Events in Music History in May 1941

Chattanooga Choo Choo

May 7 Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA, it becomes 1st record to be designated "gold"

May 13 Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
May 15 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music
May 16 First US radio performance of Robert Russell Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
May 21 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp