1950 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

Sam Cooke joins The Soul Stirrers
Albert King's musical career begins
On January 3, Sam Phillips opened the doors at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee of what was to become the most famous music recording studio in the world, Sun Records

Albums released

The Fat Man - Fats Domino

Top hit records

"Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole
"Goodnight, Irene" by The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" by Red Foley
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" by The Andrews Sisters
"The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas, also Guy Lombardo
"The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page
"The Thing" by Phil Harris
"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" by Eileen Barton
"All My Love" by Patti Page
"Harbor Lights" by Sammy Kaye
"Here Comes Santa Claus" - Andrews Sisters

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

Ace Of Clubs London production

Alive And Kicking

Arms And The Girl

Bless You All

Blue For A Boy London production

Call Me Madam Broadway production

Carousel London production
Guys And Dolls Broadway production
Out Of This World
Peter Pan

Musical films

An American in Paris
Cinderella
Fancy Pants
I'll Get By
The Merry Widow
Mr Music
No, No, Nanette
Pagan Love Song
Three Little Words
The Toast Of New Orleans
Two Weeks With Love

Births

January 1 - Morgan Fisher, Mott the Hoople
January 1 - Steve Ripley, The Tractors
January 5 - Chris Stein, Blondie
January 9 - David Johanson, Buster Poindexter & His Banshees of Blue
January 21 - Billy Ocean
January 23 - Pat Simmons, The Doobie Brothers
January 23 - Danny Federici, E Street Band
February 2 - Ross Valory, Santana
February 6 - Natalie Cole
February 8 - Danny Seals
February 11 - Rochelle Fleming, soul music vocalist
February 12 - Steve Hackett, Genesis
February 13 - Peter Gabriel
February 19 - Andy Powell, Wishbone Ash
February 20 - Walter Becker, Steely Dan
February 23 - Steven Priest, Sweet
February 26 - Jonathan Cain, Journey
March 2 - Karen Carpenter, The Carpenters
March 4 - Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top
March 13 - Danny Kirwan, Fleetwood Mac
March 21 - Roger Hodgson, Supertramp
March 26 - Teddy Pendergrass
March 27 - Tony Banks, Genesis
April 5 - Agnetha Faltskog-Ulvaeus, ABBA
April 12 - David Cassidy
April 15 - Tonio K, singer
April 22 - Peter Frampton
April 25 - Steve Ferrone, Average White Band
May 2 - Lou Gramm, Foreigner
May 3 - Mary Hopkin
May 9 - Tom Petersson, Cheap Trick
May 12 - Jocko Marcellino, Sha Na Na
May 12 - Billy Squier
May 13 - Stevie Wonder
May 17 - Bill Bruford, Yes, King Crimson
May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh
May 22 - Bernie Taupin
May 29 - Rebbie Jackson
May 24 - Terry Scott Taylor, record producer, The Lost Dogs, Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies
June 1 - Graham Russell, Air Supply
June 2 - Antone Tavares
June 3 - Suzie Quatro
June 5 - Laurie Anderson
June 5 - Ronnie Dyson
June 8 - Alex Van Halen, Van Halen
June 15 - Noddy Holder, Slade
June 19 - Ann Wilson, Heart
June 21 - Joey Kramer, Aerosmith
July 12 - Eric Carr, Kiss
July 18 - Glenn Hughes, The Village People
July 23 - Blair Thornton, Bachman Turner Overdrive
August 1 - Jim Carroll
August 8 - Andy Fairweather-Low, Amen Corner
August 11 - Eric Braunn, Iron Butterfly
August 12 - Kid Creole
August 15 - Tom Aldrich, Black Oak Arkansas
August 18 - Dennis Elliott, Foreigner
August 25 - Willy DeVille
September 4 - Ronald LaPread, The Commodores
September 10 - Joe Perry, Aerosmith
September 14 - Paul Kosoff, Free
September 17 - Fee Waybill, Tubes
October 2 - Michael Rutherford, Genesis
October 8 - Robert Kool Bell, Kool and The Gang
October 11 - Andrew Woolfolk, Earth Wind and Fire
October 15 - Chris De Burgh
November 1 - Dan Peek, America
November 11 - Jim Peterik, Ides Of March, Survivor
November 18 - Graham Parker
November 21 - Livingston Taylor
November 22 - Tina Weymouth, The Talking Heads
November 22 - Steven Van Zandt (aka "Little Steven", "Miami Steve"), E Street Band
December 1 - Keith Thibodeaux, drummer and actor ("Little Ricky" on I Love Lucy)
December 9 - Joan Armatrading
December 28 - Alex Chilton, The Box Tops, Big Star

Deaths

July 11 - Buddy De Sylva, songwriter