Events

• January 14 - First documented use of the abbreviated term "Rock 'n' Roll" to promote Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  Albert James "Alan" Freed , also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country and rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
  
  's Rock 'n' Roll Jubillee, held at St. Nicholas Arena in New York, New York. Previously the genre term was just called "Rock and Roll"
• February 1 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson records "Space Guitar" pioneering reverb and feedback
  Feedback
  Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or...
  
   techniques on guitar
• March 12 - Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
  
  's opera Moses und Aron
  Moses und Aron
  Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The German libretto was by the composer after the Book of Exodus.-Compositional history:...
  
   has its first performance in Hamburg (it is given a staged première on June 6 in Zurich). (http://archive.operainfo.org/broadcast/operaMain.cgi?id=85&language=1)
• March 15 - The Chords
  The Chords
  The Chords are a 1970s British pop music group, commonly associated with the 1970s mod revival, who had several hits in their homeland, before the decline of the trend brought about their break-up...
  
   record "Sh-Boom
  Sh-Boom
  "Sh-Boom" is an early doo-wop song. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and James Edwards, members of the R&B vocal group The Chords and published in 1954. It was a U.S...
  
  " for Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records
  Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
  
  ' Cat
  Cat Records
  Cat Records was a short-lived subsidiary of Atlantic Records, specializing in rhythm and blues music.It was founded in 1954 and issued 18 singles, issued on both 78 r.p.m. and 45 r.p.m. records, over nearly two years before the label was discontinued. Its biggest hit was "Sh-Boom" by The Chords....
  
   subsidiary.
• March 25 - At the 26th Academy Awards
  26th Academy Awards
  The 26th Academy Awards honored the best in films of 1953.The second national telecast of the Awards show draws an estimated 43,000,000 viewers. Shirley Booth, appearing in a play in Philadelphia, presents the Best Actor award through a live broadcast cut-in, and privately receives the winner's...
  
  , Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
   wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
  
   for his role in From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the...
  
  , resuscitating his singing career in the process. At the same ceremony, Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
   is nominated for Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
  
   for his role in The Country Girl.
• April 12 - Bill Haley and His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock
  "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets in 1954...
  
  " in New York City for Decca Records
  Decca Records
  Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
  
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• May 20 - "Rock Around the Clock" is released as the B-side of "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)". The song is only a moderate success until it is featured in the film Blackboard Jungle
  Blackboard Jungle
  Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name by Evan Hunter.-Plot:...
  
   the following year.
• July 5 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
   has his first commercial recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee
  Memphis, Tennessee
  Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
  
  . He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.
• October 16 - Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on a radio program in Shreveport, Louisiana
  Shreveport, Louisiana
  Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
  
   called the Louisiana Hayride
  Louisiana Hayride
  Louisiana Hayride was a radio and later television country music show broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped to launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American music...
  
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• Fall - A cover version of Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and...
  
  's "Shake, Rattle and Roll
  Shake, Rattle and Roll
  "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical twelve bar blues-form rock and roll song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner, and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets...
  
  " by Bill Haley and His Comets becomes the first internationally popular rock and roll recording.
• Record companies deliver 7 inch 45 rpm
  Revolutions per minute
  Revolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...
  
   record singles
  Single (music)
  In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
  
   to radio stations instead of 78s
  Gramophone record
  A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
  
  .
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
  Lyric Opera of Chicago
  Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicolà Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma...
  
   is founded.
• Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an American singer, actor and writer who has been a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs and sold more copies than his black counterparts...
  
   begins his recording career at Republic Records.
• Les Paul
  Les Paul
  Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations...
  
   commissions Ampex
  Ampex
  Ampex is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M. Poniatoff Excellence...
  
   to build the first eight track tape recorder
  Tape recorder
  An audio tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage...
  
  , at his own expense.
• The Drifters
  The Drifters
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
  
   form.
• The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...
  
   make their first recordings, featuring only the three eldest brothers, O'Kelly Jr., Rudolph and Ronald.
• The Newport Jazz Festival
  Newport Jazz Festival
  The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by socialite Elaine Lorillard, who, together with husband Louis Lorillard, financed the festival for many years. The couple hired jazz impresario George Wein to organize the...
  
   is established by George Wein
  George Wein
  George Wein is an American jazz promoter and producer who has been called "the most famous jazz impresario" and "the most important non-player... in jazz history"...
  
  .
• São Paulo State Symphony
  São Paulo State Symphony
  Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo is a symphony orchestra based in São Paulo, Brazil. With more than 130 concerts during its annual season, it is one of the largest and best known orchestras in South America.-Background:With broad-based programming, juxtaposing the great works of...
  
   Orchestra is founded.

Albums released

• Al Haig Trio (Esoteric)
  Al Haig Trio (Esoteric)
  Al Haig Trio is a 1954 jazz album released by Al Haig on the Esoteric records label; in later rereleases it is therefore often known as Esoteric or The Al Haig Trio Esoteric....
  
   - Al Haig
  Al Haig
  Alan Warren Haig was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop.Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey...
  
  
• And I Thought About You - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• Bags' Groove
  Bags' Groove
  Bags' Groove is a jazz album recorded by Miles Davis in 1954 for Prestige Records. Both takes of the title track come from a session on December 24, 1954 . The rest of the album was recorded earlier in the year, on 29 June. Bags' Groove is a jazz album recorded by Miles Davis in 1954 for Prestige...
  
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
  
  
• Bing: A Musical Autobiography
  Bing: A Musical Autobiography
  Bing: A Musical Autobiography was Bing Crosby's fourth Decca long play album, recorded and originally released in 1954 as a 5 LP set. It was also released as a 17-disc box set of 45rpm EP records...
  
   - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  
• Blue Haze
  Blue Haze
  Blue Haze is an album recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis for Prestige Records. The first track on the album is from the 3 April 1954 session which resulted in half of the album Walkin...
  
   - Miles Davis
• The Chordettes Sing Your Requests
  The Chordettes Sing Your Requests
  The Chordettes Sing Your Requests is an album recorded by The Chordettes and released in 1954 by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6285.-Track listing:#"Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"...
  
   - The Chordettes
  The Chordettes
  The Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived vocal groups with beginnings in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies of the 1940s and early 1950s...
  
  
• Clap Yo' Hands - The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  The Four Lads is a popular Canadian male singing quartet. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the group earned many gold singles and albums. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Moments to Remember," "Standin' on the Corner," "No, Not Much," "Who Needs You," and "Istanbul."The Four Lads makes...
  
  
• Crew Cut Capers - The Crew Cuts
• Dinah Jams
  Dinah Jams
  Dinah Jams is a 1954 live album by vocalist Dinah Washington. Remastered in 1990.-Tracks:#"Lover Come Back to Me"#"Alone Together" #"Summertime" #"Come Rain or Come Shine"#"No More"#"I've Got You Under My Skin"...
  
   - Dinah Washington
  Dinah Washington
  Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
  
  
• Favorite Songs - The Ames Brothers
• Grand Jacques
  Grand Jacques
  Grand Jacques is Jacques Brel's debut album. The original album, titled Jacques Brel et ses Chansons, was released in March 1954 as a nine-song 10-inch LP by Philips Records . The original nine tracks were recorded on 15 February 1954 at Théâtre de l'Apollo in Paris...
  
   - Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
  
  
• Guy Mitchell Sings - Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...
  
  
• Irving Berlin Favorites - Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher , was an American entertainer. He was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered...
  
  
• Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  Irving Berlin's White Christmas was an LP album of songs by Rosemary Clooney from the movie White Christmas, released by Columbia Records in 1954....
  
   - Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...
  
  
• It Must Be True - The Ames Brothers
• Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers - Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
  
   & The Mills Brothers
• Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
  Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
  Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy is a 1954 studio release by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, described by Allmusic as "Louis Armstrong's finest record of the 1950s" and "essential music for all serious jazz collections"...
  
   - Louis Armstrong and His All Stars
• The Man That Got Away - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
  
  
• Meet The Mills Brothers - The Mills Brothers
• Mr. Rhythm - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• My Heart's In The Highland - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
  
• A Night at Birdland Vol. 1
  A Night at Birdland Vol. 1
  A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 is a 1954 release by jazz artist Art Blakey. It was first released by Blue Note Records as a 10" LP and then as a 12" LP containing material from the third 10" album...
  
   - The Art Blakey Quintet
  Art Blakey
  Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
  
  
• A Night at Birdland Vol. 2
  A Night at Birdland Vol. 2
  A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 is a 1954 release by jazz drummer Art Blakey. It was first released by Blue Note Records as BLP 5038 and two years later as BLP 1521 incorporating material from the third 10" release...
  
   - The Art Blakey Quintet
• Old Masters - Bing Crosby
• Original Folk Blues
  Original Folk Blues
  Original Folk Blues is the first album by blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Lee Hooker, it was recorded between 1948-1954 and released in 1964.-Track listing:...
  
   - John Lee Hooker
  John Lee Hooker
  John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...
  
  
• RCA Thesaurus
  RCA Thesaurus
  RCA Thesaurus is the title of a series of phonographic albums on the RCA Victorlabel featuring outstanding transcriptions of classical music and popular compositions from...
  
   - John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr. was an accomplished concert accordionist virtuoso, arranger, composer, organist and educator who performed on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks...
  
  
• Red Garters
  Red Garters (Rosemary Clooney album)
  Red Garters was an LP album of songs by Rosemary Clooney from the movie of the same name, released by Columbia Records in 1954....
  
   - Rosemary Clooney
• Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas
  Selections from Irving Berlin's White Christmas was one of two albums featuring some of the cast from the 1954 movie White Christmas. Among the featured artists are Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, and Trudy Stevens , with Peggy Lee, who was not in the movie, singing some parts.This was one of two albums...
  
   - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
  , Trudy Stevens, Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
  
  
• Some Fine Old Chestnuts - Bing Crosby
• Something Cool
  Something Cool
  Something Cool is a studio album recorded by June Christy in 1953, 1954, and 1955, and featuring Christy singing 11 jazz songs backed by the orchestra of Pete Rugolo...
  
   - June Christy
  June Christy
  June Christy , born Shirley Luster, was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool...
  
  
• Song Souvenirs - Patti Page
• Songs For Young Lovers
  Songs for Young Lovers
  Songs for Young Lovers is the fifth Studio Album by Frank Sinatra, his first released for Capitol Records. It was released as a 10" LP as a set of eight songs....
  
   - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  
• Songs in a Mellow Mood
  Songs in a Mellow Mood
  Songs in a Mellow Mood is a 1954 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the pianist Ellis Larkins.The complete album was re-issued as part of the 1994 MCA Records CD, Pure Ella.-Track listing:Side One...
  
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
  
  
• Souvenir Album - The Mills Brothers
• Swing Easy - Frank Sinatra
• Till I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular...
  
  
• The Tin Angel
  The Tin Angel
  The Tin Angel is now the common name for Odetta & Larry's only album, a collection of all their recordings, originally released in 1954 as "Odetta And Larry".- Background :...
  
   - Odetta & Larry
  Odetta & Larry
  Odetta & Larry was a short-lived blues-folk duo in the mid-1950s. It consisted of Odetta and Lawrence B. Mohr, the former of whom became the more well-known in ensuing decades....
  
