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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1945.

Contents
1 Specific locations
2 Specific genres
3 Events
4 Publications
5 Albums released
6 Biggest hit songs
7 Top hit records
8 Published popular music
9 Classical music
9.1 Premieres
9.2 Compositions
10 Opera
11 Jazz
12 Musical theater
13 Musical films
14 Births
15 Deaths
16 References
Specific locations
1945 in British music
1945 in Norwegian music
Specific genres
1945 in country music
1945 in jazz
Events
February 13�15 � Bombing of Dresden in World War II destroys the Semperoper (Saxon
state opera house).
July 26 � Composer Ernest John Moeran marries cellist Peers Coetmore.
July 27 � Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin perform concerts at Bergen-Belsen
displaced persons camp.
August 19 � Dick Powell marries June Allyson.
September 1 � Trio Lescano's last concert on Italian radio.
September 4 � Beethoven's Fidelio becomes the first opera to be performed in Berlin
following World War II.
October 25 � Philharmonia Orchestra plays its first concert, in London.
November � Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt conducts the North German Radio Symphony
Orchestra in its first concert.
November 26 � Charlie Parker makes his first recording as a lead player, also
featuring Miles Davis.
The Motion Picture Daily Fame Poll designates Bing Crosby "Top Male Vocalist" for
the ninth straight year.
Antal Dor�ti becomes conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Reynaldo Hahn is appointed director of the Paris Op�ra.
Frank Sinatra leaves Your Hit Parade to appear on Max Factor Presents Frank Sinatra
and, starting in September, Songs By Sinatra.
Ruth Weston runs away from home in Portsmouth, Virginia, to marry trumpeter Jimmy
Brown and begin her career as a singer.
Marlene Dietrich appears on the CBS radio network, accompanied by accordionist John
Serry Sr..
Publications
Spade Cooley � Spade Cooley's Western Swing Song Folio (the first songbook to
identify the big Western dance band music as Western Swing)
Albums released
Nat King Cole � King Cole Trio
Bing Crosby
Merry Christmas
Selections from Going My Way
Glenn Miller � Glenn Miller
Django Reinhardt � Paris 1945
Biggest hit songs
The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of
charts available for 1945.

Title Artist Song title Year Country Chart Entries

1 Les Brown & Doris Day "Sentimental Journey" 1945 United States US BB
1 of 1945, US 1 for 9 weeks May 1945, POP 1 of 1945, Europe 37 of the 1940s, RYM 69
of 1945, RIAA 77, Acclaimed 818
2 The Andrews Sisters "Rum & Coca-Cola" 1945 United States US 1940s 1 �
January 1945, US 1 for 7 weeks February 1945, US BB 2 of 1945, POP 2 of 1945, RYM 3
of 1944, Europe 6 of the 1940s
3 Perry Como "Till the End of Time" 1945 United States US 1940s 1 �
August 1945, US 1 for 9 weeks September 1945, US BB 12 of 1945, POP 23 of 1945,
Europe 30 of the 1940s, RYM 85 of 1945
4 Johnny Mercer "On the Atcheson, Topeka & the Sante Fe" 1945 United
States US 1940s 1 � July 1945, US 1 for 7 weeks July 1945, US BB 4 of 1945,
POP 11 of 1945, RYM 89 of 1945
5 Les Brown& Doris Day "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" 1945
United States US 1940s 1 � March 1945, US 1 for 7 weeks April 1945, US BB
7 of 1945, POP 13 of 1945, RYM 70 of 1945
Top hit records

Singer Betty Hutton in 1945

"11:60 PM" by Harry James
"A Little on the Lonely Side" by Frankie Carle
"Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" by Johnny Mercer
"Apple Honey" by Woody Herman
"Bell Bottom Trousers"
by Jerry Colonna
by The Jesters
by Kay Kyser and his orchestra
by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians
by Tony Pastor and his orchestra
by Louis Prima and his orchestra
"Bijou" by Woody Herman
"Caldonia" by
Louis Jordan
Woody Herman
"Candy" by Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford, and The Pied Pipers
"Chickery Chick" by Sammy Kaye
"(Did You Ever Get) That Feeling in the Moonlight" by Perry Como
"Dig You Later" by Perry Como
"Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief" by Betty Hutton
"Dream" by Frank Sinatra
"Gotta Be This or That" by Benny Goodman
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" by Bing Crosby
"I Don't Care Who Knows It" by Harry James
"If I Loved You" by Harry James, also Frank Sinatra
"I'll Buy That Dream" by Harry James
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" by Harry James
"I Should Care" by Frank Sinatra
"It May As Well Be Spring" by Dick Haymes
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" by Harry James, also Bing Crosby
"Laura" by Woody Herman
"Northwest Passage" by Woody Herman
"Oh! What It Seemed to Be" by Frank Sinatra
"Rum and Coca-Cola" by Vaughn Monroe
"Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie
"T'ain't Me" by Les Brown & His Orchestra featuring Doris Day
'Tampico by Stan Kenton
"Temptation" by Perry Como
"There Goes That Song Again" by Russ Morgan
'There! I've Said It Again by Vaughn Monroe
"Waitin' for the Train to Come In" by Harry James
Peggy Lee
'You Belong to My Heart by Bing Crosby
'You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often performed by Tex Ritter
"Your Father's Moustache" by Woody Herman
Published popular music
"All of My Life" w.m. Irving Berlin
"All Through the Day" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"Along the Navajo Trail" w.m. Dick Charles, Eddie DeLange & Larry Markes
"Apple Honey" m. Woody Herman
"Aren't You Glad You're You?" w. Johnny Burke m. Jimmy Van Heusen
"Atlanta G.A." w. Sunny Skylar m. Arthur Shaftel
"Autumn Serenade" w. Sammy Gallop m. Peter DeRose
"Be-Baba-Leba" w.m. Helen Humes
"The Blond Sailor" w. (Eng) Mitchell Parish, Bell Leib m. Jacob Pfeil
"Boogie Blues" w.m. Gene Krupa & Ray Biondi
"Caldonia" w.m. Fleecie Moore
"The Carousel Waltz" w. Richard Rodgers
"Cement Mixer" w.m. Slim Gaillard & Lee Ricks
"Chickery Chick" w. Sylvia Dee m. Sidney Lippman
"Close as Pages in a Book" w. Dorothy Fields m. Sigmund Romberg. Introduced by
Maureen Cannon and Wilbur Evans in the musical Up in Central Park
"Cruising Down the River" w.m. Eily Beadell & Nell Tollerton
"Day By Day" w. Sammy Cahn m. Paul Weston & Axel Stordahl
"Detour" w.m. Paul Westmoreland
"Dig You Later" w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh
"Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" w. Paul Francis Webster m. Hoagy Carmichael
"Don't Be a Baby, Baby" w. Buddy Kaye m. Howard Steiner
"The End of the News" w.m. No�l Coward
"Everything But You" w.m. Don George, Duke Ellington and Harry James.
"For Sentimental Reasons" w. Deek Watson m. William Best
"The Frim Fram Sauce" w.m. Joe Ricardel & Redd Evans
"Full Moon and Empty Arms" w.m. Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman
"Give Me the Moon Over Brooklyn" w.m. Jason Matthews & Terry Shand
"Give Me the Simple Life" w. Harry Ruby m. Rube Bloom
"Good Good Good (That's You, That's You)" w.m. Fisher Roberts
"Gotta Be This or That" w.m. Sunny Skylar
"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"The Gypsy" w.m. Billy Reid
"Have I Told You Lately that I Love You?" w.m. Scott Wiseman
"Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet" w. Charles Tobias m. Nat Simon
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" w.m. Lionel Hampton & Curley Hamner
"Homesick � That's All" w.m. Gordon Jenkins
"The Honeydripper" w.m. Joe Liggins
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" w. Mack Gordon m. James V. Monaco. Introduced by John
Payne and reprised by Betty Grable in the film The Dolly Sisters
"I Don't Know Enough About You" w.m. Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour
"I Have But One Heart" Marty Symes, J. Farrow
"I Wish I Knew" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren. Introduced by Dick Haymes in the
film Diamond Horseshoe
"I Wonder" Gant, Leveen
"I Wonder What Happened To Him" w.m. No�l Coward
"If I Loved You" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by John
Raitt and Jan Clayton in the musical Carousel.
"I'll Buy That Dream" w. Herb Magison m. Allie Wrubel
"I'm a Big Girl Now" w.m. Al Hoffman, Milton Drake & Jerry Livingston
"I'm Gonna Love That Guy" w.m. Frances Ash
"In Acapulco" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren. Introduced by Betty Grable in the
film Diamond Horseshoe
"In Love In Vain" w. Leo Robin m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Louanne Hogan dubbing
for Jeanne Crain in the film Centennial Summer
"In the Middle of May" w. Al Stillman m. Fred Ahlert
"Isn't It Kinda Fun" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by Dick
Haymes and Vivian Blaine in the film State Fair. Performed in the 1962 film version
by Ann-Margret and David Street
"It Might as Well Be Spring" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced
by Louanne Hogan dubbing for Jeanne Crain in the film State Fair. Performed in the
1962 film version by Anita Gordon dubbing for Pamela Tiffin.
"It's a Grand Night For Singing" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"Johnnie Fedora (and Alice Bluebonnet)" w. Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert
"June is Bustin' Out All Over" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Just a Blue Serge Suit" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Laura" w. Johnny Mercer m. David Raksin
"Lavender Blue" w. Larry Morey m. Eliot Daniel
"Leone Jump" m. John Serry Sr.
"Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
"Love Letters" w. Edward Heyman m. Victor Young
"Love on a Greyhound Bus" w. Ralph Blane & Kay Thompson m. George Stoll
"Matelot" w.m. No�l Coward. Introduced by Graham Payn in the revue Sigh No More
"Mister Snow" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Money is the Root of All Evil" w.m. Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer
"The More I See You" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Warren
"Nina" w.m. No�l Coward
"Oh! What It Seemed To Be" w.m. Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss & Frankie Carle
"Personality" w. Johnny Burke m. Jimmy Van Heusen
"Rodger Young" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" w. Sammy Gallop m. Guy Wood
"Sigh No More" w.m. No�l Coward
"Sioux City Sue" w. Ray Freedman m. Dick Thomas
"Soliloquy" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Some Sunday Morning" w. Ted Koehler m. M.K. Jerome & Ray Heindorf
"A Stranger in Town" w.m. Mel Torm�
"Symphony" w.(Eng) Jack Lawrence m. Alex Alstone
"Tampico" w.m. Allan Roberts & Doris Fisher
"(Did You Ever Get) That Feeling in the Moonlight?" w.m. James Cavanaugh, Larry
Stock & Ira Schuster
"That Little Dream Got Nowhere" w. Johnny Burke m. Jimmy Van Heusen
"That's for Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"This Was a Real Nice Clambake" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"Till the End of Time" w.m. Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman
"Two Silhouettes" w. Ray Gilbert m. Charles Wolcott
"Waitin' for the Train to Come In" w.m. Sunny Skylar & Martin Block
"We'll Be Together Again" w. Frankie Laine m. Carl Fischer
"We'll Gather Lilacs" w.m. Ivor Novello
"What's the Use of Wond'rin'?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"When the Children Are Asleep" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"The Wild, Wild West" w. Johnny Mercer m. Harry Warren from the film The Harvey
Girls
"You'll Never Walk Alone" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
"You're a Queer One, Julie Jordan" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
Classical music
Premieres
Sortable table
Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Boulez, Pierre Three Psalmodies for Piano 1945-02-12 France Paris
Grimaud [1]
Britten, Benjamin Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes 1945-06-13 United
Kingdom Cheltenham (Festival) London Philharmonic � Britten [2]
Britten, Benjamin Passacaglia from Peter Grimes 1945-08-29 United Kingdom London
BBC Symphony � Boult [3]
Britten, Benjamin String Quartet No. 2 1945-11-21 United Kingdom London Zorian
Quartet [4]
Carpenter, John Alden The Seven Ages 1945-12-02 United States New York City
New York Philharmonic � Rodzinski [5]
Copland, Aaron Jubilee Variation on a Theme of Goossens 1945-03-23 United
