1914 in music

Events

• October 15 - In Rovigo[?], Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda[?]
• The first recorded calypso music is made in Trinidad

Top Hits

• "St Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy
• "I Love the Ladies" by Grant Clarke[?]
• "Play a Simple Melody" by Irving Berlin
• "By the Beautiful Sea" by Harold R. Atteridge[?]
• "Land" by Irving Berlin
• "Cecile Waltz" by Frank McKee[?]
• "Pigeon Walk" by J.V. Monaco[?]
• "Ballin' The Jack" by Chris Smith
• "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" by Egbert Van Alstyne[?] & Harry Williams[?]
• "Sylvia" by Clinton Scollard[?]
• "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along by Byron Gay[?] & C.R. Foster[?]
• "Kachusha no uta" composed by Nakayama Shimpei[?] is the first big kayokyoku[?] (pop music) hit in Japan

Births

• June 28 - Lester Flatt
• October 10 - Ivory Joe Hunter[?]

Deaths