1938 in music

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• 2.1 January / February
• 2.2 March / April
• 2.3 from May to July
• 2.4 August / September
• 2.5 October to December
• 2.6 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Reichsmusiktage in Nazi Germany

• MAY 22: Richard Strauss opened the Reichsmusiktage in Dusseldorf with a concert.
• MAY 24: As part of the Reich Music Festival, organized by Hans Severus Ziegler Nazi propaganda exhibition opens Degenerate music.
• May 26-May 28: The Musicological Conference 1938 is concerned among other things with the subject of music and race.

Jazz / Swing

• January 8: The Andrews Sisters perform their title " When I Have Schoen " in the radio series Your Hit Parade on. End of January 1938 are sold in the United States has more than 350,000 plates of the song, and holds the title the next five weeks on the top spot of the Billboard charts.
• January 16: Benny Goodman gives his famous Carnegie Hall concert in New York's Carnegie Hall, where, among other musicians from the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie participate.
• JANUARY 29: Bunny Berigan comes with "I Can not Get Started" in the top ten; the Vernon Duke song that henceforth Berigans signature tune is is later a popular jazz standard.
• February 5: The " Every Day 's a Holiday" - the theme song from the film musical with Mae West - Glen Miller can place his second hit in the national charts; even if he is only a week at No. 17, which passes in the spring of 1938 his breakthrough.
• FEBRUARY 19: Count Basie with " One O'Clock Jump" Harry James gets into the top ten, the first of his total of 73 hits to 1953 members of the Goodman and Basie band formed the studio orchestra.. In the same week Ethel Waters has her last chart hit with " You're a Sweetheart". It is known as the song from the eponymous musical with Alice Faye.
• March 5: Benny Goodman is the only one that comes with the Stuff Smith title " It's Wonderful " in the top ten, a melody that is also interpreted by Louis Armstrong, Red Norvo / Mildred Bailey, Bob Crosby and Maxine Sullivan.
• March 12: With " Do not Be That Way " Benny Goodman has one of his biggest hits; holds the title to 13 weeks in the top 20, to five weeks to position 1 Also in March, Mildred Bailey comes with a vocal version in the charts.
• MARCH 19: The Duke Ellington Orchestra with Ivie Anderson Bandvokalistin achieved with " If You Were in My Place " the top ten.
• MARCH 26: Larry Clinton with the hit " Cry, Baby, Cry" his first number - one hit, courage which he remains 15 weeks in the top 30. In the same week Duke Ellington comes with Mitchell Parish's song "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart " in the charts, where it remains for 19 weeks, three of them at # 1 Band singer is again Ivie Anderson. Mid-May, Benny Goodman with the song a # 1 hit.
• April 2: Tommy Dorsey comes with " Yearning " in the top ten, the following week with Jerome Kern's "You Could not Be Cuter ".
• April 8: The " Flat Foot Boogie" is the first hit of the duo Slim & Slam, to which Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart have joined together; He reached # 2 for two weeks
• June 4: " Says My Heart" is the last of the two number - one hits that had vibraphonist Red Norvo with vocalist Mildred Bailey; Frank Loesser song held the four weeks, the top position.
• June 18: Teddy Wilson comes with "You Go to My Head " in the American charts at number 20 The number one reached Ella Fitzgerald "A Tisket, A Tasket, " the song to a lost yellow basket is Chick Webb's single Millionenhit; he dominated the charts 19 weeks long, ten to position 1
