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Igor Stravinsky conducting in 1929

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1929.

Specific locations

• 1929 in British music
• 1929 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

• 1929 in country music
• 1929 in jazz

Events

• January 1 – Pianist and composer Abram Chasins makes his professional debut playing his own piano concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
• January 11 – Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is premiered.
• January 22 – Gordon Jacob's First String Quartet is premiered by the Spencer Dyke Quartet in London.
• February 4 – First recording of George Gershwin's An American in Paris, by Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Symphony Orchestra
• February 19 – UK première of Béla Bartók's still-unpublished Third String Quartet, by The Hungarian String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, London.
• April 29 – Sergei Prokofiev's opera The Gambler premiers in Brussels, based on the story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
• May 17 – Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3 is premiered in Paris.
• May 21
  • Season opening of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in Paris, with the first performances of Igor Stravinsky's Renard and Sergei Prokofiev's Le Fils prodigue .
  • First recording date for a commercially issued RCA Victor 33+1⁄3 rpm LP: Victor Salon Suite No. 1 arranged and directed by Nathaniel Shilkret ^[1]
• May 22 – Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly establish music publishing house Campbell, Connelly & Co, Ltd.
• June 13 – Eugene Goosens conducts the UK premieres of Igor Stravinsky's Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, with the composer as soloist, and of Ottorino Respighi's Feste Romane , at the Queen's Hall, London.
• June 27 – First London performances of two ballets by Igor Stravinsky, Apollon musagète and Le Baiser de la fée , conducted by the composer at the Kingsway Hall and broadcast on the wireless.
• September 11 – Louis Armstrong records his hit song "When You're Smiling".
• October 14 – the London Symphony Orchestra opens its winter season, conducted by Alfred Coates, in a programme including Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor orchestrated by Alexander Goedicke, Respighi's Roman Festivals, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto (with soloist Shura Cherkassky), and Brahms's Fourth Symphony.
• December 31 – Guy Lombardo plays "Auld Lang Syne" for the first time.
• December – Release in the United States of short film The Singing Brakeman starring country singer Jimmie Rodgers.
• Charley Patton's musical career begins.
• T-Bone Walker's recording career begins.
• Memphis Minnie's recording career begins.
• Amédé Ardoin makes the first recordings of zydeco in Louisiana.
• Manuel de Falla relocates to Granada.
• The Musashino Academia Musicae is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
• Edison Records closes, ending production of Diamond Discs and Blue Amberols.
• Bessie Smith shoots a short film for "St Louis Blues", which would become her only known film appearance.

