1914 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published Songs 3 Popular Recordings 4 Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• October 15 - In Rovigo, Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda
• The first recorded calypso music is made in Trinidad

• “The Aba Daba Honeymoon”     w.m. Arthur Fields & Walter Donovan
• “After The Roses Have Faded Away”     w. Bessie Buchanan m. Ernest R. Ball
• “Along Came Ruth”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “Always Treat Her Like A Baby”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “Back To The Carolina You Love”     w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz
• “Burlington Bertie From Bow”     w.m. William Hargreaves
• “By Heck”     w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. S. R. Henry
• “By The Beautiful Sea”     w. Harold R. Atteridge m. Harry Carroll
• “By The Waters Of Minnetonka”     w. J. M. Cavanass m. Thurlow Lieurance
• “California And You”     Harry Puck
• “Can't You Hear Me Callin' Caroline?”     w.m. William H. Gardner & Caro Roma
• "Cecile Waltz" by Frank McKee
• “Chinatown, My Chinatown”     w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• “Colonel Bogey - March”     m. Kenneth J. Alford
• “Come Over To Dover”     Murphy, Botsford
• “La Cucaracha”     w. (Eng) Stanley Adams m. arr. Juan Y. D'Lorah
• “The Darktown Poker Club”     w. Jean C. Havez m. Bert Williams & Will H. Vodery
• “The Day Is Done”     w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Herman Lohr
• “Desecration Rag”     Felix Arndt
• “Down Among The Sheltering Palms”     w. James Brockman m. Abe Olman
• “La Estrellita”     m. Maurice Ponce
• “Everybody Rag With Me”     w. Gus Kahn m. Grace LeBoy
• “Fido Is A Hot Dog Now”     w. Charles McCarron & Thomas J. Gray m. Raymond Walker
• “Follow The Crowd”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “Gilbert, The Filbert”     w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herman Finck
• “Goodbye Girls I'm Through”     w. John Golden m. Ivan Caryll
• “He's A Devil In His Own Home Town”     w. Grant Clarke & Irving Berlin m. Irving Berlin
• “He's A Rag Picker”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “Hot House Rag”     m. Paul Pratt
• "I Love the Ladies" by Grant Clarke
• “I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “I Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You”     w. Clifford Harris m. James W. Tate
• “If I Had You”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “If That's Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “If You Don't Want My Peaches”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “I'll Make A Man Of You”     w.m. Arthur Wimperis & Herman Finck
• “I'm Goin' Back To Louisiana (Where The Bright Moon Shines)”     E. Clinton Keithley
• “In An Old-Fashioned Town”     w.m. Squire
• “In Siam”     Manuel Klein
• “In The Candlelight”     w.m. Fleta Jan Brown
• "Kachusha no uta" composed by Nakayama Shimpei is the first big kayokyoku (pop music) hit in Japan
• “Keep the Home Fires Burning”     w. Lena Guilbert Ford m. Ivor Novello
• "Land" by Irving Berlin
• “A Little Bit Of Heaven Sure They Call It Ireland”     w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along by Byron Gay & C.R. Foster
• “Love's Own Sweet Song”     w. C. C. S. Cushing & E. P. Heath m. Emmerich Kalman
• “The Minstrel Parade”     Irving Berlin
• “Missouri Waltz”     w. James Royce Shannon m. Frederick Knight Logan
• “Mrs. Sippi, You're A Grand Old Girl”     Belle Ashlyn
• “Music Box Rag”     Charles Luckeyth Roberts
• “My Bird Of Paradise”     Irving Berlin
• “My Croony Melody”     w.m. Joe Goodwin & E. Ray Goetz
• “On The 5:15”     w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
• “On The Good Ship Mary Ann”     w. Gus Kahn m. Grace Le Boy
• “On The Shores Of Italy”     w.m. Al Piantadosi, Dave Oppenheim & Jack Glogau
• “Pigeon Walk”     m. James V. Monaco
• “Play A Simple Melody”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “Poor Pauline”     w. Charles McCarron m. Raymond Walker
• “Revival Day”     Berlin
• “Roll Them Cotton Bales”     w. James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
• “Rufus Johnson's Harmony Band”     w.m. Shelton Brooks & Maurice Abrahams
• “Same Sort Of Girl”     w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
• “Settle Down In A One-Horse Town”     Irving Berlin
• “Shadowland”     w. Blanche Merrill m. Gus Edwards
• “She's Dancing Her Heart Away”     w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Kerry Mills
• “Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers”     w. R. P. Weston m. Herman E. Darewski
• “The Springtime Of Life”     w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• “St Louis Blues”     w.m. W. C. Handy
• “Stay Down Here Where You Belong”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “Sylvia”     w. Clinton Scollard m. Oley Speaks
• “Syncopated Walk”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “That's A Plenty”     m. Lew Pollack
• “There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning”     w. Joe McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
• “They Didn't Believe Me”     w. Herbert Reynolds m. Jerome Kern
• “They're On Their Way To Mexico”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “This Is The Life”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “'Twas In September”     w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
• “Twelfth Street Rag”     m. Euday L. Bowman
• “Vienna, City Of My Dreams”     w. (Austrian) Rudolf Sieczynski m. Rudolf Sieczynski
• “Way Out Yonder In The Golden West”     w.m. Percy Wenrich
• “What Is Love”     Irving Berlin
• “When It's Night Time In Dixieland”     w.m. Irving Berlin
• “When Mother Backed The Winner Of The Derby”     Williams & Godfrey
• “When The Angelus Is Ringing”     w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• “When The Grown-up Ladies Act Like Babies”     w. Joe Young & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams
• “When You Wore A Tulip”     w. Jack Mahoney m. Percy Wenrich
• “When You're A Long, Long Way From Home”     w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• “When You're Away”     w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• “Who Paid The Rent For Mrs Rip Van Winkle?”     Bryan, Fischer
• “The Yellow Dog Blues”     w.m. W. C. Handy
• “You Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Love”     w. J. Will Callahan m. Ernest R. Ball

• "Aba Daba Honeymoon" by Collins & Harlan
• "Brindisi" from La Traviata, by Enrico Caruso & Alma Gluck
• "Ballin' the Jack" by Prince's Orchestra
• "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by Billy Murray

• June 28 - Lester Flatt
• October 10 - Ivory Joe Hunter

• George W. Johnson, recording artist