1916 in music

Published popular music

• "Allah's Holiday" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "And They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
• "Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "At Finnigan's Ball" w.m. Bert Lee
• "Baby Shoes" by Joe Goodwin
• "Beale Street Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
• "A Broken Doll" w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris
• "Bugle Call Rag" w.m. Eubie Blake & Carey Morgan
• "Bull Frog Blues" Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley
• "The Cobbler's Song" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton
• "La Cumparsita" w. Carol Raven m. G. H. Matos Rodriguez (words written 1932)
• "Don't Leave Me, Daddy" Joe Verges
• "Down In Honky Tonky Town" w. Charles McCarron m. Chris Smith
• "Down Where The Swanee River Flows" w. Charles McCarron m. Charles S. Alberte
• "For Dixie And Uncle Sam" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• ""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" w. Darl MacBoyle m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "From Here To Shanghai" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Give Me All Of You" Schwartzwald
• "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Green Hills Of Somerset" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
• "Have A Heart" w. Gene Buck m. Jerome Kern
• "Homesickness Blues" w.m. Cliff Hess
• "The Honolulu Blues" w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco
• "How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
• "I Ain't Got Nobody" w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m. Spencer Williams
• "I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden
• "I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer
• "I Want To Marry A Male Quartette" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "If You Were The Only Girl In The World" w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer
• "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" w.m. N. J. Clesi
• "Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" w. Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
• "I've A Shooting Box In Scotland" w.m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs & Cole Porter
• "Joe Turner Blues" w. Walter Hirsch m. W. C. Handy
• "Katinka" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love" w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m. Ira Schuster
• "The Laddies Who Fought And Won" w.m. Harry Lauder
• "Li'l Liza Jane" w.m. Countess Ada De Lachau
• "Livery Stable Blues" m. Marvin Lee
• "Love Me At Twilight" w. William Jerome & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" w. Richard Egan m. Richard Whiting
• "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" w, Bert Hanlon & Benny Ryan m. Harry Tierney
• "Movie Trot" m. Harry H. Raymond
• "My Hawaiian Sunrise" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Carey Morgan
• "My Syncopated Melody Man" w.m. Blanche Merrill & Eddie Cox
• "Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an" w.m. James Kendris
• "Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" w. Joe Goodwin & William Tracey m. Nat Vincent
• "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" w.m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
• "O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian" w. Al Dubin m. Rennie Cormack
• "Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo" w. Stanley Murphy & Charles McCarron m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Operatic Rag" J. Lensberg
• "Poor Butterfly" w. John Golden m. Raymond Hubbell
• "Pretty Baby" w. Gus Kahn m. Tony Jackson & Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Rackety Coo!" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Rolling Stones - All Come Rolling Home Again" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
• "Roses Of Picardy" w. Frederick E. Weatherley m. Haydn Wood
• "Shamrock Rag" m. Euday L. Bowman
• "She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Sierra Sue" w.m. Joseph Buell Carey
• "Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine" w. Joe McCarthy m. Percy Wenrich
• "Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty" w.m. A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey & Bennett Scott
• "That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland" w.m. Henry I. Marshal
• "There's A Little Bit Of Bad In Every Good Little Girl" w. Grant Clarke m. Fred Fisher
• "There's A Quaker Down In Quaker Town" w. David Berg m. Alfred Solman
• "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii" w. Joe Goodwin m. Halsey K. Mohr
• "Throw Me A Rose" w. P. G. Wodehouse & Herbert Reynolds m. Emmerich Kallman
• "Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Walkin' The Dog" Shelton Brooks
• "What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?" w. Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson m. James V. Monaco
• "When John McCormack Sings A Song" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
• "When You're Down In Louisville" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
• "Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" w. Dave Radford m. Richard Whiting
• "Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula" w.m. E. Ray Goetz, Joe Young & Pete Wendling
• "You Belong To Me" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "You Can't Get Along With 'Em Or Without 'Em" w. Grant Clarke m. Fred Fisher
• "You're In Love" w. Otto Harbach & Edward Clark m. Rudolf Friml

  Hit recordings

  
  "O Sole Mio" by Enrico Caruso"Santa Lucia" by Enrico Caruso"Somewhere a Voice is Calling" by John McCormack"Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" by Al Jolson"I Love A Piano" by Billy Murray"Pretty Baby" by Billy Murray"I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" by Marion Harris"Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)" by James F. Harrison"There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding" by James F. Harrison "Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" by Charles Harrison
  

  Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg - Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"
• Ernest Bloch - Israel Symphony
• Alexander Glazunov - Karelian Legend
• Jesus Guridi - Una aventura de Don Quijote
• Ludvig Holm - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
• Charles Ives - Fourth Symphony
• Erkki Melartin - Symphony no 5 in A minor, Op. 90, "Sinfonia brevis"
• Hubert Parry - Jerusalem
• Siegfried Salomon - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G minor
• Igor Stravinsky - Burleske for 4 Pantomimes and Chamber Orchestra

  Opera

• Enrique Granados - Goyescas

  Musical theater

• Broadway And Buttermilk Broadway production
• Chu Chin Chow London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on August 31 and ran for a record 2238 performances.
• Robinson Crusoe Jr Broadway production opened on February 17 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 139 performances
• Sybil Broadway production opened on January 10 at the Liberty Theatre and ran for 168 performances
• Ziegfeld Follies Of 1916 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 12 and ran for 112 performances
  

  Births

• January 4 - Slim Gaillard
• February 29 - Dinah Shore
• March 15 - Harry James, bandleader
• May 6 - Adriana Caselotti, voice (and model) for Snow White
• May 10 - Milton Babbitt, composer
• May 14 - Skip Martin, US singer
• July 24 - Bob Eberly, US singer with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra
• July 29 - Charlie Christian
• August 3 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter
• August 24 – Léo Ferré, singer, songwriter and composer
• August 27 - Martha Raye, US singer and actress
• September 13 - Dick Haymes, Argentinian-born US singer and actor
• October 2 - George Siravo arranger and saxophonist
• November 10 - Billy May
• December 11 - Perez Prado, Cuban bandleader and composer
  

  Deaths

• May 11 - Max Reger, composer
• December 28 - Eduard Strauss, composer