Published popular music

• "Ain't Misbehavin'" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks
• "After A Million Dreams" w.m. Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie
• "All That I'm Asking Is Sympathy" w.m. Benny Davis and Joe Burke
• "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst
• "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers
• "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn m. Art Kassel
• "The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" w.m. Carson Robison & Frank Luther
• "Big City Blues" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad
• "Black and Blue" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
• "Blue, Turning Grey Over You" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
• "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante
• "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift
• "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown. Introduced by Joan Crawford in the film Untamed .
• "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman
• "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis m. J. Fred Coots
• "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
• "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow
• "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noël Coward
• "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee m. Charlie Henderson
• "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept
• "Do What You Do" w. Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn m. George Gershwin
• "Don't Ever Leave Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "Dream Lover" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
• "Every Little Moment" w.m. Vivian Ellis
• "Feeling Sentimental" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Find Me A Primitive Man" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do" w.m. Charles Straight, Joe Bennett & George Little
• "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" w. Andy Razaf & Don Redman m. Don Redman
• "Great Day!" w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans
• "Happy Days Are Here Again" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "Have A Little Faith In Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
• "Here Am I" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "He's A Good Man To Have Around" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
• "He's So Unusual" w.m. Al Sherman, Al Lewis and Abner Silver
• "High And Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
• "Honeysuckle Rose" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
• "How Am I To Know?" w. Dorothy Parker m. Jack King
• "I Got A Code In My Dose" w.m. Arthur Fields, Fred Hall & Billy Rose
• "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz. Introduced by Clifton Webb in the revue The Little Show
• "I Have To Have You" Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting
• "I Lift Up My Finger" w.m. Leslie Sarony
• "I May Be Wrong" w. Harry Ruskin m. Henry Sullivan. Introduced in the revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac by Trixie Friganza and Jimmie Savo.
• "If I Can't Have You" w. Al Bryan m. George W. Meyer
• "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "If Love Were All" w.m. Noël Coward
• "I'll Always Be In Love With You" w. Herman Ruby, Bud Green, & Sam H. Stept m. Sam H. Stept
• "I'll See You Again" w.m. Noël Coward
• "I'll Still Go On Wanting You" w.m. Bernie Grossman
• "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "I'm A Gigolo" w.m. Cole Porter
• "I'm In Seventh Heaven" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
• "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Leon Zimmerman
• "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling" w. Billy Rose m. Fats Waller & Harry Link
• "Just You, Just Me" w. Raymond Klages m. Jesse Greer. Introduced in the film Marianne by Lawrence Gray and reprised by Marion Davies and Cliff Edwards.
• "Kansas City Kitty" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
• "Keepin' Myself For You" w. Sidney Clare m. Vincent Youmans.
• "Lady Divine" w.m. Nathaniel Shilkret and Richard Kountz
• "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Little By Little" w.m. Walter O'Keefe & Robert Emmet Dolan. Introduced by Sally O'Neil and Eddie Quillan in the film The Sophomore
• "The Little Things You Do" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Liza" w. Gus Kahn & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by Nick Lucas in the musical Show Girl
• "Looking At You" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by Jessie Matthews and Dave Fitzgibbon in the musical Wake Up and Dream
• "Louise" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film Innocents of Paris
• "Lovable And Sweet" w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant. Introduced by Jack Oakie, John Harron and Ned Sparks in the film Street Girl
• "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" w. Elsie Janis m. Edmund Goulding
• "March Of The Grenadiers" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger Introduced by Jeanette MacDonald in the film The Love Parade
