1924 in music

Events

Top Hits: Printed Music

• "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin
• "Serenade" by Dorothy Donnelly[?]
• "Indian Love Call" by Otto Harbach
• "O, Katherina!" by L. Wolfe Gilbert[?]
• "The Prisoner's Song" by Gus Massey[?]
• "Everybody Loves My Baby" by Jack Palmer[?] and Spencer Williams
• "Jealous" by Tommie Malie[?]
• "All Alone" by Irving Berlin
• "June Night" by Cliff Friend[?]
• "Charley My Boy" by Gus Kahn[?] & Ted Fiorito[?]
• "Doodle-Doo-Doo" by Art Lasser[?] & Mel Stitzel[?]
• "Spain" by Gus Kahn[?]
• "I Wonder What's Become Of Sally?" by Jack Yellen[?] & Milton Ager[?]

Top Hits: Recordings

• "San" by Paul Whiteman & His Jazz Band
• "Arkansaw Blues/Blue Blues" by the Mound City Blue Blowers[?]
• "Rhapsody In Blue" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with George Gershwin
• "San/Red Hot!" by the Mound City Blue Blowers & Frank Trumbauer[?]
• "Show Me The Way (To Go Home)" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "What'll I Do?" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart[?]

Births

• January 6 - Earl Scruggs
• January 20 - Slim Whitman[?]
• April 16 - Henry Mancini
• May 22 - Charles Aznavour
• June 20 - Chet Atkins
• August 20 - Jim Reeves[?]
• August 29 - Dinah Washington
• December 24 - Lee Dorsey[?]

Deaths

• July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
• November 29 - Giacomo Puccini, composer