Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular music 5 Musical theater 6 Musical films 7 Musical television 8 Births 9 Deaths

Events

• July 5 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
• Record companies deliver 7 inch 45 rpm record singles to radio stations instead of 78s
• Les Paul commissions Ampex to build the first eight track tape recorder, at his own expense.
• The Drifters form
• The Everly Brothers form
• The Isley Brothers form
• Carl Perkins' musical career begins
• Pat Boone's musical careers begin
• May 10 - Bill Haley and his Comets' Rock Around the Clock released

• Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy - Louis Armstrong
• Songs For Young Lovers - Frank Sinatra
• Swing Easy - Frank Sinatra

• "Sh-Boom" - Crew-Cuts
• "Mr. Sandman" - Chordettes
• "Three Coins In The Fountain" - Four Aces
• "That's All Right" - Elvis Presley
• "Work With Me Annie" - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters
• "Shake Rattle And Roll" - Joe Turner
• "Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight" - Spaniels
• "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" - Muddy Waters
• "Sincerely" - McGuire Sisters
• "The Things That I Used To Do" - Guitar Slim
• "Hearts Of Stone" - Fontane Sisters, Jewels
• "Oh! My Pa-Pa" - Eddie Fisher
• "Secret Love" - Doris Day
• "Make Love to Me" - Jo Stafford

• "All Of You"     w.m. Cole Porter
• "Annie Had A Baby"     w.m. Henry Glover & Lois Mann
• "Bless Your Beautiful Hide"     w. Johnny Mercer m. Gene De Paul
• "A Blossom Fell"     w.m. Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius & Dominic John
• "Cara Mia"     w.m. Tulio Trapani & Lee Lange
• "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White"     w. (Eng) Mack David (Fr) Jacques Larue m. Louiguy
• "Count Your Blessings (Instead Of Sheep)"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Cross Over The Bridge"     w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
• "Dim, Dim The Lights"     w.m. Beverly Ross & Julius Dixon
• "Earth Angel"     w.m. Jesse Belvin, Curtis Williams & Gaynel Hodge
• "The Finger Of Suspicion Points At You"     w.m. Paul Mann & Al Lewis
• "Friends And Neighbours"     Marvin Scott & Malcom Lockyear
• "From The Vine Came The Grape"     w.m. Leonard Whitcup & Paul Cunningham
• "Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea"     w.m. Al Hoffman & Dick Manning
• "Goin' Co'tin' "     w. Johnny Mercer m. Gene De Paul
• "Hearts Of Stone"     w. Eddy Ray m. Rudy Jackson
• "Hernando's Hideaway"     w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• "He's A Tramp"     Sonny Burke, Peggy Lee
• "Hey There"     w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• "The High And The Mighty"     w. Ned Washington m. Dimitri Tiomkin
• "Honeycomb"     w.m. Bob Merrill
• "I Can't Tell A Waltz From A Tango"     Al Hoffman, Dick Manning
• "I Could Be Happy With You"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore"     w. Jack Rollins m. Don Robertson
• "I Got A Woman"     w.m. Ray Charles & Renald Richard
• "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"     w. Douglas Cross m. George Cory
• "If I Give My Heart To You"     w.m. Jimmy Brewster, Jimmie Crane & Al Jacobs
• "I'll Walk With God"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Nicholas Brodszky
• "I'm Gonna File My Claim"     w. Ken Darby m. Lionel Newman
• "I'm Not At All In Love"     w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• "In Other Words" (aka "Fly Me To The Moon")     w.m. Bart Howard
• "It's A Woman's World"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Sammy Cahn & Cyril Mockridge
• "It's Never Too Late To Fall In Love"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
• "I've Got A Woman"     w.m. Ray Charles & Renald Richard
• "Let Me Go, Lover!"     w.m. Jenny Lou Carson & Al Hill
• "The Little Shoemaker"     w.(Eng) John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons (Fr) Avril Lamarque m. Rudi Revil
• "Lost In Loveliness"     w. Leo Robin m. Sigmund Romberg
• "Make Yourself Comfortable"     w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Mambo Italiano"     w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Marilyn Monroe Mambo"     Perez Prado
• "Mister Sandman"     w.m. Pat Ballard
• "Misty"     w. Johnny Burke m. Erroll Garner
• "My Own True Love"     w. Mack David m. Max Steiner Music is "Tara's Theme" 1939.
• "My Son, My Son"     w. Bob Howard m. Melville Farley & Eddie Calvert
• "The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane"     w.m. Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett
• "Oh, Look At Me, I'm Dancing"     w. Dorothy Reynolds m. Julian Slade
• "Only You"     w.m. Buck Ram & Ande Rand
• "Open Up Your Heart (And Let The Sunshine In)"     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
• "Papa Loves Mambo"     w.m. Al Hoffman, Dick Manning & Bix Reichner
• "Pledging My Love"     w.m. Ferdinand Washington & Don Robey
• "The Poor People Of Paris"     w.(Eng) Jack Lawrence (Fr) Rene Rouzaud m. Marguerite Monnot "La Goulante du Pauvre Jean"
• "Release Me"     w.m. Eddie Miller & W. S. Stevenson
• "River Of No Return"     w. Ken Darby m. Lionel Newman from the film ''River Of No Return
• "Shake, Rattle And Roll"     w.m. Charles Calhoun
• "Sh-Boom"     w.m. James Keyes, Claude & Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae & James Edwards
• "Sincerely"     w.m. Harvey Fuqua & Alan Freed
• "Sisters"     w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Skokiaan"     w. Tom Glazer m. August Msarurgwa
• "Smile"     w. John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons m. Charles Chaplin
• "Sobbin' Women"     w. Johnny Mercer m. Gene De Paul
• "Steam Heat"     w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• "There Once Was A Man"     w. m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• "This Ole House"     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
• "Three Coins In The Fountain"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Jule Styne
• "Tweedle Dee"     w.m. Winfield Scott
• "We Said We Wouldn't Look Back"     w. Dorothy Reynolds m. Julian Slade
• "Wonderful, Wonderful Day"     w. Johnny Mercer m. Gene De Paul
• "Work With Me, Annie"     w.m. Hank Ballard
• "Young And Foolish"     w. Arnold B. Horwitt m. Albert Hague

• January 25 - Richard Finch, K.C. and the Sunshine Band
• February 1 - Mike Campbell, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• February 18 - John Travolta, Saturday Night Feaver
• February 20 - Jon Brant, Cheap Trick
• March 27 - Wally Stocker, The Babys
• March 28 - Reba McEntire
• March 31 - Tony Brock, The Babys
• April 5 - Peter Case
• April 13 - Jimmy Destri, Blondie
• April 17 - Michael Sembello
• May 1 - Ray Parker, Jr
• May 20 - Jimmie Henderson, Black Oak Arkansas
• June 3 - Dan Hill
• June 5 - Nicko McBrain, Iron Maiden
• June 8 - Greg Ginn, punk guitarist and member of Black Flag
• June 13 - Robert Donaldson, Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
• June 15 - Terri Gibbs
• August 11 - Joe Jackson, British singer
• August 17 - Eric Johnson
• August 25 - Elvis Costello
• September 14 - Barry Cowsill
• October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan
• October 9 - James Fearnley, The Pogues
• October 12 - Michael Roe, guitarist, lead singer of The 77s
• October 21 - Eric Faulkner, Bay City Rollers
• November 4 - Chris Difford, Squeeze
• November 9 - Dennis Stratton, Iron Maiden
• November 10 - Mario Cipollina, Huey Lewis & The News
• November 23 - Bruce Hornsby
• December 11 - Jermaine Jackson, The Jackson 5
• December 25 - Annie Lennox
• December 25 - Robin Campbell, UB40
• Marty Dieckmeyer, Daniel Amos
• Marc Ribot, guitarist, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, others