States Cincinnati Cincinnati Symphony � Goossens [6]
Finzi, Gerald Earth and Air and Rain (1935) 1945-07-02 United Kingdom London
Falkner, Ferguson [7]
Ginastera, Alberto Las horas de una estancia 1945-06-11 Uruguay Montevideo
Baridon, Satalia de Perna [8]
Ginastera, Alberto Psalm 150 1945-04-07 Argentina Buenos Aires Teatro Col�n
Regular Orchestra and Chorus � Wolff [9]
Jolivet, Andr� Le chant de Linos (quintet version) 1945-06-01 France Paris
Jamet Quintet [10]
Jolivet, Andr� Trois chansons de m�nestrels 1945-02-10 France Paris
Dyonis, Soulage [11]
Khachaturian, Aram Fantasy on Russian Themes 1945-11-06 Soviet Union
Moscow USSR State Radio Symphony � Gorchakov [12]
Kod�ly, Zolt�n Missa brevis 1945-02-11 Hungary Budapest [unknown
performers] [13]
Lutoslawski, Witold Wind Trio 1945-09-?? Poland Kr�kow Snieckowski,
Rudnicki, Orlow [14]
Malipiero, Gian Francesco Sinfonia delle campane (Symphony No. 3) 1945-11-04
Italy Florence [unknown orchestra] � Markevitch [15]
Martinu, Bohuslav Symphony No. 3 1945-10-12 United States Boston Boston
Symphony � Koussevitzky [16]
Messiaen, Olivier Trois petites liturgies de la pr�sence divine 1945-04-21 France
Paris Loriod, Martenot / Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra � D�sormi�re
[17]
Messiaen, Olivier Vingt regards sur l'enfant-J�sus 1945-03-23 France Paris
Loriod [18]
Nov�k, Vitezslav May Symphony 1945-12-05 Czechoslovakia Prague [unknown
performers] [19]
Piston, Walter Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord 1945-11-30 United States New
York City Schneider, Kirkpatrick [20]
Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony No. 5 1945-01-13 Soviet Union Moscow USSR State
Symphony � Prokofiev [21]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Symphony No. 9 1945-11-03 Soviet Union Leningrad
Leningrad Philharmonic � Mravinsky [22]
Stravinsky, Igor Elegy for Viola 1945-01-26 United States Washington DC
Pr�vost [23]
Tippett, Michael Symphony No. 1 1945-11-10 United Kingdom Liverpool Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic � Sargent [24]
Tubin, Eduard Capriccio for Violin and Piano No. 2 1945-09-25 Sweden
Stockholm Aumere, Roots [25]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor String Quartet No. 7 1945-05-30 Brazil Theatro Municipal
(Rio de Janeiro) Quarteto Borgerth[26]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Milhaud / Schoenberg / Shilkret / Stravinsky / Tansman / Toch
Genesis Suite 1945-11-18 United States Los Angeles Janssen Symphony �
Janssen [27]
Compositions
Samuel Barber � Cello Concerto
B�la Bart�k
Piano Concerto No. 3
Viola Concerto
John A. Carpenter � The Seven Ages
George Crumb
Four Pieces for violin and piano
Sonata for Piano
Four Songs for voice, clarinet and piano
Wolfgang Fortner � Sonata for violin and piano
Jes�s Guridi � Pyrenean Symphony
Dmitri Kabalevsky � Piano Sonata No. 2
Paul von Klenau � Symphony No. 9
Erich W. Korngold � Violin Concerto
G. Francesco Malipiero � Symphony No. 3
Frank Martin � Petite symphonie concertante
Bohuslav Martinu
Rhapsodie Tcheque
Etudes and Polkas, H. 308, for piano
Olivier Messiaen � Harawi
Douglas Moore � Symphony No. 2
Walter Piston � Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord
Sergei Prokofiev � Ivan the Terrible
Nico Richter � Serenade for flute, violin and viola
Henri Sauguet � Les forains, ballet
Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 9
Children's Notebook
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
Oboe Concerto
Igor Stravinsky
Ebony Concerto
Symphony in Three Movements
Michael Tippett � Symphony No. 1
Various composers (Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Milhaud, Schoenberg, Shilkret, Stravinsky,
Tansman and Toch) � Genesis Suite
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Piano Concerto No. 1
String Quartet No. 9
Symphony No. 7 Odiss�ia da paz (Peace Odyssey)
Opera
Amy Beach � Cabildo (Athens, GA, 27 February)
Benjamin Britten � Peter Grimes
Frederick Jacobi � The Prodigal Son
Jazz
Main article: 1945 in jazz
Musical theater
Are You With It? (Music: Harry Revel Lyrics: Arnold B. Horwitt Book: Sam Perrin and
George Balzer). Broadway production opened at the Century Theatre on November 10
and ran for 266 performances.