• "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting
• "Mean to Me" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert
• "The Minor Drag" m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
• "Miss Hannah" w.m. Don Redman & John Nesbitt
• "Miss You" w.m. Harry Tobias, Charles Tobias & Henry Tobias
• "Moanin' Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Libby Holman in the revue The Little Show
• "More Than You Know" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans. Introduced by Mayo Methot in the musical Great Day
• "My Ideal" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film Playboy of Paris
• "My Kinda Love" w. Jo Trent m. Louis Alter
• "My Love Parade" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
• "My Mother's Eyes" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer
• "My Sin" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Nobody's Using It Now" Clifford Grey, Victor Schertzinger
• "On The Amazon" w. Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Vivian Ellis
• "Orange Blossom Time" w. Joe Goodwin m. Gus Edwards
• "Pagan Love Song" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke. Introduced by Nick Lucas in the film Gold Diggers of Broadway .
• "Paris, Stay the Same" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
• "Piccolo Pete" w.m. Phil Baxter
• "Puttin' on the Ritz" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Raisin' the Roof" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
• "Reaching For Someone" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
• "Rock Island Line" w.m. Clarence Wilson (written)
• "Rockin' Chair" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
• "Romance" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
• "Satisfied!" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend
• "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar
• "Seventh Heaven" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Lew Pollack
• "She's Such A Comfort To Me" w. Douglas Furber, Max Lief, Nathaniel Lief & Donovan Parsons m. Arthur Schwartz
• "She's Wonderful" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
• "A Ship Without A Sail" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by Jack Whiting in the musical Heads Up! . Performed in the film version by Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
• "Should I?" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Canto Siboney" w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona
• "Singin' in the Bathtub" w. Herb Magidson & Ned Washington m. Michael H. Cleary
• "Singin' in the Rain" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" w. Billy Moll m. Harry Barris
• "S'posin'" w. Andy Razaf m. Paul Denniker
• "Spread A Little Happiness" w.m. Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers & Greatrex Newman
• "Star Dust" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael Music 1927.
• "Sunny Side Up" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Too Wonderful For Words" w.m. Dave Stamper
• "Thank Your Father" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Then You've Never Been Blue" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ted Fiorito
• "Thinking of You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
• "True Blue Lou" w.m. Sam Coslow, Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting
• "Turn on the Heat" w. B. G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson. Introduced by Sharon Lynn and Frank Richardson in the film Sunny Side Up
• "Wait 'Til You See Ma Cherie" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting
• "Waiting At The End Of The Road" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Wake Up And Dream" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Walk Right In" Cannon, Woods, Darling, Suanoe
• "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine" w. Irving Kahal & Willie Raskin m. Sammy Fain
• "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Weary River" w. Grant Clarke m. Louis Silvers. Introduced by Johnny Murray in the film Weary River
• "What Is This Thing Called Love?" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by Elsie Carlisle in the musical Wake Up and Dream
• "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney
• "When It's Springtime In The Rockies" w. Mary Hale Woolsey & Milton Taggert m. Robert Sauer
• "Why Can't I?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Why Do You Suppose?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Why Was I Born?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "With A Song in My Heart" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Without A Song" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans
• "You Do Something To Me" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by William Gaxton in the musical Fifty Million Frenchmen
• "You Were Meant For Me" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
• "Yours Sincerely" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "You've Got That Thing" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Zigeuner" w.m. Noël Coward

Top popular recordings 1929

The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1929: ^[2] Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	Recorded	Released	Chart positions
1	Nick Lucas	"Tip Toe Through the Tulips" [3]	Brunswick 4418	May 9, 1929 (1929-05-09)	September 1929 (1929-09)	US BB 1929 #1, US #1 for 10 weeks, 19 total weeks
2	Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees	Honey" [4]	Victor 21869	February 7, 1929 (1929-02-07)	March 1929 (1929-03)	US BB 1929 #2, US #1 for 8 weeks, 15 total weeks
3	Gene Austin	Carolina Moon" [5]	Victor 21833	December 10, 1928 (1928-12-10)	February 1929 (1929-02)	US BB 1929 #3, US #1 for 7 weeks, 14 total weeks
4	Al Jolson	"Little Pal" [6]	Brunswick 4400	April 7, 1929 (1929-04-07)	July 1929 (1929-07)	US BB 1929 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 10 total weeks
5	Leo Reisman and His Orchestra	"The Wedding of the Painted Doll" [7]	Columbia 1780	March 11, 1929 (1929-03-11)	May 1929 (1929-05)	US BB 1929 #5, US #1 for 4 weeks, 12 total weeks
6	Copley Plaza Orchestra (Bob Haring Orchestra)	"Pagan Love Song" [8]	Brunswick 4321	March 29, 1929 (1929-03-29)	June 1929 (1929-06)	US BB 1929 #6, US #1 for 4 weeks, 11 total weeks
7	Cliff Edwards	"Singin' In The Rain" [9]	Columbia 1869	May 28, 1929 (1929-05-28)	July 1929 (1929-07)	US BB 1929 #7, US #1 for 3 weeks, 12 total weeks
8	Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians	"Sweethearts On Parade" [10]	Columbia 1628	November 10, 1928 (1928-11-10)	December 1928 (1928-12)	US BB 1929 #8, US #1 for 3 weeks, 12 total weeks
9	Ethel Waters	"Am I Blue?" [11]	Columbia 1837	May 14, 1929 (1929-05-14)	June 1929 (1929-06)	US BB 1929 #9, US #1 for 2 weeks, 15 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 2007
10	George Olsen and His Music	"A Precious Little Thing Called Love" [12]	Victor 21832	October 3, 1928 (1928-10-03)	March 1929 (1929-03)	US BB 1929 #10, US #1 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks
11	Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra	"Great Day" [13]	Columbia 2023	October 9, 1929 (1929-10-09)	December 1929 (1929-12)	US BB 1929 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks
12	Nick Lucas	"Painting the Clouds with Sunshine" [14]	Brunswick 4418	May 9, 1929 (1929-05-09)	September 1929 (1929-09)	US BB 1929 #12, US #2 for 5 weeks, 15 total weeks
13	Ted Weems and His Orchestra	"Piccolo Pete" [15]	Victor 22037	June 28, 1929 (1929-06-28)	September 1929 (1929-09)	US BB 1929 #13, US #2 for 4 weeks, 15 total weeks
14	Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees	"Weary River" [16]	Victor 21868	February 6, 1929 (1929-02-06)	April 1, 1929 (1929-04-01)	US BB 1929 #14, US #2 for 4 weeks, 10 total weeks
15	Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra (vocal Burt Lorin aka Scrappy Lambert)	"You Were Meant for Me" [17]	Victor 21886	February 15, 1929 (1929-02-15)	April 1929 (1929-04)	US BB 1929 #15, US #2 for 2 weeks, 12 total weeks
16	Helen Kane	"I Wanna Be Loved by You" [18]	Victor 21684	September 20, 1928 (1928-09-20)	December 1928 (1928-12)	US BB 1928 #16, US #2 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks
17	Ruth Etting	"Love Me or Leave Me" [19]	Columbia 1680	December 17, 1928 (1928-12-17)	January 1929 (1929-01)	US BB 1929 #16, US #2 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks
18	Eddie Cantor	"Makin' Whoopee" [20]	Victor 21831	December 18, 1928 (1928-12-18)	February 1929 (1929-02)	US BB 1929 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 10 total weeks
19	Jimmie Rodgers and the Three Southerners	"The Sailor's Plea" [21] / I'm Lonely and Blue [22]	Victor 40054	February 14, 1928 (1928-02-14)	April 19, 1929 (1929-04-19)	236,231 sales [23]
20	George Olsen and His Music / The Troubadours	"Sonny Boy" [24] / Beggars of Life [25]	Victor 21683	September 18, 1928 (1928-09-18)	December 1928 (1928-12)	219,029 sales [26]
21	Gene Austin	"A Garden in the Rain" [27]	Victor 21915	March 13, 1929 (1929-03-13)	May 3, 1929 (1929-05-03)	US BB 1929 #173, US #15 for 1 week, 2 total weeks, 84,063 sales [28]
22	Gene Austin	"Little Pal" [29]	Victor 21952	April 3, 1929 (1929-04-03)	September 1929 (1929-09)	US BB 1929 #70, US #7 for 1 weeks 5 total weeks, 63,438 sales [30]
23	Leo Reisman and His Orchestra	"I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" [31]	Victor 21920	April 1, 1929 (1929-04-01)	July 1929 (1929-07)	US BB 1929 #154, US #13 for 1 week, 3 total weeks, 44,431 sales [32]
24	Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees	"Deep Night" [33]	Victor 21868	February 6, 1929 (1929-02-06)	April 1929 (1929-04)	US BB 1929 #18, US #2 for 2 weeks, 10 total weeks
25	Gus Arnheim Coconut Grove Orchestra	"Sleepy Valley" [34]	Victor 21986	April 17, 1929 (1929-04-17)	July 1929 (1929-07)	US BB 1929 #19, US #2 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks
26	The Carter Family	"Wildwood Flower" [35]	Victor 40000	May 10, 1928 (1928-05-10)	January 10, 1929 (1929-01-10)	US BB 1929 #30, US #3 for 1 weeks 10 total weeks, Hillbilly 1929 #1, 1,000,000 sales, [2] [36] National Recording Registry 2006

