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Events

• Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
   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 Award 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....
   in From Here to Eternity
  From Here to Eternity
  
  From Here to Eternity is a 1953 in film Academy Award winning drama film based on the From Here to Eternity by James Jones . It deals with the troubles of soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....
  , 1953; resuscitating his singing career in the process
• Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
   received a Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Award 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....
   nomination for his work in The Country Girl
• January 14 - First documented use of the abbreviated term "Rock 'n' Roll" to promote Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  
  Alan Freed , also known as Moondog, was an United States disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American 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"
• March 12 - Arnold Schoenberg's
  Arnold Schoenberg
  
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
   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-language libretto was by the composer after the Book of Exodus....
   premiered in Hamburg (given a staged premiere on June 6 in Zurich) ()
• 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 from 1952 in music, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers . The song is ranked #158 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
  " in New York City for Decca Records
  Decca Records
  
  Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
  .
• May 10 - "Rock Around the Clock" released as the b-side to "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 in film social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter....
   the next year.
• July 5 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   has his first commercial recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee
  Memphis, Tennessee
  
  Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
  . 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 and the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as well as being the 99th-largest city in the United States....
   called the Louisiana Hayride
  Louisiana Hayride
  
  The 'Louisiana Hayride' was a radio broadcast from the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana, that during its heyday from 1948 to 1960 helped launch the careers of some of the greatest names in American music....
  .
• Fall - A cover version of Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner
  
  Big Joe Turner was an United States blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri....
  '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....
  " 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 units of measurement of frequency: the number of Turn completed in one minute around a rotation around a fixed axis....
   record singles
  Single (music)
  
  In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
   to radio stations instead of 78s
  Gramophone record
  
  A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
  .
• 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, Nicol? 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 United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
   begins his recording career at Republic Records
• Les Paul
  Les Paul
  
  Les Paul is an American jazz guitarist and inventor. He is a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which "made the sound of rock and roll possible." His many recording innovations include overdubbing, Delay such as "sound on sound" and Delay , Phaser , and multitrack recording....
   commissions Ampex
  Ampex
  
  Ampex is an United States electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff. The name AMPEX is an acronym, created by its founder, which stands for Alexander M....
   to build the first eight track tape recorder
  Tape recorder
  
  This article deals mainly with analog signal tape recorders for Sound recording and reproduction applications; information on Digital Audio Tape, recording of Videocassette recorder, and data logger can be found in other articles....
  , at his own expense.
• The Drifters
  The Drifters
  
  The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
   form.
• The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
  
  The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
   form.
• The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers
  
  The Isley Brothers are a Grammy Award United States rhythm and blues/soul music group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and as of 2006 was still charting successful albums performing under a repertoire of doo-wop, Rhythm and blues, rock...
   form.
• Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  ' musical career begins.
• 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 the jazz impresario George Wein, prompted by socialite Elaine Lorillard, whose wealthy husband helped finance the festival's startup....
   is established by George Wein
  George Wein
  
  George Wein is an United States jazz promoter and producer who has been called "the most famous jazz impresario" and "the most important non-player......
  .
• São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra
  São Paulo State Symphony
  
  Orquestra Sinf?nica do Estado de S?o Paulo is a symphony orchestra based in S?o Paulo, Brazil. With more than 130 concerts during its annual season, it is one of the largest and best known orchestras in Latin America....
   founded

Albums released

• Al Haig Trio (Esoteric)
  Al Haig Trio (Esoteric)
  
  Al Haig Trio is a 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 United States jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop.Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey. He started playing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in 1944, and performed and recorded under Gillespie from 1944 to 1946, as a member of Eddie Davis and His Beboppers in 1946 , and the Eddie Davis Qu...
  
• And I Thought About You - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• Bags' Groove
  Bags' Groove
  
  Bags' Groove is a jazz album recorded by Miles Davis in 1954 in music for Prestige Records. Both takes of the title track come from a session on December, 24 1954 ....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Bing: A Musical Autobiography
  Bing: A Musical Autobiography
  
  Bing: A Musical Autobiography was Bing Crosby fourth Decca Records long play album, recorded and originally released in 1954 as a 5 LP set....
   - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• 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 in music by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6285....
   - The Chordettes
  The Chordettes
  
  The Chordettes were a female popular music singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional pop music. The Chordettes were one of the longest lived human voice musical ensemble with roots in the mainstream pop music and vocal harmony of the 1940s and early 1950s....
  
• Clap Yo' Hands - The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  
  The Four Lads is a Canada male singing quartet. They grew up together in Toronto, Ontario, and were members of St. Michael's Choir School, where they learned to sing....
  
• Crew Cut Capers - The Crew Cuts
• Dinah Jams
  Dinah Jams
  
  Dinah Jams is a 1954 album by vocalist Dinah Washington. Remastered in 1990....
   - Dinah Washington
  Dinah Washington
  
  Dinah Washington was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as the "Queen of the Blues"....
  
• Favorite Songs - The Ames Brothers
• Grand Jacques
  Grand Jacques
  
  Grand Jacques is an album by Jacques Brel.Jacques Brel's recordings have been released in many different permutations, in different countries, and on different formats....
   - Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel
  
  Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgium singer-songwriter. The quality and style of his lyrics are highly regarded by many leading critics of popular music....
  
• Guy Mitchell Sings - Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  
  Guy Mitchell was a List of Croatian Americans popular music singer, was successful in his homeland as well in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
• Irving Berlin Favorites - Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  
  Edwin Jack Fisher is an United States singer and entertainer....
  
• 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 in music....
   - Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  
  Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  
• It Must Be True - The Ames Brothers
• Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers - Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
   & 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, 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 singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• Meet The Mills Brothers - The Mills Brothers
• Mr. Rhythm - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter 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 United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards 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 and has seen subsequent reissues on Compact disc since 1987 from that same label....
   - The Art Blakey Quintet
  Art Blakey
  
  Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
  
• 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 and has seen subsequent reissuses on Compact disc since 1987 from that same label....
   - 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 1954....
   - John Lee Hooker
  John Lee Hooker
  
  John Lee Hooker was an influential United States post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi near Clarksdale, Mississippi....
  
• 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 a distinguished concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist and music educator who achieved prominence through his live performances on the Columbia Broadcasting System network....
  
• Red Garters
  Red Garters (Rosemary Clooney album)
  
  Red Garters was an LP album of songs by Rosemary Clooney from Red Garters , released by Columbia Records in 1954 in music.The album was reissued, combined with the 1954 in music Rosemary Clooney album Irving Berlin's White Christmas, in compact disc format, by Collectables Records on June 12, 2001....
   - 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 in film 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....
   - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  
  Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
  , Trudy Stevens, Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  
  Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
  
• Some Fine Old Chestnuts - Bing Crosby
• Something Cool
  Something Cool
  
  Something Cool is a 1954 in music studio album recorded by June Christy. The album features Christy singing a number of jazz songs backed by the orchestra of Pete Rugolo....
   - June Christy
• Song Souvenirs - Patti Page
• Songs For Young Lovers
  Songs for Young Lovers
  
  Songs for Young Lovers is a 1954 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 United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Songs in a Mellow Mood
  Songs in a Mellow Mood
  
  Songs in a Mellow Mood is a 1954 in music album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompianied by the pianist Ellis Larkins....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
  
• Souvenir Album - The Mills Brothers
• Swing Easy - Frank Sinatra
• Till I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  
  Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
  
• 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"....
   - Odetta & Larry
  Odetta & Larry
  
  Odetta & Larry was a short-lived blues-Folk music duo in the mid-1950s. It consisted of Odetta and Lawrence B. Mohr, the former of whom became the most 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. All four tracks from this recording as well as additional tracks from the same all-night live session with and without Akiyoshi were released on the 3 CD Rockwell ? Polydor / Universal album, The Com...
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  
  is a Japanese American Jazz piano, 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....
  
• 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'
  
  Walkin' is an album recorded on 3 April and 29 April 1954 by a group led by Miles Davis, for Prestige Records. Credited to the "Miles Davis All-Stars", the first session was a quintet with David Schildkraut on alto saxophone....
   - 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 Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
   & Frank Sinatra

• "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 music song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1954 in music.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 Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many 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 United States songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.Mr. Manning co-wrote many popular songs, among them "Takes Two to Tango," "Fascination" and "Papa Loves Mambo." His works were published in 27 languages and sung by such artists as Perry Como, Jimmy Durante, Kate Smith and other...
  
• "I Could Be Happy With You"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  
  Sandy Wilson is an England composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, The Boy Friend ....
  
• "I Don't Hurt Anymore"     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 United States R&B musician Ray Charles and released as a single in December of 1954 on the Atlantic Records label as Atlantic 45-1050 b/w "Come Back Baby." Both sides later appeared on his 1957 album Ray Charles ....
  "     w.m. Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
   & 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 music song, written in 1954 in music, and most known as Tony Bennett's signature song, from his I Left My Heart in San Francisco ....
  "     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 music 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 Record charted in 1954 in music....
  "     w.m. Jimmy Brewster
  Jimmy Brewster
  
  Jimmy Brewster was an American Football League player for the Newark Bears . He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football....
  , Jimmie Crane & Al Jacobs
• "I'll Walk With God
  I'll Walk with God
  
  "I'll Walk with God" is a popular music song with music by Nicholas Brodzsky and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, published in 1954 in music. This song is best known from the movie The Student Prince , in which the title character, played by tenor Mario Lanza, performs this song at the coffin of his grandfather, the king of Carlsburg....
  "     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   m. Nicholas Brodszky
• "I'm Gonna File My Claim"     w. Ken Darby
  Ken Darby
  
  Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
   m. Lionel Newman
  Lionel Newman
  
  Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, 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....
  
• "I'm Not At All In Love
  I'm Not at All in Love
  
  "I'm Not at All in Love" is a popular music song written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross , published in 1954 in music. It was first presented in the musical The Pajama Game....
  "     w.m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  
  Richard Adler is an United States lyricist, composer and Theatrical producer of several Broadway theatre shows.Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist....
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  
  Jerry Ross was an United States 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....
  . Introduced by Janis Paige
  Janis Paige
  
  Janis Paige is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. 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 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ....
  .
• "In Other Words" (aka "Fly Me To The Moon
  Fly Me to the Moon
  
  "Fly Me to the Moon" is a pop standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. When introduced by Felicia Sanders on the cabaret circuit, it was originally titled "In Other Words"....
  ")     w.m. Bart Howard
  Bart Howard
  
  Bart Howard was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon", which was performed by singers Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson , Della Reese, Diana Krall, and Astrud Gilberto and pianists like Vince Guaraldi, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, and Ellis Marsalis, Jr.....
  
• "In Paris and in Love" w. Leo Robin
  Leo Robin
  
  Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
   m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  
  Sigmund Romberg, born Zsigmond Romberg was an United States composer best known for his operettas....
  . Introduced by Jeanmaire
  Zizi Jeanmaire
  
  Ren?e Marcelle Jeanmaire, known as Zizi Jeanmaire , is a ballet dancer and wife of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s because of her title role in the ballet Carmen , produced in London in 1949....
   and David Atkinson
  David Atkinson
  
  David Atkinson was Conservative Party United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East from a 1977 by-election until he stepped down at the United Kingdom general election, 2005....
   in the musical The Girl in the Pink Tights
• "It's A Woman's World"     w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   m. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   & Cyril Mockridge
• "It's Never Too Late To Fall In Love"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  
  Sandy Wilson is an England composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, The Boy Friend ....
  
• "Let Me Go, Lover!
  Let Me Go, Lover!
  
  "Let Me Go, Lover!", a popular music song, was written by Jenny Lou Carson and Al Hill, a pseudonym used by Fred Wise , Kathleen Twomey, and Ben Weisman....
  "     w.m. Jenny Lou Carson
  Jenny Lou Carson
  
  Jenny Lou Carson, was an American county singer/songwriter and the first woman to write a #1 country music hit....
   & Al Hill
• "The Little Shoemaker
  The Little Shoemaker
  
  "The Little Shoemaker" is a popular music song based on the French language song, "Le petit cordonnnier," by Rudi Revil. The original French lyric was written by Francis Lemarque....
  "     w.(Eng) John Turner
  John Turner (lyricist)
  
  John Turner was the pseudonym used by the England lyricist James Phillips.He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Claremont Parsons....
   & Geoffrey Parsons (Fr) Avril Lamarque m. Rudi Revil
• "Lost In Loveliness"     w. Leo Robin
  Leo Robin
  
  Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
   m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  
  Sigmund Romberg, born Zsigmond Romberg was an United States composer best known for his operettas....
  

• "Release Me
  Release Me (1946 song)
  
  "Release Me" is a popular music song by Eddie Miller , Robert Yount, and Dub Williams, published in 1946 in music.Miller wrote the song in 1946 in music but could not get anyone to record it for years, so he recorded it himself in 1953 in music....
  "     w.m. Eddie Miller & W. S. Stevenson
• "River of No Return"     w. Ken Darby
  Ken Darby
  
  Ken Darby was an American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning composer, vocal arranger, and conductor. He has shared in winning an Oscar three times and was nominated for three others:...
   m. Lionel Newman
  Lionel Newman
  
  Lionel Newman was an United States Conducting, 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 in film western movie film made by 20th Century Fox in CinemaScope and directed by Otto Preminger. The film stars Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe with Rory Calhoun....
  .
• "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....
  "     w.m. Charles Calhoun
• "Sh-Boom
  Sh-Boom
  
  "Sh-Boom" is widely considered to be the first popular Doo-Wop song. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster & Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and James Edwards and 1954 in music....
  "     w.m. James Keyes, Claude & Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae & James Edwards
• "Sincerely"     w.m. Harvey Fuqua & Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  
  Alan Freed , also known as Moondog, was an United States disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American 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 music song written by Irving Berlin in 1954 in music.The song appeared in the movie White Christmas where it was sung by Rosemary Clooney multitracking....
  "     w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  
  Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  
• "Skokiaan
  Skokiaan
  
  "Skokiaan" is a popular music tune originally written by Zimbabwean musician August Musarurwa in the tsaba-tsaba big band style that succeeded marabi....
  "     w. Tom Glazer
  Tom Glazer
  
  Thomas Zachariah "Tom" Glazer was an United States 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 Msarurgwa
• "Smile"     w. John Turner
  John Turner (lyricist)
  
  John Turner was the pseudonym used by the England lyricist James Phillips.He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Claremont Parsons....
   & Geoffrey Parsons m. Charles Chaplin
• "Sobbin' Women"     w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
   m. Gene De Paul
  Gene de Paul
  
  Gene de Paul was an United States pianist, composer and songwriter....
  
• "Steam Heat
  Steam Heat
  
  "Steam Heat" is a show tune from the 1954 in music musical theater 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 United States lyricist, composer and Theatrical producer of several Broadway theatre shows.Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist....
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  
  Jerry Ross was an United States 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....
  
• "There Once Was A Man"     w. m. Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  
  Richard Adler is an United States lyricist, composer and Theatrical producer of several Broadway theatre shows.Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist....
   & Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  
  Jerry Ross was an United States 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....
  
• "This Ole House
  This Ole House
  
  "This Ole House" is a popular music song songwriter by Stuart Hamblen, and published in 1954....
  "     w.m. Stuart Hamblen
• "Three Coins In The Fountain
  Three Coins in the Fountain (song)
  
  "Three Coins in the Fountain" is a popular music song which received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1954.The melody was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn....
  "     w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  
• "Tweedle Dee
  Tweedle Dee
  
  "Tweedlee Dee" is a rhythm and blues novelty song with a Latin music-influenced riff written by Winfield Scott for LaVern Baker and recorded by her at Atlantic Records studio in New York City in 1954....
  "     w.m. Winfield Scott
  Winfield Scott (songwriter)
  
  Winfield Scott was a songwriter who 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 has sold about 14 million copies in the U.S....
  

• "We Said We Wouldn't Look Back"     w. Dorothy Reynolds m. 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 the 1954 and became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s with over 2,288 performances....
   from the musical Salad Days
  Salad Days
  
  Salad Days is a Musical theater with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. It premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on August 5 of that year, running for 2,283 performances to become the longest-running show in British musical theatre history until o...
  
• "What a Dream
  What a Dream
  
  "What a Dream" is a popular music song. It was written by Chuck Willis and was published in 1954 in music.The original recording was done by Ruth Brown, but a cover version by Patti Page was a bigger hit....
  "     w.m. Chuck Willis
  Chuck Willis
  
  Harold Willis was an United States blues, rhythm and blues, and rock music singer and songwriter; he was born in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1951, Willis signed with Columbia Records....
  
• "Whither Thou Goest
  Whither Thou Goest
  
  "Whither Thou Goest" is a popular music song written by Guy Singer. The song was published in 1954 in music. The words are adapted from the Bible ....
  "     w.m. Guy Singer
• "Wonderful, Wonderful Day"     w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
   m. Gene De Paul
  Gene de Paul
  
  Gene de Paul was an United States pianist, composer and songwriter....
   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 was an rhythm and blues singer, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll to emerge in the early 1950s....
  
• "Young And Foolish
  Young and Foolish
  
  "Young and Foolish" is a popular music song with music by Albert Hague and lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt, published in 1954 in music.The song was introduced in the musical play Plain and Fancy....
  "     w. Arnold B. Horwitt m. Albert Hague from the 1955 musical Plain and Fancy
  Plain and Fancy
  
  Plain and Fancy is a musical theatre comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague....
  

• Jean Barraqué
  Jean Barraqué
  
  Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqu? was a France 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....
   - Sequence
• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Royal Victorian Order , was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romantic music and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence....
   - Autumn Legend
• Boris Blacher
  Boris Blacher
  
  Boris Blacher was a Germany composer....
   - Viola Concerto
• Pierre Boulez
  Pierre Boulez
  
  Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music and Conducting....
   - Le Marteau sans Maître
  Le marteau sans maître
  
  Le marteau sans ma?tre is a composition by the France composer Pierre Boulez. It is a setting of the surrealist poetry of Ren? Char for alto and six instrumentalists....
  
• Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian
  
  William Brian , was a United Kingdom classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the 32 symphony he had managed to write, an unusually large number for any composer since Joseph Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and of which eight were completed after the age of 90....
   - Symphony No. 10
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  
  George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
   - String Quartet
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
   - Concertino for Percussion and String Orchestra
• Erno Dohnányi
  Erno Dohnányi
  
  Erno Dohn?nyi was a Hungary Conducting, composer, and pianist.He used the German form of his name "Ernst von Dohn?nyi" on most of his published compositions....
   - American Rhapsody
• Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney
  
  Ross Lee Finney Junior was an United States 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 Great Britain composer, whose popularity has increased considerably in the years since his death....
   - Cello Concerto opus 40 in A minor
• André Fleury
  André Fleury
  
  Andr? Edouard Antoine Marie Fleury was a French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue....
   - Messe pour la fête de tous les saints
• Armstrong Gibbs - Dale and Fell
• Howard Hanson
  Howard Hanson
  
  Howard Harold Hanson was an United States of America composer, conducting, educator, music theorist, and ardent champion of American classical music....
   - Symphony No. 5, Sinfonia Sacra
• Andrew Imbrie
  Andrew Imbrie
  
  Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an United States composer of contemporary european classical music....
   - Violin Concerto
• Alemdar Karamanov - Symphony No. 1
• Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Khachaturian
  
  Aram Khachaturian was a Soviet Union-Armenians composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music....
   - Spartacus, ballet
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  
  Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
   - 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 Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
   - West Point Suite
• Walter Piston
  Walter Piston
  
  Walter Hamor Piston Jr. was an American composer and music theorist....
   - Symphony No. 5
• Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  
  Edmund Rubbra was a United Kingdom composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras....
   - Sixth Symphony, Op. 80 and Viola Concerto, Op. 75
• Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an USA composer, critic and teacher of music.Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14....
   - Idyll of Theocritus
• Robert Simpson (composer)
  Robert Simpson (composer)
  
  File:72 Brian session.jpgRobert Simpson was an England 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 Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius....
   - String Quartet No. 3
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
   - In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
  Dylan Thomas
  
  Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh people poet 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 from Kansas City, Missouri. 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 european classical music and film scores....
   - String Quartet No. 13, Op. 74
• Henri Tomasi
  Henri Tomasi
  
  Henri Tomasi was a French people European classical music composer and conducting....
   - Concerto for Horn
• Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  
  Eduard Tubin was an Estonia composer and conductor....
   - Symphony No. 6
• Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Varèse
  
  Edgard Victor Achille Charles Var?se, whose name was also spelled Edgar Var?se , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
   - Déserts (1950-54)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  
  Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
   - 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 conducting....
  
• Stefan Wolpe
  Stefan Wolpe
  
  Stefan Wolpe was a Germany-born composer.Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Berlin Conservatory from the age of fourteen, attended the Berlin Hochschule f?r Musik 1920-1921....
   - Symphony for 24 Instruments

• Jack Beeson
  Jack Beeson
  
  Jack Beeson is an United States composer. He is known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden , Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye....
   - Hello, Out There
• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
   - The Turn of the Screw (opera)
  The Turn of the Screw (opera)
  
  The Turn of the Screw is a 20th century England chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James....
  
• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  
  Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
   - 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....
  
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and Conducting....
   - Neues vom Tage
  Neues vom Tage
  
  Neues vom Tage is an opera in three parts by Paul Hindemith, with a German language libretto by Marcellus Schiffer.The opera is a satire of modern life, celebrity and marriage, involving parodies of both Puccini's music and Berlin cabaret....
  (revision)
• Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinu
  
  Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
   - Mirandolina
• Jerome Moross
  Jerome Moross
  
  Jerome Moross was an American-born composer for the stage, and a composer, conductor and orchestrator for motion pictures.He was born in New York City in 1913....
   - The Golden Apple
• William Walton
  William Walton
  
  Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
   - 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....
  

• After the Ball
  After the Ball (musical)
  
  After the Ball is a musical theatre by Noel Coward, based on Lady Windermere's Fan.After a provincial tour, the musical premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, on 10 June 1954 and ran for 188 performances until 20 November 1954....
  (Music, Lyrics and Book: Noël Coward
  Noël Coward
  
  Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre 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"....
  ) 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 theater by Sandy Wilson. The musical was written at a time when the United Kingdom was still recovering from the devastating effects of World War II and is set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring 1920s, a similar period of peace and gradual recovery after the rigours of World War I....
  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 Broadway theatre musical theatre with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Arthur Schwartz....
  (Music: Arthur Schwartz
  Arthur Schwartz
  
  Arthur Schwartz was an United States composer.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....
   Lyrics: Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields
  
  Dorothy Fields was an United States libretto and lyrics.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway theatre musical theaters and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters....
  ) Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 8 and transferred to the Imperial Theatre
  Imperial Theatre
  
  The Imperial Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 249 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The theatre seats up to 1417 people...
   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 theatre 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 regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s....
  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 the 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 List of London venues 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....
   on July 28 and ran for 134 performances
• Fanny
  Fanny (musical)
  