• JULY 23: Larry Clinton reached with his version of "You Go to My Head " position 3 on the U.S. charts. In the same week, it creates Wingy Manone as a vocalist with his version of " Flat Foot Boogie" in the top 20; Meanwhile, its author Slim & Slam have another hit with the nonsense song " Tutti Frutti " - Little Richard unrelated to later rock and roll song.
• JULY 24: Artie Shaw plays a his hit " Begin the Beguine ". His published in August 1935 Swing version of the resulting musical songs leads six weeks on the American charts and is a Millionenhit.
• August 9: The Duke Ellington Orchestra with the soloist Johnny Hodges and Wallace Jones plays Prelude to a Kiss for the Brunswick label in an instrumental version one.
• 13 August: Larry Clinton comes with Debussy - processing "My Reverie " in the hit parade; eight weeks is the Swing version of a classical piano piece on # 1 Bea Wain was the Bandvokalistin. Billie Holiday make it with " I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key ) " on # 2
• SEPTEMBER 24: Position 1 on the U.S. charts reached Larry Clinton with Frank Loesser song " Heart and Soul", the text was written by Hoagy Carmichael. In the same week Artie Shaw's "Back Bay Shuffle" reached the Top Ten.
• October 8 with Irving Berlin's song " Change Partners " Jimmy Dorsey comes to position 1 on the charts. The song singing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the movie musical Carefree.
• October 22: The Pinetop Smith - number "Boogie Woogie " rises Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra on # 3 of the hit parade. In the same week he is also successful with Irving Berlin's "Marie" on the charts. Johnny Hodges also has singer Mary McHugh achieved a hit with " Prelude to a Kiss " and # 17 Number 1 is but Andy Kirk with " I Will not Tell a Soul (I Love You) ".
• 29 October: The " Basin Street Blues" by Spencer Williams Louis Armstrong comes in the top 20; Earl Hines is the singer here.
• November 5: Martha Tilton as a vocalist with Benny Goodman comes with " When I Go A- Dreamin ' " in the Top 20 in the same week, the Mills Brothers with " Sixty Seconds Got Together" a top 10 hit in the U.S..
• NOVEMBER 12: "Two Sleepy People " is represented as of this three times a week on the charts, Hoagy Carmichael in original version with Ella Logan duet, also by Bob Crosby and Fats Waller. In the same week concludes with Ella Fitzgerald I Found My Yellow Basket on the success of A- Tisket, A- Tasket and reached # 3 on the charts.
• November 19: Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest singer of the band a Top 10 hit with the Robin - Rainger number "I Have Eyes".
• November 26th: On # 8 on the charts Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald come up with " FDR Jones "; The initials refer to the U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The song also Cab Calloway comes on December 16th in the singles chart.
• December 17: with " Jumpin 'at the Wodside ", the Count Basie Orchestra a hit in the top 20; Woodside was a hotel in New York's 125th Street, where the musicians often lived. In the same week reached Benny Goodman with "This Can not Be Love " # 2 on the charts.
• December 24: Again Benny Goodman ( with band vocalist Martha Tilton ) on the charts with "I Have Eyes".
• December 30: " Jeepers Creepers ", the declaration of love to a racehorse, in the version of Larry Clinton became a hit in the top 20; In 1939, Al Donahue it at the top of the charts. The number - one hit in this week, Artie Shaw with " They Say ", a title which the orchestra of Sammy Kaye had in the top 20 earlier in 1938.

