1918 in music

Events

• March 3 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premiered in Budapest
• First documented racially integrated jazz recording session

Top Hit Songs

• "K-K-K-Katy" by Geoffrey O'Hara
• "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" by Edward Rowland[?]
• "JA-DA" by Bob Carleton[?]
• "Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young[?]
• "How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn[?]
• "Bagdad" by Harold Atteridge[?]
• "I'll Say She Does" by Buddy De Sylva, Gus Kahn[?], & Al Jolson
• "Oh! Frenchy" by Sam Ehrlich[?]
• "Every Day" by Shelton Brooks
• "I Want To Shimmy" by Shelton Brooks

Top Hit Recordings

• "Tiger Rag/Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
• "Over There" by Enrico Caruso
• "After You've Gone" by Marion Harris[?]

Births

• April 25 - Ella Fitzgerald
• May 15 - Eddy Arnold[?]
• August 25 - Leonard Bernstein
• September 26 - John Zacherle[?]
• December 19 - Professor Longhair

Deaths