See also: 1927 in music, other events of 1928, 1929 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Top Hit Records
4 Other Important Recordings
5 Musical theater
6 Musical film
7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

Published popular music

  • "After My Laughter Came Tears"     w.m. Charles Tobias & Roy Turk
  • "Alabama Song"     w. Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill
  • "All By Yourself In The Moonlight"     w.m. Jay Wallis
  • "Anything You Say"     w.m. Walter Donaldson
  • "Back In Your Own Backyard"     w.m. Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson & Billy Rose
  • "Basin Street Blues"     w.m. Spencer Williams
  • "Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now"     w.m. Walter Donaldson
  • "Bill"     w. P.G. Wodehouse & Oscar Hammerstein II
  • "Button Up Your Overcoat"     w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "Can't Help Loving Dat Man"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "Carolina Moon" w. Benny Davis m. Joe Burke
  • "Cherry" w.m. Don Redman
  • "Chiquita" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Mabel Wayne
  • "C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E" w.m. Harry Carlton
  • "Coquette" w. Gus Kahn m. Carmen Lombardo & John Green
  • "Cow Cow Blues" m. Charles Davenport
  • "Crazy Rhythm" w. Irving Caesar m. Joseph Mayer & Roger Wolfe Kahn
  • "Dance, Little Lady" w.m Noel Coward
  • "Diga Diga Doo" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
  • "Doin' The New Low-Down" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
  • "Doin' The Raccoon" w. Raymond Klages m. J. Fred Coots
  • "Don't Look At Me That Way" w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Dusky Stevedore" w. Andy Razaf m. J.C Johnson
  • "Empty Bed Blues" w.m. J. C. Johnson
  • "Fancy Our Meeting"     w. Douglas Furber m. Joseph Meyer & Philip Charig
  • "Forgetting You"     w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "From Monday On"     w. Bing Crosby m. Harry Barris
  • "A Garden In The Rain"     w. James Dyrenforth m. Carroll Gibbons
  • "A Gay Caballero"     w.m. Frank Crumit & Lou Klein
  • "Get Out And Get Under The Moon" w. Charles Tobias & William Jerome m. Larry Shay
  • "De Glory Road" w. Clement Wood m. Jacques Wolfe
  • "Golden Gate" by Rose & Dreyer
  • "Henry's Made A Lady Out Of Lizzie" w.m. Walter O'Keefe
  • "Honey" w. Seymour Simons & Haven Gillespie m. Richard A. Whiting
  • "Hooray For Captain Spaulding"     w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
  • "How About Me?"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "How Long Has This Been Going On?"     w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
  • "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby"     w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
  • "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" w. (Eng) Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young (Ger) Fritz Rotter m. Ralph Erwin
  • "I Wanna Be Loved By You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Herbert Stothart
  • "I'd Rather Be Blue Over You"     w. Billy Rose m. Fred Fisher
  • "If I Had You"     w.m. Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
  • "If You Want The Rainbow"     w. Mort Dixon & Billy Rose m. Oscar Levant
  • "I'll Get By"     w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert
  • "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas"     w.m. Phil Baxter
  • "I'm On The Crest Of A Wave"     w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "Is There Anything Wrong In That?"     w.m. Michael H. Cleary & Herb Magidson
  • "It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody)"     w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend
  • "It's Tight Like That" Thomas A. Dorsey, Hudson "Tampa Red" Whittaker
  • "Jeannine, I Dream Of Lilac Time"     w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Nathaniel Shilkret
  • "Jimmy, The Well-Dressed Man"     w.m. Jimmy Durante
  • "Let's Do It"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Let's Misbehave"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Life Upon The Wicked Stage"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "Lovable"     Holmes, Simons, Whiting
  • "Love Me Or Leave Me"     w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
  • "Lover, Come Back To Me"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romburg
  • "Ma Belle"     w. Clifford Grey m. Rudolf Friml
  • "Mack The Knife"     w. (Eng) Marc Blitzstein (Ger) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill
  • "Make Believe"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "Makin' Whoopee"     w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
  • "Malaguena"     m. Ernesto Lecuona
  • "March Of The Musketeers"     w. P. G. Wodehouse & Clifford Grey m. Rudolf Friml
  • "Marie"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Memories of France" by Al Dubin
  • "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now"     w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend
  • "My Lucky Star"     w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "Nagasaki"     w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Warren
  • "One Kiss"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
  • "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie"     m. Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
  • "A Precious Little Thing Called Love"     w.m. Lou Davis & J. Fred Coots
  • "She's Funny That Way"     w. Richard A. Whiting m. Neil Moret
  • "Short'nin' Bread"     adapt. w.m. Jacques Wolfe
  • "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
  • "The Song Of The Prune"     Frank Crumit, De Costa
  • "Sonny Boy"     w.m. Al Jolsen, B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
  • "St James Infirmary"     w.m. Joe Primrose
  • "Stack O'Lee"     trad arr. Cliff Edwards
  • "Stouthearted Men"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romburg
  • "Sugar (That Sugar Baby Of Mine)"     w.m. Marceo Pinkard & Sidney D. Mitchell
  • "Sweet Lorraine"     w. Mitchell Parish m. Cliff Burwell
  • "Sweet Sue"     w. Will J. Harris m. Victor Young
  • "Sweetheart Of All My Dreams"     w.m. Art Fitch, Kay Fitch & Bert Lowe
  • "Sweethearts On Parade"     w. Charles Newman m. Carmen Lombardo
  • "'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So"     w.m. Willard Robison
  • "That's My Weakness Now"     w.m. Bud Green & Sam H. Stept
  • "There Ain't No Sweet Man (That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears)"     w.m. Fred Fisher
  • "There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"     w.m. Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose & Al Jolson
  • "Together"     w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "West End Blues"     w.m. Joseph Oliver & Clarence Williams
  • "When You're Smiling"     w.m. Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin & Larry Shay
  • "World Weary"     w.m. Noel Coward
  • "You Are Love"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "You Took Advantage Of Me"     w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "You Wouldn't Fool Me"     w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "You're The Cream In My Coffee"     w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson

Top Hit Records

Other Important Recordings

Musical theater

  • Casanova     Berlin production
  • Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)     Berlin production
  • Funny Face     London production
  • Here's Howe     Broadway production
  • Hold Everything     Broadway production
  • The New Moon     Broadway production
  • Oh, Lady! Lady     Broadway production
  • Show Boat     London production
  • Whoopee     Broadway production

Musical film

  • Rose-Marie

Births

Deaths