  For the movie see Fanny .Fanny is a 1954 Broadway musical theatre with book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, and music and lyrics by Harold Rome....
  Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on November 4 and transferred to the Belasco Theatre
  Belasco Theatre
  
  The Belasco Theatre is a legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany glass lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artists Everett Shinn, and a ten-room du...
   on December 4, 1956 for a total run of 888 performances
• The Girl in Pink Tights Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
  Mark Hellinger Theatre
  
  The Mark Hellinger Theatre was a Legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan until it was converted into the Times Square Church in 1989....
   on March 5 and ran for 115 performances
• The Golden Apple Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on April 20 and ran for 125 performances
• Happy Holiday (Music: George Posford Lyrics & Book: Eric Maschwitz
  Eric Maschwitz
  
  Albert Eric Maschwitz Order of the British Empire , known as Eric Maschwitz and sometimes credited as Holt Marvell, was an England entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive....
   and Arnold Ridley
  Arnold Ridley
  
  Major William Arnold Ridley, Officer of the Order of the British Empire was an England 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 ....
  ) London production opened at the Palace Theatre
  Palace Theatre
  
  Palace Theatre may refer to:...
   on December 22 and ran for 31 performances
• House of Flowers
  House of Flowers
  
  House of Flowers may refer to:* Kuca Cveca, whose Serbian language name Kuca Cveca means "House of Flowers"* A short novella by Truman Capote, usually published along with his longer novella Breakfast at Tiffany's ...
  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 theatre with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart.While teaching music at Knickerbocker University, Phil "Junior" Donal III tries to persuade Sergei Alexandrovich, the director of the Russian Ballet, to stage the jazz ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"...
  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 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ....
  (Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  
  Richard Adler is an United States lyricist, composer and Theatrical producer of several Broadway theatre shows.Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist....
   and Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  
  Jerry Ross was an United States 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....
  ) — 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 Abe Erlanger, theatrical producer and a founding member of the Theatrical Syndicate, on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant....
   on May 13 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre 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....
   on November 24, 1956 for a total run of 1063 performances
• Pal Joey (Music: Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
   Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz Hart
  
  Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
   Book: John O'Hara
  John O'Hara
  
  John Henry O'Hara was an United States writer born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. He initially made a name for himself with his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist whose works include Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8....
  ) London production opened at Princes Theatre on August 4 and ran for 245 performances
• Peter Pan
  Peter Pan
  
  Peter Pan is a character created by Scotland novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to aging, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys , interacting with Mermaid, Native_Americans_in_the_United_States, f...
  Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.It was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
   on October 20 and ran for 152 performances
• Salad Days
  Salad Days
  
  Salad Days is a Musical theater with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade. It premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on August 5 of that year, running for 2,283 performances to become the longest-running show in British musical theatre history until o...
  (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 the 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 the 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 Strand, London in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days....
   on August 5 and ran for 2283 performances
• You'll Be Lucky London revue
  Revue
  
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
   opened at the Adelphi Theatre
  Adelphi Theatre
  
  The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
   on February 25. Starring Sally Barnes and Lauri Lupino Lane.
• Zuleika
  Zuleika
  
  Zuleika is a musical theatre with music by Peter Tranchell and book and lyrics by James Ferman. The musical is based on the 1911 novel, Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm....
  — premiere in Cambridge, England

• Athena
  Athena (film)
  
  Athena is a romantic musical comedy released on 4 November 1954 by MGM.Not a great success on its release, this Motion Picture has an unusual and somewhat campy appeal....
  starring Jane Powell
  Jane Powell
  
  Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s....
  , Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  
  Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
  , Edmund Purdom
  Edmund Purdom
  
  Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom was an Italy-based United Kingdom actor and film director....
   and Vic Damone
  Vic Damone
  
  Vic Damone is an United States singer and entertainer....
  
• Brigadoon
  Brigadoon (film)
  
  Brigadoon is an MGM musical film feature film based on the Broadway theatre Brigadoon 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 theatre musical theatre, 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....
  
• Casanova's Big Night
  Casanova's Big Night
  
  Casanova's Big Night is a 1954 in film comedy film starring Bob Hope, which is a Parody of swashbuckling historical adventure films.Hope plays a man who impersonates Giacomo Casanova, the great lover....
  starring Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  
  Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
  
• Deep in My Heart starring José Ferrer
  José Ferrer
  
  Jos? Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintr?n was a Puerto Rican people Theatre director, Director director and actor. He received one Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Tony Awards, besides multiple nominations....
  
• The French Line
  The French Line
  
  The French Line is a 1954 in film musical film made by RKO, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Edmund Grainger, with Howard Hughes as executive producer....
  starring Jane Russell
  Jane Russell
  
  Jane Russell is an American film actress and sex symbol....
  
