1929 in music

Events

• December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays "Auld Lang Syne[?]" for the first time
• Cab Calloway's musical career begins
• Charley Patton[?]'s musical career begins
• T-Bone Walker's musical career begins
• Memphis Minnie's musical career begins
• Gene Autry's musical career begins

Top Hit Songs

• "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish
• "Singing in the Rain" by Nacio Herb Brown[?] & Arthur Freed
• "My Love Parade" by Clifford Grey[?]
• "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar[?]
• "Without a Song" by William Rose[?]
• "Romance" by Edgar Leslie[?]
• "My Kinda Love" by Jo' Trent[?]
• "Satisfied" by Irving Caesar[?]
• "Why Can't I" by Lorenz Hart
• "Piccolo Pete" by Phil Baxter[?]
• "Waiting at the End of the Road" by Irving Berlin
• "After You've Gone" by Henry Creamer & J. Turner Layton[?]

Top Hit Recordings

• "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
• "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane[?]
• "Stardust" by Isham Jones[?] & His Orchestra
• "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys[?], featuring Bing Crosby
• "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
• "Singin' In The Rain" by Cliff Edwards[?]
• "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw[?]
• "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee
• "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley[?]
• "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
• "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith[?]
• "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
• "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
• "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
• "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
• "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp[?]'s Kentucky Serenaders

Births

• January 6 - Wilbert Harrison[?]
• May 1 - Sonny James[?]
• June 9 - Johnny Ace[?]
• June 23 - June Carter Cash
• July 18 - Screaming Jay Hawkins
• August 12 - Buck Owens[?]
• August 24 - William Winfield[?], The Harptones[?]
• October 26 - Neal Matthews[?] The Jordanaires[?]
• November 11 - LaVern Baker
• November 28 - Berry Gordy Jr.[?], record producer
• November 30 - Dick Clark[?], host of American Bandstand
• December 25 - Billy Horton[?], The Silhouettes[?]
• December 25 - Chris Kenner[?]

Deaths

• June 2 - Don Murray, jazz clarinetist