1909 in music

Events

Top Hits

• "That's a Plenty" by Henry Creamer & Bert Williams
• "Casey Jones" by T.L. Seibert
• "By The Light of the Silvery Moon" by Gus Edwards[?] & Edward Madden[?]
• "My Southern Rose" by Earl Taylor[?]
• "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!" by Will D. Cobb[?], Grossmith & Flynn
• "For You Alone" by P.J. O'Reilly[?]
• "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" by CW Murphy, Will Letters & William J. McKenna
• "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" by Joe Howard, Harold Orlob, Frank Adams & Will Hough
• "Cubanola Glide" by Albert Von Tilzer
• "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti
• "My Hero" by Stanislaus Stange[?]
• "The Garden of Roses" by J.E. Dempsey
• "I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid!" by Harry Von Tilzer & Jimmy Lucas[?]

Births

• January 3 - Victor Borge, musician, actor
• January 15 - Gene Krupa, drummer (+ 1973)
• January 16 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (+ 1984)
• February 9 - Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress
• May 30 - Benny Goodman, musician, actor (+ 1986)
• June 14 - Burl Ives (+ 1995)

Deaths