See also: 1949 in music, other events of 1950, 1951 in music, 1950s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hit records
4 Published popular songs
5 Musical theater
6 Musical films
7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

Albums released

Top hit records

Published popular songs

  • "Adelaide's Lament"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "American Beauty Rose"     w.m. Hal David, Redd Evans & Arthur Altman
  • "Be My Love"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Nicholas Brodszky
  • "The Best Thing For You"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Blind Date"     w.m. Sid Robin
  • "A Bushel And A Peck"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Candy And Cake"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  • "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"     w.m. Harry Stone & Jack Stapp
  • "Choo'n Gum"     w. Mann Curtis m. Vic Mizzy
  • "Cold, Cold Heart"     w.m. Hank Williams
  • "The Cry Of The Wild Goose"     w.m. Terry Gilkyson
  • "Dearie"     w.m. Bob Hilliard & David Mann
  • "Freight Train"     w. Paul James & Fred Williams m. trad arr. Elizabeth Cotton
  • "The French Can-Can Polka"     w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Jacques Offenbach
  • "From This Moment On"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Frosty The Snowman"     w.m. Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins
  • "Fugue For Tinhorns"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Get Out Those Old Records"     w.m. Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb
  • "Gone Fishin"'     w.m. Nick Kenny & Charles Kenny
  • "Guys And Dolls"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Home Cookin"'     w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
  • "Hoop-Dee-Doo"     w. Frank Loesser m. Milton De Lugg
  • "The Hostess With The Mostes' On The Ball"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell"     w.m. Edward Pola & George Wyle
  • "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine"     w.m. Mack David
  • "I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat"     w.m. Alan Livingston, Billy May & Warren Foster
  • "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake"     w.m. Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill & Clem Watts
  • "If I Were A Bell"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "I'll Know"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "I'll Never Be Free"     w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
  • "I'm Movin' On"     w.m. Hank Snow
  • "It Is No Secret"     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
  • "It's A Lovely Day Today"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I've Never Been In Love Before"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Ivory Rag"     Lou Busch, Jack Elliott
  • "Little White Duck"     w.m. Walt Barrows & Bernard Zaritsky
  • "The Loveliest Night Of The Year"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Juventino P. Rosa
  • "Luck Be A Lady"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Lucky Lucky Lucky Me"     Berle, Arnold
  • "Marry The Man Today"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Marrying For Love"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "More I Cannot Wish You"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Music! Music! Music!"     w.m. Stephen Weiss & Bernie Baum
  • "My Heart Cries For You"     w.m. Carl Sigman & Percy Faith
  • "My Time Of Day"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "No Other Love"     adapt from Chopin's Etude No 3 in E, Opus 10. w.m. Bob Russell & Paul Weston
  • "The Old Piano Roll Blues"     w.m. Cy Coben
  • "The Oldest Established"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Orange Coloured Sky"     w.m. Milton De Lugg & William Stein
  • "Patricia"     w.m. Benny Davis
  • "Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)"     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
  • "The Roving Kind"     adapt. w.m. Jessie Cavanaugh & Arnold Stanton
  • "Sam's Song"     w. Jack Elliott m. Lew Quadling
  • "Shot Gun Boogie"     w.m. Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • "Silver Bells"     w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
  • "Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Sixty Minute Man"     w.m. Billy Ward & Rose Marks
  • "Sleigh Ride"     w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
  • "Sue Me"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "The Syncopated Clock"     w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
  • "Take Back Your Mink"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "The Thing"     w.m. Charles R. Grean
  • "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena"     adapt. trad Yiddish w. (Eng) Mitchell Parish m. Issachar Miron (Michrovsky) & Julius Grossman
  • "You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry"     w.m. Bob Merrill & Terry Shand
  • "You're Just In Love"     w.m. Irving Berlin

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths