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Contents
1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular songs 5 Classical music 6 Opera 7 Musical theater 8 Musical films 9 Births 10 Deaths 11 Awards
11.1 Grammy Awards 11.2 Eurovision Song Contest 11.3 Leeds International Piano Competition
12 External Charts
Events January 1 - The Beatles start a 5 day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do".
January 4 - At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy , Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes.
January 7 - Gary U.S. Bonds files a $100,000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker , claiming that Checker stole "Quarter to Three" and turned it into "Dancin' Party." The lawsuit is later settled out of court.
January 11 - Please Please Me is released in the United Kingdom by The Beatles , with Ask Me Why as the B-side . It would be the first Beatles' single to reach #1 (on most record charts) in the UK.
January 11 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles , the first disco in the USA, opens.
January 12 - Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in The Madhouse of Castle Street , a radio play for the BBC in London .
February 16
February 22 - The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company.
March 5 - Patsy Cline is killed in small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee , while on her way to Nashville, Tennessee from Kansas City, Missouri at the height of her career.
April 29 - 19 year old Andrew Loog Oldham signs a contract with The Rolling Stones , becoming their manager. Oldham had seen the band in concert the previous day at the Crawdaddy Club in London .
The Beatles record their first album, Please Please Me Dalida receives the Music Oscar for the world song success.
The Righteous Brothers begin performing together;
Lonnie Mack begins his musical career;
The Kinks form
Herman's Hermits form
Philips introduce the Musicassette at the Berlin Funkaustellung
Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica , named Studio One
Lord Shorty 's "Clock and Dagger" is widely considered the first soca recording
Albums released Top hits on record See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1963 (USA)
Published popular songs "18 Yellow Roses" Bobby Darin
"Abilene" w.m. John D. Loudermilk , Lester Brown, Bob Gibson, Albert Stanton
"All My Loving" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"Another Saturday Night" w.m. Sam Cooke
"As Usual" Zanetis
"Charade" w. Johnny Mercer m. Henry Mancini . From the film of the same name.
"Da Do Ron Ron" w.m. Phil Spector , Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry
"Detroit City" w.m. Mel Tillis & Danny Dill
"Distant Drums" w.m. Cindy Walker
"Dominique " Soeur Sourire
"Don't Talk To Him" Cliff Richard , Welch
"Don't You Forget It" w. Al Stillman m. Henry Mancini
"Every Time I Think About You" w.m. Claude Demetrius
"Flash! Bang! Wallop!" w.m. David Heneker
"From Me to You" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"Good Morning, Good Day" w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock
"Half A Sixpence " w.m. David Heneker
"Hello, Dolly! " w.m. Jerry Herman
"Higitus Figitus ", w.m. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman , from the Walt Disney film The Sword and the Stone "How Do You Do It?" w.m. Mitch Murray
"I Call Your Name" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"I Like It" Mitch Murray
"I Saw Her Standing There" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"I Want to Hold Your Hand " w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"I Will Follow Him" w. (Eng) Norman Gimbel & Arthur Altman m. J. W. Stole & Del Roma
"I'll Get You" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"If I Ruled the World" w. Leslie Bricusse m. Cyril Ornadel . Introduced by Harry Secombe in the musical Pickwick "It Won't Be Long" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"It's My Party" w.m. Herb Wiener, Wally Gold & John Gluck Jnr
"Kissin' Cousins " w.m. Fred Wise & Randy Starr
"Losing You" w.(Eng) Carl Sigman m. Jean Renard
"Martian Hop" w.m. Steven Rappaport, John Spirt, Robert Rappaport
"Move Over Darling" Hal Kanter
"On Broadway " w.m. Cynthia Weil , Barry Mann , Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
"On the Beach" Welch, Marvin, Richard
"Our Day Will Come " w.m. Bob Hilliard & Mort Garson
"The Pink Panther" w. Johnny Mercer m. Henry Mancini
"Pretty Paper" Willie Nelson
"Reverend Mr Black" Billy Edd Wheeler, Jed Peters
"Ring of Fire" w.m. Merle Kilgore & June Carter
"She Loves Me" w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock . Introduced by Daniel Massey in the musical She Loves Me "She Loves You" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"Surf City" w.m. Jan Berry & Brian Wilson
"Surfer Girl" w.m. Brian Wilson
"Talk Back Trembling Lips" w.m. John D. Loudermilk
"This Boy" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney
"The Times They Are A-Changin' " w.m. Bob Dylan
"The Ugly Bug Ball" w.m. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman , from the film Summer Magic "Viva Las Vegas" Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
"Washington Square " w.m. Bob Goldstein & David Shire
"Will He Like Me?" w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock . Introduced by Barbara Cook in the Broadway production of She Loves Me Anne Rogers in the 1964 London production.
"Wives And Lovers" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach
"You Were Made For Me" Mitch Murray
Classical music Births January 26
January 28 - Dan Spitz , Anthrax
February 2 - Eva Cassidy
February 19 - Seal
March 1 - Dan Michaels , producer , saxophonist , member of the rock band The Choir and also The Swirling Eddies , owner of Galaxy21 Music .
March 4 - Jason Newsted , Metallica
March 10 - Jeff Ament , Pearl Jam
March 15 - Bret Michaels , Poison
March 27 - Dave Koz , saxophonist
April 8 - Julian Lennon , son of John Lennon
May 21 - Gilles Apap , violinist
June 7 - Roberto Alagna , tenor
June 25 - George Michael
June 30 - Yngwie J. Malmsteen , guitar performer
July 7 - Vonda Shepard , singer and musician
July 22 - Emily Saliers , Indigo Girls
August 3 - James Hetfield , Metallica
August 12 - Sir Mix-A-Lot
August 19 - Joey Tempest , Europe
August 22
October 14 - Alessandro Safina , operatic tenor
October 26 - Natalie Merchant
October 30 - Jerry DeBorg , Jesus Jones
November 1 - Rick Allen , Def Leppard
December 26 - Lars Ulrich , Metallica
December 31 - Scott Ian , Anthrax
Deaths January 2 - Dick Powell , actor and singer
January 6 - Lina Barbanell , German singer and actress
January 24 - Otto Harbach , lyricist
January 30 - Francis Poulenc
February 19 - Benny Moré , Cuban singer
February 20 - Ferenc Fricsay , conductor
March 5 - Patsy Cline , American country/pop singer, in a plane crash
March 17 - Lizzie Miles , singer
March 31 - Harry Akst , US composer and pianist
April 12 - Herbie Nichols , jazz musician
May 6 - Ted Weems , 61, US bandleader
May 10 - Irving Aaronson , bandleader and composer
September 12 - Modest Altschuler , cellist, conductor and composer
October 11 - Édith Piaf , French singing superstar
November 1 - Elsa Maxwell , songwriter, "the hostess with the mostest"
November 19 - Carmen Amaya , flamenco dancer and singer
November 26 - Amelita Galli-Curci , Operatic soprano
November 29 - Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban composer, pianist and bandleader
December 5 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann , composer
December 28 - Paul Hindemith , composer
date unknown - Naftule Brandwein , clarinettist
Awards External Charts
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