Wikipedia: 1948 in music

1948 in music
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See also: 1947 in music, other events of 1948, 1949 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, featuring 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the 78 rpm record, the previous standard.
Otis Rush's musical career begins

Albums released

Top hits on record

"Buttons and Bows" by Dinah Shore
"I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" by Art Mooney
"Love Somebody" by Doris Day with Buddy Clark
"Manana" by Peggy Lee
"Nature Boy" by Nat King Cole
"A Tree In the Meadow" by Margaret Whiting
"Twelfth Street Rag" by Pee Wee Hunt
"Underneath the Arches" - Andrews Sisters
"Woody Woodpecker" by Kay Kyser
"You Call Everybody Darlin' " by Al Trace
"You Can't Be True, Dear" by Ken Griffin

Published popular music

""A" You're Adorable" w.m. Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise & Sidney Lippman

"Always True To You In My Fashion" w.m. Cole Porter
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Be A Clown" w.m. Cole Porter
"Bibbidi-Bobbodi-Boo (The Magic Song)" w.m. Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston
"Black Coffee" w.m. Paul Francis Webster & Sonny Burke
"Black Market" w.m. Frederick Hollander
"Blue Christmas" w.m. Billy Hayes & Jay Johnson
"The Blue Skirt Waltz" w. Mitchell Parish m. Vaclav Blaha
"Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes" w.m. Oakley Haldeman, Al Trace & Jimmy Lee
"Busy Line" Semes, Stanton
"Candy Kisses" w.m. George Morgan
"Careless Hands" w. Bob Hilliard m. Carl Sigman
"Comme Ci, Comme Ça" w. (Eng) Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer (Fr) Pierre Dudan m. Bruno Coquatrix
"A Couple Of Swells" w.m. Irving Berlin
"The Deck Of Cards" w.m. T. Texas Tyler
"Far Away Places" w.m. Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer
"Forever And Ever" w. (Eng) Malia Rosa (Ger) Franz Winkler m. Franz Winkler
"Girls Were Made To Take Care Of Boys" w.m. Ralph Blane
"Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue" w.m. Sunny Skylar
"Hang On The Bell, Nellie" w.m. Tommie Connor, Clive Erard & Ross Parker
"I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
"I'm Beginning To Miss You" w.m. Irving Berlin
"I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua" w.m. Cole Porter
"I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" w.m. Fred Heatherton
"My Darling, My Darling" w.m. Frank Loesser
"My Happiness" w. Betty Peterson m. Borney Bergantine
"N'yot N'yow (The Pussycat Song)" w.m. Dick Manning
"O Mein Papa" w.m. Paul Burkhard
"Once In Love With Amy" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Pecos Bill" w. Johnny Lange m. Eliot Daniel
"Powder Your Face With Sunshine" w.m. Carmen Lombardo & Stanley Rochinski
"Red Roses For A Blue Lady" w.m. Sid Tepper & Roy Brodsky
"Say Something Sweet To Your Sweetheart" w.m. Sid Tepper & Roy Brodsky
"Shoes With Wings On" w. Ira Gershwin m. Harry Warren
"So In Love" w.m. Cole Porter
"Sunflower" Mack David
"Tennessee Waltz" w.m. Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King
"The Three Bells" w. (Eng) Bert Reisfeld m. Jean Villard
"Time Out For Tears" w.m. Abe Schiff & Irving Berman
"A Tree In The Meadow" w.m. Billy Reid
"Why Can't You Behave?" w.m. Cole Porter
"Wunderbar" w.m. Cole Porter
"You Came A Long Way From St Louis" w. Bob Russell m. John Benson Brooks
"You Can't Be True, Dear" w.(Eng) Hal Cotton (Ger) Gerhard Ebeler m. Hans Otten
"You Say The Nicest Things, Baby" w. Harold Adamson m. Jimmy McHugh
"You Was" w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sonny Burke
"You're All I Want For Christmas" w.m. Glen Moore & Seger Ellis
"You're Breaking My Heart" w.m. Pat Genaro & Sunny Skylar