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1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Biggest hit singles
4 US No. 1 hit singles
5 Top hits on record
6 Top R&B and Country hits on record
7 Published popular music
8 Classical music
9 Opera
10 Musical theater
11 Musical films
12 Births
13 Deaths

[edit] Events

Arthur Bliss replaces Arnold Bax as Master of the Queen's Music.
Frank Sinatra begins recording at Capitol
Elvis Presley records for the first time
Frankie Laine set the all-time United Kingdom record for weeks at Number One in a given year on the UK Singles Chart, when his hit singles "Answer Me," "Hey Joe!" and "I Believe" held the top slot for 27 weeks: a little over half a year. "I Believe," which was Number One for 18 weeks also holds the all-time record for a single. Over 50 years later, both records still hold.
Eddie Fisher becomes "The Coca-Cola Kid" on the television show, Coke Time at a salary of one million dollars a year
The Four Lads have their first solo hit with "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
James Brown's musical career begins
Jackie Wilson's musical career begins
The Four Tops' musical career begins
The Platters' musical career begins
Wonderful Town Broadway musical version of My Sister Eileen by Leonard Bernstein with Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
"Crazy Man, Crazy", recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets, becomes the first rock and roll single to make the Billboard national American musical charts.

[edit] Albums released

Broadway's Best - Jo Stafford
By the Light of the Silvery Moon - Doris Day
Calamity Jane - Doris Day
Country Girl - Bing Crosby
Dean Martin Sings - Dean Martin
Dinah Shore Sings the Blues - Dinah Shore
Georgia Gibbs Sings Oldies - Georgia Gibbs
Jazz at Massey Hall - The Quintet
Kay Starr Style - Kay Starr
May I Sing To You - Eddie Fisher
New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm - Stan Kenton
Portrait Of New Orleans - Jo Stafford and Frankie Laine
Requested By You - Frank Sinatra
Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits - Frank Sinatra
Some Fine Old Chestnuts - Bing Crosby
Songs By Tom Lehrer - Tom Lehrer
Songs of Open Spaces - Guy Mitchell
Starring Jo Stafford - Jo Stafford

[edit] Biggest hit singles

The following singles achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1953.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Dean Martin	That's Amore	1953	US BB 1 of 1953, POP 1 of 1953, UK 2 - Jan 1954, US 1940s 2 - Nov 1953, RYM 2 of 1953, Scrobulate 47 of Italian, DDD 73 of 1953, Party 101 of 2007
2	Les Paul & Mary Ford	Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)	1953	US 1940s 1 - Jun 1953, US 1 for 11 weeks Aug 1953, Italy 2 of 1954, US BB 3 of 1953, POP 3 of 1953, UK 7 - Nov 1953, RYM 24 of 1953, Europe 97 of the 1950s
3	Perry Como	Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes	1953	UK 1 - Jan 1953, US 1940s 1 - Dec 1952, US 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1953, US BB 20 of 1953, POP 20 of 1953, RYM 31 of 1953
4	Eddie Fisher	I'm Walking Behind You	1953	UK 1 - May 1953, US 1940s 1 - May 1953, US 1 for 2 weeks Jul 1953, US BB 16 of 1953, POP 23 of 1953, RYM 119 of 1953
5	Hank Williams	Your Cheatin' Heart	1953	RYM 1 of 1953, DDD 2 of 1953, US BB 4 of 1953, POP 4 of 1953, RIAA 34, Scrobulate 87 of country, Rolling Stone 213, Acclaimed 286

[edit] US No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of US Billboard magazine's charts in 1953.

First week	Number of weeks	Title	Artist
January 10, 1953	5	"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes"	Perry Como
February 14, 1953	5	"Till I Waltz Again With You"	Teresa Brewer
March 21, 1953	8	"The Doggie In The Window"	Patti Page
May 16, 1953	10	"Song From Moulin Rouge"	Percy Faith & his Orchestra
July 25, 1953	2	"I'm Walking Behind You"	Eddie Fisher
August 8, 1953	9	"Vaya Con Dios"	Les Paul & Mary Ford
October 10, 1953	4	"St. George And The Dragonet"	Stan Freberg
November 7, 1953	2	"Vaya Con Dios"	Les Paul & Mary Ford
November 21, 1953	6	"Rags To Riches"	Tony Bennett