Billion Dollar Baby (Music: Morton Gould Book & Lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph
Green). Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on December 21 and ran for
220 performances. Starring Mitzi Green, Joan McCracken, William Tabbert, Danny
Daniels and Shirley Van.
Carousel (Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics and Book: Oscar Hammerstein II). Broadway
production opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 19 and ran for 890 performances.
The Day Before Spring (Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics and Book: Alan Jay Lerner).
Broadway production opened on November 22 at the National Theatre and ran for 165
performances.
The Firebrand of Florence (Book: Ira Gershwin & Edwin Justus Mayer, Music: Kurt
Weill, Lyrics: Ira Gershwin). Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on
March 22 and ran for 43 performances. Starring Lotte Lenya, Earl Wrightson, Beverly
Tyler and Melville Cooper.
Follow The Girls (Music: Phil Charig Lyrics: Dan Shapiro and Milton Pascal Book:
Guy Bolton, Eddie Davis and Fred Thompson). London production opened at Her
Majesty's Theatre on October 25 and ran for 572 performances.
Marinka. Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on July 18 and
moved to the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 1 for a total run of 165
performances
Perchance To Dream (Music, Lyrics and Book: Ivor Novello). London production opened
at the London Hippodrome on April 21 and ran for 1022 performances.
The Red Mill (Music: Victor Herbert Lyrics and Book: Henry Blossom). Broadway
revival opened on October 16 at the Ziegfeld Theatre and ran for 531 performances.
Sigh No More. London revue opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on August 28
Under the Counter. London production opened at the Phoenix Theatre on November 22
and ran for 665 performances
Up in Central Park (Music: Sigmund Romberg Lyrics: Dorothy Fields Book: Herbert
Fields and Dorothy Fields). Broadway production opened at the Century Theatre on
January 27 and ran for 504 performances.
Musical films
Anchors Aweigh starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. Directed by
George Sidney.
The Bells of St. Mary's starring Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby. Directed by Leo
McCarey.
The Blonde from Brooklyn released June 21, starring Lynn Merrick and Richard
Stanton, with Gwen Verdon in a minor role.
Blonde Ransom starring Donald Cook and Virginia Grey. Directed by William Beaudine.
Bring on the Girls starring Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken and Marjorie
Reynolds and featuring Spike Jones and his Orchestra.
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances
Rafferty, Bob Stanton and Jean Porter. Directed by S. Sylvan Simon.
Delightfully Dangerous starring Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Arthur
Treacher and Morton Gould & his Orchestra. Directed by Arthur Lubin.
Diamond Horseshoe aka Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe starring Betty Grable, Dick
Haymes, Phil Silvers, William Gaxton and Beatrice Kay and featuring vaudevillian
Willie Solar in his only filmed performance.
The Dolly Sisters released November 14 starring Betty Grable, June Haver and John
Payne.
Duffy's Tavern starring Ed Gardner, Betty Hutton, Bing Crosby, Paulette Goddard,
Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Sonny Tufts, Barry Fitzgerald and Veronica Lake.
Directed by Hal Walker.
Eadie Was a Lady starring Ann Miller
Here Come the Co-eds starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Peggy Ryan. Directed by
Edgar Fairchild.
Hit the Hay starring Judy Canova
Let's Go Steady released January 4 starring Pat Parrish and Jackie Moran and
featuring Mel Torm� and Skinnay Ennis.
Nob Hill starring George Raft, Joan Bennett and Vivian Blaine.
Out of This World starring Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake and Cass Daley
Rhapsody In Blue starring Robert Alda, Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith and featuring
Hazel Scott.
A Song for Miss Julie starring Shirley Ross
State Fair starring Dick Haymes, Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews and Vivian Blaine.
The Stork Club starring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell
and Robert Benchley
Thrill of a Romance starring Van Johnson and Esther Williams and featuring Lauritz
Melchior
Tonight and Every Night starring Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman and Janet Blair.
Yolanda and the Thief starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred
Natwick and Mary Nash. Directed by Vincente Minnelli.