Events

• January 14 Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto is premi red in Paris.
• May 1 The music to John Alden Carpenter's ballet Skyscrapers is recorded by the Victor Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret; in addition to be being issued as six sides on 78 rpm discs, the recording is made available as one Victor's early 33 rpm LP releases.
• July 1 - The very young Eddie Duchin and his Central Park Casino Orchestra, and the Three X Sisters aka, Hamilton Sisters & Fordyce

record The Clouds Will Soon Roll By for Columbia records.

• August 15 First successful electrical re-recording, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, of an orchestral accompaniment of a Victor recording by Enrico Caruso
• October 7 - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham, gives its first public concert.
• October 13 - Isham Jones and the Three X Sisters record at New York Studio No.1. Several songs utilized for RCA Victor were labeled "experimental"

as this blues era band-leader was fusing new arraingment's, and an idea that would later influence part of the Swing era.

• October 19 Frankie Laine and Ruthie Smith set the all-time dance marathon record of 3,501 hours (145 days) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey
• October 31 Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 is premiered in Berlin
• Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
• Ruth Porter Crawford marries Charles Seeger.
• Sydney Symphony comes into existence

Published popular music

• "After You, Who?" w.m. Cole Porter
• "Alone Together" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
• "And Love Was Born" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "And So To Bed" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
• "April in Paris" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke
• "As You Desire Me" w.m. Allie Wrubel
• "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" w.m. Al Hoffman, Ed G. Nelson, Al Goodhart & Milton Ager
• "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
• "Chinese Laundry Blues" Cottrell
• "The Clouds Will Soon Roll By" w.m. Billy Hill & Harry Woods
• "Dance Of The Cuckoos" w.m. T. Marvin Hatley & Harry Steinberg
• "Darkness On The Delta" w. Marty Symes & Al Neiburg m. Jerry Livingston
• "Eadie Was A Lady" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Richard Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown
• "The Echo Of A Song" Peter Mendoza
• "Eres T " Miguel Sandoval
• "Fit As A Fiddle" w.m. Arthur Freed, Al Hoffman & Al Goodhart
• "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis
• "Give Her A Kiss" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Goodnight My Love" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias & Jules Lemare
• "Goodnight Vienna" w.m. Holt Marvell & George Posford
• "Got The South In My Soul" w.m. Ned Washington, Victor Young & Lee Wiley
• "Happy-Go-Lucky You (And Broken-Hearted Me)" w.m. Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman & J. F. Murray
• "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" w. Billy Hill (as George Brown) m. Peter De Rose
• "Here Lies Love" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
• "How Deep Is The Ocean?" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" w. Bing Crosby & Ned Washington m. Victor Young
• "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
• "If It Ain't Love" w.m. Andy Razaf, Don Redman & Fats Waller
• "I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy" w.m. Ray Noble
• "I'll Never Be The Same" w. Gus Kahn m. Matty Malneck & Frank Signorelli from the revue After Dinner
• "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" w. Ned Washington m. George Bassman
• "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" w. Joe Young m. Ira Schuster & Jack Little
• "In Egern On The Tegern Sea" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Ivy Scott in the musical Music in the Air
• "Isn't It Romantic?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" w. Irving Mills m. Duke Ellington
• "It Was So Beautiful" w. Arthur Freed m. Harry Barris
• "I've Got You On My Mind" w.m. Cole Porter
• "I've Told Every Little Star" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "Just An Echo In The Valley" w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
• "Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
• "Lawd, You Made The Night Too Long" w. Sam M. Lewis m. Isham Jones
• "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing" w. Robert Hargreaves & Stanley J. Damerell m. Tolchard Evans & H. Tilsley
• "Let's Call It A Day" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
• "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep" w.m. Herman Hupfeld
• "A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet" w. Gus Kahn m. Harry Woods
• "Look What You've Done" w. Bert Kalmar & Irving Caesar m. Harry Ruby & Harry Akst
• "Looking On The Bright Side" w.m. Howard Flynn
• "Louisiana Hayride" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
• "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble
• "Love Me Tonight" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Lover" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Mad About The Boy" w.m. No l Coward
• "A Million Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. J. C. Lewis Jr
• "Mimi" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Mine" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
• "My Cousin in Milwaukee" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by Lyda Roberti in the musical Pardon My English
• "My Silent Love" w. Edward Heyman m. Dana Suesse
• "My Sweet Virginia" w.m. Vincent Rose
• "Night And Day" w.m. Cole Porter introduced by Fred Astaire in Gay Divorce
• "Oh! That Mitzi" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film One Hour with You.
• "Old Yazoo" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
• "One Hour With You" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. From the film of the same name
• "The Party's Over Now" w.m. No l Coward
• "Pink Elephants" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
• "Play, Fiddle, Play" w. Jack Lawrence m. Emery Deutsch & Arthur Altman
• "Please" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
• "The Poor Apache" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "Precious Lord Take My Hand" by Thomas A. Dorsey, first major gospel music hit
• "Pu-leeze! Mr Hemingway" w. Walter Kent & Milton Drake m. Abner Silver
• "Say It Isn't So" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia" w. Mitchell Parish m. Frank Perkins
• "Sleep, Come On And Take Me" w.m. Joe Young & Boyd Bunch
• "Smoke Rings" w. Ned Washington m. Gene Gifford
• "Snuggled On Your Shoulder" w. Joe Young m. Carmen Lombardo
• "So Do I" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Vincent Youmans
• "Soft Lights And Sweet Music" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Somebody Loves You" w. Charlie Tobias m. Peter DeRose
• "The Song is You" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
• "Street of Dreams" w. Sam M. Lewis m. Victor Young
• "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" w.m. Ralph Butler & Noel Gay
• "Three's a Crowd" w. Al Dubin & Irving Kahal m. Harry Warren
• "Too Many Tears" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "Try a Little Tenderness" w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
• "Underneath The Harlem Moon" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
• "Wanderer" w.m. Bud Flanagan
• "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" w.m. Harry Woods
• "We've Got The Moon And Sixpence" Oscar Levant, Clifford Grey
• "We've Got To Put That Sun Back In The Sky" Kahal, Meyer
• "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble
• "What Would You Do?" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film One Hour with You
• "Why Don't Women Like Me?" Cottrell, Bennett, Formby
• "Willow Weep for Me" w.m. Ann Ronell
• "Wintergreen For President" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
• "You Are Too Beautiful" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
• "The Younger Generation" w.m. No l Coward
• "You're An Old Smoothie" w.m. B. G. De Sylva, Richard A. Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown
• "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
• "You've Got What Gets Me" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin

Biggest hit songs

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1932.

Top hit records

• "All of Me" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra; also version by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
• "Delishious" by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, vocal Paul Small
• "The Flies Crawled Up the Window" by Jack Hulbert
• "Got The South In My Soul" by Paul Robeson
• "How Deep Is the Ocean?" by Ethyl Merman, accompanied Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra
• "I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind" by Billy Cotton Band
• "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" by Ted Lewis & His Band
• "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" by Al Bowlly
• "Love Me Tonight" by Jeanette MacDonald
• "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" by No l Coward
• "Mah Lindy Lou" by Paul Robeson
• "Ooh That Kiss" by Frances Day
• "Please" by Bing Crosby
• "Say It Isn't So" by George Olsen & His Music
• "The Thrill Is Gone" by Rudy Vallee
• "Was That the Human Thing To Do?" by The Boswell Sisters
• "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" by Bing Crosby
• "The Younger Generation" by Ray Noble and Al Bowlly

Top blues recordings

• "Worrying You Off My Mind" Big Bill Broonzy
• "Mistreatin Mama" Big Bill Broonzy
• "How You Want It Done" Big Bill Broonzy
• "Searching the Desert For the Blues" Blind Willie McTell
• "Winnie The Wailer" Lonnie Johnson

Classical music

• Arthur Benjamin Violin Concerto
• Arthur Bliss A Colour Symphony
• Jean Fran aix Piano Concerto
• Gunnar de Frumerie Variations and Fugue
• Percy Grainger Handel in the Strand
• Camargo Guarnieri String Quartet No. 1
• Jascha Heifetz arrangement of Grigora Dinicu's Hora staccato
• Dmitri Kabalevsky Symphony No. 1
• L szl Lajtha Cello Sonata
• Nikolai Myaskovsky Symphony No. 11
• Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55
• Mikl s R zsa Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 12
• John Ireland - A Downland Suite

Opera

• Amy Beach Cabildo
• Ottorino Respighi Maria Egiziaca

Musical theater

• After Dinner London revue opened at the Gaiety Theatre on October 21
• L'Auberge Du Cheval Blanc Paris production
• Ball im Savoy Berlin production
• Ballyhoo (Music: William Waller Lyrics: Robert Nesbitt) London revue opened at the Comedy Theatre on December 22
• Casanova London production
• The Cat and the Fiddle London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 4 and ran for 329 performances
• The Dubarry London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on April 14 and ran for 398 performances
• The Dubarry Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on November 22 and ran for 87 performances
• Face the Music Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on February 17 and ran for 165 performances
• Gay Divorce Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933 for a total run of 248 performances
• Music in the Air Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 8 and ran for 342 performances
• Out of the Bottle London production opened at the Hippodrome on June 11 and ran for 109 performances
• Over She Goes London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on August 27.
• Show Boat Broadway revival opened at the Casino Theatre on 50th Street http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/image/1003422 on May 19 and ran for 180 performances
• Take a Chance Broadway production opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 26 and ran for 243 performances
• Tell Her the Truth London production opened at the Saville Theatre on June 14 and ran for 234 performances
• Wild Violets opened at the Theatre Royal on October 31 and ran for 291 performances
• Words and Music London revue (No l Coward) opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 16.

