1963 in music

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See also: 1962 in music, other events of 1963, 1964 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music'

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
12 External Charts

[edit] 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
- The Beatles receive their first #1 hit single, when "Please Please Me" tops the charts in the UK
- Paul Anka marries Marie-Ann DeZogheb
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

[edit] Albums released

Bill Haley and His Comets - Bill Haley & His Comets
Black Fire - Andrew Hill
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
Carnaval de Ritmos Modernos - Bill Haley & His Comets
The Composer of Desafinado, Plays - Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Concert Sinatra - Frank Sinatra
Dion Sings Love Came To Me - Dion DiMucci
Ella and Basie! - Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie
Ella Sings Broadway - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald
Eux - Dalida
Follow The Boys - Connie Francis
For Your Sweet Love - Ricky Nelson
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz and João Gilberto
Have You Heard? - Dick Morrissey Quartet
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 - Joan Baez
Little Deuce Coupe - The Beach Boys
Live at the Apollo - James Brown
Live at Brdland - John Coltrane
Madison - Bill Haley & His Comets
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus - Charles Mingus
Mingus Plays Piano - Charles Mingus
The Patsy Cline Story - Patsy Cline
Please Please Me - The Beatles
Los Relámpagos del Norte - Los Relámpagos del Norte
Ruby Baby - Dion DiMucci
Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First - Frank Sinatra and Count Basie
Sinatra's Sinatra - Frank Sinatra
The Songs I Love - Perry Como
Surfin' USA - The Beach Boys
Surfer Girl - The Beach Boys
These Are the Blues - Ella Fitzgerald
With the Beatles - The Beatles

[edit] Top hits on record

"Please Please Me" - The Beatles
"Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash
"She Loves You" - The Beatles
"Love Me Do" - The Beatles
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" - The Beatles
"From Me to You" - The Beatles
"In Dreams" - Roy Orbison
"Blue Bayou" - Roy Orbison
"Mean Woman Blues" - Roy Orbison
"Pretty Paper" - Roy Orbison
"Hey Paula" - Paul & Paula
"He's So Fine" - The Chiffons
"Bo Diddley" - Buddy Holly
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" - Buddy Holly
"Surf City" - Jan & Dean
"It's My Party" - Lesley Gore
"Sweet Dreams" - Patsy Cline
"Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" - Gene Pitney
"Be My Baby" - The Ronettes
"Wipe Out" - The Surfaris
"If I Had A Hammer" - Peter, Paul and Mary
"If I Had A Hammer" - Trini Lopez
"Da Doo Ron Ron" - The Crystals
"Pipeline" - The Chantays
"Tu Croiras" - Dalida
"Le jour du retour" - Dalida
"Eux" - Dalida
"Walk Like A Man" - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
"Heat Wave" - Martha & the Vandellas
"Up On The Roof" - The Drifters
"I Can't Stay Mad At You" - Skeeter Davis
"Only In America" - Jay & the Americans
"Who Stole The Keeshka?" - Matys Brothers
"Wonderful Summer" - Robin Ward
"I Only Want to Be With You" - Dusty Springfield
"The Folk Singer" - Tommy Roe
"Guilty" - Jim Reeves
"Is This Me" - Jim Reeves

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1963 (USA)

[edit] 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. Performed by Anne Rogers in the 1964 London production.
"Wives And Lovers" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach
"You Were Made For Me" Mitch Murray