1949 in music

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Events

• Mitch Miller begins his career as one of the 20th century's most successful record producers at Mercury
• Eddie Fisher signs with RCA
• Bob Hope suggests that Anthony Benedetto change his stage name from "Joe Bari" to "Tony Bennett"
• Frankie Laine cuts "Mule Train," the first modern pop record
• Les Paul and Mary Ford wed
• Teresa Brewer cuts her first record for the London label
• The Ames Brothers score their first hit with "You, You, You Are The One"
• Johnnie Ray performs at the Flame Show Bar in Detroit
• Frank Sinatra stars in "On The Town" with Gene Kelly, a sequel to their 1945 hit "Anchors Aweigh"
• The legendary Al Jolson records the soundtrack to "Jolson Sings Again," the sequel to his hugely successful biopic "The Jolson Story" (1946)
• Chart-topping crooner Buddy Clark dies in a plane crash on October 1
• Coral Records is formed as a subsidiary of Decca
• 45 rpm discs are introduced
• The Trio Carosone is formed
• Gorni Kramer starts working for musical impresarios Garinei and Giovannini