1925 in music


This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1925.

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Published popular music

Top Popular Recordings 1925

The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1924:
Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.
RankArtistTitleLabelRecordedReleasedChart Positions
1Isham Jones, Guest Conductor With Ray Miller's Orchestra"I'll See You in My Dreams"Brunswick 2788US BB 1925 #2, US #1 for 7 weeks, 16 total weeks
2Gene Austin"Yes Sir, That's My Baby"Victor 19656US BB 1925 #1, US #1 for 7 weeks, 17 total weeks
3Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra"Sweet Georgia Brown"Vocalion 15002US BB 1925 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 13 total weeks
4Vernon Dalhart"The Prisoner's Song"Victor 19427US BB 1925 #3, US #1 for 5 weeks, 20 total weeks, 1,320,356 sales thru 1930, 7 more weeks at #1 1926
5Eddie Cantor"If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)"Columbia 364US BB 1925 #5, US #1 for 5 weeks, 12 total weeks
6Al Jolson"All Alone"Brunswick 2743US BB 1925 #6, US #1 for 5 weeks, 9 total weeks
7The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin Orchestra)"Manhattan"Columbia 422US BB 1925 #7, US #1 for 4 weeks, 10 total weeks
8The Cavaliers (Ben Selvin Orchestra)"Oh, How I Miss You Tonight"Columbia 359US BB 1925 #8, US #1 for 3 weeks, 12 total weeks
9Marion Harris"Tea for Two"Brunswick 2747US BB 1925 #9, US #1 for 3 weeks, 11 total weeks
10Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"All Alone"Victor 19487US BB 1925 #10, US #1 for 3 weeks, 9 total weeks, 835,586 sales
11John McCormack"All Alone"Victor Red Seal 1067US BB 1925 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks
12Ted Lewis and His Band"O, Katharina"Columbia 295US BB 1925 #12, US #1 for 1 week, 9 total weeks
13Isham Jones Orchestra"Remember"Brunswick 2963US BB 1925 #13, US #1 for 7 weeks, 11 total weeks
14Gene Austin"Yearning "Victor 19625US BB 1925 #14, US #2 for 4 weeks, 8 total weeks
15Nick Lucas"Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue?"Brunswick 2961US BB 1925 #15, US #2 for 3 weeks, 6 total weeks
16Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"Oh, Lady Be Good!"Victor 19551US BB 1925 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks
17Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"Indian Love Call"Victor 19517US BB 1925 #22, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks, 526,884 sales
18Bessie Smith"The Saint Louis Blues"Columbia 14064US BB 1925 #25, US #3 for 1 week, 6 total week, 225,000 sales
19Vincent Lopez and His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra"I Want to Be Happy"Okeh 40175US BB 1925 #16, US #2 for 2 weeks, 7 total weeks
20Vernon Dalhart"The Wreck of the Old 97"Victor 19427US BB 1925 #36, US #4 for 1 week, 8 total weeks, 1,085,985 sales thru 1930

Classical music

  • Isidor Achron – Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Pedro Humberto Allende –
  • *Mientras baja la nieve, for voice and piano
  • *El surtidor, for voice and piano
  • *A las nubes, for voice and piano
  • *Ojitas de pena, for voice and piano
  • *Tres Tonadas, for orchestra
  • *Tempo di minuetto in C major, for piano
  • *Tempo de vals, for harp
  • Béla Bartók – Dance Suite
  • Ernest Bloch – Concerto Grosso No. 1, for piano and strings
  • Frank Bridge –
  • *"Golden Hair", for voice and piano
  • *"Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
  • *The Pneu World, for cello and piano
  • *Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
  • *Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
  • *Winter Pastorale, for piano
  • Carlos Chávez –
  • *Cake Walk, for piano
  • *Los cuatro soles, ballet, for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • *Energía, for nine instruments
  • *Foxtrot, for piano
  • *36, for piano
  • Aaron Copland – Music for the Theatre, for chamber orchestra
  • Henry Cowell –
  • *The Banshee, for string piano
  • *Ensemble, for two violins, two cellos, and thundersticks
  • *Slow Jig, for piano
  • Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
  • Edward Elgar –
  • *"The Herald", part-song, SATB
  • *"The Prince of Sleep", part-song, SATB
  • Eduardo Fabini –
  • *A mi río, for mixed choir and orchestra
  • *Luz mala, for soprano and orchestra
  • *Triste No. 1, version for orchestra
  • John Fernström – Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Jacob Gade – Jalousie, for cello and piano
  • George Gershwin – Piano Concerto in F
  • Leopold Godowsky – Java Suite
  • William Henry Harris – Faire Is the Heaven
  • Gustav Holst –
  • *"God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
  • *Hymns for Songs of Praise, for choir
  • *Motets, for choir
  • *Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
  • *Terzetto for flute, oboe, and viola
  • Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Jacques Ibert – Concerto for cello and wind instruments
  • John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano 1925
  • Ernst Krenek –
  • *Die Jahreszeiten, Op. 35, for choir
  • *Mammon, Op. 37, ballet, for orchestra
  • *Der vertauschte Cupido, Op. 38, ballet, for orchestra
  • Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 2
  • Carl Nielsen – Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Semplice
  • Juan Carlos Paz –
  • *Chorale in F-sharp major, for piano
  • *Cuatro fugas sobre un tema, for piano
  • *Piano Sonata No. 2, in B-flat minor
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 2, Iron and Steel
  • Ottorino Respighi –
  • *Concerto in modo misolidio, for piano and orchestra
  • *Poema autunnale, for violinand orchestra
  • *Rossiniana, suite for orchestra
  • Albert Roussel –
  • *Duo, for bassoon and contrabass
  • *Segovia, Op. 29, for guitar
  • *Serenade, Op. 30, for flute, string trio, and harp
  • Arnold Schoenberg –
  • *Drei Satiren, Op. 28, for SATB choir with viola, cello, and piano
  • *Vier Stücke, Op. 27, for SATB choir with clarinet, mandolin, violin, and cello
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Symphony No. 1, String Quartet No. 2
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger –
  • *The Adventures of Tom Thumb, for piano
  • *Piano Preludes Nos. 1–5
  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1
  • Jean Sibelius –
  • *Ett ensamt skidspår, for reciting voice and piano
  • *Herran siunaus, for choir and organ
  • *Intrada, for organ, Op. 111, No. 1
  • *Kolme johdantovuorolaulua, for choir and organ
  • *Morceau romantique sur un motif de M. Jacob de Julin, for orchestra
  • *Narciss, for voice and piano
  • *Skolsång, for choir
  • *Skyddskårsmarsch, for choir
  • *Stormen, Op. 109, incidental music for Shakespeare's play
  • Igor Stravinsky –
  • *Serenade in A, for piano
  • *Suite No. 1, for small orchestra
  • *Suite, "d’après thèmes, fragments et pièces de Giambattista Pergolesi", for violin and piano
  • Marcel Tournier – Images No. 1, Op. 29; Etude de Concert "Au Matin"
  • Joaquín Turina –
  • *La oración del torero, Op. 34, for lute quartet, also arranged for string quartet or string orchestra
  • *La venta de los gatos, Op. 32, for piano
  • Edgard Varèse – Intégrales
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams –
  • *Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
  • *Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
  • *Hymns for Songs of Praise, for choir
  • *Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
  • *Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
  • *Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos –
  • *Chôros No. 3, for male choir or seven wind instruments, or both together
  • *Chôros No. 5, for piano
  • *Chôros No. 8, for large orchestra and two pianos
  • *Cirandinhas, for piano
  • *O Martírio dos Insetos, for violin and orchestra
  • *Sul America, for piano
  • William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
  • Kurt Weill – Violin Concerto
  • Alberto Williams –
  • *Canciones pasionales, for voice and piano
  • *Piezas modernas para los niños, for piano
  • Stefan Wolpe – Three Songs by Heinrich von Kleist

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Big Boy Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 7 and later moved to the 44th Street Theatre for a total run of 168 performancesBoodle London production opened at the Empire Theatre on March 10 and ran for 94 performancesBy the Way Broadway revue opened at the Gaiety Theatre on December 28 and ran for 176 performances. Starring Cicely Courtneidge.The Cocoanuts Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 8 and ran for 375 performancesDearest Enemy

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