1933 in music
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See also: 1932 in music, other events of 1933, 1934 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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Events
- January 23 - Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 is premiered in Frankfurt
- National Association for American Composers and Conductors is founded by Henry Hadley.
- Billie Holiday's musical career begins
- Perry Como begins singing with the Freddie Carlone orchestra
- Gorni Kramer forms his first jazz band
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Published popular music
- "After All, You're All I'm After" words: Edward Heyman music: Arthur Schwartz
- "Ah, But Is It Love?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. Introduced by Lillian Miles and Roger Pryor in the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More" w. Joe Young & Johnny Burke m. Harold Spina
- "Are You Makin' Any Money?" w.m. Herman Hupfeld. Introduced by Lillian Miles in the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "Beautiful Girl" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" w.(English language) Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin (Yiddish) Jacob Jacobs m. Sholem Secunda
- "Black Moonlight" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
- "Blue Jazz" m. Gene Gifford
- "Blue Lou" w.m. Edgar Sampson & Irving Mills
- "Blue Prelude" w.m. Joe Bishop & Gordon Jenkins
- "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Build A Little Home" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "By A Waterfall" w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain
- "Carioca" w. Gus Kahn & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans
- "Coffee In The Morning, Kisses In The Night" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "The Day You Came Along" w.m. Arthur Johnston & Sam Coslow
- "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
- "Dinner at Eight" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
- "Doin' The Uptown Lowdown" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
- "Don't Blame Me" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
- "Down The Old Ox Road" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
- "Dusty Shoes" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "Easter Parade" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Everything I Have Is Yours" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane
- "Experiment" w.m. Cole Porter
- "Flying Down To Rio" w. Edward Eliscu & Gus Kahn m. Vincent Youmans
- "Forty-Second Street" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Gimme A Pigfoot" w.m. Wesley Wilson
- "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Love" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Claudette Colbert in the film Torch Singer
- "Gotta Get Up And Go To Work" w.m. Herman Hupfeld. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "A Guy What Takes His Time" w.m. Ralph Rainger
- "Happy As The Day Is Long" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
- "Harlem On My Mind" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Heat Wave" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Hey, Young Fella" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
- "How Could We Be Wrong?" w.m. Cole Porter
- "How's Chances?" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "A Hundred Years From Today" w. Ned Washington & Joe Young m. Victor Young
- "Hustlin' And Bustlin' For Baby" w.m. Harry Woods
- "I Cover The Waterfront" w. Edward Heyman m. John Green
- "I Found A New Way To Go To Town" Dubois, Ellison, Harvey
- "I Just Couldn't Take It Baby" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
- "I Like Mountain Music" w. James Cavanaugh m. Frank Weldon
- "I Took My Harp To A Party" w. Desmond Carter m. Noel Gay
- "I Wanna Be Loved" w. Edward Heyman & Billy Rose m. John Green
- "I'm No Angel" w.m. Gladys Du Bois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks
- "I'm Satisfied" w. Mitchell Parish m. Duke Ellington
- "Inka Dinka Doo" w.m. Jimmy Durante & Ben Ryan
- "Isn't It A Pity?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
- "Isn't It Heavenly" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Joseph Meyer
- "It Isn't Fair" w.m. Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer & Sylvester Sprigato
- "It's Only A Paper Moon" w. E. Y. Harburg & Billy Rose m. Harold Arlen
- "It's The Talk Of The Town" w. Marty Symes & Al J. Nieburg m. Jerry Livingston
- "I've Found The Right Girl" w.m. Stanley Lupino & Noel Gay
- "I've Got To Sing A Torch Song" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Keep Young And Beautiful" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "The Last Round-Up" w.m. Billy Hill
- "Lazybones" w.m. Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael
- "Learn To Croon" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
- "Let's Fall In Love" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
- "Let's Make Love Like the Crocodiles" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "Love Locked Out" w. Max Kester m. Ray Noble
- "Love Me" w. Ned Washington m. Victor Young
