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• January 28 - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
   begins attending classes at Oakwood College
  Oakwood College
  
  Oakwood University of Seventh-day Adventists, commonly referred to as Oakwood University, is a Historically Black colleges and universities university located in Huntsville, Alabama....
   in Huntsville, Alabama
  Huntsville, Alabama
  
  Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Alabama and Limestone County, Alabama Counties in the U.S. state of Alabama, and the county seat of Madison County....
  
• January 29 - Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
   records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959.
• February 14 - The Iran
  Iran
  
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
  ian government bans rock & roll because they claim that the form of music is against the concepts of Islam
  Islam
  
  Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
   and also a health hazard. Iranian doctors warned of the risk of injuries to the hips from the "extreme gyrations" of rock & roll dances.
• March 12 - Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
   is given a year's probation by a Philadelphia court following her arrest and guilty plea on narcotics possession charges in 1956.
• March 12 - Dors, mon amour by André Claveau (music by Pierre Delanoë, text by Hubert Giraud) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1958
  Eurovision Song Contest 1958
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the 3rd Eurovision Song Contest. The convention that the winning country from a year hosted the following year's contest was introduced in this year....
   for France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  
• March 24 - 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"....
   enters the U.S. Army.
• April 14 - Gladys Presley, Elvis´ mother dies.
• May 30 - Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  
  B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
  's Violin Concerto No. 1
  Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)
  
  B?la Bart?k's Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a was written around the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death....
   is premiered in Basel
  Basel
  
  Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city . With 731,000 inhabitants in the tri-national metropolitan area , Basel is Switzerland's third-largest urban area....
  , 50 years after it was composed
• August 4 - Billboard magazine debuts its "Hot 100" singles chart, with Ricky Nelson
  Ricky Nelson
  
  Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson , was an United States singer, musician and actor. With more than 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the late 1950s....
  's "Poor Little Fool" as the No. 1 record.
• September 24 - Italian singers Natalino Otto
  Natalino Otto
  
  Natalino Otto, stage name of Natale Codognotto was an Italy singer. He started the Swing in Italy....
   and Flo Sandon's
  Flo Sandon's
  
  Mammola Sandon, known by the stage name of Flo Sandon's , was an Italian singer who was popular in the post-World War II years. She won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1953 with the song "Viale d'autunno"....
   scout the young, talented Mina
  Mina (singer)
  
  Mina Anna Mazzini, Italian orders of merit#Order of Merit of the Republic , known as Mina, is an Italian popular music. For her voice and performing talent, she was a star attraction of the Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure on the Italian charts....
  
• Cleo Laine
  Cleo Laine
  
  Dame Cleo Laine Order of British Empire is a jazz singer and an actor, noted for her scat singing.She is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular music and European classical music categories....
   marries John Dankworth
  John Dankworth
  
  Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, Order of the British Empire , often known as Johnny Dankworth, is an England jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist....
  .
• The Festival dei Due Mondi
  Festival dei Due Mondi
  
  The 'Festival dei Due Mondi' is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958....
   is founded by Gian Carlo Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti
  
  Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italy composer and libretto. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship....
  .
• Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Gaye
  
  Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
   begins recording with his first group.
• Otis Williams & the Distants begin their musical career. They will later join with The Primes and become The Temptations
  The Temptations
  
  The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
  .
• Phil Spector
  Phil Spector
  
  Harvey Philip Spector is an United Statesn record producer and songwriter.The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965....
   begins his recording career.
• Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
   receives the Music Hall "Bravos" along with Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  
  Yves Montand was an Italy-born France actor and singer....
  .
• RCA
  RCA
  
  RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Today, the RCA is owned by the France conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson....
   introduces its first stereo LPs.
• Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  
  Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
   signs his first recording contract with a major record label and makes his first national TV performance on American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
  .
• Fred Foster
  Fred Foster
  
  Fred Luther Foster is an United States songwriter, record producer, and founder of Monument Records.Born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, he struggled to help look after his family when his father died....
   opens Monument Records
  Monument Records
  
  Monument Records was a record label founded in 1958 by Fred Foster and Bob Moore. From a recording studio in the Nashville, Tennessee suburb of Hendersonville, Tennessee, they produced a variety of sounds, including Rock and Roll, Country and western, and Rhythm and blues....
   in Hendersonville, Tennessee
  Hendersonville, Tennessee
  
  Hendersonville is a city in Sumner County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States, on Old Hickory Lake. The population was 40,620 at the 2000 census....
  .
• Ernesto Bonino
  Ernesto Bonino
  
  Ernesto Pietro Bonino was an Italy singer of pop and jazz standards whose peak of popularity was during the 1940s and 50s.A native of Turin, Ernesto Bonino began his career in the late 1930s as a teenage singer in the lively club scene of his hometown....
   leaves the USA and returns to Italy
  Italy
  
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  .
• Van Cliburn
  Van Cliburn
  
  Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. , is an United States pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War....
   wins the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition
  International Tchaikovsky Competition
  
  The International Tchaikovsky Competition is one of the most prestigious List of classical music competitions in the world. Named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, it has been scheduled to take place in Moscow every four years since 1958....
  .

Albums released

• Anita Sings the Winners
  Anita Sings the Winners
  
  Anita O'Day Sings The Winners is a 1958 album by Anita O'Day.The concept of this album was to pick the "winners" from the top Jazz and Orchestral Charts....
   - Anita O'Day
  Anita O'Day
  
  Anita O'Day was an United States jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said ?When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.?...
  
• Around The World - 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....
  
• As Long As There's Music - Eddie Fisher
  Eddie Fisher (singer)
  
  Edwin Jack Fisher is an United States singer and entertainer....
  
• Ascenseur pour l'échafaud - 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...
  
• Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley (album)
  
  Bo Diddley is the debut album by rock and roll pioneer and blues icon Bo Diddley. It is a compilation of his singles since 1955. It collects several of his most influential and enduring songs....
  - Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
  
• Breezin' Along
  Breezin' Along
  
  Breezin' Along was an LP album by The Four Lads released by Columbia Records as catalog number CL 1223 and CS 8035 in 1958 in music, containing mostly popular standard songs....
  - 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....
  
• Come Fly With Me
  Come Fly with Me (album)
  
  Come Fly with Me is an album by United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958 in music.Sinatra's first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May, Come Fly With Me was designed as a musical trip around the world....
  - 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"....
  
• Destination Moon - The Ames Brothers
• Dream - The Mills Brothers
• Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
  Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport
  
  Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport is a 1958 live album by Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday recorded at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival....
  - 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....
  , Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter.Nicknamed Lady Day by her loyal friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing....
  
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook
  
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook is a 1958 album by the American Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, focusing on the songs of Irving Berlin....
  - Ella Fitzgerald
• Ella Swings Lightly
  Ella Swings Lightly
  
  Ella Swings Lightly is a 1958 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Marty Paich Dek-tette. Ella also worked with Marty Paich on her 1967 album Whisper Not....
  - Ella Fitzgerald
• Elvis' Golden Records
  Elvis' Golden Records
  
  Elvis' Golden Records is the fifth LP album by Elvis Presley issued on RCA Victor Records, LPM 1707, in March 1958, recorded mostly at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, with one session at RCA Studios in New York City on January 30, one at 20th Century Fox Stage One in Hollywood on August 24, and three at in January and April 1956 at RCA Stud...
  - 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"....
  
• Everybody Digs Bill Evans
  Everybody Digs Bill Evans
  
  Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a record album by jazz musician Bill Evans. It was the artist's second album, done two years after his first record as a leader....
  - Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
  
  William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  
• Fancy Meeting You Here
  Fancy Meeting You Here
  
  Fancy Meeting You Here , recorded with Rosemary Clooney and Billy May, was Bing Crosby ninth LP.In its review, Time magazine called this album, "An infectious musical dialogue between two of the sassiest fancy talkers in the business....
  - 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....
   and 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....
  
• For Teenagers In Love - 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....
  
• Foreign Affair - 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....
   and Michel LeGrand
  Michel Legrand
  
  Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
  
• Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
  Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
  
  Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely is an album by the United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958. The album consists of a haunting collection of melancholic Ballad about sadness and loss ....
  - 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"....
  
• Give Him the Ooh-La-La
  Give Him the Ooh-La-La (album)
  
  Give Him the Ooh-La-La is a 1958 studio album by Blossom Dearie.This album is the second of six albums Dearie recorded for Verve Records....
  - Blossom Dearie
  Blossom Dearie
  
  Blossom Dearie was an United States jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and known for her distinctive girlish voice....
  
• Gogi Grant - Welcome To My Heart - Gogi Grant
  Gogi Grant
  
  Gogi Grant is an United States of America popular music singer....
  
• Gondolier - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Greatest Hits - 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....
  
• A Guy In Love - 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....
  
• He's So Fine - Jackie Wilson
  Jackie Wilson
  
  Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was an United States singer. Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul music. Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group, The Dominoes, after going solo in 1957 he went on to record over fifty hit singles over a repertoire that included R&B, pop music, soul mu...
  
• Hooray for Hollywood
  Hooray for Hollywood (album)
  
  Hooray for Hollywood was the name of a two-album set recorded by Doris Day, released by Columbia Records. The two-album set was released by Columbia under the catalog number AC2L-5, but each individual LP was also released in both monaural and stereophonic versions as indicated below....
  (Vol. 1) - 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....
  
• Johnny Horton Sings Free And Easy - Johnny Horton
  Johnny Horton
  
  Johnny Horton was an United States country music singer who was most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which launched the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• Julie Is Her Name, Volume II
  Julie Is Her Name, Volume II
  
  Julie Is Her Name, Volume II was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records on August 1, 1958, under catalog numbers LRP-3100 and LST-7100 ....
  - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• Kate Smith Sings Folk Songs - Kate Smith
  Kate Smith
  
  Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
  
• King Creole
  King Creole
  
  King Creole is an United States motion picture directed by Michael Curtiz, released by Paramount Pictures on July 2, 1958. The film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau....
  (OST) - 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"....
  
• The Kingston Trio
  The Kingston Trio (album)
  
  The Kingston Trio is The Kingston Trio's debut album, released in 1958 . It entered the album charts in late October 1958, where it resided for nearly four years, spending one week at #1 in early 1959....
  - The Kingston Trio
  The Kingston Trio
  
  The Kingston Trio is an United States folk music and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to early 1960s....
  
• Les Gitans - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Little Girl Blue
  Little Girl Blue (Nina Simone album)
  
  Little Girl Blue is the debut album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone for Bethlehem Records. It was also released as Jazz As Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club....
  - Nina Simone
  Nina Simone
  
  Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was a Grammy Award-nominated American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist....
  
• Milestones
  Milestones (album)
  
  Milestones is an album recorded in February and March 1958 by Miles Davis. It is renowned for including Miles' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments, as noticed on the piece "Miles" , which would be followed to its logical conclusion on Kind of Blue....
  - 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...
  
• The Mills Brothers In Hi-Fi - The Mills Brothers
• The Mills Brothers Sing - The Mills Brothers
• Miss Music - 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....
  
• Mmmm, The Mills Brothers - The Mills Brothers
• Music! Music! Music! - 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....
  
• My Happiness - Connie Francis
  Connie Francis
  
  Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid"....
  
• Oklahoma!
  Oklahoma! (soundtrack)
  
  Oklahoma! is the original soundtrack album of the 1955 in film Academy Award-winning film Oklahoma! , an adaptation of the musical play Oklahoma!....
  (OST) - Original Cast
• One Dozen Berrys
  One Dozen Berrys
  
  One Dozen Berrys is Chuck Berry's second album. It was released in 1958 under Chess Records....
  - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• Our Gal Sal - Sally Starr
  Sally Starr
  
  Sally Starr was a movie actress from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.She was a Broadway theatre favorite before making her debut in motion pictures....
   (with The Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  )
• Paris Holiday - 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....
  
• Rhonda - Rhonda Fleming
  Rhonda Fleming
  
  Rhonda Fleming , is an American motion picture and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day....
  
• Ricky Nelson - Ricky Nelson
  Ricky Nelson
  
  Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson , was an United States singer, musician and actor. With more than 50 Billboard Hot 100 hits, Nelson was second to Elvis Presley as the most popular rock and roll artist of the late 1950s....
  
• Rockin' Around the World - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Rockin' the Joint - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Rockin' With Kay Starr - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• Saturday Night With Mr. C
  Saturday Night With Mr. C
  
  Saturday Night With Mr. C was Perry Como third RCA Victor 12" long-play album, and his first in full stereophonic sound. The album is structured as an extended version of the request section of his popular television show, beginning and ending with his theme songs "Dream Along With Me" and "You Are Never Far Away" and with his TV request...
  - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
  Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
  
  Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous is the second album by singer Johnny Cash. It was originally released on 13 November 1958 in music, but later re-issued in 2003 in music, under the label Varese Sarabande, with four different versions of tracks already present on the original gramophone record as a bonus....
  - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• Smoochin' Time - The Ames Brothers
• Some Pleasant Moments In The 20th Century - Oscar Levant
  Oscar Levant
  
  Oscar Levant was an United States pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in film and television, than for his music....
  
• Songs I Wish I Had Sung - 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....
  
• South Pacific - Original Soundtrack
• Star Dust - 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....
  
• Surprise Package - The Crew Cuts
• Swingin' Down Broadway - 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....
  
• Teresa - 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....
  
• Teresa Brewer At Christmas Time - 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....
  
• Them There Eyes - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• This Is Sinatra Volume 2
  This Is Sinatra Volume 2
  
  This Is Sinatra Volume 2 is an album by United States singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958.Another collection of Sinatra singles and B-sides with backings courtesy of Nelson Riddle, following 1956's This Is Sinatra!....
  - 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"....
  
• 'Til Morning - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States 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 persona....
  
• Time For Teresa - 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....
  
• Torchin' - 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....
  
