1932 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1932.

1932 in music
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1932 marked the lowest trough the recording industry would experience during the Great Depression, as the record industry struggled for its existence. Only Victor, ARC and Columbia released records, and Columbia would be in bankruptcy by 1934. In the United States, revenues went from 104 million units in 1927 to 6 million in 1932,[1] and did not start to rebound until 1937. Regarding single releases, three of the six top selling 10" 78s were recorded by Jimmie Rodgers, who would die of Tuberculosis in May 1933. They can be found on the 1932 Country (Hillbilly) page. The twenty popular records listed below were extracted from Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954,[3] record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified. All sold at least 10,000 discs. Numerical rankings are always approximate.

Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart Positions
1Ted Lewis and His Band"In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town"[4]Columbia 2652-DMarch 15, 1932 (1932-03-15)May 1932 (1932-05)US BB 1932 #1, US #1 for 10 weeks, 22 total weeks[3]
2Leo Reisman and His Orchestra"Paradise"[5]Victor 22904December 28, 1931 (1931-12-28)January 13, 1932 (1932-01-13)US BB 1932 #2, US #1 for 6 weeks, 17 total weeks
3Bing Crosby"Please"[6]Brunswick 6394September 1, 1932 (1932-09-01)October 1932 (1932-10)US BB 1932 #3, US #1 for 6 weeks, 16 total weeks
4Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians"We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye"[6]Brunswick 6350July 27, 1932 (1932-07-27)August 1932 (1932-08)US BB 1932 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 8 total weeks
5Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Vocal Mildred Bailey)"All of Me"[7]Victor 22879December 1, 1931 (1931-12-01)December 15, 1931 (1931-12-15)US BB 1932 #5, US #1 for 3 weeks, 10 total weeks, 12,161 sales[8]
6Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians"Paradise"[6]Brunswick 6290April 14, 1932 (1932-04-14)April 1932 (1932-04)US BB 1932 #6, US #1 for 3 weeks, 10 total weeks
7Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Vocal Ramona)"Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)"[9]Victor 24140September 26, 1932 (1932-09-26)October 1, 1932 (1932-10-01)US BB 1932 #26, US #2 for 1 week, 6 total weeks, 11,942 sales[10]
8Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra"All of Me"[11]Okeh 41552January 27, 1932 (1932-01-27)February 1932 (1932-02)US BB 1932 #7, US #1 for 2 weeks, 18 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005
9Bing Crosby"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"[6]Brunswick 6414October 25, 1932 (1932-10-25)November 1932 (1932-11)US BB 1932 #8, US #1 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks
10George Olsen and His Music"Lullaby of the Leaves"[12]Victor 22998April 14, 1932 (1932-04-14)May 1, 1932 (1932-05-01)US BB 1932 #9, US #1 for 2 weeks, 10 total weeks, 11,101 sales[13]
11Bing Crosby and The Mills Brothers"Dinah"[6]Brunswick 6240December 16, 1931 (1931-12-16)January 2, 1932 (1932-01-02)US BB 1932 #10, US #1 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks
12Leo Reisman and His Orchestra"The Night Was Made for Love"[14]Victor 22869November 24, 1931 (1931-11-24)December 1931 (1931-12)US BB 1932 #113, US #10 for 1 week, 4 total weeks, 17,010 sales[15]
13Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians"Too Many Tears"[6]Brunswick 6261January 16, 1932 (1932-01-16)February 15, 1932 (1932-02-15)US BB 1932 #11, US #1 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks
14George Olsen and His Music"Say it Isn't So"[16]Victor 24124September 2, 1932 (1932-09-02)September 1932 (1932-09)US BB 1932 #12, US #1 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks, 10,870 sales[17]
15Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians"River Stay 'Way from My Door"[18]Columbia 2578December 8, 1931 (1931-12-08)December 1931 (1931-12)US BB 1932 #13, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks
16Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"[19]Columbia 2725October 27, 1932 (1932-10-27)November 1932 (1932-11)US BB 1932 #14, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks
17Jimmie Grier and his Orchestra"One Hour with You"Victor 22971March 28, 1932 (1932-03-28)April 1932 (1932-04)US BB 1932 #15, US #2 for 3 weeks, 11 total weeks
18Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut YankeesI Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan[20]Columbia 2700August 11, 1932 (1932-08-11)August 1932 (1932-08)US BB 1932 #16, US #2 for 3 weeks, 10 total weeks
19Bing Crosby with Isham Jones Orchestra"Sweet Georgia Brown"[6]Brunswick 6320April 23, 1932 (1932-04-23)May 1932 (1932-05)US BB 1932 #19, US #2 for 3 weeks, 8 total weeks
20Bert Lown and His Orchestra"Was That the Human Thing To Do"[21]Victor 22908January 12, 1932 (1932-01-12)February 1932 (1932-02)US BB 1932 #72, US #6 for 1 week, 4 total weeks, 11,183 sales[22]

Top blues recordings

Classical music
  • Henk Badings
    • Symphony for 16 soloists
    • Symphony No. 2
  • Arnold Bax
    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
    • Sinfonietta
    • Sonata No. 4, for piano
    • Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version)
    • Symphony No. 5
    • "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
  • Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto
  • Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony
  • Marc Blitzstein
    • The Condemned, choral opera in one act
    • Serenade, for string quartet
  • John Cage – Greek Ode, for voice and piano (text from Aeschylus' The Persians)
  • Carlos Chávez
    • Antígona (incidental music for the adaptation by Jean Cocteau of the tragedy by Sophocles)
    • Caballos de vapor (H.P., sinfonía de baile)
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Tierra mojada (for mixed choir, oboe, and cor anglais (text by R. López Velarde)
    • "Todo", for voice and piano (text by R. López Velarde)
  • Henry Cowell
    • Expressivo, for piano
    • Four Continuations, for string orchestra
    • Reel (Lilt of the Reel), for small orchestra
    • Rhythm Study, for piano
    • Two Appositions, for piano
    • Two Appositions: One Movement for Orchestra
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger
    • Ricercari (2), for voice and piano (text by H. T. Tsiang)
    • Songs (3), for alto voice, oboe, percussion, piano, and optional orchestra (texts by Carl Sandburg)
  • Jean Françaix – Piano Concerto
  • Gunnar de Frumerie – Variations and Fugue
  • George Gershwin – Cuban Overture, for orchestra
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks
    • Fantasy, for solo violin
    • "He Reproves the Curlew", for voice and piano (text by William Butler Yeats)
    • Prelude for a Pensive Pupil, for piano
    • "Sheiling Song", for voice and piano (text by F. MacLeod)
    • "They Are Not Long", for voice and piano (text by Ernest Dowson)
    • "To the Moon", for voice and piano (text by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
    • "A Widow Bird", for voice and piano (text by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
  • Camargo Guarnieri – String Quartet No. 1
  • Alois Hába
    • Children's Choruses (5), in quarter tones, Op. 42 (texts by V. Nezval)
    • Children's Choruses, in quarter tones, Op. 43
    • Fantazie No. 2, for nonet, Op. 41
    • Pracující den, for male choir, in quarter tones, Op. 45 (text by J. Hora)
  • Jascha Heifetz – arrangement of Grigoraş Dinicu's Hora staccato
  • Gustav Holst
    • "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187
    • Jazz-Band Piece
    • Jig, for piano, H179
  • John Ireland – A Downland Suite
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky – Symphony No. 1
  • Ernst Krenek – Kantate von der Vergänglichkeit des Irdischen, for soprano, mixed choir, and piano, Op. 72 (texts by P. Fleming, A. Gryphius, and other 17th-century German writers)
  • László Lajtha – Cello Sonata
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No. 11
  • Harry Partch – "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Psalm XXIII), for voice and adapted viola
  • Paul Pisk
    • Campanella, cantata for voice and orchestra, Op. 28 (text after 11 poems of the Monk [Luitpold])
    • Little Suite, for chamber orchestra, Op. 11a
  • Sergei Prokofiev –
  • Ottorino Respighi – Huntingtower, for large wind band, P. 173
  • Silvestre Revueltas
  • Miklós Rózsa – Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 12
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    • Mirror Canon, for string quartet
    • Mirror Canon in four parts, for Carl Moll
    • Moses und Aron, opera in 3 acts (Act 3 not composed)
  • William Schuman
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Hamlet (incidental music for the play by William Shakespeare), Op. 32
    • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, opera in four acts, Op. 29
    • Six Romances, for tenor and orchestra, Op. 21
    • Twenty-Four Preludes, for piano, Op. 34
    • Vstrechnïy (music for the film directed by F. Ermler and Yutkevich), Op. 33
  • Igor Stravinsky
    • Chants du rossignol et Marche chinoise, for violin and piano (arranged from The Nightingale)
    • Danse russe, for violin and piano
    • Duo concertant, for violin and piano
    • Scherzo, for violin and piano [arr. from The Firebird]
    • Suite italienne, for cello and piano (arranged from Pulcinella)
    • Suite italienne, for violin and piano (arranged from Pulcinella)
    • Simvol verï, for SATB choir
  • Virgil Thomson
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Symphony No. 2 (arrangement for piano, four hands)
  • Joaquín Turina
    • Homenaje a Tárrega, Op. 69, for guitar
    • Silhouettes, Op. 70, for piano
    • Mujeres españolas, Series 2 Op. 73, for piano
    • Vocalizaciones, Op. 74, for soprano and piano
  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky – Prelude and Fugue, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, Op. 21