- "Maria Elena" w. (Eng) S. K. Russell m. Lorenzo Barclelata
- "The Moment I Saw You" w.m. Noel Gay
- "Moonlight And Pretzels" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "Moonstruck" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
- "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt
- "My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii" w.m. Billy Cogswell, Tom Harrison & Johnny Noble
- "My Moonlight Madonna" w. Paul Francis Webster m. William Scotti
- "My Shawl" w. (Eng) Stanley Adams (Sp) Pedro Berrios m. Xavier Cugat
- "My Song Goes 'Round The World" w.m. Hans May, Ernst Neubach & Jimmy Kennedy
- "Not For All The Rice In China" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Nymph Errant" w.m. Cole Porter
- "Oceans Of Time" w. Douglas Furber, Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Johnny Green
- "Old Father Thames" w.m. Raymond Wallace & Betsy O'Hogan
- "Old Man Harlem" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Hoagy Carmichael
- "On the Trail" w. Harold Adamson m. Ferdie Grofe
- "One Morning In May" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael
- "Oodles Of Noodles" m. Jimmy Dorsey
- "Pettin' In The Park" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "The Physician" w.m. Cole Porter
- "The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Birt
- "Remember My Forgotten Man" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Roll Up The Carpet" w. Raymond Klages m. Raymond Kluges, Al Goodhart & Al Hoffman
- "Shadow Waltz" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Shanghai Lil" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "She Loves Me Not" w. Edward Heyman m. Arthur Schwartz from the musical She Loves Me Not
- "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
- "Snowball" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
- "Solomon" w.m. Cole Porter from the musical Nymph Errant
- "Song Of Surrender" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Sophisticated Lady" w. Mitchell Parish & Irving Mills m. Duke Ellington
- "Stormy Weather" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
- "Temptation" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "Thanks" w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston
- "There's A Cabin In The Pines" w.m. Billy Hill
- "There's a Little Bit of You in Every Love Song" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Sammy Fain. From the film Moonlight And Pretzels
- "There's Something About A Soldier" w.m. Noel Gay
- "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk" w.m. Gladys DuBois, Ben Ellison & Harvey O. Brooks
- "Tony's Wife" w. Harold Adamson m. Burton Lane
- "The Touch Of Your Hand" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
- "We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow" Harry Woods
- "We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "We're In The Money" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "When It's Lamp Lightin' Time In The Valley" w.m. Joe Lyons, Sam C. Hart & The Vagabonds
- "White Jazz" m. Gene Clifford
- "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?" w.m. Frank Churchill
- "Yesterdays" w. Otto Harbach m. Jerome Kern
- "You Gotta Be A Football Hero" w.m. Al Lewis, Al Sherman & Buddy Fields
- "You Ought To See Sally On Sunday" w.m. Harry Woods
- "Young And Healthy" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
- "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" w. Mann Holiner m. Alberta Nichols
- "You've Got Me Crying Again" w. Charles Newman m. Isham Jones
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Top hit records
- "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
- "Just An Echo In the Valley" by Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
- "Lazy Bones" by Ted Lewis Band; also version by Don Redman's Band
- "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" by Ben Bernie
- "Night and Day" by Eddy Duchin
- "Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
- "Stormy Weather" by Ethel Waters
- "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" by Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians
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Classical music
- Kurt Atterberg - A Varmland Rhapsody
- Paul Creston - Seven Theses for piano
- Robert M. Helmschrott - Concerto for Organ and Percussion "Lamento"
- Gustav Holst - Lyric Movement
- Igor Markevitch - Psaume for soprano, female chorus and orchestra
- Xavier Montsalvatge - Tres Impromptus
- Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf
- Dmitri Shostakovitch - Piano Concerto No. 1
- Igor Stravinsky - Perséphone
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Opera
- Aaron Avshalomov - The Twilight Hour of Yan Kuei Fei
- Richard Strauss - Arabella
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Musical theater
- As Thousands Cheer (Music and Lyrics: Irving Berlin Book: Moss Hart). Broadway revue opened at the Music Box Theatre on September 30 and ran for 400 performances
- Ball At The Savoy (Music: Paul Abraham Lyrics and Book: Oscar Hammerstein II). London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on September 8 and ran for 96 performances.
