1933 in music

Events

• Billie Holliday's musical career begins

Published popular music

• "After All, You're All I'm After" words: Edward Heyman music: Arthur Schwartz
• "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More" w. Joe Young & Johnny Burke m. Harold Spina
• "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
• "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
• "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 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
• "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
• "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
• "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" Cole Porter
• "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 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

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

Musical theater

• As Thousands Cheer Broadway production
• Ball At The Savoy London production
• Gay Divorce London production
• Nymph Errant London production
• Roberta Broadway production

Musical films

• Bitter Sweet
• Cavalcade
• Dancing Lady
• Footlight Parade
• Forty-Second Street
• Going Hollywood
• Gold Diggers Of 1933
• Moonlight And Pretzels
• Take A Chance

Births

• January 17 - Dalida
• January 20 - Ron Townson, The Fifth Dimension
• February 5 - Claude King
• February 17 - Bobby Lewis
• February 18 - Yoko Ono (Lennon)
• February 21 - Nina Simone
• March 9 - Lloyd Price
• March 13 - Mike Stoller, songwriter
• March 14 - Quincy Jones
• March 15 - Roy Clark
• March 30 - Willie Nelson
• April 12 - Tiny Tim
• April 14 - Buddy Knox
• April 24 - Freddie Scott
• July 27 - Nick Reynolds, The Kingston Trio
• August 8 - Joe Tex
• August 15 - Bill Pinckney, The Drifters
• August 15 - Bobby Helms
• September 1 - Conway Twitty
• September 15 - Pat Barrett, The Crewcuts
• September 18 - Jimmie Rodgers
• September 25 - Ian Tyson, Ian & Sylvia
• October 27 - Floyd Cramer
• November 6 - Joseph Pope, The Tams
• November 16 - Garnett Mimms
• November 29 - John Mayall
• December 15 - Jesse Belvin

Deaths

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