1945 in music

Contents

1 Events

2 Albums released

3 Top hit records

4 Published popular music

Events

Remo Giazotto reconstructs Tomaso Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor from a fragment of a trio sonata he discovers among the ruins of the Dresden State Library.
1 September - Trio Lescano's last concert on the Italian radio
Reynaldo Hahn is appointed director of the Paris Opéra.
Frank Sinatra leaves Your Hit Parade to appear on Max Factor Presents Frank Sinatra and, starting that September, Old Gold Presents Songs By Sinatra
Sarah Vaughan's musical career begins
Ruth Brown's musical career begins
Jimmy Reed's musical career begins

Albums released

King Cole trio - Nat King Cole
Glenn Miller - Glenn Miller
Going My Way - Bing Crosby
Merry Christmas - Bing Crosby

Top hit records

"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" by Johnny Mercer
"Chickery Chick" by Sammy Kaye
"Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief" by Betty Hutton
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" by Bing Crosby
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" by Harry James, also Bing Crosby
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" by Les Brown
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" by Johnny Mercer
"Rum and Coca Cola" by The Andrews Sisters
"Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown with Doris Day
"There! I've Said It Again" by Vaughn Monroe
"Till the End of Time" by Perry Como

Published popular music

"All Of My Life" w.m. Irving Berlin
"All Through The Day" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"Along The Navajo Trail" w.m. Dick Charles, Eddie De Lange & Larry Markes
"Apple Honey" m. Woody Herman
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"Atlanta G.A." w. Sunny Skylar m. Arthur Shaftel
"Autumn Serenade" w. Sammy Gallop m. Peter De Rose
"Be-Baba-Leba" w.m. Helen Humes
"The Blond Sailor" w. (Eng) Mitchell Parish, Bell Leib m. Jacob Pfeil
"Boogie Blues" w.m. Gene Krupa & Ray Biondi
"Caldonia" w.m. Fleecie Moore
"The Carousel Waltz" w. Richard Rodgers
"Cement Mixer" w.m. Slim Gaillard & Lee Ricks
"Chickery Chick" w. Sylvia Dee m. Sidney Lippman
"Close As Pages In A Book" w. Dorothy Fields m. Sigmund Romberg. Introduced by Maureen Cannon and Wilbur Evans in the musical Up In Central Park
"Cruising Down The River" w.m. Eily Beadell & Nell Tollerton
"Day By Day" w. Sammy Cahn m. Paul Weston & Axel Stordahl
"Detour" w.m. Paul Westmoreland
"Dig You Later" w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh
"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" w. Paul Francis Webster m. Hoagy Carmichael
"Don't Be A Baby, Baby" w. Buddy Kaye m. Howard Steiner
"The End Of The News" w.m. Noël Coward
"For Sentimental Reasons" w. Deek Watson m. William Best
"The Frim Fram Sauce" w.m. Joe Ricardel & Redd Evans
"Full Moon And Empty Arms" w.m. Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman
"Give Me The Moon Over Brooklyn" w.m. Jason Matthews & Terry Shand
"Give Me The Simple Life" w. Harry Ruby m. Rube Bloom
"Good Good Good (That's You, That's You)" Roberts, Fisher
"Gotta Be This Or That" w.m. Sunny Skylar
"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"The Gypsy" w.m. Billy Reid
"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" w.m. Scott Wiseman
"Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" w.m. Lionel Hampton & Curley Hamner
"Homesick - That's All" w.m. Gordon Jenkins
"The Honeydripper" w.m. Joe Liggins
"I Can't Begin To Tell You" w. Mack Gordon m. James V. Monaco
"I Don't Know Enough About You" w.m. Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour
"I Have But One Heart" Marty Symes, J. Farrow
"I Wonder" Gant, Leveen
"I Wonder What Happened To Him" w.m. Noël Coward
"If I Loved You" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"I'll Buy That Dream" w. Herb Magison m. Allie Wrubel
"I'm A Big Girl Now" w.m. Al Hoffmann, Milton Drake & Jerry Livingstone
"I'm Gonna Love That Guy" w.m. Frances Ash
"In Love In Vain" w. Leo Robin m. Jerome Kern
"In The Middle Of May" w. Al Stillman m. Fred Ahlert,
"It Might As Well Be Spring" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"It's A Grand Night For Singing" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"It's Been A Long, Long Time" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"Johnny Fedora (And Alice Blue Bonnet)" w. Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert
"June Is Bustin' Out All Over" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Just A Blue Serge Suit" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Laura" w. Johnny Mercer m. David Raksin
"Lavender Blue" w. Larry Morey m. Eliot Daniel
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"Love Letters" w. Edward Heyman m. Victor Young
"Love On A Greyhound Bus" w. Ralph Blane & Kay Thompson m. George Stoll
"Matelot" w.m. Noël Coward
"Mister Snow" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Money Is The Root Of All Evil" w.m. Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer
"The More I See You" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren
"Nina" w.m. Noël Coward
"Oh! What It Seemed To Be" w.m. Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss & Frankie Carle
"Personality" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"Rodger Young" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Shoofly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy" w, Sammy Gallop m. Guy Wood
"Sigh No More" w.m. Noël Coward
"Sioux City Sue" w. Ray Freedman m. Dick Thomas
"Soliloquy" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Some Sunday Morning" w. Ted Koehler m. M. K. Jerome & Ray Heindorf
"A Stranger In Town" w.m. Mel Tormé
"Symphony" w.(Eng) Jack Lawrence m. Alex Alstone
"Tampico" w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher
"(Did You Ever Get) That Feeling In The Moonlight?" w.m. James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock & Ira Schuster
"That Little Dream Got Nowhere" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
"That's For Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"This Was A Real Nice Clambake" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Till The End Of Time" w.m. Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman
"Two Silhouettes" w. Ray Gilbert m. Charles Wolcott
"Waitin' For The Train To Come In" w.m. Sunny Skylar & Martin Block
"We'll Be Together Again" w. Frankie Laine m. Carl Fischer
"We'll Gather Lilacs" w.m. Ivor Novello
"What's The Use Of Wond'rin'?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"When The Children Are Asleep" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"The Wild, Wild West" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harry Warren from the film The Harvey Girls
"You'll Never Walk Alone" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"You're A Queer One, Julie Jordan" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers