1921 in music

Events

Clarence Williams makes his first recordings

Published popular music

"Ain't We Got Fun?" w.m. Richard A. Whiting, Raymond Egan & Gus Kahn
"All By Myself" w.m. Irving Berlin
"And Her Mother Came Too" w. Peter Dion Titheradge m. Ivor Novello
"Any Time" w.m. Herbert Happy Lawson
"April Showers" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Louis Silvers
"Baltimore Buzz" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Bandana Days" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Bimini Bay" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
"Blue Jeans" w. Harry D. Kerr m. Traveller
"Coal-Black Mammy" by Laddie Cliff
"Dancing Time" w.(Eng) George Grossmith (US) Howard Dietz m. Jerome Kern US words written 1924.
"Dapper Dan" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
"Dear Old Southland" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"Down Yonder" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert
"Everybody Step" w.m. Irving Berlin
"I Ain't Nobody's Darling" w. Elmer Hughes m. Robert A. King
"I Found A Rose In The Devil's Garden" w.m. Fred Fisher & Willie Raskin
"I Wonder If You Still Care For Me" w.m. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler
"I'll Forget You" w. Annelu Burns m. Ernest R. Ball
"I'm Just Wild About Harry" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin'" w. Sidney Clare m. Lew Pollack
"I'm Nobody's Baby" w.m. Benny Davis, Milton Ager & Lester Santly
"Jazz Me Blues" m. Tom Delaney
"Keep Movin'" Helen Trix
"Kitten On The Keys" m. Zez Confrey
"Laughin' Rag" S. Moore, H. Skinner
"Learn To Smile" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
"Leave Me With A Smile" w.m. Charles Koehler & Earl Burtnett
"Love Will Find A Way" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me" w. Sidney Clare m. Con Conrad
"Make Believe" w. Benny Davis m. Jack Shilkret
"Mandy 'N' Me" w. Bert Kalmar m. Con Conrad
"My Sunny Tennessee" w.m. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby
"Peggy O'Neill" w.m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge
"Sally" w. Clifford Grey m. Jerome Kern
"Say It With Music" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Second Hand Rose" w. Grant Clarke m. James F. Hanley
"The Sheik Of Araby" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
"She's Mine, All Mine" w.m. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby
"Shimmy With Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern from the musical The Cabaret Girl
"Shuffle Along" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
"Song Of Love" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"Strut Miss Lizzie" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"Swanee River Moon" w.m. H. Pitman Clarke
"Sweet Lady" w. Howard Johnson m. Frank Crumit & Dave Zoob
"Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes" w. Harry Pease & Johnny White m. Ira Schuster & Ed G. Nelson
"There'll Be Some Changes Made" w. Billy Higgins m. Benton Overstreet
"Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home" w. Sam H. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
"Wabash Blues" w. Dave Ringle m. Fred Meinken
"When Big Profundo Sang Low C" w. Marion T. Bohannon m. George Botsford
"When Buddha Smiles" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
"When Francis Dances With Me" w. Ben Ryan m. Sol Violinsky
"When Shall We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
"Whip-poor-will" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Jerome Kern
"Yoo-Hoo" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Al Jolson

Top Hit Recordings

"Wang Wang Blues" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, featuring Gussie Mueller
"Look for the Silver Lining" by Marion Harris
"Margie" by Eddie Cantor
"Margie, introducing Singing the Blues/Palesteena" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
"The Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
"Say It with Music" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
"All by Myself" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
"Everybody Step" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

Musical theater

Bombo Broadway production
The Broadway Whirl Broadway production
Good Morning, Dearie Broadway production
Sally London production
Shuffle Along Broadway production
Sybil London production

Births

June 19 - Louis Jordan
June 24 - Peggy DeCastro, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
September 19 - Billy Ward, The Dominoes
December 8 - Johnny Otis
December 15 - Alan Freed, disc jockey

Deaths

April 20 - Tony Jackson
August 2 - Enrico Caruso