• Vaughan and Violins
  Vaughan and Violins
  
  Vaughan and Violins is a 1959 album by Sarah Vaughan, orchestrated and conducted by Quincy Jones....
  - Sarah Vaughan
  Sarah Vaughan
  
  Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
  
• When You Come To The End of The Day
  When You Come To The End of The Day
  
  When You Come To The End Of The Day was Perry Como fourth RCA Victor 12" long-playing album, released in 1958 and the second recorded in full stereophonic sound....
  - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• Who's Sorry Now? - Connie Francis
  Connie Francis
  
  Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid"....
  
• Yes Indeed! - 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....
  

• "16 Candles"     w.m. Luther Dixon & Allyson R. Khent
• "A Toujours (Till Always)"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "All I Have to Do is Dream
  All I Have to Do Is Dream
  
  "All I Have to Do Is Dream" is a popular music song made famous by the Everly Brothers, written by the legendary husband and wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and published in 1958 in music....
  "     w.m. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
  
• "All Of These And More"     w. Sheldon Harnick
  Sheldon Harnick
  
  Sheldon Harnick is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit Musical theater such as Fiddler on the Roof....
   m. Jerry Bock
  Jerry Bock
  
  Jerrold Lewis Bock is an American musical theatre composer....
  
• "The All-American Boy"     w.m. Orville Lunsford & Bill Parsons
  Bill Parsons
  
  William Raymond "Bill" Parsons was a 6' 6" right handed baseball pitcher from Riverside, California. He had a four-year career as a major league pitcher....
   (See: Bobby Bare
  Bobby Bare
  
  Bobby Bare is an United States country music singer and songwriter. He is the father of Bobby Bare, Jr., also a musician....
  )
• "Almost In Your Arms"     w.m. Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  
  Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
   & Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an United States songwriter. He was a partner in a composer and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films....
  
• "Am I That Easy to Forget
  Am I That Easy to Forget
  
  "Am I That Easy to Forget" is the title of a popular song written by country music singer Carl Belew and W.S. Stevenson and published in 1958. Belew recorded his song in Nashville on December 17, 1958 and released the single in March 1959, where it made the Top 10 on the Hot Country Songs, peaking at #9....
  "     w.m. Carl Belew, W. S. Stevenson & Shelby Singleton
• "Another Time, Another Place"     w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
• "Any Way The Wind Blows
  Any Way the Wind Blows
  
  Any Way the Wind Blows is a film by Deus ' singer-songwriter-director Tom Barman....
  "     w.m. William Dunham, Joseph Hooven & Marilyn Hooven
• "Are You Really Mine?
  Are You Really Mine?
  
  The best-known recording of the song was done by Jimmie Rodgers , charting at #10 on the U.S. Billboard chart in 1958 in music....
  "     w.m. 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...
   & Mark Markwell
• "Baby I Don't Care"     Leiber and Stoller
• "Baby Lover"     Wandra Merrell
• "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen"     w.m. Jack Clement
  Jack Clement
  
  Jack Henderson Clement is an United States singer, songwriter, and a record producer and film producer.Raised and educated in Memphis, Jack Clement was performing at an early age....
  
• "The Ballad Of Paladin"     w.m. Richard Boone
  Richard Boone
  
  Richard Allen Boone was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns. He was best known as the star of the TV series Have Gun ? Will Travel....
  , Sam Rolfe
  Sam Rolfe
  
  Samuel Harris Rolfe was an United States screenwriter best known for his work on 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour , both on National Broadcasting Company....
   & Johnny Western
  Johnny Western
  
  Johnny Western is an United States Country music singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and radio show host. He's a member of the Western Music Association Hall of Fame and the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall of Fame....
  
• "Beep Beep"     w.m. Donald Clapps & Carl Cicchetti
• "Big Best Shoes"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  
  Sandy Wilson is an England composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, The Boy Friend ....
  
• "A Big Hunk O' Love
  A Big Hunk o' Love
  
  "A Big Hunk o' Love", a song sung by Elvis Presley, was recorded on June 10,1958 in RCA's Nashville, Tennessee studio, while Presley was on leave from the U.S....
  "     w.m. Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
   & Sid Wyche
• "Big Man"     w.m. Bruce Belland & Glenn Larson
• "Bimbombey"     w.m. Mack David
  Mack David
  
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
  , Hugo Peretti
  Hugo Peretti
  
  Hugo Peretti was an United States songwriter and record producer.Born in New York City, Hugo Peretti began his career as a teenager, playing the trumpet in the Borscht Belt in upstate New York....
   & Luigi Creatore
  Luigi Creatore
  
  Luigi Creatore is a retired United States songwriter and record producer.From a musical family, Creatore began his career as a writer. After serving with the United States military during World War II, in the 1950s he became a writer then partnered with his cousin Hugo Peretti to form the songwriting team of Hugo & Luigi that evolved to pr...
  
