Music of 1910s

The 1910s were called the Ballroom Decade. Some of the more "trendier" restaurants were equipped with dance floors.

1910s Top Love Songs


1. "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)" Joseph McCarthy,
James Monaco
2. "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" Nat Ayer, A. Seymour Brown
3. "Moonlight Bay" Edward Madden, Percy Wenrich
4. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" Leo Friedman, Beth Slater Whitson
5. "Peg o' My Heart" Alfred Bryan, Fred Fisher

 

Famous Jazz Artists That Lived In 1910s

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
* Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)
* Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
* Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)
* Thelonious Monk (1917-1982)

Early Jazz Musicians

*Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
* Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)
* Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931)
* Buddy Bolden (1877-1930)
* Nick LaRocca (1889-1961)
* Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941)
* Joe "King" Oliver (1885-1938)
* Red Nichols (1905-1965)

Swing Artists of 1910s

Paul Whiteman (1890-1967)
* Benny Goodman (1909-1986)
* Glenn Miller (1904-1944)
* Artie Shaw (1910-2004)
* Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956)
* Jimmy Dorsey (1904-1957)
* Cab Calloway (1907-1994)
* Fats Waller (1904-1943)
* Count Basie (1904-1984)
* Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
* Benny Carter (1907-2003)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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