Musical films

• Carmen, starring Marguerite Namara
• Girl Crazy, starring Dorothy Lee, Robert Quillan, Mitzi Green and Kitty Kelly
• Goodnight, Vienna, starring Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle
• Gr fin Mariza, starring Dorothea Wieck, Hubert Marischka and Charlotte Ander
• Gr n ist die Heide, starring Camilla Spira, Peter Vo and Theodor Loos
• Looking on the Bright Side, starring Gracie Fields.
• Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald.
• The Maid of the Mountains, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman.
• The Midshipmaid, starring Jessie Matthews
• Monte Carlo Madness, starring Sari Maritza and Hans Albers and featuring the Comedian Harmonists
• One Hour with You, starring Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
• The Phantom President, starring George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante. Directed by Norman Taurog.
• Sehnsucht 202, starring Luise Rainer

Births

• January 26 Coxsone Dodd, record producer (d. 2004)
• February 8 John Williams, composer
• February 16 Harry Goz, musical theatre star (d. 2003)
• February 24 Michel Legrand, composer
• February 26 Johnny Cash, country singer (d. 2003)
• March 4 Miriam Makeba, singer (d. 2008)
• March 15 Arif Mardin, record producer (d. 2006)
• April 1 Debbie Reynolds, actress and singer
• April 9 Carl Perkins, rockabilly singer (d. 1998)
• April 12 Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player (d. 1996)
• April 14 Loretta Lynn, country singer
• April 26 Francis Lai, songwriter and film composer
• April 27 Maxine Brown (The Browns)
• May 19 Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
• June 7 Tina Brooks, saxophonist (d. 1974)
• June 21 Lalo Schifrin, film composer
• June 27 Anna Moffo, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
• July 11 Roquel Billy Davis, singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2004)
• July 13 Per N rg rd, Danish composer
• August 23 - Sinn Sisamouth, singer-songwriter, "the King of Khmer music" (d. 1976)
• September 8 Patsy Cline, country singer (d. 1963)
• September 25 Glenn Gould, pianist (d. 1982)
• November 10 Paul Bley, jazz pianist
• November 15
  • Clyde McPhatter (The Drifters) (d. 1972)
• November 30 Bob Moore, bassist
• December 5 Little Richard, singer, songwriter and pianist
• December 9 Donald Byrd, jazz saxophonist
• December 12 Charlie Rich, country singer (d. 1995)
• December 15 Jesse Belvin, singer, pianist and songwriter (d. 1960)
• December 28 Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979)

Deaths

• January Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the steel guitar (born 1874)
• January 27 Mortimer Wilson, composer (born 1876)
• February 22 Johanna Gadski, opera singer (born 1872) (car accident)
• March 1 Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (born 1905) (car accident)
• March 3 Eugen d'Albert, pianist and composer (born 1864)
• March 6 John Philip Sousa, composer (born 1854)
• March 18 Chancellor Olcott, songwriter (born 1858)
• March 19 Richard Specht, musicologist (born 1870)
• April 2 Hugo Kaun, composer and conductor (born 1863)
• May 5 Hilda Clark, music hall singer (born 1872)
• May 6 Rom o Beaudry, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1882)
• May 9 Emil Hertzka, music publisher (born 1869)
• May 20 Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
• May 28 Pascual Contursi, singer and guitarist (born 1888)
• June 7 Emil Paur, conductor (born 1855)
• July 8 Samuel Castriota, pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
• July 22 Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impresario
• August 16 Pietro Floridia, composer and conductor (born 1860)
• September 13 Julius R ntgen, composer (born 1855)
• September 14 Jean Cras, composer (born 1879)
• September 26 Pierre De Geyter, composer of The Internationale (born 1848)
• October 19 Arthur Friedheim, pianist (born 1859)
• October 21 Al Hopkins, country musician (born 1889)
• November 23 Percy Pitt, organist and conductor (born 1870)
• November 27 Evelyn Preer, actress and blues singer (born 1896)
• November 28 Hubert de Blanck, pianist and composer (born 1856)
• December 1 Amadeo Vives, composer (born 1871)
• December 24 Eyvind Aln s, pianist, organist and composer (born 1872)
• December 25 Ernst Rolf, actor and singer (born 1891)
• December 26 - Dina Barberini, operatic soprano (born 1862)
• date unknown
  • Hugh Blair, organist and composer (born 1864)
  • Giulia Novelli, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1859)
  • Emanuele Nutile, composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)

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