1944 in music

Contents

1 Events

2 Top hit records

3 Published popular music

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 Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von 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 - 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.
December 1 - Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is premiered in Boston, Massachusetts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
Flo Sandon's's musical career begins

Top hit records

"Besame Mucho" by Jimmy Dorsey
"Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
"A Hot Time In the Town of Berlin" by Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
"I Love You" by Bing Crosby
"I'll Get By" by Harry James
"Mairzy Doats" by Merry Macs
"San Fernando Valley" by Bing Crosby
"Shoo-Shoo Baby" by The Andrews Sisters
"Swinging On a Star" by Bing Crosby
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" by The Mills Brothers

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 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
"Leave The Dishes In The Sink, Ma" w.m. Milton Berle, Gene Doyle & Spike Jones
"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
"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. Augustin 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

Classical music

George Antheil - Symphony No 4
Leonard Bernstein - Fancy Free (ballet)
Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (ballet)
David Diamond - Rounds
John Fernström - Symphony No. 10
Gerald Finzi - Farewell to Arms
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
Dmitri Shostakovich - Trio for violin, cello and piano No. 2 E minor, Op. 67
Dmitri Shostakovich - 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)