Opera

Film

Jazz
Main article: 1932 in jazz

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

References
  1. Russell, Will. "The Great Depression and Music: From Woody Guthrie To Coronavirus". Hotpress. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  2. Ann M. Pescatello, Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music, p108
  3. Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Record Research.
  4. "Columbia matrix W152137. In a shanty in old Shanty Town / Ted Lewis and his Band - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  5. "Victor matrix BRC-71205. Paradise / Leo Reisman Orchestra ; Frances Maddux - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  6. "BRUNSWICK 78rpm numerical listing discography: 6000 - 6500". www.78discography.com. Retrieved April 16, 2022.
  7. "Victor matrix BVE-70636. All of me / Mildred Bailey ; Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  8. "Victor 22879 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  9. "Victor matrix BS-73581. Let's put out the lights (And go to sleep) / Paul Whiteman Orchestra ; Ramona - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  10. "Victor 24140 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  11. "Columbia matrix W152092. All of me / Louis Armstrong Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  12. "Victor matrix BRC-72287. Lullaby of the leaves / George Olsen and his Music - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  13. "Victor 22998 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  14. "Victor matrix BRC-70940. The night was made for love / Leo Reisman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  15. "Victor 22869 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  16. "Victor matrix BS-73355. Say it isn't so / George Olsen and his Music ; Paul Small - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  17. "Victor 24124 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  18. "Columbia matrix W152032. River, stay 'way from my door / Guy Lombardo ; Royal Canadians ; Kate Smith - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  19. "Columbia matrix W152312. Brother, can you spare a dime? / Connecticut Yankees ; Rudy Vallée - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  20. "Columbia matrix W152257. Cambiaré mi plan / Connecticut Yankees ; Rudy Vallée - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  21. "Victor matrix BRC-71222. Was that the human thing to do / Bert Lown Orchestra ; Elmer Feldkamp - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  22. "Victor 22908 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings". adp.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  23. Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. Page 272.
  24. Mitchell, Charles P. The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002. McFarland, 2004. Page 172
  25. Oliver Leaman (December 16, 2003). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-1-134-66252-4.
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