1929 Harlem Hit Parade + Blues

(created with Popular Music Chart Entries and Blues records) ^[2]

#	Artist	Title	Label	Recording date	Release date	Chart positions
1	Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra	"Ain't Misbehavin'" [37]	Okeh 8714	July 19, 1929 (1929-07-19)	August 5, 1929 (1929-08-05)	US BB 1929 #75, US #7 for 1 week, 4 total weeks
2	Pine Top Smith	"Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" [38]	Vocalion 1245	December 29, 1928 (1928-12-29)	March 1929 (1929-03)	US BB 1929 #246, US #20 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 1983
3	Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra	"South" [39]	Victor 38021	September 7, 1928 (1928-09-07)	August 1929 (1929-08)	US BB 1929 #115, US #10 for 1 week, 4 total weeks
4	Louis Armstrong and His Savoy Ballroom Five	"St. James Infirmary" [37]	Okeh 8657	December 12, 1928 (1928-12-12)	February 1929 (1929-02)	US BB 1929 #172, US #15 for 1 week, 3 total weeks
5	Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra	"When You're Smiling" [37]	Okeh 8729	September 11, 1929 (1929-09-11)	October 25, 1929 (1929-10-25)	US BB 1929 #175, US #15 for 1 week, 2 total weeks
6	Bessie Smith	"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" [40]	Columbia 14451	May 15, 1929 (1929-05-15)	September 13, 1929 (1929-09-13)	US BB 1929 #184, US #15 for 1 week, 2 total weeks
7	Duke Ellington & His Orch	"The Mooche" [37]	Okeh 8623	October 1, 1928 (1928-10-01)	November 5, 1928 (1928-11-05)	US BB 1929 #192, US #16 for 1 week, 2 total weeks
8	Fats Waller	"Ain't Misbehavin'" [41]	Victor 22108	August 2, 1929 (1929-08-02)	November 8, 1929 (1929-11-08)	US BB 1929 #206, US #17 for 1 week, 1 total week, National Recording Registry 2004
9	Blind Willie McTell	"Statesboro Blues" [42]	Victor 38001	October 17, 1928 (1928-10-17)	January 4, 1929 (1929-01-04)	Hillbilly 1929 #9, [43] National Recording Registry 2015
10	Charlie McCoy and Bo Chatman	"Corrine, Corrina" [44]	Brunswick 7080	December 1, 1928 (1928-12-01)	August 1929 (1929-08)
11	Blind Willie Dunn (Eddie Lang) & Lonnie Johnson	"Hot Fingers" [37]	Okeh 8743	October 9, 1929 (1929-10-09)	December 1929 (1929-12)
12	Charley Patton	"Pony Blues" [45]	Paramount 12792	June 14, 1929 (1929-06-14)	July 1929 (1929-07)	Grammy Hall of Fame 1999, National Recording Registry 2006
13	Mississippi John Hurt	"Stack O' Lee Blues" [37]	Okeh 8654	December 28, 1928 (1928-12-28)	May 1929 (1929-05)
14	Elder J. J. Hadley (Charley Patton)	"Prayer Of Death" [46]	Paramount 12799	June 14, 1929 (1929-06-14)	August 1929 (1929-08)
15	Blind Sammie (Blind Willie McTell)	"Travelin' Blues" [40]	Columbia 14484D	October 30, 1929 (1929-10-30)	November 1929 (1929-11)
16	Blind Blake	"Police Dog Blues" [45]	Paramount 12888	August 17, 1929 (1929-08-17)	November 1929 (1929-11)

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg – Symphonic Poem Älven, Op. 33
• Béla Bartók
  • Rhapsody No. 1, for violin and orchestra
  • Twenty Hungarian Folksongs, for voice and piano
• Arnold Bax
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Sonata for Two Pianos
  • Legend, for Viola and Piano ^[47]
• Amy Beach – String Quartet, Op. 89
• Conrad Beck – Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
• Boris Blacher – Jazz Koloraturen ^[48]
• Ernest Bloch
  • Helvetia (Symphonic Poem)
  • Abodah for Violin
• Benjamin Britten – Rhapsody for String Quartet ^[49]
• Alan Bush – Dialectic Op. 15 for String Quartet ^[50]
• Carlos Chávez – Sonata for four horns
• Aaron Copland – Symphonic Ode
• Henry Cowell – Piano Concerto
• Cornelis Dopper – Incidental Music to Vondel's Lucifer ^[51]
• Pierre-Octave Ferroud – Violin Sonata
• Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet No. 4 in F Op. 124
• Roy Harris
  • American Portraits, for orchestra
  • String Quartet No. 1
• Paul Juon – Litaniae for Piano, Violin and Cello in C sharp minor
• Wilhelm Kempff – Symphony No. 2
• Ernst Krenek
  • Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen, op. 62
  • Triophantasie, op. 63
• Igor Markevitch
  • Sinfonietta in F
  • Piano Concerto
• Bohuslav Martinů
  • String Quartet No. 3 H.183
  • Violin Sonata No. 1 H.355 ^[52]
• Olivier Messiaen – Diptyque pour orgue ^[53]
• Darius Milhaud – Concerto No. 1 for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 108
• Ildebrando Pizzetti – Rondo Veneziano
• Francis Poulenc – Aubade
• Sergei Prokofiev – Prodigal Son, op. 46 (1928–29, ballet)
• Silvestre Revueltas – Pieza para Orquesta
• Julius Röntgen – Piano Concerto in E major
• Albert Roussel
  • Petite Suite, op. 39, for orchestra
  • Prelude and Fughetta, op. 41, for organ
  • Trio, for flute, viola and cello, op. 40 ^[54]
• Arnold Schoenberg – Piano Piece Op. 33a ^[55]
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 3 E flat major, Op. 20
• Jean Sibelius – 5 Esquisses, Op. 114, for piano
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Capriccio, for piano and orchestra
  • Berceuse, for violin and piano (arr. from ballet The Firebird)
• Ernst Toch
  • Bunte Suite, Op. 48
  • Cello Sonata, Op. 50
  • Kleine Ouvertüre zu der Fächer (Little Overture to the (opera the) Fan), Op. 51
• Joaquín Turina
  • Recuerdos de la antigua España, Op. 48, for piano
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 51
  • Miniaturas, Op. 52, for piano
  • Ráfaga, Op. 53, for guitar
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Chôros No. 9 for orchestra
  • Chôros No. 12 for orchestra
  • Chôros No. 13 for 2 orchestras & band
  • Introdução aos Chôros (Introduction to the Chôros), for guitar and orchestra
  • Chôros bis , for violin and cello
  • Mômo Precoce, fantasy for piano and orchestra
  • 12 Etudes for guitar
• William Walton – Viola Concerto
• Egon Wellesz – String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28