Classical music

Musical

Movie Musical

• The feature film Carefree ( Sorgenfrei by Dr. Flagg - Carefree ) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers has its premiere in the United States. Director Mark Sandrich, the music was written by Irving Berlin.

Born

January / February

• January 06: Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
• January 13: Daevid Allen, Australian rock musician
• JANUARY 13: Richard Anthony, French singer
• January 13: Shiv Kumar Sharma, Indian Santurvirtuose
• January 14: Jack Jones, American singer
• JANUARY 21: Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey († 1995)
• January 23: Bill Duniven, American rock and roll musician († 1999)
• January 24th: Julius Arthur Hemphill, American jazz musician († 1995)
• JANUARY 25: Etta James, American R & B, blues and gospel singer
• JANUARY 25: Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer, poet and actor († 1980)
• January 29: Henry Ely, Dominican opera tenor
• January 29: James Jamerson, American bass player († 1983)
• January 31: Eike Reuter, German church musician, country church music director of Thuringia († 2005)

• February 01: Jimmy Carl Black, drummer and vocalist American († 2008)
• February 02: Sergio Ortega, Chilean composer and pianist († 2003)
• February 03: Tony Marshall, German pop singer
• February 5: Ed Dömland, American composer, organist, pianist and jazz percussionist († 2012)
• February 07: Friedrich Karl Barth, pastor and songwriter
• FEBRUARY 11: Edith Mathis, Swiss soprano
• FEBRUARY 11: Willy Oliveira, Brazilian composer
• February 13: Carmela Corren, Israeli pop singer
• FEBRUARY 16: John Corigliano, American composer
• FEBRUARY 21: Dany man, German pop singer and actress († 2010)
• FEBRUARY 28: Willie Bobo, American jazz percussionist († 1983)

March / April

• March 01: Adi Rinner, Austrian composer and conductor
• March 04: Werner Jacob, German organist and composer († 2006)
• March 05: Wulf Arlt, German musicologist
• March 05: Hayden Thompson, American rockabilly and country musician
• March 08: Tom Nicholas, American jazz drummer
• March 09: Lill- Babs, Swedish pop singer
• MARCH 13: Hans -Joachim Hesp, German composer and publisher
• March 14: Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, poet and visual artist († 1979)
• March 15: Charles Lloyd, American jazz saxophonist and flutist
• MARCH 16: Gus Anton, German conductor and composer
• March 17: Rudolf Nureyev Chametowitsch, Russian -Austrian ballet dancers († 1993)
• MARCH 18: Charley Pride, American country singer
• MARCH 24: Holger Czukay, German musician
• MARCH 24: Steve Kuhn, American jazz pianist
• MARCH 24: Jimmy Voytek, American country and rockabilly musician († 1980)
• March 25: Hoyt Axton, American country musician († 1999)

• April 02: Ralf Petersen, German composer
• April 07: Spencer Dryden, American drummer († 2005)
• April 07: Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter († 2008)
• 07 April: Alexander von Schlippenbach, German jazz pianist and composer
• APRIL 10: Denny Zeitlin, American jazz pianist and psychiatrist
• April 10: Günther Kaunzinger, German organist and professor
• APRIL 11: Kurt Moll, German opera singer
• April 15: Walter Scholz, German trumpeter ( folk music)
• April 17: Teddy Parker, German singer and radio presenter
• April 18: Heinz Holecek, Austrian singer, actor, impersonator and entertainer († 2012)
• April 26: Duane Eddy, American guitarist
• April 29: Alfredo del Mónaco, Venezuelan composer
• APRIL 29: Klaus Voormann, German musician and graphic artist

May to July

• May 03: Aristides Incháustegui, Dominican singer
• MAY 11: Carla Bley, American musician and composer
• MAY 22: Alain Gagnon, Canadian composer and music educator
• MAY 23: Daniel Humair, Swiss jazz drummer
• MAY 24: Tommy Chong, actor and musician
• MAY 26: William Bolcom, American composer
• MAY 26: Jaki Liebezeit, German drummer
• MAY 26: Teresa Stratas, Canadian soprano of Greek descent
• MAY 28: Prince Buster, Jamaican ska musicians

• June 07: Joel Blahnik, American composer and teacher
• 09 June: Charles Wuorinen, American composer
• June 12: Stu Martin, American jazz drummer († 1980)
• JUNE 13: Myroslaw Skoryk, Ukrainian composer
• June 14: Ewald Kooiman, Dutch musician († 2009)
• June 15: Tony Oxley, British drummer
• JUNE 28: Gerhard Dickel, church music director, choirmaster, organist and music professor († 2003)
• June 30: Chris Hinze, Dutch jazz musicians

• July 03: John Heard, American jazz bassist and visual artist
• July 04: Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter
• July 18: Buschi Niebergall, German musician († 1990)
• July 18: Ian Stewart, British pianist († 1985)
• JULY 20: Dennis Budimir, American jazz guitarist
• JULY 23: Ronny Cox, American actor and singer
• JULY 26: Joanne Brackeen, American jazz pianist and university teacher

August / September

• 03 August: Ingrid Caven, German chanson singer and actress
• August 04: Simon Preston, English organist, conductor and composer
• August 04: Bernd Wiese man, German composer, pianist, music educator, and conceptual artist
• 08 August: Jacques Hétu, Canadian composer († 2010)
• 09 August: Micheline Coulombe Saint- Marcoux, Canadian composer († 1985)
• August 13: Dave " Baby" Cortez, American R & B musician and organist
• 13 August: Oscar Ghiglia, Italian guitarist
• August 16th: Rocco Granata, Italian entertainer and pop singer
• August 21: Kenny Rogers, American country singer and actor
• August 24: Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
• August 31: "Spider" John Koerner, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
• August 31: Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba Belgian player and cellist

