Songwriters Hall of FameInducted 1972 | ASCAP Writer

October 6 - Milton Ager is born in Chicago, IL

Ager's sister buys a piano on which Ager begins his self-education in music

Attends the McKinley High School in New York City.

Begins his career as a movie house intermission pianist for silent movie theatres

Hired as a song plugger for music publishing company Waterson, Berlin and Snyder

Joins the US Army's Morale Division in Fort Greenleaf, George

Art Hickman reaches the top ten with his recording of YOUNG MAN'S FANCY

I'M NOBODY'S BABY reaches #3 on the Billboard charts with a recording by Marion Harris

First songwriting success with the publishing of NOBODY'S BABY

Forms his own publishing house with collaborator Jack Yellen. The new firm is called Ager, Yellen and Bornstein

LOUISVILLE LOU is a top ten hit on the pop charts with a recording by Arthur Gibbs

Ben Bernie's recording of LOVE TALES reaches #7 on the Billboard pop charts

Dolly Kay reaches #3 on the pop charts with her recording of HARD HEARTED HANNAH

Al Jolson's recording of I WONDER WHAT'S BECOME OF SALLY reaches #1 on the Billboard pop charts

Sam Lanin's recording of MAMA GOES WHERE PAPA GOES is a #13 hit on the Billboard pop charts

Johnny Marvin's recording of AIN'T THAT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING reach #10 on the Billboard charts

Ben Bernie has a #1 hit recording of AIN'T SHE SWEET

Frank Crumit has a top ten hit recording of CRAZY WORDS, CRAZY TUNE

FORGIVE ME is a #1 hit on the Billboard charts with a recording by Gene Austin

Paul Ash's recording of MY PET reaches the top twenty on the pop charts

February 9 - Rain or Shine Opens on Broadway at the George M. Cohan theatre

Ted Lewis' recording of GLAD RAG DOLL reaches the top ten on the Billboard charts

Benny Meroff and Ben Selvin have separate #1 hit recordings of HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

I LIKE TO DO THINGS FOR YOU reaches the top twenty on the pop charts with a recording by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra

Moves to Hollywood under a studio contract

AUF WIEDERSEHN, MY DEAR reaches #3 on the Billboard charts with a recording by Jack Benny

The Ager-Yellen composition HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN is played at the inauguaration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The song has remained the theme song for the Democratic Party

Benny Goodman has a #2 hit recording of YOU CAN'T PULL THE WOOL OVER MY EYES

Mildred Bailey's recording of TRUST IN ME reaches #4 on the Billboard pop charts

Judy Garland's cover recording of the 1921 hit song I'M NOBODY'S BABY reaches #3 on the pop charts

Mr. Goon Bones and Mr. Ford reach the top fifteen on the pop charts with a cover recording of the 1927 hit AIN'T SHE SWEET

Eddie Fisher has a top ten hit with a cover recording of FORGIVE ME

Eddie Fisher's cover recording of the 1937 hit song TRUST IN ME reaches #25 on the pop charts

May 6 - Milton Ager dies in Los Angeles, CA