1928 in music

Events

• Sammy Davis Jr.'s musical career begins
• Tampa Red[?]'s musical career begins
• Scrapper Blackwell[?]'s musical career begins
• Leroy Carr[?]'s musical career begins
• Howlin' Wolf's musical career begins
• Armad Ardoin[?] makes the first recordings of zydeco in Louisiana

Top Hit Songs: Printed Music

• "Memories of France" by Al Dubin[?]
• "How About Me?" by Irving Berlin
• "Marie" by Irving Berlin
• "One Kiss" by Oscar Hammerstein[?]
• "Ma Belle" by Clifford Grey[?]
• "Golden Gate" by Rose & Dreyer[?]
• "Making Whoopee" by Walter Donaldson &Gus Kahn[?]
• "Nagasaki" by Mort Dixon[?] & Harry Warren[?]

Top Hit Records

• "Is There Anything Wrong In That?" by Helen Kane[?]
• "I Wanna Be Loved By You" by Helen Kane
• "Jazz Holiday" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "(Goodbye, Broadway) Hello, Montreal!" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "My Man" by Fanny Brice[?]
• "That's My Weakness Now" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra featuring Bing Crosby
• "Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now" by Ruth Etting[?]
• "Let's Misbehave" by Helen Kane[?]
• "Mississippi Mud" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
• "Let's Misbehave" by Irving Aaronson[?] & His Commanders
• "Little Orphan Annie" by the Coon Sanders Nighhawks[?]
• "Diga Diga Doo" by Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra

Other Important Recordings

• "West End Blues[?]" by Louis Armstrong
• "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith[?]
• "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington
• "Muggles" by Louis Armstrong

Births

• January 30 - Ruth Brown
• January 31 - Chuck Willis
• February 26 - Fats Domino
• April 3 - Don Gibson[?]
• April 5 - Tony Williams, The Platters
• April 29 - Carl Gardner[?], The Coasters
• May 3 - James Brown
• May 4 - Maynard Ferguson
• August 10 - Jimmy Dean
• August 10 - Eddie Fisher[?]
• September 15 - Cannonball Adderly[?]
• September 28 - Tuli Kupferberg[?], The Fugs[?]
• December 30 - Bo Diddley

Deaths