See also:
1895 in music,
other events of 1896,
1897 in music
and the list of 'years in music'.
Events
Published popular music
- "All Coons Look Alike To Me" w.m. Ernest Hogan
- "The Amorous Goldfish" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
- "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
- "El Capitan March" m. John Philip Sousa
- "Eli Green's Cakewalk" w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky
- "Elsie From Chelsea" w.m. Harry Dacre
- "Going For A Pardon" w. James Thornton & Clara Havenschild m. James Thornton
- "Happy Days In Dixie" m. Kerry Mills
- "Hot Tamale Alley" by George M. Cohan
- "A Hot Time In The Old Town" w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz
- "I Love You In The Same Old Way - Darling Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John W. Bratton
- "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" w.m. Gussie L. Davis
- "A Jovial Monk Am I" w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran
- "Kentucky Babe" w. Richard Henry Buck m. Adam Geibel
- "Laugh And The World Laughs With You" w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk
- "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" w. Clyde Fitch m. arr. William Furst
- "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" w.m. Ben Harney
- "Mother Was A Lady" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "Musetta's Waltz Song" m. Giacomo Puccini
- "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders
- "Remus Takes the Cake" by J. H. Ellis
- "The Saint Louis Cyclone" by Ren Shields & George Evans
- "Sambo at the Cakewalk" by Alfred E. Marks
- "Stars & Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
- "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" w.m. Maude Nugent
- "To A Wild Rose" m. Edward MacDowell
- "Warmest Baby in the Bunch" by George M. Cohan
- "When The Saints Go Marching In" w. Katherine E. Purvis m. James M. Black
Recorded popular music
- "All Coons Look Alike To Me" (w.m. Ernest Hogan)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
- "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison
- "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" (w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon)
- Maud Foster on Berliner Records
- "Annie Laurie" (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
- "Auld Lang Syne" (w. adapted Robert Burns)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
- "The Band Played On" (w. John Palmer m. Charles B. Ward)
- Dan W. Quinn on Columbia records and Berliner
- "The Belle Of Avenoo A" (w.m. Safford Waters)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "Ben Bolt" (w. Thomas Dunn English m. Nelson Kneass)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "The Blue Danube" (m. Johann Strauss)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
- "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison
- "La Donna È Mobile" (w. Francesco Piave m. Giuseppe Verdi)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "Don't You Hear Dem Bells?" (w.m. D. S. McCosh)
- Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
- "Down In Poverty Row" (w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- "Elsie From Chelsea" (w.m. Harry Dacre)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison
- "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "The Gladiators" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
- "Hallelujah Chorus" (w. Charles Jennes m. George Frederic Handel)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
- "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- "The Honeymoon" (m. George Rosey)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
- "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" (w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- Maud Foster on Berliner
- "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" (w.m. Gussie L. Davis)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
- Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
- "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "Kathleen" (w.m. Helene Mora)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "King Cotton March" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
- "Listen To The Mocking Bird" (w. Alice Hawthorne m. Richard Milburn)
- whistling Billy Golden on Edison
- "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide A. Proctor m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
- "Marching Through Georgia" (w.m. Henry Clay Work)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "La Marseillaise" (w.m. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "My Angeline" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
- Frank Daniels on Berliner
- "My Best Girl's A New Yorker" (w.m. John Stromberg)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" (w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" (w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "Nearer, My God, To Thee" (w. Sarah F. Adams m. Lowell Mason)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- Len Spencer & Roger Harding on Columbia
- "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- "The Palms" (Gabriel Fauré)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "La Paloma" (w. anon m. Sebastian Yradier)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "Put Me Off At Buffalo" (w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "Rock Of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- "'Round His Bed I'm Goin' To Creep" ()
- Len Spencer on Columbia
- "Sally In Our Alley" (w. Henry Carey m. trad)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" (w.m. William B. Gray)
- Steve Porter on Columbia
- "She May Have Seen Better Days" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "The Sidewalks Of New York" (w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison and on Berliner
- "The Streets Of Cairo" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" (w. Walter H. Ford m. John W. Bratton)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "Tenting On The Old Camp Ground" (w.m. Walter Kittredge)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
- "There's Only One Girl In the World For Me" (w.m. Dave Marion)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- "They Are The Best Friends Of All"
- Helene Mora on US Phonograph Records
- "Toreador Song" (w. Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "Trilby Song"
- Maurice Farkoa with piano Frank Lambert on Berliner
- "Watchman Tell Us Of The Night" (Bowring, Mason)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- "'Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield"
- Columbia Quartette on Columbia
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- "Where Is My Wandering Boy, Tonight?" (w.m. Rev. R. Lowry)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- "Wot Cher!" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
Classical music
Births
- January 28 - Elsie Carlisle, English singer
- February 3 - Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter
- February 22 - Nacio Herb Brown, US songwriter
- April 10 - Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer
- April 30 - Reverend Gary Davis
- August 15 - Léon Theremin, Russian inventor
- September 10 - Adele Astaire, US dancer and singer
- September 15 - Bert Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist
- October 7 - Phil Ohman, US bandleader
- October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer
- October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
- November 23 - Ruth Etting, US singer
- November 25 - Virgil Thomson, composer and critic
- December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist
- December 28 - Roger Sessions, composer
Deaths