1915 in music

Events

Tom Brown's band from New Orleans goes to Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band"

Published popular music

"Alabama Jubilee" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
"All For You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
"Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
"America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
"Araby" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Are You From Dixie?" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
"Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
"The Army Of Today's All Right" w.m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh
"Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg
"Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern
"Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi
"Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco
"Blame It On The Blues" Cooke
"Canadian Capers" w.m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
"Close To My Heart" by A.B. Sterling
"Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
"Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan
"Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
"Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg
"Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay, Brown
"Georgia Grind" w.m. Spencer Williams
"The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch
"Hello Hawaii, How Are You?" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz
"The Hesitating Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
"I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron
"I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi
"I Love A Piano" w.m. Irving Berlin
"I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
"I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt
"If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Hermann Darewski
"If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
"I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
"In A Monastery Garden" m. Albert William Ketèlbey
"Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
"It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. Richard A. Whiting
"I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River" w. Bert Kalmar m. Joe Cooper
"I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" Irving Berlin
"Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w. William Jerome m. Walter Donaldson
"The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. Raymond Hubbell
"The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
"Love Is The Best Of All" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
"Love, Here Is My Heart" w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu
"The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
"Memories" w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne
"Molly Dear It's You I'm After" w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether
"M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson m. Theodore F. Morse
"My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
"My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
"My Sweet Adair" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
"Neapolitan Love Song" w. Henry Blossom Jr m. Victor Herbert
"Nola" m.Felix Arndt
"Norway" by Joe McCarthy
"On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai
"Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag" w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell
"Paper Doll" w.m. Johnny S. Black
"The Perfect Song" w. Clarence Lucas m. Joseph Carl Breil
"Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. Elsa Maxwell
"Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole
"Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w. Harold J. Atteridge m. Sigmund Romberg from the revue A World of Pleasure
"Railroad Jim" by Nat H. Vincent
"She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. Ernest R. Ball
"Siam" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
"So Long Letty" by Earl Carroll
"Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein
"Some Sort Of Somebody" w. Elsie Janis m. Jerome Kern
"Song Of The Islands" w.m. Charles E. King
"That Hula Hula" w.m. Irving Berlin
"There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
"There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
"There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
"Underneath The Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer
"We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. Walter Donaldson
"When I Get Back To The USA" w.m Irving Berlin
"When I Leave The World Behind" w.m. Irving Berlin
"When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" w.m. Charles McCarron & Nat Vincent
"When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi
"Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" David, Barnett & Darewski
"You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" by Shelton Brooks
"You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
"You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer

Hit recordings

"Carry Me Back To Old Virginia" by Alma Gluck
"It's A Long Way To Tipperary" by John McCormack
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey

Classical music

Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir
Jesus Guridi - Así cantan los chicos
Federico Mompou - L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)

Opera

Umberto Giordano - Madame Sans-Gene
Scott Joplin - Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)

Musical theater

Bric-A-Brac London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 18.
Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway production
Maid in America Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
The Passing Show Of 1915 Broadway production
Shell Out London production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24.
Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production
Tonight's The Night London production
Very Good Eddie Broadway production
A World of Pleasure Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915 Broadway revue

Births

January 6 - Bob Copper, folk singer
January 27 - Jack Brymer, clarinettist
January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress and singer
March 10 - Sir Charles Groves, conductor
March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer
March 20 - Sviatoslav Richter, pianist
April 4 - Muddy Waters (+ 1983)
April 7 - Billie Holiday
April 12 - Hound Dog Taylor, blues musician
April 29 - Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers
May 5 - Alice Faye, US actress and singer
May 8 - Nan Wynn, US singer
May 25 - Ginny Simms, US singer
June 1 - Bart Howard, composer and pianist
June 9 - Les Paul, musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar
June 12 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress
June 17 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician
June 28 - David Honeyboy Edwards, blues musician
July 9 - David Diamond, classical composer
July 15 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician
July 31 - George Forrest, musical theatre writer
August 18 - Moura Lympany, pianist
August 24 - Wynonie Harris, US singer
August 26 - Humphrey Searle, composer
September 3 - Memphis Slim
September 12 - Billy Daniels, US singer
September 23 - Julius Baker, flautist
October 10 - Sweets Edison, jazz trumpeter
October 15 - Nellie Lutcher, jazz singer and pianist
October 24 - Tito Gobbi, operatic baritone
December 12 - Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor
December 19 - Édith Piaf, French singer
December 25 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born US pianist and bandleader
December 30 - Brownie McGhee
date unknown - Ewan MacColl, folk singer and songwriter

Deaths

January 2 - Karl Goldmark, composer
February 12 - Emile Waldteufel, composer
February 12 - Fanny Crosby, hymn-writer
April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
May 7 - Charles Frohman, Broadway producer
June 25 - Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer
October 5 - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
November 14 - Teodor Leszetycki, pianist and composer