  
• Toshiko at Mocambo
  Toshiko at Mocambo
  The album Toshiko at Mocambo was recorded by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi at the Mocambo club in Yokohama, Japan in the summer of 1954...
  
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
  
  
• Toshiko's Piano
  Toshiko's Piano
  The jazz album Toshiko's Piano was the debut recording of jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi. It was recorded in Japan in 1953 with Oscar Peterson's Jazz at the Philharmonic rhythm section and released as a 10 inch LP album on Norman Granz's Norgran Record label...
  
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
• Walkin'
  Walkin'
  -Performers:*Miles Davis - Trumpet*Lucky Thompson - Tenor saxophone *J. J. Johnson - Trombone *David Schildkraut - Alto saxophone *Horace Silver - Piano*Percy Heath - Bass*Kenny Clarke - drums...
  
   - Miles Davis
• Young at Heart
  Young at Heart (Doris Day/Frank Sinatra album)
  Young at Heart was a 10" LP album released by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6331, on November 1, 1954, containing songs sung by Doris Day and Frank Sinatra from the soundtrack of the movie Young at Heart....
  
   - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
   & Frank Sinatra

Biggest hit singles

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Doris Day Doris Day Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...	Secret Love	1954		UK 1 - Apr 1954, US 1940s 1 - Jan 1954, US 1 for 3 weeks Feb 1954, Oscar in 1953, US BB 11 of 1954, POP 11 of 1954, RYM 12 of 1953, Italy 54 of 1954
2	Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...	Hey There Hey There "Hey There" is a show tune from the musical play The Pajama Game, written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. It was published in 1954.It was subsequently recorded by a number of artists. The recording by Rosemary Clooney reached #1 on Billboard's chart in 1954. Another version was also recorded about...	1954		US 1940s 1 - Jul 1954, US 1 for 6 weeks Sep 1954, Australia 1 for 4 weeks May 1956, UK 4 - Sep 1955, US BB 18 of 1954, POP 21 of 1954, RYM 34 of 1954, DDD 66 of 1954
3	The Chordettes The Chordettes The Chordettes were a female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived vocal groups with beginnings in the mainstream pop and vocal harmonies of the 1940s and early 1950s...	Mr Sandman	1954		US 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1954, Peel list 1 of 1953, US BB 5 of 1954, POP 7 of 1954, RYM 9 of 1954, UK 11 - Dec 1954, DDD 45 of 1954, RIAA 252, Acclaimed 1006
4	Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...	This Ole House This Ole House "This Ole House" is a popular song written by Stuart Hamblen, and published in 1954.-Background:Hamblen was supposedly out on a hunting expedition when he and his fellow hunter, actor John Wayne, came across a tumbledown hut in the mountains, many miles from civilization...	1954		UK 1 - Oct 1954, US 1940s 1 - Aug 1954, US 1 for 1 weeks Nov 1954, US BB 12 of 1954, POP 12 of 1954, RYM 34 of 1954
5	Kitty Kallen Kitty Kallen Kitty Kallen is an American popular singer who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, "Little Things Mean a Lot" in 1954.-Career:...	Little Things Mean a Lot Little Things Mean a Lot "Little Things Mean a Lot" is a popular song written by Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz , published in 1953. Lindeman was the leisure editor of the Richmond Times-Despatch and Stutz a disc jockey from Richmond, Virginia....	1954		UK 1 - Jul 1954, US 1940s 1 - Apr 1954, US 1 for 9 weeks Jun 1954, US BB 15 of 1954, POP 15 of 1954, RYM 145 of 1954

US No. 1 hit singles

A-I

• "Am I A Toy Or A Treasure
  Am I A Toy Or A Treasure
  Am I A Toy Or A Treasure is a popular song written by Arthur Altman, Louis C. Singer and Irving Taylor.The best-selling version of the song was recorded by Kay Starr in 1954. It reached number 17 in the UK charts in October 1954, and number 74 in the annual chart for that year....
  
  " - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  Kay Starr is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 50s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz"....
  
  
• "Answer Me, My Love
  Answer Me, My Love
  "Answer Me, My Love" is a popular song, originally written by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Rauch. The English lyrics were written by Carl Sigman in 1953....
  
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
  
  
• "Back Where I Belong
  Back Where I Belong
  Back Where I Belong is former Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin's first solo album. It was recorded after Martin was briefly replaced in Black Sabbath by Ronnie James Dio in the early nineties. It was released in 1992. Martin played all the instruments himself when recording demos for the album, but...
  
  " - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
   & Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
  
• "Baubles, Bangles & Beads", recorded by
  • Georgia Gibbs
    Georgia Gibbs
    Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
    
    
  • Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
    
    
• "The Christmas Song
  The Christmas Song
  "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...
  
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
  
   (a new version; original release was in 1946)
• "Cross Over The Bridge
  Cross Over the Bridge
  "Cross Over the Bridge" is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss and published in 1945.The best-selling version of the song was recorded by Patti Page in 1954...
  
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
  Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
  "Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup" is a popular song with words and music by Anna Sosenko in 1935.It was introduced in the film Love and Hisses by Hildegarde and charted by Hildegarde at # 21 in 1943....
  
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
  
  
• "Earth Angel
  Earth Angel
  "Earth Angel " is an American doo-wop song, originally released by The Penguins in 1954 on the Dootone label , as the B-side to "Hey Señorita." The song became a major hit for The Crew-Cuts in 1955, reaching the Billboard charts on January 29, 1955. It peaked at #3 on the Disk Jockey chart, #8 on...
  
  " - The Penguins
  The Penguins
  The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, "Earth Angel ", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts...
  
  
• "Ebb Tide" - Roy Hamilton
  Roy Hamilton
  Roy Hamilton was an American singer, who achieved major success in the US R&B and pop charts in the 1950s...
  
  
• "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
  Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
  "Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight" is a popular song that was a hit during the mid 1950s.It was written by Calvin Carter and James "Pookie" Hudson in 1953....
  
  " - The McGuire Sisters
  The McGuire Sisters
  The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. The group was composed of three sisters: Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire...
  
  
• "Hearts Of Stone
  Hearts of Stone
  "Hearts of Stone" is an American R&B song. It was written by Rudy Jackson, a member of the San Bernardino, California-based rhythm and blues vocal group the Jewels which first recorded it for the R&B label in 1954...
  
  " - The Fontane Sisters
  The Fontane Sisters
  The Fontane Sisters were a trio from New Milford, New Jersey.-Early years:Their mother, Louise Rosse, was both a soloist and the leader of the St. Joseph's Church choir in New Milford. Bea and Marge started out singing for local functions, doing so well, they were urged to audition in New York City...
  
  
• "How Did He Look?" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
  
  
• "I Cried
  I Cried
  "I Cried" is a popular song written by Michael Elias and Billy Duke.The best-selling version was done by Patti Page, reaching #13 on the Billboard charts in 1954. It was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70416. The song was a two-sided hit, with the flip side "What a Dream" doing even...
  
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "I Need You Now
  I Need You Now (1954 song)
  "I Need You Now" is a popular song written by Al Jacobs and Jimmie Crane.The recorded version by Eddie Fisher, issued by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-5830, reached #1 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1954....
  
  " - Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher , was an American entertainer. He was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered...
  
  
• "I Speak To The Stars" - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
  
• "I Took Him From You" - The DeJohn Sisters
• "If I Give My Heart to You
  If I Give My Heart to You
  "If I Give My Heart to You" is a popular song written by Jimmy Brewster, Jimmie Crane, and Al Jacobs.The most popular versions of the song were recorded by Doris Day and Denise Lor; both charted in 1954. Anne Shelton recorded a version for the UK market, but it lost out to the Day version, as well...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Doris Day
    Doris Day
    Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
    
    
  • Denise Lor
    Denise Lor
    Denise Lor is an American popular singer and actress.She was a featured artist on Garry Moore's television show.Ms. Lor was married to and subsequently divorced from TV director and singer Jay Martin, with whom she had sons, Ron and Dennis. They had met when she was singing on The Garry Moore...
    
    
• "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  Kay Starr is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 50s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz"....
  
  
• "In the Chapel in the Moonlight
  In the Chapel in the Moonlight
  "In the Chapel in the Moonlight" is a 1936 popular song written by Billy Hill. The song was revived by Kitty Kallen in 1954. Her recording, which was released by Decca Records as catalog number 29130, reached number four on the Billboard charts and number five on the Cash Box Best Selling Record...
  
  " - Kitty Kallen
  Kitty Kallen
  Kitty Kallen is an American popular singer who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, "Little Things Mean a Lot" in 1954.-Career:...
  
  
• "In the Beginning
  In the Beginning (1954 song)
  "In the Beginning" is a popular song, by Dorcas Cochran, Kay Twomey, Ben Weisman, and Fred Wise.It was recorded by Frankie Laine in December, 1954 and released by Columbia as catalog number 40378, the flip side being "Old Shoes." Although the song did not chart in the United States, it reached #20...
  
  " - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "In The Mood
  In the Mood
  "In the Mood" is a big band era #1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. Joe Garland and Andy Razaf arranged "In the Mood" in 1937-1939 using a previously existing main theme composed by Glenn Miller before the start of the 1930s...
  
  " - Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
  
• "In the Still of the Night" - The Five Satins
  The Five Satins
  The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song, "In the Still of the Night."-Career:The group, formed in New Haven, Connecticut, consisted of leader Fred Parris, Lou Peebles, Stanley Dortch, Ed Martin and Jim Freeman in 1954. With little success, the...
  
  
• "In the Wee Small Hours
  In the Wee Small Hours
  In 2003, the album was ranked number 100 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is also the first album reviewed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery. In 2007, Time Magazine selected it as one of The All-TIME 100 Albums...
  
  " - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  

L-S

• "Let Me Go, Lover" - Joan Weber
  Joan Weber
  Joan Weber was an American popular music singer.Weber was raised in Paulsboro, New Jersey and married to a young bandleader...
  
  
• "Little Things Mean a Lot
  Little Things Mean a Lot
  "Little Things Mean a Lot" is a popular song written by Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz , published in 1953. Lindeman was the leisure editor of the Richmond Times-Despatch and Stutz a disc jockey from Richmond, Virginia....
  
  " - Kitty Kallen
  Kitty Kallen
  Kitty Kallen is an American popular singer who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, "Little Things Mean a Lot" in 1954.-Career:...
  
  
• "Make Love to Me
  Make Love to Me
  - Mann/Weiss/Gannon song :With music by Paul Mann and Stephan Weiss, and lyrics by Kim Gannon, it was recorded in 1942 by Helen Forrest with the Harry James Orchestra...
  
  " - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
  
• "The Man That Got Away
  The Man that Got Away
  "The Man that Got Away" is a popular song, published in 1953 and was written for the 1954 version of the movie A Star Is Born. The music was written by Harold Arlen, and the lyrics by Ira Gershwin...
  
  " - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
  
  
• "The Man Upstairs
  The Man Upstairs
  The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United...
  
  " - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  Kay Starr is an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1940s and 50s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became #1 hits in the 1950s, "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Rock And Roll Waltz"....
  
  
• "Melancholy Baby" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
  
  
• "Melody of Love
  Melody of Love
  "Melody of Love" is a popular song. The music was originally written by Hans Engelmann in 1903. The lyrics were added by Tom Glazer in 1954.An instrumental version recorded by Billy Vaughn was the highest-charting version on the Billboard charts in 1955...
  
  " - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
   & Ray Anthony
  Ray Anthony
  Ray Anthony is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.- Biography :...
  
  
• "Mr. Sandman
  Mr. Sandman
  "Mr. Sandman" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard which was published in 1954 and first recorded in that year by The Chordettes. The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr...
  
  " - Chordettes
• "Money Burns A Hole In My Pocket" - Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
  
  
• "Muskrat Ramble
  Muskrat Ramble
  "Muskrat Ramble" is a jazz composition written by Kid Ory in 1926. It was first recorded on February 26, 1926 by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, and became the group's most frequently recorded piece...
  
  " - Matys Brothers
  Matys Brothers
  The Matys Brothers were a rockabilly musical act made up of the four Matys brothers, and their sister Vera for a time, were born and raised in Chester, in the Philadelphia area...
  
  
• "My Friend
  My Friend
  "My Friend" is a song written and recorded by Jimi Hendrix in New York City in 1968 during the recording sessions for Electric Ladyland. The song was first released in 1971 on the posthumous album The Cry of Love and later appeared on the CD First Rays of the New Rising Sun. It was mixed...
  
  " - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "My Sin" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
  
  
• "Oh! My Pa-Pa" - Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher , was an American entertainer. He was one of the world's most famous and successful singers in the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered...
  
  
• "Opus One
  Opus No. 1 (1943 song)
  "Opus No. 1" is a popular song, composed in 1943 by Sy Oliver, with lyrics by Sid Garris. The tune is often titled Opus One, or Opus #1. It has become a standard song in the swing, jazz and big band repertoire....
  
  " - The Mills Brothers
• "Out Of Nowhere
  Out of Nowhere (Johnny Green song)
  "Out of Nowhere" is a popular song composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman. It was first recorded by Bing Crosby in 1931 and became his first number one hit as a solo artist...
  
  " - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "Rain, Rain, Rain" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
   & The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  The Four Lads is a popular Canadian male singing quartet. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the group earned many gold singles and albums. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Moments to Remember," "Standin' on the Corner," "No, Not Much," "Who Needs You," and "Istanbul."The Four Lads makes...
  
  
• "Papa Loves Mambo
  Papa Loves Mambo
  "Papa Loves Mambo" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, and Bix Reichner and published in 1954.The best-known version was recorded by Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra in New York City on August 31, 1954. The song was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number...
  
  " - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "Say Hey",recorded by
  • Ray Anthony
    Ray Anthony
    Ray Anthony is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.- Biography :...
    
    
  • The Treniers
    The Treniers
    The Treniers were an American R&B and jump blues musical group, led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier. Their Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra included Don Hill on saxophone, Shifty Henry and later James Johnson on bass, Henry Green on drums and Gene Gilbeaux on piano, with the Treniers Twins and...
    
    
• "Secret Love" - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
  
• "Sh-Boom
  Sh-Boom
  "Sh-Boom" is an early doo-wop song. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and James Edwards, members of the R&B vocal group The Chords and published in 1954. It was a U.S...
  
  ", recorded by
  • Crew-Cuts
  • The Chords
  • Stan Freberg
    Stan Freberg
    Stanley Victor "Stan" Freberg is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director whose career began in 1944...
    
     (as a parody of The Chords' version).
• "Sincerely" - McGuire Sisters
• "Smile" - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
  
  
• "Someone to Watch Over Me
  Someone to Watch over Me (song)
  "Someone to Watch Over Me" is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the musical Oh, Kay! , where it was introduced by Gertrude Lawrence...
  
  " - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  
• "Such a Night
  Such a Night
  "Such a Night" is a popular song from 1953, written by Lincoln Chase and first recorded by The Drifters.The Drifters' original version, featuring Clyde McPhatter, was recorded in November 1953 and released in January 1954...
  
  " - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality.-Early life:John Alvin Ray was born in...
  
  
• "Such a Night
  Such a Night
  "Such a Night" is a popular song from 1953, written by Lincoln Chase and first recorded by The Drifters.The Drifters' original version, featuring Clyde McPhatter, was recorded in November 1953 and released in January 1954...
  
  " - Clyde McPhatter
  Clyde McPhatter
  Clyde McPhatter was an American R&B singer, perhaps the most widely imitated R&B singer of the 1950s and 1960s, making him a key figure in the shaping of doo-wop and R&B. He is best known for his solo hit "A Lover's Question"...
  
   and The Drifters
  The Drifters
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1963, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today. They were originally formed to serve as Clyde McPhatter's backing group in 1953...
  
  
• "Sway
  Sway (song)
  "Sway" is the English version of "¿Quién será?", a 1953 mambo song by Mexican composer and bandleader Pablo Beltrán Ruiz. The most famous version is that of Dean Martin recorded in 1954. English lyrics are by Norman Gimbel...
  
  " - Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
  
  

T-Y

• "Tenderly
  Tenderly
  "Tenderly" is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence.Copyright 1946 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc....
  
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...
  
  
• "Thank You for Calling
  Thank You for Calling
  "Thank You for Calling" is a popular and country song.It was written by Cindy Walker. The song was published in 1954.The song was recorded by Billy Walker, Jo Stafford, Hank Snow, and Timi Yuro....
  
  " - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
  
  
• "Three Coins in the Fountain
  Three Coins in the Fountain (song)
  "Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular song which received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1954.The melody was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was written for the romance film, Three Coins in the Fountain and refers to the act of throwing a coin into the Trevi...
  
  " - The Four Aces
  The Four Aces
  The Four Aces is an American male traditional pop music quartet, popular since the 1950s. Over the last half-century, the group amassed many gold records. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing", "Three Coins in the Fountain", "Stranger in Paradise", "Tell Me...
  
  
• "Till My Love Comes To Me" - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
  
• "Tweedle Dee
  Tweedle Dee
  "Tweedlee Dee" is a rhythm and blues novelty song with a Latin-influenced riff written by Winfield Scott for LaVern Baker and recorded by her at Atlantic Records' studio in New York City in 1954. It was her first hit, reaching #4 on Billboard's R&B chart and #14 on its Pop chart...
  
  " - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of...
  
  
• "Wanted" - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...
  
  
• "What a Dream
  What a Dream
  "What a Dream" is a popular song. It was written by Chuck Willis and was published in 1954.The original recording was done by Ruth Brown, but a cover by Patti Page was a bigger hit....
  
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records...
  
  
• "When The World Was Young
  (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
  When the World Was Young is a popular song composed by M. Philippe-Gerard, with lyrics by Angele Vannier. The English lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer. The original French title was "Le Chevalier de Paris"....
  
  " - Felicia Sanders
  Felicia Sanders
  Felicia Sanders was a singer of traditional pop music.Born Felice Schwartz in Mount Vernon, New York. She sang in the 1940s, with big bands and on the radio, based in Los Angeles....
  
  
• "Whither Thou Goest
  Whither Thou Goest
  "Whither Thou Goest" is a popular song written by Guy Singer. The song was published in 1954. The words are adapted from the Bible .The most popular version was recorded by Les Paul and Mary Ford...
  
  " - Les Paul and Mary Ford
  Les Paul and Mary Ford
  Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular 1950s husband-and-wife/group musical team in which Les Paul played the guitar and Mary Ford sang. In 1951 alone, they sold six million records....
  
  
• "You'll Never Walk Alone
  You'll Never Walk Alone (song)
  "You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.In the musical, in the second act, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the...
  
  " - Roy Hamilton
  Roy Hamilton
  Roy Hamilton was an American singer, who achieved major success in the US R&B and pop charts in the 1950s...
  
  
• "Your Heart, My Heart" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  
• "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
  You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You
  "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" is a popular song written by Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, and James Cavanaugh and published in 1944.The song was first recorded by Morgan and has been covered by numerous artists...
  
  " - The Mills Brothers

Top Rhythm & Blues and Country hits on record

• "Bimbo" - Jim Reeves
  Jim Reeves
  James Travis Reeves , better known as Jim Reeves, was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well-known for being a practitioner of the Nashville sound...
  
  
• "Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight" - Spaniels
  The Spaniels
  The Spaniels were an American R&B doo-wop group, best known for the hit "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite".They have been called the first successful Midwestern R&B group...
  
  
• 'Slowly"-(Webb Pierce)
• "Hearts Of Stone
  Hearts of Stone
  "Hearts of Stone" is an American R&B song. It was written by Rudy Jackson, a member of the San Bernardino, California-based rhythm and blues vocal group the Jewels which first recorded it for the R&B label in 1954...
  
  " - Jewels
• "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" - Muddy Waters
  Muddy Waters
  McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
  
  
• "Mambo Baby" - Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress, noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and " He Treats Your Daughter Mean".For these...
  
  
• "Oh What A Dream" - Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress, noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and " He Treats Your Daughter Mean".For these...
  
  
• "Shake Rattle And Roll" - Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and...
  
  
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore"-(Hank Snow)
• "The Things That I Used To Do" - Guitar Slim
  Guitar Slim
  Eddie Jones , better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist, from the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song, produced by Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records, "The Things That I Used to Do"...
  
  
• "Work With Me Annie" - Hank Ballard & the Midnighters

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• "All Of You
  All of You
  "All of You" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and published in 1954.It was featured in the musical film Silk Stockings and been recorded by Fred Astaire, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald on her 1972 album: Ella Loves Cole, Billie Holiday, Tony Martin, and Anita O'Day.The jazz pianist Bill Evans...
  
  "     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
  
  
• "Annie Had a Baby
  Annie Had a Baby
  "Annie Had a Baby" is a 1954 single by The Midnighters. The single was one of many answer songs to "Work With Me, Annie", a previous hit for The Midnighters. "Annie Had a Baby" was also a number one hit on the R&B chart...
  
  "     w.m. Henry Glover & Lois Mann
• "A Blossom Fell
  A Blossom Fell
  "A Blossom Fell" is a popular song.It was written by Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius, and Dominic John and published in 1954.The best-known version was recorded by Nat King Cole. The recording was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 3095...
  
  "     w.m. Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius & Dominic John
• "Cara Mia
  Cara Mia
  "Cara Mia" is a popular song published in 1954 and became a hit for English singer David Whitfield in 1954 and a #4 hit by the American pop group Jay and the Americans in 1965. The title means "my beloved" in Italian....
  
  "     w.m. Tulio Trapani & Lee Lange
• "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White"     w. (Eng) Mack David
  Mack David
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...
  
   (Fr) Jacques Larue m. Louiguy
• "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Cross Over The Bridge
  Cross Over the Bridge
  "Cross Over the Bridge" is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss and published in 1945.The best-selling version of the song was recorded by Patti Page in 1954...
  
  "     w.m. Bennie Benjamin
  Bennie Benjamin
  Claude A. Benjamin was a songwriter, often teaming with George David Weiss. He was born on November 4, 1907 in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix . At the age of twenty, he moved to New York City. There, he studied the banjo and guitar with Hy Smith...
  
   & George David Weiss
  George David Weiss
  George David Weiss was an American songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.-Career:...
  