Opera

• Hans Chemin-Petit – Der gefangene Vogel
• Umberto Giordano – Il re (La Scala, January 12)
• Paul Hindemith – Neues vom Tage (June 8, 1929, Kroll Opera House, Berlin)
• Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler (first performance)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Von heute auf morgen (completed January 1, 1929; first performance February 1, 1930)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sir John in Love

Film

• Dmitri Shostakovich – The New Babylon

Jazz

Main article: 1929 in jazz

Musical theater

• Bitter Sweet (Noël Coward)
  • London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on July 12 and ran for 673 performances
  • Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 5 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on February 17, 1930, for a total run of 159 performances
• Boom Boom Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 28 and ran for 72 performances
• Dear Love opened at the Palace Theatre on November 14 and ran for 132 performances
• Die Dreigroschenoper Vienna production
• Fifty Million Frenchmen Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on November 27 and ran for 254 performances
• Follow Thru Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on January 9 and ran for 401 performances
• Follow Through London production opened at the Dominion Theatre on October 3 and ran for 148 performances
• Heads Up! Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 11 and ran for 144 performances
• Hold Everything London production opened at the Palace Theatre on June 12 and ran for 173 performances
• Hot Chocolates Broadway revue opened at the Hudson Theatre on June 20 and ran for 219 performances
• The House That Jack Built London revue opened at the Adelphi Theatre on November 8 and ran for 270 performances
• Das Land des Lächelns (Franz Lehár) – Berlin production opened at the Metropol Theater on October 10
• The Little Show Broadway revue opened at the Music Box Theatre on April 30 and ran for 321 performances
• Love Lies London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on March 20 and ran for 347 performances
• Mr. Cinders London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on February 11 and ran for 528 performances
• Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – Paris production
• Spring Is Here (Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Lorenz Hart Book: Owen Davis) Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on March 11 and ran for 104 performances
• Toad of Toad Hall London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 17
• Top Speed Broadway production opened at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre on December 25 and transferred to the Royale Theatre on March 10, 1930, for a total run of 104 performances
• Wake Up and Dream (Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter)
  • London revue opened at the Pavilion on March 27 and ran for 263 performances
  • Broadway revue opened at the Selwyn Theatre on December 30 and ran for 136 performances

