1952 in music

See also: 1951 in music, other events of 1952, 1953 in music, 1950s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 No. 1 hit singles 4 Top hits on record 5 Published popular music 6 Top R&B and Country hits on record 7 Classical music 8 Opera 9 Musical theater 10 Musical films 11 Births 12 Deaths

Events

• Pierre Schaeffer publishes his A la recherche d'une musique concrète (The Search for a Concrete Music), an explanation of his experimental approach to composing.
• Joni James begins her recording career at MGM
• Jo Stafford marries bandleader/arranger Paul Weston
• March 21 - First reported Rock and roll riot breaks out at Alan Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. Teenage excitement is blamed for the frenzy
• March 27 - Sun Records begins operations
• August 29 - David Tudor gives the premiere of John Cage's 4' 33" in Woodstock, New York
• September - Bill Haley and His Saddlemen change their image to become Bill Haley and His Comets
• October 7 - First edition of Bob Horn's Bandstand is broadcast as a local show from station WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is later renamed American Bandstand and syndicated
• November 14 - first UK singles chart published by NME.
• Hank Ballard's musical career begins
• Johnny Ace's musical career begins
• Ernesto Bonino moves from Italy to the USA.

Albums released

• As You Desire Me - Jo Stafford
• Christmas With Eddie Fisher - Eddie Fisher
• Eddie Fisher Sings - Eddie Fisher
• Favorite Spirituals - The Ames Brothers
• Home On The Range - The Ames Brothers
• Johnnie Ray - Johnnie Ray
• Mr. Rhythm Sings - Frankie Laine
• Song Favorites By Frankie Laine - Frankie Laine

No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of Billboard magazine's charts in 1952.

First week	Number of weeks	Title	Artist
March 15, 1952	9	"Wheel of Fortune"	Kay Starr
May 17, 1952	5	"Blue Tango"	Leroy Anderson
June 21, 1952	2	"Here in My Heart"	Al Martino
July 5, 1952	1	"Delicado"	Percy Faith & his Orchestra
July 12, 1952	9	"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"	Vera Lynn
September 13, 1952	5	"You Belong to Me"	Jo Stafford
October 18, 1952	5	"I Went To Your Wedding"	Patti Page
November 22, 1952	1	"It's In The Book"	Johnny Standley
November 29, 1952	4	"Why Don't You Believe Me"	Joni James
December 27, 1952	2	"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"	Jimmy Boyd

Top hits on record

• "All Of Me" - Johnnie Ray
• "Anytime" - Eddie Fisher
• "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" - Vera Lynn
• "Be My Life's Companion" - The Mills Brothers
• "Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" - Rosemary Clooney
• "Christmas Roses" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
• "Day Of Jubilo" - Guy Mitchell
• "Delicado" - Percy Faith & his Orchestra
• "The Glow-Worm" - The Mills Brothers
• "A Guy Is A Guy" - Doris Day
• "Half As Much" - Rosemary Clooney
• "Heart And Soul" - The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
• "Here In My Heart" - Al Martino
• "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" - Frankie Laine
• "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" - Karen Chandler
• "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - Jimmy Boyd
• "I Went To Your Wedding" - Patti Page
• "I'll Walk Alone" - Don Cornell
• "I'm Confessin'" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
• "I'm Just A Poor Bachelor" - Frankie Laine
• "I'm Yours" - Eddie Fisher
• "Kiss Of Fire" - Georgia Gibbs
• "A Kiss To Build A Dream On" - Louis Armstrong
• "Lady Of Spain" - Eddie Fisher
• "Lover" - Peggy Lee
• "Maybe" - Perry Como & Eddie Fisher
• "My Favorite Song" - Georgia Gibbs
• "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" - Guy Mitchell
• "Please, Mr. Sun" - Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
• "Ramblin' Man" - Frankie Laine
• "Rock Of Gibraltar" - Frankie Laine
• "Settin' The Woods On Fire" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
• "A Sinner Am I" - Johnnie Ray
• "Slow Poke" - Arthur Godfrey
• "So Madly In Love" - Georgia Gibbs
• "Somewhere Along The Way" - Nat King Cole
• "Sugarbush" - Doris Day & Frankie Laine
• "Tell Me Why" - Eddie Fisher
• "Temptation" - Mario Lanza
• "Tenderly" - Rosemary Clooney
• "Tiger Rag" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
• "Till I Waltz Again With You" - Teresa Brewer
• "Tonight You Belong To Me" - Frankie Laine
• "Unforgettable" - Nat King Cole
• "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" - Johnnie Ray
• "Wheel Of Fortune" - Kay Starr
• "When I Fall In Love" - Doris Day
• "When You're In Love" - Frankie Laine
• "Why Don't You Believe Me" - Joni James
• "Winter Wonderland" - Perry Como
• "Wish You Were Here" - Eddie Fisher
• "You Belong to Me" - Jo Stafford
• "You'll Never Be Mine" - Guy Mitchell