- Gay Divorce (Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter Book: Dwight Taylor). London production opened at the Palace Theatre on November 2 and ran for 180 performances
- Nymph Errant (Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter Book: Romney Brent). London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 6 and ran for 154 performances
- Roberta (Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics and Book: Otto Harbach). Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 18 and ran for 295 performances
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Musical films
- 42nd Street
- Bitter Sweet
- Cavalcade
- Dancing Lady
- Footlight Parade
- Going Hollywood released December 22 starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby
- Gold Diggers Of 1933
- Moonlight And Pretzels released August 1 starring Leo Carrillo and Mary Brian
- Take A Chance
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Births
- January 17 - Dalida
- January 18 - Ray Dolby, inventor of the Dolby System
- January 23 - Chita Rivera, Broadway star
- January 29 - Sacha Distel, singer
- February 17 - Bobby Lewis
- February 18 - Yoko Ono (Lennon)
- February 21 - Nina Simone
- February 22 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music
- March 9 - Lloyd Price
- March 13 - Mike Stoller, songwriter
- March 14 - Quincy Jones
- March 15 - Roy Clark
- March 28 - Tete Montoliu, jazz pianist
- April 8 - Fred Ebb, lyricist
- April 12 - Montserrat Caballé, operatic soprano
- April 14 - Buddy Knox
- April 24 - Freddie Scott
- April 25 - Jerry Leiber
- April 29 - Rod McKuen, songwriter
- April 30 - Willie Nelson
- May 3 - James Brown
- May 21 - Maurice André, trumpeter
- May 22 - Don Estelle, actor and singer
- June 26 - Claudio Abbado, conductor
- July 10 - Jerry Herman, US composer
- July 10 - Eileen Rodgers, US singer
- July 23 - Bert Convy, entertainer
- July 27 - Nick Reynolds, The Kingston Trio
- July 29 - Anne Rogers, English actress, singer and dancer
- August 8 - Joe Tex
- August 15 - Bill Pinckney, The Drifters
- August 15 - Bobby Helms
- August 17 - Mark Dinning
- August 21 - Dame Janet Baker
- September 1 - Conway Twitty
- September 8 - Asha Bhosle, singer
- September 14 - Harve Presnell, actor and singer
- September 15 - Pat Barrett, The Crewcuts
- September 17 - Dorothy Loudon, US singer
- September 18 - Jimmie Rodgers, US pop singer
- September 25 - Ian Tyson, Ian & Sylvia
- October 10 - Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre
- October 17 - The Singing Nun
- October 21 - Georgia Brown, English actress and singer
- October 27 - Floyd Cramer
- November 3 - John Barry, film score composer
- November 6 - Joseph Pope, The Tams
- November 16 - Garnett Mimms
- November 23 - Krzysztof Penderecki, composer
- November 26 - Robert Goulet
- November 29 - John Mayall
- December 6 - Henryk Górecki, composer
- December 13 - Wayne Bennett, blues guitarist
- December 15 - Jesse Belvin
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Deaths
- March 26 - Eddie Lang, jazz musician
- May 26 - Jimmie Rodgers, US country singer "The Singing Brakeman"
- July 15 - Freddie Keppard, jazz musician
- September 5 - Marcel Journet, tenor
- September 10 - Adrian Ross, English lyricist
- September 10 - Giuseppe Campari, opera singer and racing driver
- December 25 - Ann Ronell, songwriter
- date unknown - Blind Blake, blues musician