  
• "Earth Angel
  Earth Angel
  "Earth Angel " is an American doo-wop song, originally released by The Penguins in 1954 on the Dootone label , as the B-side to "Hey Señorita." The song became a major hit for The Crew-Cuts in 1955, reaching the Billboard charts on January 29, 1955. It peaked at #3 on the Disk Jockey chart, #8 on...
  
  "     w.m. Jesse Belvin
  Jesse Belvin
  Jesse Lorenzo Belvin was an American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s, whose success was cut short by his death in a car crash aged 27.-Career:...
  
  , Curtis Williams & Gaynel Hodge
• "Ev'ry Day of My Life
  Ev'ry Day of My Life
  "Ev'ry Day of My Life" is a popular song written in 1954 by Al Jacobs and Jimmie Crane.Two of the most popular versions of this song were recorded by Malcolm Vaughan and The McGuire Sisters...
  
  "     w.m.Al Jacobs and Jimmie Crane.
• "The Finger Of Suspicion Points At You"     w.m. Paul Mann & Al Lewis
• "From The Vine Came The Grape
  From the Vine Came the Grape
  "From the Vine Came the Grape" is a popular song.It was written by Leonard Whitcup and Paul Cunningham and published in 1954.The biggest-selling version was recorded by The Gaylords in 1954. It was also a hit for The Hilltoppers the same year....
  
  "     w.m. Leonard Whitcup & Paul Cunningham
• "Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea
  Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea
  "Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1954.The best-known version in the United States was recorded by The Four Lads with teenage girls Lillian Pasciolla and others on February 27, 1954...
  
  "     w.m. Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...
  
   & Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman....
  
  

H

• "Hearts Of Stone
  Hearts of Stone
  "Hearts of Stone" is an American R&B song. It was written by Rudy Jackson, a member of the San Bernardino, California-based rhythm and blues vocal group the Jewels which first recorded it for the R&B label in 1954...
  
  "     w. Eddy Ray m. Rudy Jackson
• "Hernando's Hideaway
  Hernando's Hideaway
  "Hernando's Hideaway" is a tango show tune from the musical The Pajama Game, written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and published in 1954. The lyrics describe a dark and secretive nightclub....
  
  "     w.m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.-Biography:Ross was born...
  
  
• "He's A Tramp"     Sonny Burke
  Sonny Burke
  Sonny Burke was a big band leader. In 1937, he graduated from Duke University where he had formed and led the jazz big band known as the Duke Ambassadors....
  
  , Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and...
  
  
• "Hey There
  Hey There
  "Hey There" is a show tune from the musical play The Pajama Game, written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. It was published in 1954.It was subsequently recorded by a number of artists. The recording by Rosemary Clooney reached #1 on Billboard's chart in 1954. Another version was also recorded about...
  
  "     w.m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.-Biography:Ross was born...
  
  
• "The High and the Mighty
  The High and the Mighty (song)
  "The High and the Mighty" is a song by Ned Washington and Dimitri Tiomkin from the movie of the same name.At the start of the film's production late in 1953, veteran film composer and musician Dimitri Tiomkin was commissioned to write the film's Academy Award winning score...
  
  "     w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
  
   m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...
  
  
• "Honeycomb
  Honeycomb (song)
  "Honeycomb" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954. The best-selling version was recorded by Jimmie Rodgers and charted at number one on the Billboard Top 100 in 1957. "Honeycomb" also reached number one on the R&B Best Sellers chart and number seven on the Country & Western Best Sellers...
  
  "     w.m. Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...
  
  

I-L

• "I Can't Tell A Waltz From A Tango
  I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango
  "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1954.The best known version in the United States was recorded by Patti Page; the best-known version in the United Kingdom by Alma Cogan...
  
  "     Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...
  
  , Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman....
  
  
• "I Could Be Happy With You"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...
  
  
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore
  I Don't Hurt Anymore
  "I Don't Hurt Anymore" is a 1954 song by Hank Snow. It was written by Don Robertson and Jack Rollins. The song was Hank Snow's fourth number one on the country chart where it spent twenty weeks at the top spot and a total of forty-one weeks on the chart....
  
  "     w. Jack Rollins m. Don Robertson
• "I Got A Woman
  I Got a Woman
  "I Got a Woman" is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B/soul musician Ray Charles and released as a single in December 1954 on the Atlantic label as Atlantic 45-1050 b/w "Come Back Baby." Both sides later appeared on his 1957 album Ray Charles .-Origin:The song builds on...
  
  "     w.m. Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
  
   & Renald Richard
• "I Left My Heart In San Francisco
  I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is a popular song, written in 1954 by George Cory and Douglass Cross, and best known as the signature song of Tony Bennett...
  
  "     w. Douglas Cross m. George Cory
• "If I Give My Heart to You
  If I Give My Heart to You
  "If I Give My Heart to You" is a popular song written by Jimmy Brewster, Jimmie Crane, and Al Jacobs.The most popular versions of the song were recorded by Doris Day and Denise Lor; both charted in 1954. Anne Shelton recorded a version for the UK market, but it lost out to the Day version, as well...
  
  "     w.m. Jimmy Brewster
  Jimmy Brewster
  Jimmy Brewster was an American Football League player for the Newark Bears. He played collegiately for the Georgia Tech football team....
  
  , Jimmie Crane & Al Jacobs
• "I'll Walk With God
  I'll Walk with God
  "I'll Walk with God" is a popular song with music by Nicholas Brodzsky and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, published in 1954. This song is best known from the movie The Student Prince, in which the title character, played by Edmund Purdom, but sung by tenor Mario Lanza, performs this song at the...
  
  "     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
  
   m. Nicholas Brodszky
• "I'm Not At All In Love
  I'm Not at All in Love
  "I'm Not at All in Love" is a popular song written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, published in 1954. It was first presented in the musical The Pajama Game by Janis Paige.-References:...
  
  "     w.m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.-Biography:Ross was born...
  
  . Introduced by Janis Paige
  Janis Paige
  Janis Paige is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. Born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows...
  
   in the musical The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...
  
  .
• "In Other Words" (aka "Fly Me To The Moon
  Fly Me to the Moon
  "Fly Me to the Moon" is a popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was originally titled "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets...
  
  ")     w.m. Bart Howard
  Bart Howard
  Bart Howard was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon", which has been performed by singers Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Diana Krall, June Christy and Astrud Gilberto...
  
  
• "In Paris and in Love" w. Leo Robin
  Leo Robin
  Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
  
   m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
  
  . Introduced by Jeanmaire
  Zizi Jeanmaire
  Zizi Jeanmaire is a ballet dancer and widow of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s after playing the title role in the ballet version of Carmen, produced in London in 1949, and went on to appear in several Hollywood films.-Background:Born in Paris,...
  
   and David Atkinson
  David Atkinson (baritone)
  David Atkinson is a retired Canadian baritone and actor. Most of his career was spent performing in musicals and operettas in New York City from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, although he did appear in some operas and made a few television appearances. In 1952 he created the role of Sam...
  
   in the musical The Girl in the Pink Tights
• "Let Me Go, Lover!
  Let Me Go, Lover!
  "Let Me Go, Lover!", a popular song, was written by Jenny Lou Carson and Al Hill, a pseudonym used by Fred Wise, Kathleen Twomey, and Ben Weisman. It is based on an earlier song called "Let Me Go, Devil," about alcoholism. It was featured on the television program Studio One on November 15, 1954,...
  
  "     w.m. Jenny Lou Carson
  Jenny Lou Carson
  Jenny Lou Carson, , born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit...
  
   & Al Hill
• "The Little Shoemaker
  The Little Shoemaker
  "The Little Shoemaker" is a popular song based on the French song, "Le petit cordonnnier," by Rudi Revil. The original French lyric was written by Francis Lemarque. The English language lyrics were written by Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, Nathan Korb and John Turner.In the United States, the...
  
  "     w.(Eng) John Turner
  John Turner (lyricist)
  John Turner was the pseudonym used by the English lyricist James John Turner Phillips.He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Parsons. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. He would usually...
  
   & Geoffrey Parsons (Fr) Avril Lamarque m. Rudi Revil

M-P

• "Mambo Italiano
  Mambo Italiano (song)
  "Mambo Italiano" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954 and recorded by Rosemary Clooney. Merrill actually wrote it on deadline, scribbled hastily on a paper napkin in an Italian restaurant in New York, United States using the wall pay-phone to dictate the melody, rhythm and lyrics to the...
  
  "     w.m. Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...
  
  
• "Mister Sandman"     w.m. Pat Ballard
• "Misty
  Misty (song)
  "Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by the pianist Erroll Garner.Originally composed as an instrumental following the traditional 32-bar format, the tune later had lyrics by Johnny Burke and became the signature song of Johnny Mathis, reaching #12 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in 1959...
  
  "     w. Johnny Burke m. Errol Garner
• "My Son, My Son
  My Son, My Son
  "My Son, My Son" is a traditional popular music song written by Bob Howard, Melville Farley and Eddie Calvert in 1954.The best known recording of the song, by Vera Lynn, climbed to the number one spot in the UK Singles Chart in November that year....
  
  "     w. Bob Howard m. Melville Farley & Eddie Calvert
  Eddie Calvert
  Eddie Calvert was an English trumpeter, who enjoyed his greatest successes in the 1950s. Calvert had his first United Kingdom, number one instrumental single in 1954, with "Oh Mein Papa".-Biography:...
  
  
• "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
  The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
  "The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane" is a popular song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett. The lyrics suggest that this "naughty lady" driving the whole town crazy is an attractive young woman who "throws those come-hither glances at every Tom, Dick and Joe" and "when offered some liquid...
  
  "     w.m. Sid Tepper
  Sid Tepper
  Sid Tepper is an American songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley. Between 1945 and 1970, Tepper and Bennett published over 300 songs.-Biography:...
  
   & Roy C. Bennett
  Roy C. Bennett
  Roy C. Bennett is an American songwriter known for the songs he wrote with Sid Tepper, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley...
  
  
• "Only You (and You Alone)
  Only You (And You Alone)
  "Only You " is a pop song composed by Buck Ram. It was recorded most successfully by The Platters, with lead vocals by Tony Williams, in 1955....
  
  "     w.m. Buck Ram
  Buck Ram
  Buck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...
  
   & Ande Rand
• "Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)
  Open up Your Heart (and Let the Sunshine in)
  "Open up Your Heart " is a popular song. It was written by Stuart Hamblen. The song was published in 1954.The biggest hit version in the United States was a recording by the Cowboy Church Sunday School ; in the United Kingdom, by Joan Regan and her son Rusty...
  
  "     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
  Stuart Hamblen
  Stuart Hamblen , born Stuart Carl Hamblen, was one of American radio's first singing cowboys in 1926, and later became a Christian songwriter, temperance supporter and recurring candidate for political office....
  
  
• "Papa Loves Mambo
  Papa Loves Mambo
  "Papa Loves Mambo" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, and Bix Reichner and published in 1954.The best-known version was recorded by Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra in New York City on August 31, 1954. The song was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number...
  
  "     w.m. Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...
  
  , Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born American songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman....
  
   & Bix Reichner
• "Pledging My Love
  Pledging My Love
  "Pledging My Love" is a blues ballad. It was written by Ferdinand Washington and Don Robey and published in 1954.The song's theme is captured in the title and the opening lines:-Johnny Ace:The most popular recording of the song was done by Johnny Ace...
  
  "     w.m. Ferdinand Washington & Don Robey
• "The Poor People of Paris
  The Poor People of Paris
  "The Poor People of Paris" is a popular song, with "Paris" being pronounced as "pa-REE".It was adapted by Jack Lawrence in 1954 from the French language song "La goualante du pauvre Jean"...
  
  "     w.(Eng) Jack Lawrence
  Jack Lawrence
  Jack Lawrence was an American songwriter. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.- Biography :...
  
   (Fr) Rene Rouzaud m. Marguerite Monnot
  Marguerite Monnot
  Marguerite Monnot was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce....
  
   "La Goulante du Pauvre Jean"

R-T

• "Release Me
  Release Me (1946 song)
  "Release Me" is a popular song written by Eddie Miller, Robert Yount, and James Pebworth , published in 1946.Miller wrote the song in 1946 but could not get anyone to record it for years, so he recorded it himself in 1953. Shortly afterward it was covered by Jimmy Heap, and with even better success...
  
  "     w.m. Eddie Miller & W. S. Stevenson
• "River of No Return"     w. Ken Darby
  Ken Darby
  Kenneth Lorin Darby was an American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor. His film scores were recognized with three Academy Awards and one Grammy Award.- Personal life :...
  
   m. Lionel Newman
  Lionel Newman
  Lionel Newman was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....
  
   from the film River of No Return
  River of No Return
  River of No Return is a 1954 American Western film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film The Bicycle Thief...
  
  .
• "Shake, Rattle And Roll
  Shake, Rattle and Roll
  "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical twelve bar blues-form rock and roll song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner, and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets...
  
  "     w.m. Charles Calhoun
• "Sh-Boom
  Sh-Boom
  "Sh-Boom" is an early doo-wop song. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and James Edwards, members of the R&B vocal group The Chords and published in 1954. It was a U.S...
  
  "     w.m. James Keyes, Claude & Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae & James Edwards
• "Sincerely"     w.m. Harvey Fuqua & Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  Albert James "Alan" Freed , also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country and rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
  
  
• "Sisters
  Sisters (song)
  "Sisters" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1954.The song appeared in the movie White Christmas where it was sung by Rosemary Clooney and Trudy Stevens ....
  
  "     w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Skokiaan
  Skokiaan
  "Skokiaan" is a popular tune originally written by Rhodesian musician August Musarurwa in the tsaba-tsaba big band style that succeeded marabi...
  
  "     w. Tom Glazer
  Tom Glazer
  Thomas Zachariah "Tom" Glazer was an American folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads, including: "Because All Men Are Brothers", recorded by The Weavers and Peter, Paul and Mary, "Talking Inflation Blues", recorded by Bob Dylan, and "A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore"...
  
   m. August Musarurwa
• "Smile"     w. John Turner
  John Turner (lyricist)
  John Turner was the pseudonym used by the English lyricist James John Turner Phillips.He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Parsons. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. He would usually...
  
   & Geoffrey Parsons  m. Charles Chaplin
• "Steam Heat
  Steam Heat
  "Steam Heat" is a show tune from the 1954 musical The Pajama Game, written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.The best-known recording was done by Patti Page...
  
  "     w.m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.-Biography:Ross was born...
  
  
• "There Once Was a Man"     w. m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.-Biography:Ross was born...
  
  . Introduced by John Raitt
  John Raitt
  John Emmett Raitt was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater.-Early years:...
  
   and Janis Paige
  Janis Paige
  Janis Paige is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. Born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows...
  
   in the musical The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...
  
  
• "This Ole House
  This Ole House
  "This Ole House" is a popular song written by Stuart Hamblen, and published in 1954.-Background:Hamblen was supposedly out on a hunting expedition when he and his fellow hunter, actor John Wayne, came across a tumbledown hut in the mountains, many miles from civilization...
  
  "     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
  Stuart Hamblen
  Stuart Hamblen , born Stuart Carl Hamblen, was one of American radio's first singing cowboys in 1926, and later became a Christian songwriter, temperance supporter and recurring candidate for political office....
  
  
• "Three Coins In The Fountain
  Three Coins in the Fountain (song)
  "Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular song which received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1954.The melody was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was written for the romance film, Three Coins in the Fountain and refers to the act of throwing a coin into the Trevi...
  
  "     w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Tweedle Dee
  Tweedle Dee
  "Tweedlee Dee" is a rhythm and blues novelty song with a Latin-influenced riff written by Winfield Scott for LaVern Baker and recorded by her at Atlantic Records' studio in New York City in 1954. It was her first hit, reaching #4 on Billboard's R&B chart and #14 on its Pop chart...
  
  "     w.m. Winfield Scott
  Winfield Scott (songwriter)
  Winfield Scott was a songwriter who wrote or co-wrote the hit songs "Tweedle Dee" for LaVern Baker and "Return to Sender" for Elvis Presley. "Return to Sender", written for the Presley film Girls! Girls! Girls!, was his biggest hit, selling over 14 million copies in the U.S...
  
  

W-Y

• "What a Dream
  What a Dream
  "What a Dream" is a popular song. It was written by Chuck Willis and was published in 1954.The original recording was done by Ruth Brown, but a cover by Patti Page was a bigger hit....
  
  "     w.m. Chuck Willis
  Chuck Willis
  Harold "Chuck" Willis was an American blues, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll singer and songwriter. His biggest hits, "C. C. Rider" and "What Am I Living For" , both reached no. 1 in the Billboard R&B chart...
  
  
• "Whither Thou Goest
  Whither Thou Goest
  "Whither Thou Goest" is a popular song written by Guy Singer. The song was published in 1954. The words are adapted from the Bible .The most popular version was recorded by Les Paul and Mary Ford...
  
  "     w.m. Guy Singer
• "Wonderful, Wonderful Day"     w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   m. Gene De Paul
  Gene de Paul
  Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
  
   from the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• "Work With Me, Annie
  Work with Me, Annie
  "Work With Me, Annie" is a 12-bar blues with words and music by Hank Ballard. It was recorded by Hank Ballard & the Midnighters in Cincinnati on the Federal Records label on January 14, 1954, and released the following month...
  
  "     w.m. Hank Ballard
  Hank Ballard
  Hank Ballard , born John Henry Kendricks, was a rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s...
  
  
• "Young And Foolish
  Young and Foolish
  "Young and Foolish" is a popular song with music by Albert Hague and lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt, published in 1954.The song was introduced in the musical Plain and Fancy.It has been recorded by many singers...
  
  "     w. Arnold B. Horwitt m. Albert Hague from the 1955 musical Plain and Fancy
  Plain and Fancy
  Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague. One of the first depictions of an Amish community in American pop culture, it includes a traditional barn-raising and an old-fashioned country...
  
  

Other notable songs

• "Le Déserteur
  Le Déserteur (Boris Vian song)
  Le déserteur is a famous anti-war song written by Boris Vian and released on May 7, 1954 during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.It was first sung by Marcel Mouloudji, in 1954. Subsequently, it was forbidden by the French censorship to be sold or broadcasted until 1962...
  
  " - Boris Vian
  Boris Vian
  Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...
  
  
• "V Put
  V Put
  "V Put" is a song written in 1954 by Soviet composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Dudin. It was originally written for the film Maxim Perepelitsa starring Leonid Bykov. The movie itself went on air in 1955, and the song has achieved fame and popularity independently of it ever since...
  
  " by Vasili Solovyov-Sedoy & Mikhail Dudin

Classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

• Jean Barraqué
  Jean Barraqué
  Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué was a French composer and writer on music who developed an individual form of serialism which is displayed in a small output of highly complex but passionate works.-Life:...
  
   - Sequence
• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
  
   - Autumn Legend
• Boris Blacher - Viola Concerto
• Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
  
   - Le Marteau sans Maître
  Le marteau sans maître
  Le marteau sans maître is a composition by the French composer Pierre Boulez. It is a setting of the surrealist poetry of René Char for alto and six instrumentalists. It was first performed in 1955.-Movements:...
  
  
• Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...
  
   - Symphony No. 10
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
  
   - String Quartet
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
  
   - Concertino for Percussion and String Orchestra
• Ernő Dohnányi
  Erno Dohnányi
  Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....
  
   - American Rhapsody
• Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...
  
   - Second Piano Trio
• Gerald Finzi
  Gerald Finzi
  Gerald Raphael Finzi was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a song-writer, but also wrote in other genres...
  
   - Cello Concerto opus 40 in A minor
• André Fleury - Messe pour la fête de tous les saints
• Armstrong Gibbs - Dale and Fell
• Howard Hanson
  Howard Hanson
  Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...
  
   - Symphony No. 5, Sinfonia Sacra
• Andrew Imbrie
  Andrew Imbrie
  Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...
  
   - Violin Concerto
• Alemdar Karamanov - Symphony No. 1
• Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
  
   - Spartacus, ballet
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
   - String Quartet No. 1, Metamorphoses Nocturnes
• Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
  
   - West Point Suite
• Walter Piston
  Walter Piston
  Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
  
   - Symphony No. 5
• Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...
  
   - Sixth Symphony, Op. 80 and Viola Concerto, Op. 75
• Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
  
   - Idyll of Theocritus
• Robert Simpson (composer)
  Robert Simpson (composer)
  Robert Simpson was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells...
  
   - String Quartet No. 3
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   - In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
  Dylan Thomas
  Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...
  
  
• Virgil Thomson
  Virgil Thomson
  Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music...
  
   - Concerto for Flute, Strings, Harp and Percussion
• Ernst Toch
  Ernst Toch
  Ernst Toch was a composer of classical music and film scores.- Biography :Toch, born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith, sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music...
  
   - String Quartet No. 13, Op. 74
• Henri Tomasi
  Henri Tomasi
  Henri Tomasi was a French classical composer and conductor.- The early years :Henri Tomasi was born in Marseille, France, in the working class neighborhood on August 17, 1901. His father Xavier Tomasi and mother Josephine Vincensi were originally from La Casinca, Corsica...
  
   - Concerto for Horn
• Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...
  
   - Symphony No. 6
• Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
  
   - Déserts
  Déserts
  Déserts is a piece by Edgard Varèse for brass , percussion , piano, and tape. Percussion instruments are exploited for their resonant potential, rather than used solely as accompaniment...
  
   (1950-54)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
  
   - Tuba Concerto in F minor
  Tuba Concerto in F minor (Vaughan Williams)
  The Tuba Concerto in F minor by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams dates from 1954. Vaughan Williams wrote the concerto for Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London Symphony Orchestra , and Catelinet was the soloist in the premiere on 13 June 1954, with Sir John Barbirolli...
  
  
• Stefan Wolpe
  Stefan Wolpe
  Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer.-Life:Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory from the age of fourteen, and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni...
  
   - Symphony for 24 Instruments

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

• Jack Beeson
  Jack Beeson
  Jack Beeson was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye.-Biography:...
  
   - Hello, Out There
• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
  
   - The Turn of the Screw (opera)
  The Turn of the Screw (opera)
  The Turn of the Screw is a 20th century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas". The libretto is based on the novella...
  
  
• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
   - The Tender Land
  The Tender Land
  The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the Depression-era photographs of Walker Evans and...
  
  
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
   - Neues vom Tage
  Neues vom Tage
  Neues vom Tage is an opera in three parts by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer....
  
   (revision)
• Bohuslav Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
   - Mirandolina
• Jerome Moross
  Jerome Moross
  Jerome Moross was an American-born composer for the stage, and a composer, conductor and orchestrator for motion pictures.-Biography:...
  
   - The Golden Apple
• William Walton
  William Walton
  Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
  
   - Troilus and Cressida
  Troilus and Cressida (opera)
  Troilus and Cressida is the first of the two operas by William Walton. The libretto was by Christopher Hassall, his own first opera libretto, based on Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde...
  
  

Musical theater

• After the Ball
  After the Ball (musical)
  After the Ball is a musical by Noel Coward, based on Lady Windermere's Fan.After a provincial tour, the musical premiered at the Globe Theatre, London, on 10 June 1954 and ran for 188 performances until 20 November 1954...
  
   (Music, Lyrics and Book: Noël Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  ) London production opened at the Globe Theatre
  Globe Theatre
  The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...
  
   on June 10 and ran for 188 performances
• The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend
  The Boy Friend is a musical by Sandy Wilson. The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2,078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history until it was surpassed by Salad Days...
  
   Broadway production opened at the Royale Theatre on September 30 and ran for 485 performances
• By the Beautiful Sea
  By the Beautiful Sea
  By the Beautiful Sea is a musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz. Like Schwartz’ previous musical, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, also starring Shirley Booth, the musical is set in Brooklyn just after the turn of the century...
  
   (Music: Arthur Schwartz
  Arthur Schwartz
  Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...
  
   Lyrics: Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
  
  ) Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 8 and transferred to the Imperial Theatre on October 2 for a total run of 268 performances. Starring Shirley Booth
  Shirley Booth
  Shirley Booth was an American actress.Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950...
  
  
• Can-Can
  Can-Can
  The Can-can is a dance. It may also refer to:* Popularly, the Galop Infernal movement of Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with the dance* Can Can , a 2007 fragrance by Paris Hilton...
  
   London production opened at the Coliseum on October 14 and ran for 394 performances
• The Duenna
  The Duenna
  The Duenna is a three-act comic opera, mostly composed by Thomas Linley the elder and his son, Thomas Linley the younger, to an English-language libretto by Richard Brinsley Sheridan...
  
   ( Music: Julian Slade
  Julian Slade
  Julian Penkivil Slade was an English writer of musical theatre best known for the show Salad Days, which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s with over 2,288 performances....
  
   Lyrics & Book: Dorothy Reynolds) London production opened at the Westminster Theatre
  Westminster Theatre
  The Westminster Theatre was a London theatre, on Palace Street in Westminster. It was originally built as the Charlotte Chapel in 1766, which was altered and given a new frontage for use as a cinema from 1924 onwards. It finally became a theatre in 1931 after radical alterations...
  
   on July 28 and ran for 134 performances
• Fanny
  Fanny (musical)
  Fanny is a musical with a book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan and music and lyrics by Harold Rome. A tale of love, secrets, and passion set in and around the old French port of Marseille, it is based on Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of plays entitled Marius, Fanny and César.The musical premiered on...
  
   Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on November 4 and transferred to the Belasco Theatre
  Belasco Theatre
  The Belasco Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan.-History:Designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artist...
  
   on December 4, 1956 for a total run of 888 performances
• The Girl in Pink Tights
  The Girl in Pink Tights
  The Girl in Pink Tights is a musical comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg; lyrics by Leo Robin; and a musical book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. The musical opened on Broadway on March 5, 1954 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre where it ran for a total of 115 performances until it closed on June...
  
   Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
  Mark Hellinger Theatre
  The Mark Hellinger Theatre is a generally used name of a former legitimate Broadway theater, located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Since 1991, it has been known as the Times Square Church...
  
   on March 5 and ran for 115 performances
• The Golden Apple
  The Golden Apple (musical)
  The Golden Apple is a musical adaptation of parts of each of the Iliad and Odyssey epics of Homer, with music by Jerome Moross and lyrics by John Treville Latouche...
  
   Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on April 20 and ran for 125 performances
• Happy Holiday (Music: George Posford
  George Posford
  George Posford, né Benjamin George Ashwell , was an English composer.-Works:Musical theatre* Goodnight, Vienna * Balalaika ; co-composed with Bernard Grün...
  
   Lyrics & Book: Eric Maschwitz
  Eric Maschwitz
  Albert Eric Maschwitz OBE , known as Eric Maschwitz and sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an English entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive.-Life and work:...
  
   and Arnold Ridley
  Arnold Ridley
  Major William Arnold Ridley, OBE was an English playwright and actor, first notable as the author of the play The Ghost Train and later in life for portraying the elderly Private Charles Godfrey in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army .-Early life:Ridley was born in Walcot, Bath, England where...
  
  ) London production opened at the Palace Theatre
  Palace Theatre, London
  The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. It is an imposing red-brick building that dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus and is located near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road...
  
   on December 22 and ran for 31 performances
• House of Flowers
  House of Flowers (musical)
  House of Flowers is a musical by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote , based on his own short story, first published in Breakfast at Tiffany's as one of three extra pieces besides the titular novella...
  
   Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on December 30 and ran for 165 performances
• On Your Toes
  On Your Toes
  On Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939....
  
   Broadway revival opened at the 46th Street Theatre on October 11 and ran for 64 performances
• The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...
  
   (Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
   and Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  Jerry Ross was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories.-Biography:Ross was born...
  
  ) — Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre
  St. James Theatre
  The St. James Theatre is located at 246 W. 44th St. Broadway, New York City, New York. It was built by Abraham L. Erlanger, theatrical producer and a founding member of the Theatrical Syndicate, on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant. It opened in 1927 as The Erlanger...
  
   on May 13 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the theatrical producing family...
  
   on November 24, 1956 for a total run of 1063 performances
• Pal Joey (Music: Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
   Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
  
   Book: John O'Hara
  John O'Hara
  John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He initially became known for his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist whose works include Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue...
  
  ) London production opened at Princes Theatre on August 4 and ran for 245 performances
• Peter Pan Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on October 20 and ran for 152 performances
• Salad Days (Music: Julian Slade
  Julian Slade
  Julian Penkivil Slade was an English writer of musical theatre best known for the show Salad Days, which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s with over 2,288 performances....
  
   Lyrics & Book: Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade
  Julian Slade
  Julian Penkivil Slade was an English writer of musical theatre best known for the show Salad Days, which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s with over 2,288 performances....
  
  ) London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre
  Vaudeville Theatre
  The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on The Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each new building retained elements of the previous...
  
   on August 5 and ran for 2283 performances
• You'll Be Lucky London revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Adelphi Theatre
  Adelphi Theatre
  The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site. The theatre has specialised in comedy and musical theatre, and today it is a receiving house for a variety of productions, including many musicals...
  
   on February 25. Starring Sally Barnes and Lauri Lupino Lane.
• Zuleika — premiere in Cambridge, England

Musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

s

• Athena
  Athena (film)
  Athena is a romantic musical comedy, starring Jane Powell, Edmund Purdom, Debbie Reynolds, Vic Damone, Louis Calhern, and Norma Varden, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer....
  
   starring Jane Powell
  Jane Powell
  Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress.After rising to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, Powell was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens...
  
  , Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds is an American actress, singer, and dancer.She was initially signed at age 16 by Warner Bros., but her career got off to a slow start. When her contract was not renewed, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave her a small, but significant part in the film Three Little Words , then signed her to...
  
  , Edmund Purdom
  Edmund Purdom
  Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom was a British actor.-Early life:Purdom was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England and educated at St. Augustine's Abbey School, Ramsgate, then by the Jesuits at St. Ignatius Grammar School and Welwyn Garden City Grammar School...
  
   and Vic Damone
  Vic Damone
  Vic Damone is an American singer and entertainer.- Early life :Damone was born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York to French-Italian immigrants based in Bari, Italy—Rocco and Mamie Farinola. His father was an electrician; and his mother taught piano. His cousin was the actress and singer...
  
  
• Brigadoon
  Brigadoon (film)
  Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse...
  
  
• Carmen Jones
  Carmen Jones
  Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical starring Muriel Smith in the title role, later made into a 1954 musical film; the play also ran for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007. It is an updating of the Georges Bizet...
  
  
• Casanova's Big Night
  Casanova's Big Night
  Casanova's Big Night is a comedy film starring Bob Hope and Joan Fontaine, which is a spoof of swashbuckling historical adventure films. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod.Hope plays a man who impersonates Giacomo Casanova, the great lover...
  
   starring Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
  
  
• Deep in My Heart starring José Ferrer
  José Ferrer
  José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón , best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director...
  
  
• The French Line
  The French Line
  The French Line is a 1954 musical film starring Jane Russell made by RKO Pictures, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Edmund Grainger, with Howard Hughes as executive producer. The screenplay was by Mary Loos and Richard Sale, based on a story by Matty Kemp and Isabel Dawn...
  
   starring Jane Russell
  Jane Russell
  Jane Russell was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s....
  
  
• Living It Up
  Living It Up
  Living It Up is a 1954 film comedy starring the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and released by Paramount Pictures.The film was directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Paul Jones. The screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson was based on the 1953 musical Hazel Flagg by Ben Hecht, in...
  
   starring Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
  
  , Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
  
   and Janet Leigh
  Janet Leigh
  Janet Leigh , born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis....
  
  
• Lucky Me
  Lucky Me (film)
  Lucky Me is a 1954 musical-comedy-romance film. The movie starred Doris Day, with co-stars, including, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Martha Hyer, and Eddie Foy, Jr..-Cast:*Doris Day as Candy Williams*Robert Cummings as Dick Carson...
  
   starring Doris Day
  Doris Day
  Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
  
  , Robert Cummings
  Robert Cummings
  Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings , mostly known professionally as Robert Cummings but sometimes as Bob Cummings, was an American film and television actor....
  
   and Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah." He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S...
  
  
• New Faces
  New Faces of 1952
  New Faces of 1952 is a musical revue with songs and comedy skits. It ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952 and was then made into a motion picture in 1954...
  
  
• Red Garters
  Red Garters (film)
  Red Garters is a 1954 film starring Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell, and Jack Carson. It was a musical spoof of Westerns. The director was George Marshall....
  
   starring Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...
  
  , Jack Carson
  Jack Carson
  John Elmer "Jack" Carson was a Canadian-born U.S.-based film actor.Jack Carson was one of the most popular character actors during the 'golden age of Hollywood', with a film career spanning the 1930s, '40s and '50s...
  
   and Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...
  
  
• Rhapsody
  Rhapsody (film)
  Rhapsody is a 1954 MGM film directed by Charles Vidor, and produced by Lawrence Weingarten. It is based on the novel Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson...
  
   starring Elizabeth Taylor
  Elizabeth Taylor
  Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
  
  
• River of No Return
  River of No Return
  River of No Return is a 1954 American Western film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe. The screenplay by Frank Fenton is based on a story by Louis Lantz, who borrowed his premise from the 1948 Italian film The Bicycle Thief...
  
   starring Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model and showgirl who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s....
  
  
• Rose Marie
  Rose Marie
  Rose Marie is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie....
  
   starring Ann Blyth
  Ann Blyth
  Ann Marie Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:Blyth was born in Mount Kisco,...
  
   and Howard Keel
  Howard Keel
  Harold Clifford Keel , known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s...
  
  
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers starring Jane Powell
  Jane Powell
  Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress.After rising to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, Powell was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens...
  
  , Howard Keel
  Howard Keel
  Harold Clifford Keel , known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s...
  
   and Julie Newmar
  Julie Newmar
  Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer and singer. Her most famous role is Catwoman in the Batman television series.-Early life:...
  
  .
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1954 film)
  A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay written by Moss Hart was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell...
  
  
• The Student Prince
  The Student Prince
  The Student Prince is an operetta in four acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster's play Alt Heidelberg. The piece has elements of melodrama but lacks the swashbuckling style common to Romberg's other works...
  
   starring Ann Blyth
  Ann Blyth
  Ann Marie Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:Blyth was born in Mount Kisco,...
  
   and Edmund Purdom
  Edmund Purdom
  Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom was a British actor.-Early life:Purdom was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England and educated at St. Augustine's Abbey School, Ramsgate, then by the Jesuits at St. Ignatius Grammar School and Welwyn Garden City Grammar School...
  
   with Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
  
   dubbing for Purdom.
• There's No Business Like Show Business
  There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
  There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox musical film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the stage musical Annie Get Your Gun....
  
  
• Top Banana (film)
  Top Banana (film)
  Top Banana is a movie musical based on the musical of the same name starring Phil Silvers, and released by United Artists. It stars most of the original cast...
  
   starring Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor, known as "The King of Chutzpah." He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a U.S...
  
  
• White Christmas
  White Christmas (film)
  White Christmas is a 1954 Technicolor musical film starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that features the songs of Irving Berlin, including the titular "White Christmas"...
  
   starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
  , Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...
  
   and Vera Ellen

Musical television

• Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (operetta)
  Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough , which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravaganza. The creators wanted to cash in on the extraordinary success of The Wizard of Oz,...
  
  
• Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart. It was produced by Sam Harris. The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine, Allure, who is undergoing psychoanalysis...
  
   (starring Ann Sothern
  Ann Sothern
  Ann Sothern was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades.-Early life and career:...
  
  )

January-April

• January 16 - Cheryl Bentyne, vocalist (The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...
  
  )
• January 25 - Richard Finch
  Richard Finch (musician)
  Richard Finch , is an American composer, producer, engineer, and song arranger. He is best known as the co-founder, producer and former bass player of KC and the Sunshine Band...
  
   (K.C. and the Sunshine Band)
• February 10 - Carita Holmström
  Carita Holmström
  Carita Elisabeth Holmström is a Finnish pianist, singer and songwriter. She has written and played jazz and classical music during her career...
  
  , pianist, singer and songwriter
• February 18 - John Travolta
  John Travolta
  John Joseph Travolta is an American actor, dancer and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease...
  
  , actor, singer and dancer
• February 19 - Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey is an English singer and record producer. He was the founder and frontman of the English punk rock band, Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1986 to 2006.-Biography:...
  
  , vocalist (Sham 69
  Sham 69
  Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...
  
  )
• February 20 - Jon Brant
  Jon Brant
  Jon Brant was the bass player for the band Cheap Trick from 1981 to 1987. In addition to his work with that band, Brant has also played with artists including Chris Spedding, Micki Free, Robert Gordon, Lou Reed, and Diana Ross...
  
   (Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick
  Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1973. The band consists of members Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E...
  
  )
• February 27 - Neal Schon
  Neal Schon
  Neal George Joseph Schon is an American rock guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist best known for his work with the band Journey. He is the only member to have recorded on all of Journey's albums...
  
   (Journey
  Journey (band)
  Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded...
  
  )
• March 10 - Tina Charles, singer
• March 15 - Jon King
  Jon King (musician)
  Jon King, born 8 June 1955, London, is a singer, musician and founding member of the Leeds based UK rock band Gang of Four. He attended Sevenoaks School, where he was a member of the 'Art Room' that produced musicians Tom Greenhalgh and Mark White of The Mekons, along with Andy Gill of Gang of...
  
   (Gang Of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...
  
  )
• March 16
  • Julian Marshall
    Julian Marshall
    Julian Marshall was an English amateur musician, music and print collector and tenns player and writer.-Life:Marshall was born in Headingley, Yorkshire to a flax-spinning family. His father, John Marshall had been Member of Parliament for Leeds. His grandfather was industrialist John Marshall,...
    
     (Marshall Hain
    Marshall Hain
    Marshall Hain were a British pop-rock duo, well known for their 1978 hit "Dancing In The City", a UK #3 single in the UK Singles Chart in the summer of 1978....
    
    )
  • Nancy Wilson
    Nancy Wilson (guitarist)
    Nancy Lamoureux Wilson is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who, with her older sister Ann and lead guitarist Roger Fisher, became the core of the Seattle/Vancouver rock band Heart.-Life and career:...
    
    , guitarist (Heart
    Heart (band)
    Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...
    
    )
• March 25 - Helen Terry
  Helen Terry
  Helen Terry is a British singer, known for her backing vocal work with Culture Club. As a solo performer, she scored a Top 40 hit single in 1984 with "Love Lies Lost", and released one album in 1986, Blue Notes....
  
  , singer
• March 27 - Wally Stocker
  Wally Stocker
  Wally Stocker is an English rock guitarist, perhaps best known as the former lead guitarist with The Babys....
  
   (The Babys
  The Babys
  The Babys were a British rock/pop group best known for their songs "Isn't It Time," and "Every Time I Think of You." Both songs were composed by Jack Conrad and Ray Kennedy, and reached #13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the late 1970s...
  
  )
• March 31 - Tony Brock
  Tony Brock
  Tony Brock was born in Poole, Dorset, England, on 31 March 1954.He was originally a drummer for Spontaneous Combustion. However was first widely known as a drummer and occasional vocalist for the English group The Babys...
  
    (The Babys
  The Babys
  The Babys were a British rock/pop group best known for their songs "Isn't It Time," and "Every Time I Think of You." Both songs were composed by Jack Conrad and Ray Kennedy, and reached #13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the late 1970s...
  
  )
• April 4 - Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work...
  
  , pianist
• April 5 - Peter Case
  Peter Case
  Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance.-Early career:...
  
  , singer-songwriter and guitarist,
• April 13 - Jimmy Destri
  Jimmy Destri
  Jimmy Destri is an American musician. He played keyboards in the rock band Blondie, and is one of the principal songwriters for the band along with Chris Stein and Deborah Harry. Destri stopped touring with the band in 2004, but remained an official member of the band for several more years...
  
   (Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...
  
  )
• April 17 - Michael Sembello
  Michael Sembello
  Michael Sembello is an American musician and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Career:Sembello was born and raised in Philadelphia. He studied with jazz great Pat Martino and began his career as a professional musician by becoming a session musician, working increasingly with...
  
  , singer, instrumentalist and songwriter
• April 28 - Michael Daugherty
  Michael Daugherty
  Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...
  
  , composer

May-December

• May 1 - Ray Parker, Jr.
  Ray Parker, Jr.
  Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...
  
  , guitarist, songwriter and record producer
• May 2 - Angela Bofill
  Angela Bofill
  Angela Bofill is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter.Bofill was born to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother; one of the first Latina singers to find success in the R&B market.She performed with Ricardo Marrero & the Group and Dance Theater of Harlem chorus prior to her 1978 debut album,...
  
  , singer songwriterAnge
• May 11 - Judith Weir
  Judith Weir
  Judith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976...
  
  , composer
• May 18 - Reinhold Heil
  Reinhold Heil
  Reinhold Heil is a composer and former member of Spliff and the Nina Hagen Band who has largely worked on film music but has produced pop music for Kim Wilde, Rosemarie Precht , and Nena...
  
  , composer
• May 20 - Jimmie Henderson (Black Oak Arkansas
  Black Oak Arkansas
  Black Oak Arkansas is an American Southern rock band named after the band's hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas. The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s with ten charting albums released in that decade...
  
  )
• May 21 - Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot
  Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
  
  , session guitarist and composer
• May 31 - Vicki Sue Robinson
  Vicki Sue Robinson
  Vicki Sue Robinson was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around."-Early life and career:...
  
  , US disco
  Disco
  Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
  
   singer. (d. 2000
  2000 in music
  See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....
  
  )
• June 3 - Dan Hill
  Dan Hill
  Daniel Grafton "Dan" Hill IV is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major hits with his songs, "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Can't We Try," a duet with Vonda Shepard.-Early life and career:...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• June 8 - Greg Ginn
  Greg Ginn
  Gregory Regis Ginn is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer. He is best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the hardcore punk band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976 to 1986....
  
  , punk guitarist (Black Flag
  Black Flag (band)
  Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established by Greg Ginn, the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes in the band...
  
  )
• June 13 - Robert Donaldson (Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods)
• June 15 - Terri Gibbs
  Terri Gibbs
  Teresa Fay "Terri" Gibbs is an American country music artist who was born blind. Between 1980 and 1990, she recorded seven studio albums, including four for MCA Records and one for Warner Bros. Records...
  
  , country singer
• June 20 - Michael Anthony (Van Halen
  Van Halen
  Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
  
  )
• July 10 - Neil Tennant
  Neil Tennant
  Neil Francis Tennant is an English musician, singer and songwriter, who, with bandmate Chris Lowe, makes up the successful electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys.-Childhood:...
  
  , British singer-songwriter and record producer (Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys
  Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
  
  )
• July 18 - Tobias Picker
  Tobias Picker
  Tobias Picker is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt...
  
  , American composer
• August 11 - Joe Jackson
  Joe Jackson (musician)
  Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...
  
  , singer, songwriter and composer
• August 17 - Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson
  Eric Johnson is an American guitarist. Though he is best known for his success in the instrumental rock format, Johnson regularly incorporates jazz, fusion, gospel and country and western music into his recordings...
  
  , guitarist, songwriter and record producer
• August 25 - Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• September 14 - Barry Cowsill
  Barry Cowsill
  Barry Cowsill was an American musician and member of the musical group The Cowsills. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island. The fifth of seven children, Barry soon became the drummer of his brothers' band, playing popular tunes at local dance clubs...
  
  , drummer (d. 2005)
• September 17 - Joël-François Durand
  Joël-François Durand
  Joël-François Durand is a French composer.-Biography:Born in Orléans, Durand studied mathematics, music education and piano in Paris, then composition with Brian Ferneyhough in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany , and at Stony Brook University, New York, with Arel and Semegen...
  
  , French composer
• September 28 - George Lynch
  George Lynch (musician)
  George Lynch is a hard rock/heavy metal guitarist best known as a member of the band Dokken, his own bands Lynch Mob and Souls of We.-Pre Dokken:...
  
   (Dokken
  Dokken
  Dokken is an American heavy metal and hard rock band formed in 1978. They split up in 1989 but reformed four years later. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide...
  
  )
• September 30 - Basia, singer
• October 3 - Stevie Ray Vaughan
  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  Stephen Ray "Stevie Ray" Vaughan was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan and frontman for Double Trouble, a band that included bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton. Born in Dallas, Vaughan moved to Austin at the age of 17 and...
  
  , guitarist, singer, and songwriter (d. 1990)
• October 9 - James Fearnley
  James Fearnley
  James Fearnley is an English musician. He plays accordion in the folk/punk band The Pogues.As a child he was a choir treble, but his voice changed at the age of sixteen. He took piano lessons but did not enjoy it, so he chose to learn the guitar instead...
  
   (The Pogues
  The Pogues
  The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
  
  )
• October 10 - David Lee Roth
  David Lee Roth
  David Lee Roth is an American rock vocalist, songwriter, actor, author, and former radio personality. Roth was ranked nineteenth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Singers of All Time....
  
   (Van Halen
  Van Halen
  Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...
  
  
• October 12 - Michael Roe
  Michael Roe
  Michael Roe is an American record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer.-Career:Although he has released several solo albums since the mid-1990s, Roe is primarily known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for the rock band The 77s...
  
  , guitarist, lead singer of The 77s
  The 77s
  The 77s are an American rock band consisting of Michael Roe on vocals/guitar, Mark Harmon on bass, and Bruce Spencer on drums.-Scratch Band:...
  
  
• October 21 - Eric Faulkner
  Eric Faulkner
  Eric Faulkner is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer, best known as a member of the Scottish pop band, the Bay City Rollers....
  
  , guitarist, songwriter, and singer (Bay City Rollers
  Bay City Rollers
  The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at...
  
  )
• November 3 - Adam Ant
  Adam Ant
  Adam Ant is an English musician who gained popularity as the lead singer of New Wave/post-punk group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring ten UK top ten hits between 1980 and 1983, including three No.1s...
  
  , singer
• November 4 - Chris Difford
  Chris Difford
  Chris Difford is a singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer....
  
  , singer, songwriter and record producer (Squeeze)
• November 9 - Dennis Stratton
  Dennis Stratton
  Dennis Stratton is a guitar player who is best known as a former member of the British band Iron Maiden from October 1979 to October 1980.-Biography:...
  
   (Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
  
  )
• November 10 - Mario Cipollina (Huey Lewis and the News
  Huey Lewis and the News
  Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts...
  
  )
• November 14 - Yanni
  Yanni
  Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...
  
  , pianist, keyboardist, and composer
• November 18 - John Parr
  John Parr
  John Parr is an English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire". Parr has sold 10 million albums worldwide.-Biography:...
  
  , singer
• November 23 - Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Hornsby
  Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and...
  
  , pianist, singer and songwriter
• December 6 - Edward Tudor-Pole
  Edward Tudor-Pole
  Edward Tudor-Pole is an English musician, singer , TV presenter and actor.- Musical career :Tudor-Pole formed the band Tenpole Tudor in 1974, and eventually came to prominence after appearing in the film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle as a possible replacement for Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols...
  
  , singer and TV presenter
• December 11 - Jermaine Jackson
  Jermaine Jackson
  Jermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5, older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and occasional film director...
  
  , singer (The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  )
• December 25
  • Robin Campbell (UB40
    UB40
    UB40 are a British reggae/pop band formed in 1978 in Birmingham. The band has placed more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. One of the world's best-selling music artists, UB40 have sold over 70 million records.Their hit singles...
    
    )
  • Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
    
    , singer
• date unknown
  • Gérard Buquet
    Gérard Buquet
    Gérard Buquet is a tubist, conductor and composer, who was born in France.-Life:He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, and musicology at the Strasbourg University...
    
    , tubist, conductor and composer
  • Marty Dieckmeyer
    Marty Dieckmeyer
    Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the Christian rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981. Dieckmeyer sang the lead vocal on the song "Props" from the ¡Alarma! album in 1981...
    
    , bassist (Daniel Amos
    Daniel Amos
    Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars. Current members include bassist Tim Chandler, guitarist Greg Flesch and drummer Ed McTaggart...
    
    )

Deaths

• January 9 - Eugen Coca
  Eugen Coca
  Eugen Coca was a Moldovan composer and violinist. He wrote two symphonies and two symphonic poems. One of his masterpieces is the opera Pasǎrea Maiastrǎ, based on the folk legend of Maiastra, the central character of which is a magic bird...
  
  , violinist and composer, 60
• January 11 - Oscar Straus (composer)
  Oscar Straus (composer)
  Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas and film scores and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works...
  
  , Viennese operetta composer, 83
• March 3 - Noel Gay
  Noel Gay
  Noel Gay was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally. He was a successful British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows...
  
  , English songwriter, 55
• March 11 - Frankie Newton
  William Frank Newton
  William Frank Newton was a trumpeter from Emory, Virginia. He played in several New York bands in the 1920s and 1930s, including bands led by Sam Wooding, Chick Webb, Charlie Barnet, Andy Kirk and Charlie "Fess" Johnson. In the 1940s he played with bands led by Lucky Millinder and Pete Brown...
  
  , American trumpeter, 48
• March 19 - Walter Braunfels
  Walter Braunfels
  -Life:Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt am Main. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr . He continued his piano studies in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory with James Kwast....
  
  , pianist and composer, 71
• March 27 - Carl Fischer
  Carl Fischer Music
  Carl Fischer Music is a major publisher of sheet music based in New York City that has been in business since 1872. As one of the few remaining family-owned music publishers, it supplies educational materials to professional and beginning musicians of all ages, as well as new music works.Notable...
  
  , composer and jazz pianist, 41
• April 5 - Claude Delvincourt
  Claude Delvincourt
  Claude Delvincourt was a French pianist and composer of classical music.-Biography:Delvincourt was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Delvincourt and Marguerite Fourès....
  
  , pianist and composer, 66
• April 8 - Edwin Grasse
  Edwin Grasse
  Edwin Grasse was an American violinist, organist and composer. Among his compositions were orchestral works, including a symphony and a violin concerto, and much chamber music, including a string quartet....
  
  , violinist and composer, 69
• April 9 - Philip Greeley Clapp
  Philip Greeley Clapp
  Philip Greeley Clapp was an American educator, conductor, pianist, and composer of classical music.He served as Director of the School of Music at the University of Iowa for more than three decades , helping to establish that school’s strong reputation in music and in the arts overall...
  
  , pianist and composer, 65
• April 11 - Paul Specht
  Paul Specht
  Paul Specht was an American dance bandleader popular in the 1920s.Born in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, Specht was a violinist, having been taught by his father Charles G. Specht, a violinist, organist, and bandleader in his own right...
  
  , violnist and bandleader, 59
• April 14 - Lil Green
  Lil Green
  Lil Green was an American blues singer and songwriter.-Life and career:Originally named Lillian Green, she was born in Mississippi; after the early deaths of her parents, she went to Chicago, Illinois, where she began performing in her teens and where she would make all of her recordings.Green was...
  
  , blues singer, 34 (pneumonia)
• April 17 - Torsten Ralf
  Torsten Ralf
  Torsten Ralf , was a Swedish operatic tenor, particularly associated with Wagner and Strauss roles, one of the leading dramatic tenors of the inter-war period....
  
  , operatic tenor, 53
• May 1 - Arthur Johnston
  Arthur Johnston (composer)
  Arthur Johnston was a composer known for such works as “Mandy, Make Up Your Mind,” "Pennies From Heaven," and many others...
  
  , songwriter, 56
• May 19 - Charles Ives
  Charles Ives
  Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
  
  , composer, 79
• May 20 - Linda Lee Thomas
  Linda Lee Thomas
  Linda Lee Thomas was an American socialite, the wife of musical theatre composer Cole Porter.A descendant of the Lee family of Virginia, daughter of Louisville banker William Paca Lee and his wife, née Lily Hill, Linda Belle Lee was, in her youth, a noted beauty...
  
  , socialite and wife of Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
  
  , 70
• May 31 - Pedro Elías Gutiérrez
  Pedro Elías Gutiérrez
  Pedro Elías Gutiérrez was a Venezuelan musician who is mainly remembered by the joropo song Alma Llanera, whose music he composed.-Life and valoration:...
  
  , musician and composer, 84
• June 17 - Danny Cedrone
  Danny Cedrone
  Danny Cedrone was an American guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.-Biography:...
  
  , session guitarist (soloist on "Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock
  "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets in 1954...
  
  "), 33 (fell downstairs)
• July 16 - Lucien Muratore
  Lucien Muratore
  Lucien Muratore was a French actor and operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory.- Life and career :...
  
  , operatic tenor and actor, 77
• August 8 - Phil Ohman
  Phil Ohman
  Phil Ohman was an American film composer and pianist.Fillmore Wellington Ohman was born in New Britain, Connecticut in 1896. He is remembered as being one half of one of the pre-eminent piano duos in the 1922-1932, paired with Victor Arden...
  
  , film composer and pianist, 57
• August 13 - Demetrius Constantine Dounis
  Demetrius Constantine Dounis
  Demetrius Constantine Dounis , also known as D. C. Dounis , was an influential teacher of violin and string instrument technique, as well as violinist, violist, and mandolin player.-Life and work:...
  
  , violin teacher
• August 17 - Billy Murray
  Billy Murray (singer)
  William Thomas "Billy" Murray was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century...
  
  , singer, 77
• August 24 - Fred Rose
  Fred Rose (musician)
  Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...
  
  , songwriter, music publisher, 56
• October 24 - Pepito Arriola
  Pepito Arriola
  José “Pepito” Rodríguez Carballeira was a Spanish child prodigy pianist and eventual master violinist.-Origins:...
  
  , pianist, 57
• October 27 - Franco Alfano
  Franco Alfano
  Franco Alfano was an Italian composer and pianist. Best known today for his opera Risurrezione and above all for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.- Biography :He was born in Posillipo, Naples...
  
  , composer and pianist, 79
• November 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  , composer and singer
• November 29 - Dink Johnson
  Dink Johnson
  Ollie "Dink" Johnson was a dixieland jazz pianist, clarinetist, and drummer.-Background:Dink Johnson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, younger brother of the bass player/bandleader William Manuel Johnson. He worked around Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana before moving to the western United...
  
  , jazz musician, 56
• November 30 - Wilhelm Furtwängler
  Wilhelm Furtwängler
  Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. By the 1930s he had built a reputation as one of the leading conductors in Europe, and he was the leading conductor who remained...
  
  , conductor and composer, 68
• December 14
  • Papa Celestin
    Papa Celestin
    Oscar "Papa" Celestin was an American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, cornetist and vocalist.-Life and career:...
    
    , jazz musician, 70
  • Sergei Protopopov
    Sergei Protopopov
    Sergei Vladimirovich Protopopov was a Russian avant-garde composer and music theorist.- Life :Not much is known about his life. After studying medicine at the Moscow University, he attended the Kiev Conservatory where he pursued studies of music with theorist Boleslav Yavorsky. He graduated in...
    
    , Russian composer and music theorist, 61
• December 25 - Rosario Scalero
  Rosario Scalero
  Natale Rosario Scalero was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer.By the age of six, Scalero was under the tutelage of Pietro Bertazzi, a violinist, musical instrument maker and instructor at the Conservatorio St. Cecilia in Torino. In 1881, Scalero entered the Liceo Musicale di Torino...
  
  , violinist, teacher and composer, 84
• date unknown - Per Reidarson
  Per Reidarson
  Per Reidarson was a Norwegian composer and music critic.In the early twentieth century he was an acknowledged composer. For his body of work he was granted kunstnerlønn, a guaranteed minimum income for artists, by the Norwegian state in 1938...
  
  , composer and music critic