[edit] Top hits on record

"Allez-Vous-En" - Kay Starr
"Answer Me, O Lord" - Frankie Laine
"Anywhere I Wander" - Julius La Rosa
"April in Portugal", recorded by
- Les Baxter Orchestra
- Richard Hayman Orchestra
- Freddy Martin Orchestra
- Vic Damone
"Bridge Of Sighs" - Georgia Gibbs
"Bye Bye Blues" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
"Changing Partners" - Patti Page
"The Doggie in the Window" - Patti Page
"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" - Perry Como
"Dragnet" - Ray Anthony
"Eh Cumpari" - Julius LaRosa
"Even Now" - Eddie Fisher
"Floatin' Down To Cotton Town" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
"The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart" - The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
"Granada" - Frankie Laine
"Half a Photograph" - Kay Starr
"Have You Heard" - Joni James
"Hey Joe" - Frankie Laine
"Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" - Leslie Caron & Mel Ferrer
"Home Lovin' Man" - Georgia Gibbs
"Hound Dog" - Big Mama Thornton
"I Believe" - Frankie Laine
"I'm Walking Behind You" - Eddie Fisher
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" - The Four Lads
"The Jones Boy" - The Mills Brothers
"The Kid's Last Fight" - Frankie Laine
"Look At That Girl" - Guy Mitchell
"Make Her Mine" - Nat King Cole
"Make Love To Me" - Jo Stafford
"No Other Love" - Perry Como
"Oh! My Pa-Pa" - Eddie Fisher
"Outside of Heaven" - Eddie Fisher
"Pretend" - Nat King Cole
"Rags To Riches" - Tony Bennett
"Ricochet (Rick O'Shay)" - Teresa Brewer
"Same Old Saturday Night" - Frank Sinatra
"Secret Love" - Doris Day
"Seven Lonely Days" - Georgia Gibbs
"Side By Side" - Kay Starr
"The Song from Moulin Rouge" - Percy Faith (Felicia Sanders vocal)
"Stranger in Paradise" - Tony Bennett
"Tell Me a Story" - Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd
"That's Amore" - Dean Martin
"Three Coins In The Fountain" - Frank Sinatra
"The Typewriter" - Leroy Anderson & His Orchestra
"Vaya Con Dios" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
"Wishing Ring" - Joni James
"Young At Heart" - Frank Sinatra
"Your Cheatin' Heart", recorded by
- Frankie Laine
- Joni James

[edit] Top R&B and Country hits on record

"Big Foot May" - Hal Paige & His Blues Boys
"Big Mamou Daddy - Carmen Taylor
"The Clock" - Johnny Ace with the Beale Streeters
"Crazy Man Crazy" - Bill Haley & His Comets
"Crying In The Chapel" - The Orioles
"Good Lovin' " - The Clovers
"Hound Dog" - Big Mama Thornton
"Let The Boogie Woogie Roll" - Clyde McPhatter
"Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)" - Ruth Brown
"Mend Your Ways" - Ruth Brown
"Mess Around" - Ray Charles
"Please Don't Leave Me" - Fats Domino
"Shake A Hand" - Faye Adams
"Wild Wild Young Men" - Ruth Brown
"Your Cheatin' Heart" - Hank Williams

