1930 in music

Events

• Bukka White[?] begins performing

Top Hits: Printed Music

• "Mysterious Mose" by Walter Doyle[?]
• "Happy Feet" by Jack Yellen[?]
• "Lucky Seven" by Howard Dietz[?]
• "The White Dove" by Clifford Grey[?]
• "I Got Rhythm" by Ira Gershwin
• "Get Happy" by Harold Arlen[?]
• "Little White Lies" by W. Donaldson[?]
• "Ten Cents a Dance" by Lorenz Hart

Top Hits: Recordings

• "The Stein Song" by Rudy Vallee
• "You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)" by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians
• "Ten Cents A Dance" by Ruth Etting[?]
• "Three Little Words" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys[?] with Duke Ellington & His Jungle Band
• "On the Sunny Side Of the Street" by Ted Lewis & His Band
• "Little White Lies" by Fred Waring[?] & His Pennsylvanians
• "It Happened In Monterey (In Old Mexico)" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
• "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Meroff[?] & His Band
• "Embraceable You" by Red Nichols & His Five Pennies
• "Beyond the Blue Horizon" by George Olsen[?] & His Music
• "Body and Soul" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "I Remember Dear" by Bing Crosby
• "Betty Coed" by Rudy Vallee
• "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" by The Nat Shilkret[?] Orchestra

Births

• January 12 - Glenn Yarborough[?], The Limelighters[?]
• January 13 - Bobby Lester[?], The Moonglows
• January 27 - Bobby Blue Bland
• February 13 - Dorothy McGuire, The McGuire Sisters[?]
• February 26 - Chic Hetti[?], The Playmates[?]
• March 29 - Donny Conn[?], The Playmates[?]
• April 16 - Herbie Mann
• May 1 - Little Walter[?]
• July 1 - Bobby Day[?]
• September 23 - Ray Charles
• October 24 - Big Bopper
• December 31 - Odetta[?]

Deaths