• Living It Up
  Living It Up
  
  'Living It Up' is a 1954 in film comedy film starring the team of Martin and Lewis and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Paul Jones from a screenplay by Jack Rose and Melville Shavelson, based on the 1953 musical Hazel Flagg by Ben Hecht, in turn based on the story Letter to the Edi...
  starring Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  , Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
   and Janet Leigh
  Janet Leigh
  
  Janet Leigh was an American actress.Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s....
  
• Lucky Me starring Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  , Robert Cummings
  Robert Cummings
  
  Robert Cummings , also known as Bob Cummings, was an United States motion picture and television actor, noted for his fresh faced youthful look which lasted long into his old age....
   and Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers
  
  Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
  
• New Faces
  New Faces of 1952
  
  New Faces of 1952 is a musical revue with comedy skits tied together by a flimsy plot. Produced by Leonard Sillman, it ran on Broadway theatre for nearly a year and was then remade as a motion picture....
  
• Red Garters
  Red Garters (film)
  
  Red Garters is a 1954 in film film starring Rosemary Clooney, Guy Mitchell, and Jack Carson. It was a musical spoof of Western . The director was George Marshall ....
  starring Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  
  Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  , 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 which spanned the 1930s, '40s and '50s....
   and Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  
  Guy Mitchell was a List of Croatian Americans popular music singer, was successful in his homeland as well in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
• Rhapsody
  Rhapsody (film)
  
  Rhapsody is a 1954 MGM movie 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 Taylor, Order of the British Empire , also known as Liz Taylor, is an England-born American actress.Known for her acting skills and beauty, as well as her Cinema of the United States lifestyle, including many marriages, Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden years, as well as a la...
  
• River of No Return
  River of No Return
  
  River of No Return is a 1954 in film western movie film made by 20th Century Fox in CinemaScope and directed by Otto Preminger. The film stars Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe with Rory Calhoun....
  starring Marilyn Monroe
  Marilyn Monroe
  
  Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, singer, model, and a sex symbol.After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946....
  
• Rose Marie
  Rose Marie
  
  Rose Marie is an American actress who also had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, theater and television....
  starring Ann Blyth
  Ann Blyth
  
  Ann Marie Blyth is an Academy Awards United States actor and singer, often cast in Musical theatre, but also successful in dramatic roles....
   and Howard Keel
  Howard Keel
  
  Howard Keel, born Harold Clifford Keel was an United States actor and singer. He starred in many of the classic Musical film of the 1950s....
  
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers starring Jane Powell
  Jane Powell
  
  Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s....
  , Howard Keel
  Howard Keel
  
  Howard Keel, born Harold Clifford Keel was an United States actor and singer. He starred in many of the classic Musical film of the 1950s....
   and Julie Newmar
  Julie Newmar
  
  'Julie Newmar' is an American actor, dancer and singer. Her most famous role is Catwoman in the Batman television series....
  .
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1954 film)
  
  A Star Is Born is a 1954 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Moss Hart is an adaptation of the A Star Is Born , which was based on a story by William A....
  
• The Student Prince
  The Student Prince
  
  The Student Prince is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-F?rster's play Alt Heidelberg....
  starring Ann Blyth
  Ann Blyth
  
  Ann Marie Blyth is an Academy Awards United States actor and singer, often cast in Musical theatre, but also successful in dramatic roles....
   and Edmund Purdom
  Edmund Purdom
  
  Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom was an Italy-based United Kingdom actor and film director....
   with Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  
  Mario Lanza was an United States tenor and Hollywood film star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s.His lirico spinto Voice type was considered by his admirers to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film The Great Caruso....
   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 film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the There's No Business Like Show Business in the musical Annie Get Your Gun ....
  
• Top Banana (film)
  Top Banana (film)
  
  Top Banana is a 1954 United Artists movie musical film based on the Top Banana of the same title starring Phil Silvers. It stars most of the original cast....
  starring Phil Silvers
  Phil Silvers
  
  Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
  
• White Christmas
  White Christmas (film)
  
  White Christmas is a 1954 in film jukebox musical movie 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 United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  , Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  
  Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
  , Rosemary Clooney
  Rosemary Clooney
  
  Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
   and Vera Ellen

• 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....
  
• Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark
  
  Lady in the Dark is a musical theatre written by Kurt Weill , Ira Gershwin , and 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, said to be based on Hart's own experiences with psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg....
  Note: as of June 2005 this article only cover the original 1941 Broadway version of this musical.

• January 16 - Cheryl Bentyne, The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer
  
  The Manhattan Transfer is an United States vocal group. There have been two incarnations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only member to feature in both....
  
• January 25 - Richard Finch
  Richard Finch (musician)
  
  Richard Raymond Finch , is a composer, producer, engineer, and song arranger. He is best known as a co-founder and former bass player of KC and the Sunshine Band....
  , K.C. and the Sunshine Band
• February 18 - John Travolta
  John Travolta
  
  John Joseph Travolta is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States actor, dancer and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Pulp Fiction ....
  , Saturday Night Fever
  Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack)
  
  Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track is the soundtrack album from the blockbuster film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta....
  
• February 19 - Jimmy Pursey
  Jimmy Pursey
  
  Jimmy Pursey is a singer and producer. He was the frontman of the English punk rock band Sham 69 from 1976 to 1980, and from 1987 to 2006. On January 26, 2007, BBC News announced that Sham 69 had split because of a bitter fallout between Pursey and guitarist Parsons....
  , Sham 69
  Sham 69
  
  Sham 69 are an England punk rock band that formed in Hersham in 1975.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....
  
• February 20 - Jon Brant
  Jon Brant
  
  Jon Brant was the bass guitar 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 a United States Rock music band formed in the 1970s and consisting of Robin Zander , Rick Nielsen , Tom Petersson , and Bun E. Carlos ....
  
• February 26 - Michael Bolton
  Michael Bolton
  
  Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....
  , singer, songwriter
• February 27 - Neal Schon
  Neal Schon
  
  Neal Joseph Schon is an United States guitarist best known for his work with the band Journey ....
  , Journey
  Journey (band)
  
  Journey is an United States Rock music Musical ensemble formed in San Francisco, California, California in 1973. The band has gone through several phases since its inception by former members of Santana ....
  
• March 10 - Tina Charles
  Tina Charles
  
  Tina Charles is an England singer, who achieved success as a disco musician in the mid to late 1970s....
  , 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 . The band's main lyricist and co-songwriter, he sings in the group as well as playing melodica and percussion such as a microwave oven or wooden block , the latter notably on the song "He'd Send In the Army." Jon Parele...
  , Gang Of Four
  Gang of Four (band)
  
  Gang of Four are an England post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King , guitarist Andy Gill , bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham....
  
• March 16:
• Julian Marshall
  Julian Marshall
  
  Julian Marshall was a music and print collector and writer, born at Headingley, near Leeds, on 24 June 1836, the youngest of the five children of John Marshall , MP for Leeds from 1832 to 1835, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Joseph Ballantyne Dykes of Dovenby Hall, Cockermouth....
  , Marshall Hain
  Marshall Hain
  
  Marshall Hain were a United Kingdom Pop music-Rock and roll Duet , well known for their 1978 hit record "Dancing In The City", a United Kingdom #3 single in the UK Singles Chart in the summer of 1978....
  
• Nancy Wilson
  Nancy Wilson (guitarist)
  
  Nancy Lamoureux Wilson is an United States singer, songwriter and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann Wilson, became a part of the Seattle band Heart ....
  , Heart
  Heart (band)
  
  Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
  
• March 25 - Helen Terry
  Helen Terry
  
  Helen Terry is a United Kingdom singer, known for her Backing vocalist work with Culture Club. As a solo performer, she scored a Top 40 hit in 1984 with "Love Lies Lost" and released one album in 1986, Blue Notes....
  , singer
• March 27 - Wally Stocker
  Wally Stocker
  
  Wally Stocker was lead guitarist with The Babys.The Babys disbanded in 1981 and he toured with Rod Stewart and Air Supply as well as Humble Pie Featuring Jerry Shirley, Jimmy Barnes and Zoomer....
  , The Babys
  The Babys
  
  The Babys were a United Kingdom rock group of the late 1970s. The Babys were able to chart 6 albums between 1976 and 1981 through Chrysalis Records....
  
• March 28 - Reba McEntire
  Reba McEntire
  
  Reba Nell McEntire is an United States country music singer, performer and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads....
  
• March 31 - Tony Brock
  Tony Brock
  
  Tony Brock was born in Bournemouth, England, on March 31, 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 United Kingdom rock group of the late 1970s. The Babys were able to chart 6 albums between 1976 and 1981 through Chrysalis Records....
  
• April 5 - Peter Case
  Peter Case
  
  Peter Case is an United States singer-songwriter and guitarist, who has had a wide-ranging career ranging from new wave music to folk rock to solo acoustic performance....
  
• April 13 - Jimmy Destri
  Jimmy Destri
  
  Jimmy Destri plays keyboard instrument in the Rock music Musical ensemble Blondie , and along with Chris Stein and Deborah Harry he is also the principal songwriter for the band....
  , Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  
  Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
  
• April 17 - Michael Sembello
  Michael Sembello
  
  Michael Sembello is a Grammy Award Winning and Oscar nominated United States musician....
  
• 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....
  , American
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   composer