Published popular music

• "Blue Tango"   w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
• "Delicado"   w. Jack Lawrence m. Waldyr Azevedo
• "The Doggie In The Window"   w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Don't Laugh At Me ('Cause I'm A Fool)"   w.m. Norman Wisdom & June Tremayne
• "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes"   w.m. Barbara Trammel, Cactus Pryor & Slim Whitman
• "Faith Can Move Mountains"   w. Ben Raleigh m. Guy Wood
• "Feet Up"   w.m. Bob Merrill
• "A Fool Such As I"   w.m. Bill Trader
• "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now"   w.m. Milton Kellem
• "A Guy Is A Guy"   w.m. Oscar Brand
• "Hambone"   w.m. Leon Washington & Red Saunders
• "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean"   w.m. Charles Singleton & J. H. Wallace
• "Here In My Heart"   w.m. Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson & Bill Borrelli
• "High Noon"   w. Ned Washington m. Dimitri Tiomkin
• "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo"   w. Helen Deutsch m. Bronislau Kaper
• "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"   w.m. Harry Noble
• "Hound Dog"   w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"   w.m. Tommie Connor
• "I Went To Your Wedding"   w.m. Jessie Mae Robinson
• "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive"   w.m. Hank Williams & Fred Rose
• "I'm Hans Christian Anderson"   w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Inchworm"   w.m. Frank Loesser
• "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"   w.m. J. D. Miller
• "It's In The Book"   w.m. Johnny Standley & Art Thorsen
• "Jambalaya"   w.m. Hank Williams
• "Kaw-Liga"   w.m. Hank Williams & Fred Rose
• "Keep It A Secret"   w.m. Jessie Mae Robinson
• "The King's New Clothes"   w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Lawdy Miss Clawdy"   w.m. Lloyd Price
• "Lean Baby"   w. Roy Alfred m. Billy May
• "Lullaby Of Birdland"   w. B. Y. Forster m. George Shearing
• "Luna Rossa"   w. (Eng) Kermit Goell (Ital) V. de Crescenzo m. A. Vian
• "Mister Taptoe"   w.m. Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr & Frank Miller
• "Never Smile At A Crocodile"   F. Churchill, J. Lawrence
• "Oh, Happy Day"   w.m. Donald Howard Koplow & Nancy Binns Reed
• "The Ol' Spring Fever" w. Leo Robin m. Harry Warren from the film Just For You
• "One Mint Julep"   w.m. Rudolph Toombs
• "Petite Fleur"   m. Sidney Bechet
• "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"   w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Pretend"   w.m. Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman & Frank Levere
• "Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susie"   Kay Twomey, Fred Wise & Ben Weisman
• "Raminay (The New Orleans Chimney Sweep)" w.m. J. Lawrence, Sammy Fain
• "She Wears Red Feathers"   w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Somewhere Along The Way"   w. Sammy Gallop m. Kurt Adams
• "Sugar Bush"   w.m. Josef Marais
• "Take These Chains From My Heart"   w.m. Fred Rose & Hy Heath
• "Takes Two To Tango"   w.m. Al Hoffman & Dick Manning
• "That's All"   w. Alan Brandt m. Bob Haymes
• "That's Entertainment!"   w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
• "Till I Waltz Again With You   w.m. Sidney Prosen
• "The Ugly Duckling"   w.m. Frank Loesser
• "Walkin' To Missouri"   w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Wheel Of Fortune"   w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
• "When I Fall In Love"   w. Edward Heyman m. Victor Young
• "Why Don't You Believe Me?"   w.m. Lew Douglas, King Laney & Roy Rodde
• "Wish You Were Here"   w.m. Harold Rome
• "You Belong to Me"   w.m. Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart & Chilton Price
• "Your Cheatin' Heart"   w.m. Hank Williams
• "Zing A Little Zong"   w. Leo Robin m. Harry Warren

