1915 in music

See also: 1914 in music, other events of 1915, 1916 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• Tom Brown's band from New Orleans goes to Chicago and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band"

Published popular music

• "Alabama Jubilee" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
• "All For You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
• "Araby" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Are You From Dixie?" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
• "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
• "The Army Of Today's All Right" w.m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh
• "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg
• "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern
• "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi
• "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco
• "Blame It On The Blues" Cooke
• "Canadian Capers" w.m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
• "Close To My Heart" by A.B. Sterling
• "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
• "Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan
• "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg
• "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay, Brown
• "Georgia Grind" w.m. Spencer Williams
• "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch
• "Hello Hawaii, How Are You?" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz
• "The Hesitating Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
• "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi
• "I Love A Piano" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Hermann Darewski
• "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
• "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
• "In A Monastery Garden" m. Albert William Ketèlbey
• "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. Richard A. Whiting
• "I've Been Floating Down The Old Green River" w. Bert Kalmar m. Joe Cooper
• "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" Irving Berlin
• "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w. William Jerome m. Walter Donaldson
• "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. Raymond Hubbell
• "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
• "Love Is The Best Of All" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "Love, Here Is My Heart" w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu
• "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
• "Memories" w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Molly Dear It's You I'm After" w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether
• "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson m. Theodore F. Morse
• "My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "My Sweet Adair" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
• "Neapolitan Love Song" w. Henry Blossom Jr m. Victor Herbert
• "Nola" m.Felix Arndt
• "Norway" by Joe McCarthy
• "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai
• "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag" w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell
• "Paper Doll" w.m. Johnny S. Black
• "The Perfect Song" w. Clarence Lucas m. Joseph Carl Breil
• "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. Elsa Maxwell
• "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole
• "Railroad Jim" by Nat H. Vincent
• "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Siam" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
• "So Long Letty" by Earl Carroll
• "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein
• "Some Sort Of Somebody" w. Elsie Janis m. Jerome Kern
• "Song Of The Islands" w.m. Charles E. King
• "That Hula Hula" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
• "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
• "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "Underneath The Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer
• "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. Walter Donaldson
• "When I Get Back To The USA" w.m Irving Berlin
• "When I Leave The World Behind" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" w.m. Charles McCarron & Nat Vincent
• "When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi
• "Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" David, Barnett & Darewski
• "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" by Shelton Brooks
• "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
• "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer

Hit recordings

• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginia" by Alma Gluck
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" by John McCormack
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey

Classical music

• Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir

Opera

• Umberto Giordano - Madame Sans-Gene
• Scott Joplin - Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)

Musical theater

• Bric-A-Brac London production
• Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway production
• The Passing Show Of 1915 Broadway production
• Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production
• Tonight's The Night London production
• Very Good Eddie Broadway production
• Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915 Broadway production

Births

• January 6 - Bob Copper, folk singer
• April 4 - Muddy Waters (+ 1983)
• April 7 - Billie Holiday
• April 29 - Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers
• May 5 - Alice Faye, US actress and singer
• May 8 - Nan Wynn, US singer
• May 25 - Ginny Simms, US singer
• June 1 - Bart Howard, composer and pianist
• June 9 - Les Paul, musician, inventor of the solid body Electric Guitar
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress
• August 24 - Wynonie Harris, US singer
• August 26 - Humphrey Searle, composer
• September 3 - Memphis Slim
• September 12 - Billy Daniels, US singer
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra
• December 19 - Edith Piaf
• December 30 - Brownie McGhee

Deaths

• April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
• October 5 - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer