The revised version of STRIKE UP THE BAND, which had failed out of town in 1927 in its original incarnation, makes it to Broadway, at the Times Square Theatre.

AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, George’s tone poem for orchestra, premieres at Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony Society Orchestra.

Ira marries Leonore Strunsky in New York City.

George’s CONCERTO IN F premieres at Carnegie Hall under the baton of Walter Damrosch.

LADY, BE GOOD!, the first show with songs solely by George and Ira, premieres on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre.

George premieres RHAPSODY IN BLUE at New York’s Aeolian Hall as part of a concert entitled “An Experiment in Modern Music” with Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra.

Under the pseudonym Arthur Francis, Ira has his first Broadway hit, TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE, with music by Vincent Youmans and Paul Lannin and a book by Fred Jackson.

George writes the first of his five scores for GEORGE WHITE’S SCANDALS, a rival to the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. The best-known song from the SCANDALS is “(I’ll Build a) Stairway to Paradise,” with lyrics by Ira…

“Swanee,” with music by George and lyrics by Irving Caesar, premieres in the CAPITOL REVUE. It becomes a monumental hit when Al Jolson interpolates it into his revue, SINBAD, at the Winter Garden Theatre.