1921 in music

Events

• Clarence Williams makes his first recordings

Top Hit Songs

• "Kitten on the Keys" by Zez Confrey[?]
• "Ain't We Got Fun" by Richard A. Whiting[?], Gus Kahn[?] & Raymond B. Egan[?]
• "Dear Old Southland" by Henry Creamer & J. Turner Layton[?]
• "Make Believe" by Benny Davis[?]
• "April Showers" by Buddy De Sylva & Louis Silvers[?]
• "The Sheik of Araby" by Ted Snyder[?], Harry B. Smith, & Francis Wheeler
• "Coal-Black Mammy" by Laddie Cliff[?]
• "Dapper Dan (The Sheik of Alabam')" by Albert Von Tilzer & Lew Brown
• "Learn To Smile" by Otto Harbach
• "All By Myself" by Irving Berlin
• "Everybody Step" by Irving Berlin
• "Second Hand Rose" by Grant Clarke[?] & James F. Hanley[?]

Top Hit Recordings

• "Wang Wang Blues" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, featuring Gussie Mueller
• "Look for the Silver Lining" by Marion Harris[?]
• "Margie" by Eddie Cantor
• "Margie, introducing Singing the Blues/Palesteena" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
• "The Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones[?] & His Orchestra
• "Say It with Music" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "All by Myself" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "Everybody Step" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

Births

• June 19 - Louis Jordan
• September 19 - Billy Ward[?], The Dominoes[?]
• December 8 - Johnny Otis
• December 15 - Alan Freed, disc jockey

Deaths

• April 20 - Tony Jackson
• August 2 - Enrico Caruso