Musical films

• Applause starring Helen Morgan. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian.
• The Battle of Paris starring Gertrude Lawrence, Charles Ruggles, Walter Petrie, Gladys DuBois and Arthur Treacher. Directed by Robert Flory.
• Broadway starring Glenn Tryon, Merna Kennedy, Evelyn Brent and Otis Harlan. Directed by Paul Fejos.
• The Broadway Melody
• The Cocoanuts
• The Desert Song starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda and Myrna Loy. Directed by Roy Del Ruth.
• Glad Rag Doll
• Glorifying the American Girl starring Mary Eaton and Dan Healy and featuring Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan and Rudy Vallee.
• Gold Diggers of Broadway
• Happy Days starring Charles E. Evans and Marjorie White and featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Hollywood Revue of 1929
• Honky Tonk starring Sophie Tucker
• Hot for Paris starring Victor McLaglen, Fifi D'Orsay and El Brendel. Directed by Raoul Walsh.
• The Love Parade starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth
• Marianne starring Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray and Cliff Edwards
• On with the Show! starring Arthur Lake, Betty Compson and Joe E. Brown, and featuring Ethel Waters
• Paris released November 7 starring Irène Bordoni, Jack Buchanan and Zasu Pitts.
• Pointed Heels starring William Powell, Helen Kane and Fay Wray. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland.
• Rio Rita starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles
• Sally starring Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray and Joe E. Brown
• Show Boat
• So Long Letty starring Charlotte Greenwood
• Song of Love starring Belle Baker, Ralph Graves and Eunice Quedens
• Sunny Side Up starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and Marjorie White
• Tanned Legs starring Ann Pennington, June Clyde, Arthur Lake, Dorothy Revier and Sally Blane. Directed by Marshall Neilan.
• The Vagabond Lover starring Rudy Vallee, Sally Blane and Marie Dressler. Directed by Marshall Neilan.
• Why Leave Home? starring Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee and Ilka Chase. Directed by Raymond Cannon.
• Words and Music starring Lois Moran, Helen Twelvetrees and Tom Patricola. Directed by James Tinling.

Births

• January 3 – Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer and conductor
• January 6 – Wilbert Harrison, American singer (died 1994)
• January 15 – Lord Woodbine (Harold Adolphus Phillips), Trinidadian calypsonian (died 2000)
• January 22 – Petr Eben, Czech composer (died 2007)
• January 25 – Violeta Hemsy de Gainza, Argentine pianist and music teacher (died 2023)
• January 28 – Mr Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist (died 2014)
• February 4 – Stanley Drucker, American clarinetist (died 2022)
• February 10 – Jerry Goldsmith, composer for film and television (died 2004)
• March 4 – Bernard Haitink, violinist and conductor (died 2021)
• March 8 – Ardis Krainik, operatic mezzo-soprano and general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago (died 1997)
• March 25 – Cecil Taylor, free jazz pianist (died 2018)
• March 26 – Charles Dumont, singer-songwriter (died 2024)
• April 1 – Jane Powell, singer and actress (died 2021)
• April 5 – Joe Meek, UK record producer (died 1967)
• April 6 – André Previn, pianist and conductor (died 2019)
• April 8 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter (died 1978)
• April 16 – Roy Hamilton, American singer (died 1969)
• April 17 – James Last, German bandleader (died 2015)
• April 29
  • Halina Łukomska, soprano (died 2016)
  • Peter Sculthorpe, composer (died 2014)
  • April Stevens, singer (died 2023)
• May 1 – Sonny James, country singer-songwriter (died 2016)
• May 2 – Link Wray, American guitarist (died 2005)
• May 3 – Denise Lor, singer (died 2015)
• May 11 – Fernand Lindsay, Canadian organist and educator (died 2009)
• May 16 – Betty Carter, jazz singer (died 1998)
• May 25 – Beverly Sills, operatic soprano (died 2007)
• June 2 – Jimmy Bryant, singer, arranger and composer (died 2022)
• June 6 – Don Hassler, American saxophonist and composer (died 2013)
• June 9 – Johnny Ace, R&B singer (died 1954)
• June 23 – June Carter Cash, singer-songwriter, wife of Johnny Cash (died 2003)
• June 26
  • June Bronhill, operatic soprano (died 2005)
  • Josima Feldschuh, Polish pianist and composer of Jewish origin (died 1943)
• June 27 – Jarmila Šuláková, folk singer (died 2017)
• June 30 – Othmar Mága, German conductor (died 2020)
• July 3 – Pedro Iturralde, composer (died 2020)
• July 9
  • Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and record producer (died 2007)
  • Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolin player (Jim & Jesse)
• July 15
  • Charles Anthony, American tenor (died 2012)
  • Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (died 2001)
• July 18 – Screamin' Jay Hawkins, singer (died 2000)
• August 4 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam performer from Tamil Nadu, India (died 2012)
• August 12 – Buck Owens, singer and guitarist (died 2006)
• August 16 – Bill Evans, jazz pianist (died 1980)
• August 24 – William Winfield, doo-wop singer (The Harptones)
• September 13 – Nicolai Ghiaurov, operatic bass (died 2004)
• September 28 – Lata Mangeshkar, playback singer (died 2022)
• October 2 – Kenneth Leighton, composer (died 1998)
• October 12 – Nappy Brown, blues singer (died 2008)
• October 24 – George Crumb, composer (died 2022)
• October 26 – Neal Matthews Jr., (The Jordanaires) (died 2000)
• November 7 – Benny Andersen, Danish author, poet and pianist (died 2018)
• November 8 – Bert Berns, songwriter record producer (died 1967)
• November 10 – Marilyn Bergman, songwriter (died 2022)
• November 11 – LaVern Baker, R&B singer (died 1997)
• November 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz pianist
• November 15 – Joe Hinton, American soul singer (died 1968)
• November 18 – Gianna D'Angelo, American soprano and educator (died 2013)
• November 24 – Eileen Barton, singer (died 2006)
• November 26 – Slavko Avsenik, composer, musician and accordionist (died 2015)
• November 28 – Berry Gordy Jr., record producer, founder of the Tamla Motown label
• November 30 – Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand (died 2012)
• December 4 – Wilhelm Georg Berger, composer (died 1993)
• December 6 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor (died 2016)
• December 23 – Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter and singer (died 1988)
• December 25
  • Bill Horton, doo-wop singer (The Silhouettes) (died 1995)
  • Chris Kenner, R&B singer-songwriter (died 1976)
• December 26 – Régine Zylberberg, discothèque pioneer (died 2022)
• December 27 – Gyula Kovács, Hungarian drummer (died 1992) ^[56]