• "Bird Dog"     w.m. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
  
• "The Blob"     w. Mack David
  Mack David
  
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  
• "Blue, Blue Day"     w.m. Don Gibson
  Don Gibson
  
  Donald Eugene Gibson was an United States songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams " and "I Can't Stop Loving You" and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970's....
  
• "Born Too Late"     w. Fred Tobias m. Charles Strouse
  Charles Strouse
  
  Charles Strouse is a three-time Tony Award-winning United States composer and lyricist....
  
• "Breathless"     w.m. Otis Blackwell
  Otis Blackwell
  
  Otis Blackwell was an United States songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced Rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever ", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender " , and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man"....
  
• "Broken Hearted Melody
  Broken Hearted Melody
  
  "Broken Hearted Melody" is a popular song first published in 1958 in music. The words were written by Hal David and the music by Sherman Edwards....
  "     w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Sherman Edwards
  Sherman Edwards
  
  Sherman Edwards was an United States songwriter....
  
• "Bye, Bye Baby Goodbye"     F. McNulty
• "Cannonball"     m. Duane Eddy
  Duane Eddy
  
  Duane Eddy is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he is acclaimed as the most successful rock and roll instrumentalist of all time....
   & Lee Hazlewood
  Lee Hazlewood
  
  Lee Hazlewood was an United States country music and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties....
  
• "A Certain Smile
  A Certain Smile (song)
  
  "A Certain Smile" is a popular music song.The music was written by Sammy Fain, the lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. The song was published in 1958 in music....
  "     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. Sammy Fain
  Sammy Fain
  
  Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
  
• "Chanson d'Amour"     w.m. Wayne Shanklin
• "Chantilly Lace
  Chantilly lace
  
  Chantilly lace is a handmade bobbin lace named after the city of Chantilly, Oise, France, dating from the 17th century, though the most famous are silk laces introduced in the 18th century....
  "     w.m. Jiles Perry Richardson
  The Big Bopper
  
  Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. , called JP by his friends but commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an United States disc jockey, singing, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star....
  
• "The Chipmunk Song"     w.m. Ross Bagdasarian
  Ross Bagdasarian
  
  Rostom Sipan Bagdasarian was an United States pianist, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. In his professional life, he was better known by the stage name David Seville, which he used on his recordings featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks....
  
• "Claudette"     w.m. Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• "C'mon Everybody"     w.m. Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran
  
  Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran was an United States of America rock and roll musician and an important influence on popular music during the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond....
   & Jerry Capeheart
• "Come Prima"     w. (Eng) Buck Ram
  Buck Ram
  
  Buck Ram was an United States songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.He was born Samuel Ram to Jewish parents. It has been written that the history of rock and roll could not be written without Buck Ram's contributions....
   (Ital) M. Panzeri m. V. Di Paola & S. Taccani
• "Dance Only With Me"     Betty Comden
  Betty Comden
  
  Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
  , Adolph Green
  Adolph Green
  
  Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
  , 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....
  
• "Devoted to You
  Devoted to You (song)
  
  "Devoted to You" is a song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.The best-known version was recorded by The Everly Brothers, and released by Cadence Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 1350 in July 1958....
  "     w.m. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
  
• "The Diary"     w. Howard Greenfield
  Howard Greenfield
  
  Howard Greenfield was an United States lyricist and songwriter....
   m. Neil Sedaka
  Neil Sedaka
  
  Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
  
• "Do You Want To Dance?"     w.m. Bobby Freeman
  Bobby Freeman
  
  Bobby Freeman is an African-American soul music singer, songwriter, and record producer who recorded for the Autumn Records record label in San Francisco, California, California....
  
• "Donna"     w.m. Ritchie Valens
  Ritchie Valens
  
  Ritchie Valens was an singer, songwriter and guitarist of Mexican origin born in the U.S.A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens' recording career lasted only eight months....
  
• "Don't
  Don't (Elvis Presley song)
  
  "Don't" is a song performed by Elvis Presley, which was released in 1958. It was Presley's eleventh Hit record in the United States....
  "     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Don't Take Your Guns To Town"     w.m. Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• "Early In The Morning"     w.m. Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin
  
  Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
   & Woody Harris
• "El Rancho Rock"     w. Ben Raleigh m. Silvano R. Ramos
• "Enchanted Island
  Enchanted Island (song)
  
  "Enchanted Island" is a popular music song with music written by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. The song was published in 1958 in music....
  "     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "The End"     w. Sid Jacobson m. Jimmy Krondes
• "Endless Sleep"     Jody Reynolds, Dolores Nance
• "Everybody Loves a Lover
  Everybody Loves a Lover
  
  "Everybody Loves a Lover" is a popular music song.The writers were both people who were best known for collaborations with other partners. The music was written by Robert Allen and the lyrics by Richard Adler ....
  "     w. 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....
   m. Robert Allen
• "Firefly"     w. Carolyn Leigh
  Carolyn Leigh
  
  Carolyn Leigh was an United States lyricist for Broadway theatre, movies, and popular songs....
   m. Cy Coleman
  Cy Coleman
  
  For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist....
  
• "Fly Away Lovers"     Frank Stanton & Tommie Connor
  Tommie Connor
  
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• "For Your Precious Love"     Jerry Butler
  Jerry Butler (singer)
  
  Jerry Butler is an United States soul music singing and songwriter, known as "The Ice Man" because of his cool demeanour while singing often intensely emotional lyrics....
  
• "French Foreign Legion
  French Foreign Legion (song)
  
  "French Foreign Legion" is a popular music song.The music was written by Guy Wood, the lyrics by Aaron Schroeder. The song was published in 1958 in music. It is best known in a version sung by Frank Sinatra....
  "     w. Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
   m. Guy Wood
• "Get A Job"     w.m. Earl T. Beal, Raymond W. Edwards, William F. Horton & Richard A. Lewis
• "Gotta Travel On"     trad (Brit 19th century) adapt w.m. Paul Clayton, Larry Ehrlich, David Lazar & Tom Six
• "Green Christmas"     Stan Freberg
  Stan Freberg
  
  Stanley Victor Freberg is an United States author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director....
  
• "Hard Headed Woman"     w.m. Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius
  
  Claude Demetrius was an African American songwriter.two decades, Claude Demetrius made a reasonably good living but in 1956 his income would change dramatically after he began writing for Gladys Music, Inc.....
  
• "Hoots Mon"     Harry Robertson
• "The Hula Hoop Song"     w.m. Carl Maduri Jr & Donna Kohler
• "A Hundred Million Miracles"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. 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....
  
• "I Beg Of You"     w.m. Rose Marie McCoy & Kelly Owens
• "I Enjoy Being A Girl"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. 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....
  
• "I Got A Feeling"     w.m. Baker Knight
• "I Got Stung"     w.m. Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
   & David Hill
  David Hill
  
  David Hill may refer to:* David B. Hill, Governor of the U.S. state of New York, 1885–1891, U.S. Senator from New York, 1892–1897...
  
• "I Met Him On A Sunday"     Shirley Owens, Addie Harris, Doris Coley
  Doris Coley
  
  Doris Coley was a member of the Shirelles. She initially left the group in 1968, but returned in 1975.Through marriages, she became Doris Coley Kenner and later, Doris Kenner Jackson....
  
• "I Remember It Well"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "If Dreams Came True"     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "If I Had A Hammer
  If I Had a Hammer
  
  "If I Had a Hammer " is a song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays. It was written in 1949 in support of the Progressivism, and was first recorded by The Weavers, a folk music quartet composed of Seeger, Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman, and then by Peter, Paul and Mary....
  "     w.m. Pete Seeger
  Pete Seeger
  
  Peter "Pete" Seeger is an United States folk singer, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene" that topped the charts f...
   & Lee Hays
• "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday"     w.m. R. Hayes, D. Bartholomew & Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
  
• "It's Late"     w.m. Dorsey Burnette
  Dorsey Burnette
  
  Dorsey Burnette was an early Rockabilly singer from Memphis, Tennessee and with his younger brother Johnny Burnette and a friend named Paul Burlison was one of the founder members of The Rock and Roll Trio....
  
• "It's Only Make Believe"     w.m. Conway Twitty
  Conway Twitty
  
  Conway Twitty was one of the United States most successful country music artists during the 20th century. Most commonly thought of as a country music singer, he also enjoyed success in early rock and roll, R&B, and Pop music....
   & Jack Nance
• "Java" m. Freddy Friday, Allen Toussaint
  Allen Toussaint
  
  File:AllenToussaintFeb07.jpgAllen Toussaint, , is an United States musician, songwriter and record producer.One of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B, many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through their numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Brickyard Blues", "Get Out Of My L...
   & Alvin Tyler
  Alvin Tyler
  
  Alvin "Red" Tyler was an American R&B and neo-bop jazz saxophonist and arranger.Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana, Tyler grew up listening to the sound of New Orleans marching bands....
  
• "Johnny B. Goode"     w.m. Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "Kewpie Doll
  Kewpie Doll (song)
  
  "Kewpie Doll" is a popular music song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett.In the United States, the most popular version was a recording by Perry Como; in the United Kingdom, Como's version competed with a version recorded by Frankie Vaughan....
  "     w.m. Sid Tepper
  Sid Tepper
  
  Sid Tepper is an United States songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roy C. Bennett, which spawned several hits for Elvis Presley....
   & Roy C. Bennett
  Roy C. Bennett
  
  Roy C. Bennett is an United States songwriter.Born into an Eastern European immigrant family, as a young boy growing up in Brooklyn he befriended a newly arrived neighbor by the name of Sid Tepper....
  
• "Kumbayah" recorded by Joe Hickerson
  Joe Hickerson
  
  Joe Hickerson is a noted folk music singer and songleader. For 35 years he was Librarian and Director of the Archive of Folk Culture at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress....
   and by Pete Seeger
  Pete Seeger
  
  Peter "Pete" Seeger is an United States folk singer, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American folk music revival. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, he also had a string of hit records during the early 50s as a member of The Weavers, most notably the 1950 recording of Leadbelly's "Goodnight, Irene" that topped the charts f...
  
• "Lazy Moon"     J. Kerr, W. Kerr, Ford
• "Learning The Game"     Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Left Right Out Of Your Heart
  Left Right out of Your Heart
  
  "Left Right Out Of Your Heart" is a popular music song.The music was written by Mort Garson, the lyrics by Earl Shuman. The song was published in 1958 in music....
  " w. Earl Shuman m. Mort Garson
• "Let The Bells Keep Ringing" w.m. Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  
• "The Little Serenade"     w.m. Antonio Amurri, Paolo Esposito, Geoffrey C. Parsons & James J. T. Phillips
• "Little Star"     w.m. Vito Picone & Arthur Venosa
• "Lollipop"     w.m. Beverly Ross & Julius Dixon
• "The Long, Hot Summer"     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. Alex North
  Alex North
  
  Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
  
• "Love Makes The World Go 'Round"     w.m. Ollie Jones
• "Love, Look Away"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. 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....
  
• "A Lover's Question"     w.m. Brook Benton
  Brook Benton
  
  Brook Benton was an United States singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just a Matter of Time " and "Endlessly ", many of which he co-wrote....
   & Jimmy Williams
• "Mad Passionate Love"     Dick Sherman & David E. Coleman
• "Make Me A Miracle
  Make Me a Miracle
  
  The best-known recording of the song was done by Jimmie Rodgers , charting in 1958....
  "     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...
  , Mark Markwell
• "Mandolins In The Moonlight"     w.m. George David Weiss
  George David Weiss
  
  George David Weiss is an United States songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America....
   & Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
  
• "Maverick"     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. David Buttolph
• "Maybe Baby"     w.m. Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
   & Charles Hardin
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Moon Talk"     w.m. 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...
  
• "My True Love
  My True Love
  
  "My True Love" is a popular music song.It was written by Jack Scott, who also recorded the song and had a hit with it in 1958 in music. The record was released on the Carlton label and also hit the Billboard R&B charts....
  "     w.m. Jack Scott
  Jack Scott
  
  Jack Scott is an Canadian/American singer and songwriter. He was the first white rock and roll national star to come out of Detroit, Michigan, Michigan....
  
• "Nairobi"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill
  
  Bob Merrill was an United States songwriter, theatre composer and lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  
• "Never Be Anyone Else But You"     w.m. Baker Knight
• "The Night They Invented Champagne"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again
  Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again
  
  "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" is a popular music song written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, and Mark Markwell and published in 1958 in music....
  "     w.m. 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...
   & Mark Markwell
• "Once Upon A Summertime" (Original title "La Valse des Lilas")     Eddie Barclay
  Eddie Barclay
  
  Eddie Barclay was a France music Record producer whose singers included Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. He founded Barclay Records....
  , Michel Legrand
  Michel Legrand
  
  Michel Legrand is a France musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist of Armenians descent.Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums....
  , Eddy Marnay, 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....
  
• "One Night"     w.m. Dave Bartholomew & Pearl King
• "The Only Man On The Island"      Bob Hilliard
  Bob Hilliard
  
  Bob Hilliard was an United States lyricist, born in New York City....
   & Dave Mann
• "Only The Lonely
  Only the Lonely
  
  "Only the Lonely " is a 1960 in music song written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson. Recorded by Orbison, it became his first major hit. As an operatic rock 'n' roll ballad, it was a sound unheard of at the time, described by the New York Times as expressing "a clenched, driven urgency"....
  "     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....
  , James Van Heusen
  James Van Heusen
  
  Jimmy Van Heusen , was an United States composer. Writing songs for films and television, he won four Academy Award for Best Original Song, and an Emmy....
  
• "Padre"     w. (Eng) Paul Francis Webster (Fr) Marcel Algeron & Jacques Larue m. Alain C. Romans
• "Patricia"     w. Bob Marcus m. Perez Prado
  Perez Prado
  
  D?maso P?rez Prado was a Cubans bandleader and composer. He is commonly referred to as the "King of the Mambo"....
  
