page_title: 1946 in music
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1946 in music / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Billie Holiday and her dog Mister Dog, backstage dressing room, probably at the Downbeat, NYC
context_page_description: This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1946.
context_section_description: January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's  Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927. This production features newly designed sets and costumes, new, more extended choreography, and a new song, Nobody Else But Me, by Kern and Hammerstein.
  February – Kathleen Ferrier's recording contract with Columbia Records expires, and she transfers to Decca.
  August – American singer Doris Day leaves Les Brown's band and begins her solo career.
  September 11 – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra holds its first rehearsal.
  Formation of Bamberg Symphony and Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestras.
  Al Jolson rerecords his old hits for the soundtrack of his Columbia biopic The Jolson Story (released October 10 in the United States), and becomes a superstar to the post-war generation too.
  B. B. King begins working as a professional musician in Memphis, Tennessee.
  Chet Atkins makes his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry.
  Georgia Gibbs signs with the Majestic label.
  Bill Haley's professional musical career begins as a member of The Down Homers. His earliest known recordings are made during a Down Homers radio performance, but will not be released until 2006.
  John Serry Sr. appears as the featured accordion soloist on the Gordon MacRae radio hit Star of Stars.
caption: Singer Billie Holiday backstage in 1946
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