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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917.

Specific locations

  • 1917 in British music
  • 1917 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

  • 1917 in country music
  • 1917 in jazz

Events

  • March 7 – "Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (a white 5-piece group from New Orleans led by cornetist Nick LaRocca) for the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released (described as a "foxtrot"). On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag"
  • May 12 – Béla Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince is premiered in Budapest
  • June 5 - Nicholas Laucella's symphonic impressions White House is premiered in Norfolk, Connecticut.
  • First African American jazz recordings made by Wilbur Sweatman's Band
  • Eddie Cantor makes his first recordings
  • Songs of the First World War become popular in the U.S.

Bands formed

  • See :Category:Musical groups established in 1917
  • "All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me" w. Al Dubin m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "Any Time Is Kissing Time" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton from the musical Chu Chin Chow
  • "Are You From Heaven?" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
  • "At the Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
  • "A Bachelor Gay" w. Frank Clifford Harris & (Arthur) Valentine m. James W. Tate from the musical The Maid of the Mountains
  • "Barnyard Blues" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro & Larry Shields
  • "The Bells Of St Mary's" w. Douglas Furber m. A. Emmett Adams
  • "The Bombo-Shay" by Henry Creamer

thumb|upright|Sheet music cover for "Bring Back My Daddy To Me"

  • "Bring Back My Daddy to Me" m. George W. Meyer w. William Tracey & Howard Johnson
  • "Bring Me A Rose" w.m. Charles Shisler
  • "Cheer Up, Liza" John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell
  • "Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band" w. Jack Coogan m. Jimmy Morgan
  • "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin
  • "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" w.m. Shelton Brooks
  • "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" Original Dixieland Jass Band
  • "Eileen (Alanna Asthore)" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
  • "For Me And My Gal" w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer
  • "For Your Country and My Country" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey O'Hara
  • "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Going Up" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
  • "Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
  • "Good Bye Broadway, Hello France" w. C. Francis Reisner & Benny Davis m. Billy Baskette

thumb|Promotional ad for "Good-bye Broadway—Hello, France!" published in the New York Clipper.

  • "Goodbye, Ma! Goodbye, Pa! Goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw!" w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker
  • "'Good-bye,' That Means You" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Arthur Lange
  • "Good-bye-ee" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
  • "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" w. D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Dolly Morse) m. Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan
  • "Have A Heart" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  • "Hawaiian Butterfly" w. George A. Little m. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley
  • "Homeward Bound" m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz
  • "Homing" w. Arthur L. Salmon m. Teresa del Riego
  • "How Can I Forget When There's So Much To Remember" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Huckleberry Finn" by Cliff Hess
  • "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" w.m. George Fairman
  • "I Don't Want to Get Well" w. Howard Johnson & Harry Pease m. Harry Jentes
  • "I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "I Wish You All the Luck in the World" w. & m. by Abe Olman
  • "I'd Love To Be A Monkey In The Zoo" w. Bert Hanlon m. Willie White
  • "I'll Take You Back To Italy" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I'm All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
  • "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Carroll (melody adapted from Chopin)
  • "If I Find The Guy Who Wrote "Poor Butterfly"" w. William Jerome m. Arthur Green
  • "Indiana" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
  • "Indianola" m. Henry R. Stern & Domenico Savino
  • "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" w. Alfred Bryan & Willie Weston m. Jack Wells

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  • December 7 – Ludwig Minkus, violinist and composer (b. 1826)
  • December 9 – Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1873)

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