Deaths

• January 11 – Elfrida Andrée, organist, composer and conductor (born 1841)
• January 22 – Adolph Brodsky, violinist (born 1851)
• January 24 – Jacques Bouhy, baritone opera singer (born 1848)
• January 30 – La Goulue, can-can dancer (born 1866)
• February 24 – André Messager, conductor and composer (born 1853)
• March 15 – Pinetop Smith, jazz pianist (born 1904) (shot, during a fight in a dance hall)
• April 3 – Sophus Hagen, composer and music publisher (born 1842)
• April 4 – Édouard Schuré, poet and music critic (born 1841)
• April 12 – Harry Liston, music hall performer and composer (born 1843)
• April 15 – Antonio Smareglia, opera composer (born 1854)
• April 30 – Birger Sjöberg, poet and songwriter (born 1885)
• May 17 – Lilli Lehmann, operatic soprano (born 1848)
• June 2 – Don Murray, jazz clarinettist (born 1894) (car accident)
• June 4 – Harry Frazee, producer of Broadway musicals (born 1881)
• July 3 – Dustin Farnum, singer, dancer and actor (born 1874)
• August 3 – Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone (born 1851)
• August 19
  • Sergei Diaghilev, ballet impresario (born 1872)
  • Chris Kelly, jazz musician (born c. 1890)
  • Meta Seinemeyer, operatic soprano (born 1894)
• August 22 – Lucy Broadwood, folk song collector and researcher (born 1858)
• September 4 – Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario (born 1851)
• September 7 – Frederic Weatherly, songwriter (born 1848)
• October 3 – Jeanne Eagels, Ziegfeld girl and actress (born 1894)
• October 6 – Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhaylov, operatic tenor (born 1858)
• October 14 – Henri Berger, composer and royal bandmaster of Hawaii (born 1844)
• October 17 – Ada Crossley, singer (born 1874)
• October 26 – Swan Hennessy, composer (born 1866)
• October 27 – Alfred Maria Willner, composer and librettist (born 1859)
• December 19 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (born 1893)
• December 28 – Hans Kreissig, pianist and conductor (born 1856)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Chacón, flamenco singer (born 1869)
  • Carl Herman Unthan, disabled violinist (born 1848)

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34. "Victor matrix BVE-50837. Sleepy Valley / Gus Arnheim; Cocoanut Grove Orchestra – Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
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