Top R&B and Country hits on record

• "Hound Dog" - Big Mama Thornton
• "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)" - Hank Williams
• "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" - Lloyd Price
• "Midnight Special" - Weavers
• "Night Train" - Jimmy Forrest
• "Wimoweh" - Weavers

Classical music

• Alberto Ginastera - Sonata for Piano No. 1
• Carlos Guastavino - Suite Argentina
• Wilhelm Peterson-Berger - Canzone for Violin and Piano
• Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No.5 in B flat major, Op.92

Opera

• Leonard Bernstein - Trouble in Tahiti

Musical theater

• Curtain Going Up Broadway production
• Globe Revue London production
• Love From Judy London production
• New Faces of 1952 Broadway production
• Pal Joey (Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) - Broadway revival
• Two's Company Broadway production
• Wish You Were Here Broadway production

Musical films

• April In Paris
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Just For You
• The Las Vegas Story
• Lovely To Look At
• Meet Danny Wilson
• The Merry Widow
• Road To Bali
• Skirts Ahoy
• The Stooge
• Where's Charley?
• With A Song In My Heart

Births

• January 15 - Melvyn Gale, Electric Light Orchestra
• January 20 - Paul Stanley, Kiss
• January 20 - Ian Hill, Judas Priest
• January 22 - Teddy Gentry, Alabama
• January 23 - Robin Zander, Cheap Trick
• January 29 - Tommy Ramone, The Ramones
• January 30 - Steve Bartek, Oingo Boingo
• February 4 - Jerry Shirley, Humble Pie
• February 13 - Edward John Gagliardi, Foreigner
• February 17 - James Ingram
• February 18 - Juice Newton
• February 23 - Brad Whitford, Aerosmith
• March 19 - Derek Longmuir, Bay City Rollers
• April 2 - Leon Wilkerson, Lynyrd Skynyrd
• April 4 - Dave Hill, Slade
• April 4 - Gary Moore, Skid Row, Thin Lizzy
• May 11 - Renaud Séchan, composer
• May 13 - Mary Cleere Haran, US singer
• May 14 - David Byrne, Talking Heads
• May 19 - Barbara Joyce Lomas, B.T. Express
• May 19 - Joey Ramone, The Ramones
• June 12 - Junior Brown
• June 14 - Jim Lea, Slade
• June 16 - Gino Vannelli
• June 25 - Tim Finn, Split Enz, Crowded House
• July 1 - Dan Aykroyd, The Blues Brothers
• July 2 - Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis & The News
• July 16 - Stewart Copeland, The Police
• July 17 - Phoebe Snow
• July 17 - Nicolette Larson
• August 6 - Pat McDonald, Timbuk 3
• August 20 - John Hiatt
• August 26 - Billy Rush, Asbury Jukes
• August 27 - Laurie Wisefield, guitarist for Wishbone Ash
• September 4 - Martin Chambers, The Pretenders
• September 9 - Dave Stewart, Eurythmics
• September 12 - Neil Peart, Rush
• September 12 - Gerry Beckley, America
• September 13 - Randy Jones, The Village People
• September 18 - Dee Dee Ramone, The Ramones
• September 19 - Nile Rogers, The Honeydrippers
• September 30 - John Lombardo, 10,000 Maniacs
• October 17 - Jim Strecker, Good Ol'e Boys
• October 18 - Keith Knudsen, The Doobie Brothers, Southern Pacific
• November 2 - Maxine Nightingale
• November 11 - Paul Cowsill, The Cowsills
• December 2 - Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers
• December 27 - David Knopfler, Dire Straits
• Burleigh Drummond - Ambrosia, The Lost Dogs

Deaths

• March 22 - Uncle Dave Macon, musician
• September 6 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, dancer
• October 26 - Hattie McDaniel
• December 28 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musiciansv:Musikåret 1952