1922 in music

Events

• Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
• Kid Ory makes his first recordings
• Maurice Ravel releases his orchestral arrangement of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
• All songs written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States

Top Hit Songs

• "Somebody Stole My Gal" by Leo Wood[?]
• "Lady of the Evening" by Irving Berlin
• "Baby Blue Eyes" by Walter Hirsch[?]
• "Hot Lips" by Henry Busse[?]
• "Say It While Dancing" by Benny Davis[?]
• "Do It Again" by Buddy DeSylva
• "Angel Child" by George Price[?]
• "Georgia" by Howard Johnson[?]
• "My Buddy" by Gus Kahn[?]
• "Bee's Knees" by Leo Wood[?] & Ray Lopez[?]
• "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" by Henry Creamer & Turner Layton[?]

Top Hit Recordings

• "Hot Lips" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "April Showers" by Al Jolson
• "Three O'Clock In the Morning" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" by Margaret Young[?]
• "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" by Gallagher & Shean[?]
• "Toot Toot Tootsie, Goo'bye" by Al Jolson
• "Oh, Is She Dumb!/Susie" by Eddie Cantor

Births

• February 17 - Tommy Edwards[?]
• April 7 - Mongo Santamaria[?]
• April 5 - Gale Storm
• April 22 - Charles Mingus

Deaths

• Bert Williams