[edit] Published popular music

"And This Is My Beloved" w. & m. adapted Robert Wright & George Forrest
"Angel Eyes" w. Earl Brent m. Matt Dennis
"Anna" w.(Eng) William Engvick (Ital) F. Giordano m. R. Vatro
"Answer Me, My Love" w. (Eng) Carl Sigman (Ger) & m. Gerhard Winkler & Fred Ravich
"Baubles, Bangles And Beads" w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest. Introduced by Doretta Morrow in the musical Kismet
"Bell Bottom Blues" w. Hal David m. Leon Carr
"Bimbo" w.m. Rodney Morris
"Black Hills Of Dakota" w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sammy Fain. Introduced by Doris Day in the film Calamity Jane.
"The Boy Friend" w.m. Sandy Wilson.
"Can-Can" w.m. Cole Porter
"Caribbean" w.m. Mitchell Torok
"C'Est Magnifique" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by Lilo and Peter Cookson in the musical Can-Can
"Changing Partners" w. Joe Darion m. Larry Coleman
"Chicka Boom" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Crying In the Chapel" w.m. Artie Glenn
"Cry Me a River" w.m. Arthur Hamilton
"Dragnet" w.m. Walter Schumann
"Ebb Tide" w. Carl Sigman m. Robert Maxwell
"Eh, Cumpari!" trad Ital w. m. adapt. Julius LaRosa & Archie Bleyer
"Ev'rybody Loves Saturday Night" Campbell
"Fate" w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin Adapted from Symphony No. 2 in B Minor.
"From Here to Eternity" w. Robert Wells m. Fred Karger
"Gambler's Guitar" w.m. Jim Lowe
"Gee!" w.m. Viola Watkins, Daniel Norton & William Davis
"Giddy Up A Ding Dong" w.m. Freddie Bell, Pep Lattanzi
"Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite" James Hudson, Calvin Carter
"Half a Photograph" w. Bob Russell m. Hal Stanley
"The Happy Wanderer" w.(Ger) Florenz Siegesmund & Edith Möller (Eng) Antonia Ridge m. Friedrich Wilhelm Möller
"Here's That Rainy Day" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen. Introduced by John Raitt in the musical Carnival In Flanders.
"Hold My Hand" w.m. Jack Lawrence & Richard Myers
"I Believe" w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman
"(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely" w.m. Pat Ballard
"I Love Paris" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by Lilo in the musical Can-Can
"I Really Don't Want To Know" w. Howard Barnes m. Don Robertson
"I'm Walking Behind You" w.m. Billy Reid
"Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Nat Simon
"It's All Right With Me" w.m. Cole Porter
"It's Love" w. Betty Comden & Adolph Green m. Leonard Bernstein. Introduced by George Gaynes in the musical Wonderful Town. Performed in the 1955 London production by Dennis Bowen.
"Just Walkin' In The Rain" w.m. Johnny Bragg & Robert S. Riley
"Little Things Mean a Lot" w.m. Carl Stutz & Edith Lindeman
"Look at That Girl" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Make Love to Me" w. Alan Copeland & Bill Norvas Music from "Tin Roof Blues" 1923.
"The Man That Got Away" w. Ira Gershwin m. Harold Arlen
"The Man With The Banjo" w. (Eng) Robert Mellin m. Fritz Schulz Reichel
"Marriage Type Love" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by Arthur Maxwell and Helena Scott in the musical Me And Juliet.
"Matilda, Matilda!" w.m. Harry Thomas
"Melancholy Serenade" m. Jackie Gleason
"Mexican Joe" w.m. Mitchell Torok
"Money Burns a Hole In My Pocket" w. Bob Hilliard m. Jule Styne. Introduced by Dean Martin in the 1954 film Living It Up.
"Money Honey" w.m. Jesse Stone
"No Other Love" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers. Introduced by Isabel Bigley and Bill Hayes in the musical Me And Juliet.
"Non Dimenticar" w.(Eng) Shelley Dobbins (Ital) Michele Galdieri m. P. G. Redi
"Not Since Nineveh" w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest From Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances".
"Oh! My Pa-Pa" w. John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons m. Paul Burkhard
"The Olive Tree" w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin
"Rags to Riches" w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
"Ricochet" w.m. Larry Coleman, Joe Darion & Norman Gimbel
"Rock Around the Clock" w.m. Jimmy De Knight & Max C. Freedman
"Santa Baby" w.m. Joan Javits, Phil Springer & Tony Springer
"Satin Doll" w.m. Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
"Secret Love" w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sammy Fain. Introduced by Doris Day in the film Calamity Jane
"Seven Lonely Days" w.m. Alden Shuman, Earl Shuman & Marshal Brown
"Shake a Hand" w.m. Joe Morris
"Sippin' Soda" adapt. P. Campbell
"The Song From "Moulin Rouge"" (aka "Where Is Your Heart") w. (Eng) William Engvick (Fr) Jacques Larue m. Georges Auric
"Stranger in Paradise" w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest. Introduced by Doretta Morrow and Richard Kiley in the musical Kismet.
"Such a Night" w.m. Lincoln Chase
"Sway" ("Quien Será") w. (Eng) Norman Gimbel (Sp) Pablo Beltrán Ruiz m. Pablo Beltran Ruiz
"Teach Me Tonight" w. Sammy Cahn m. Gene De Paul
"Tell Me a Story" w.m. Terry Gilkyson
"Tell Us Where the Good Times Are" w.m. Bob Merrill
"That's Amore" w. Jack Brooks m. Harry Warren
"Vaya Con Dios" w.m. Larry Russell, Inez James & Buddy Pepper
"Wanted" w.m. Jack Fulton & Lois Steele
"When Love Goes Wrong" w. Harold Adamson m. Hoagy Carmichael from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"You Won't Forget Me" w. Kermit Goell m. Fred Spielman Introduced by India Adams dubbing for Joan Crawford in the film Torch Song
"You, You, You" w.(Eng) Robert Mellin (Ger) Walter Rothenberg m. Lotar Olias
"Young at Heart" w. Carolyn Leigh m. Johnny Richards

[edit] Classical music

George Crumb - Viola Sonata
Peter Racine Fricker - Viola concerto
Cristobal Halffter - Piano Concerto
Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Concerto for piano, winds and percussion
Otto Luening - Fantasy in Space
Xavier Montsalvatge - Poema Concertante
Giacinto Scelsi - Five Incantations for piano
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Ballet Suite No. 4
- Symphony No. 10 E minor, Op. 93
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontra-Punkte
Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Harp Concerto
- Cello Concerto No. 2

[edit] Opera

Irmelin (Frederick Delius)
Sevil (Fikrat Amirov)

[edit] Musical theater

Airs On A Shoestring London revue opened at the Royal Court Theatre on April 22 and ran for 772 performances
At The Lyric London production
The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson) commenced at London's Players Club on April 14 and reopened in an expanded version on October 13 before moving to the West End proper in 1954.
Braziliana London production
The Buccaneer London production
Can-Can (Cole Porter) - Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on May 7 and ran for 892 performances
Hazel Flagg Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on February 11 and ran for 190 performances
John Brown's Body opened February 14
John Murray Anderson's Almanac Broadway revue opened at the Imperial Theatre on December 10 and ran for 227 performances
The King And I (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on October 8 and ran for 926 performances
Kismet Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 3 and ran for 583 performances
Maggie Broadway production opened at the Royal National Theatre on February 18 and ran for 5 performances
Me And Juliet Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on May 28 and ran for 358 performances
Paint Your Wagon (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe) - London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on February 11 and ran for 477 performances
The Wayward Way
Wonderful Town (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green) - Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 25 and ran for 559 performances