• September 04: Michel Rateau, French composer
• September 05: Piotr Lachert, Polish composer, pianist and poet
• 09 September: Henri -Claude Fantapié, French conductor
• SEPTEMBER 21: Yuji Takahashi, Japanese composer and pianist
• September 22: Dean Reed, American actor, rock ' n' roll and country music singer († 1986)
• SEPTEMBER 24: Steve Douglas, American rock saxophonist († 1993)
• September 28: Ben E. King, American soul singer
• September 30: Kees Vlak, Dutch composer and musician

October to December

• October 03: Eddie Cochran, American rock and roll musician († 1960)
• October 04: Mark Levine, American jazz pianist and trombonist
• October 14: Melba Montgomery, American country musician
• OCTOBER 15: Rafael Aponte - Ledée, Puerto Rican composer
• October 16: Nico, a German model and singer († 1988)
• October 24: Odean Pope, American jazz musician
• OCTOBER 27: Elliot del Borgo, American composer and professor († 2013)
• OCTOBER 27: Edda Moser, German singer
• 28 October: Jan -Jürgen Wasmuth, German composer and church musician

• November 05: Joe Dassin, French singer († 1980)
• November 11: Narvel Felts, American country and rockabilly musician
• November 11: Lloyd Miller, American musician and ethnomusicologist
• NOVEMBER 17: Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk musicians
• November 29: Eberhard Hertel, German singer

• December 01: Carlos Garnett, American jazz saxophonist
• 09 December: William Thomas McKinley, American composer, jazz pianist and music educator
• December 11: McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
• December 12: Connie Francis, American singer
• DECEMBER 13: Joachim Müller village, German musicologist and organist
• December 13: Heino, German pop singer and singer
• December 18: Chas Chandler, British musician, music producer and manager († 1996)
• December 21: Felix Huby, German journalist, screenwriter and writer
• December 24: Messiah Maiguashca, Ecuadorian composer
• December 25: Ivonne Haza, Dominican soprano
• December 29: Bart Berman, Dutch pianist

Exact date of birth unknown

• Alain Abbott, French accordion player and composer
• Bobby Brown, American rockabilly and rock and roll musician
• Martin Fay, Irish musician († 2012)
• Jere Hutcheson, American composer and music educator
• Ellsworth Milburn, American composer, music teacher and pianist († 2007)

Died

• January 3: Arturo Berutti, Argentine composer (* 1862)
• January 22: Richard Franck, German composer and pianist (* 1858)

• February 9: Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach, German conductor and music teacher (* 1875)
• FEBRUARY 22: Miguel Llobet, Spanish guitarist and composer ( b. 1878 )

• March 7: Juan Bautista Massa, Argentine composer (* 1885)
• MARCH 18: Cyril Rootham, English composer (* 1875)
• MARCH 21: Omer Letorey, French composer and organist (* 1873)
• April 8: Joe King Oliver, American cornetist (* 1885)

• JULY 4: Jean -Baptiste Dubois, Canadian cellist, conductor and music teacher (* 1870)
• August 14: Landon Ronald, English conductor, music teacher and composer (* 1873)
• August 16th: Robert Johnson, American musician ( King of the Delta Blues ) (* 1911)
• August 17: Wage Rudolf Soepratman, composer of the Indonesian national anthem (* 1903)

• November 21: Leopold Godowsky, Polish- American pianist and composer (* 1870)
• December 14: Maurice Emmanuel, French composer (* 1862)
• 26th December: Irene Chavanne, Austrian alto singer (* 1868)
• 26th December: Max Eckert Access Dorff, German geographer (* 1868)

• Papa Charlie Jackson, American blues musician (* 1890)
• Esteban Peña Morell, Dominican composer (* 1894)
• Remigio Renzi, Italian organist, composer and music teacher (* 1857)