Johanson, Buster Poindexter & His Banshees of Blue
• January 21 - Billy Ocean
• January 23 - Pat Simmons, The Doobie Brothers
• January 23 - Danny Federici, E Street Band
• February 2 - Ross Valory, Santana
• February 6 - Natalie Cole
• February 8 - Danny Seals
• February 11 - Rochelle Fleming, soul music vocalist
• February 12 - Steve Hackett, Genesis
• February 13 - Peter Gabriel
• February 19 - Andy Powell, Wishbone Ash
• February 20 - Walter Becker, Steely Dan
• February 23 - Steven Priest, Sweet
• February 26 - Jonathan Cain, Journey
• March 2 - Karen Carpenter, The Carpenters
• March 4 - Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top
• March 13 - Danny Kirwan, Fleetwood Mac
• March 21 - Roger Hodgson, Supertramp
• March 26 - Teddy Pendergrass
• March 27 - Tony Banks, Genesis
• April 5 - Agnetha Faltskog-Ulvaeus, ABBA
• April 12 - David Cassidy
• April 15 - Tonio K, singer
• April 22 - Peter Frampton
• April 25 - Steve Ferrone, Average White Band
• May 2 - Lou Gramm, Foreigner
• May 3 - Mary Hopkin
• May 9 - Tom Petersson, Cheap Trick
• May 12 - Jocko Marcellino, Sha Na Na
• May 12 - Billy Squier
• May 13 - Stevie Wonder
• May 17 - Bill Bruford, Yes, King Crimson
• May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh
• May 22 - Bernie Taupin
• May 29 - Rebbie Jackson
• May 24 - Terry Scott Taylor, record producer, The Lost Dogs, Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies
• June 1 - Graham Russell, Air Supply
• June 2 - Antone Tavares
• June 3 - Suzie Quatro
• June 5 - Laurie Anderson
• June 5 - Ronnie Dyson
• June 8 - Alex Van Halen, Van Halen
• June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade
• June 19 - Ann Wilson, Heart
• June 21 - Joey Kramer, Aerosmith
• July 12 - Eric Carr, Kiss
• July 18 - Glenn Hughes, The Village People
• July 23 - Blair Thornton, Bachman Turner Overdrive
• August 1 - Jim Carroll
• August 8 - Andy Fairweather-Low, Amen Corner
• August 11 - Eric Braunn, Iron Butterfly
• August 12 - Kid Creole
• August 15 - Tom Aldrich, Black Oak Arkansas
• August 18 - Dennis Elliott, Foreigner
• August 25 - Willy DeVille
• September 4 - Ronald LaPread, The Commodores
• September 10 - Joe Perry, Aerosmith
• September 14 - Paul Kosoff, Free
• September 17 - Fee Waybill, Tubes
• October 2 - Michael Rutherford, Genesis
• October 8 - Robert Kool Bell, Kool and The Gang
• October 11 - Andrew Woolfolk, Earth Wind and Fire
• October 15 - Chris De Burgh
• November 1 - Dan Peek, America
• November 11 - Jim Peterik, Ides Of March, Survivor
• November 18 - Graham Parker
• November 21 - Livingston Taylor
• November 22 - Tina Weymouth, The Talking Heads
• November 22 - Steven Van Zandt (aka "Little Steven", "Miami Steve"), E Street Band
• December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux, drummer and actor ("Little Ricky" on I Love Lucy)
• December 9 - Joan Armatrading
• December 28 - Alex Chilton, The Box Tops, Big Star

Deaths

• July 11 - Buddy De Sylva, songwriter