• "Peter Gunn"     m. Henry Mancini
  Henry Mancini
  
  Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
  
• "Pink Shoelaces"     w.m. Mickie Grant
• "Plain Jane"      Doc Pomus
  Doc Pomus
  
  Doc Pomus was a twentieth century United States blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hit record....
  , Mort Shuman
  Mort Shuman
  
  Mort Shuman was an United States singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hit record, including "Viva Las Vegas "....
  
• "Poor Little Fool
  Poor Little Fool
  
  "Poor Little Fool" is a pop music/Rock music song written by Sharon Sheeley. It was based on her disappointment following a short-lived relationship with a member of a popular singing duo....
  "     w.m. Shari Sheeley
• "Problems"     w.m. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
  
• "Promise Me, Love"     w.m. Kay Thompson
• "The Purple People Eater
  Purple People Eater
  
  "The Purple People Eater" was a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley , that reached #1 in the Billboard magazine pop charts in 1958....
  "     w.m. Sheb Wooley
  Sheb Wooley
  
  Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty hit "The Purple People Eater". Also for playing Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller arriving on the train at High Noon....
  
• "Queen Of The Hop"     w.m. Woody Harris & Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin
  
  Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
  
• "Raining In My Heart"     w.m. Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
  
  Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an United States wife and husband country music songwriting team who were also at the forefront of the evolution of pop music....
  
• "Rave On"     w.m. Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
  , Bill Tilghman & Sunny West
• "Rawhide
  Rawhide (TV series)
  
  Rawhide was a television western series that aired on the U.S. network CBS from 1959 in television to 1966 in television. The show starred Eric Fleming and launched the career of Clint Eastwood....
  "     w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  
  Ned Washington was an United States lyricist....
   m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Tiomkin
  
  Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
  . Title tune of the TV series performed by 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....
  .
• "Reeds In A Rush" m. 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....
  
• "Return To Me"     w.m. Danny Di Minno & Carmen Lombardo
  Carmen Lombardo
  
  Carmen Lombardo was the younger brother of bandleader Guy Lombardo. He was a vocalist and composer whose compositions included the 1928 classic "Sweethearts on Parade", which was number one for three weeks in 1929 on the U.S....
  
• "Rockin' Robin"     w.m. Jimmie Thomas
• "Saturday Girl"     w. Peter Benjamin m. Peter Stannard
• "Say A Prayer For Me Tonight"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "Secretly
  Secretly
  
  The best-known recording of the song was done by Jimmie Rodgers , charting in 1958 in music, reaching #3 on the Pop chart and #5 on the Country chart....
  "     w.m. 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...
   & Mark Markwell
• "Send Me The Pillow You Dream On"     w.m. Hank Locklin
  Hank Locklin
  
  Hank Locklin was an United States country music singer-songwriter....
  
• "Short Shorts"     w. Bob Gaudio & Bill Dalton m. Tom Austin & Bill Crandall
• "Since I Don't Have You"     w. James Beaumont, Walter Lester, John Taylor, Joseph Verscharen & Janet Vogel m. Joseph Rock & Lennie Martin
• "Splish Splash"     w.m. Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin
  
  Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
   & Jean Murray
• "Stagger Lee"     trad arr. Lloyd Price
  Lloyd Price
  
  Lloyd Price is an American vocalist. His first sound recording and reproduction, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" was a huge hit single on Specialty Records in 1952, and although he continued to turn out gramophone record, none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits....
   & Harold Logan
• "Stupid Cupid"     w. Howard Greenfield
  Howard Greenfield
  
  Howard Greenfield was an United States lyricist and songwriter....
   m. Neil Sedaka
  Neil Sedaka
  
  Neil Sedaka is an United States pop music singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others....
  
• "Sugartime
  Sugartime
  
  "Sugartime" is a popular music song, written by Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols and published in 1958 in music. The biggest hit version was recorded by the McGuire Sisters, who topped the charts with their single in February of that year....
  "     w.m. Charlie Phillips & Odis Echols
• "Summertime Blues"      Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran
  
  Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran was an United States of America rock and roll musician and an important influence on popular music during the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond....
  , J. Capehart
• "Summertime, Summertime"     w.m. Tom Jameson & Sherm Feller
• "Sunday"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. 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....
  
• "Surprise"      w.m. Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an United States songwriter. He was a partner in a composer and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films....
   & Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  
  Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
   from the musical Oh, Captain!
  Oh, Captain!
  
  Oh, Captain! is a musical comedy based on the film The Captain's Paradise. The film starred Alec Guinness as a philandering ship's captain, with a wife in one port and a mistress in another....
  
• "Susie Darlin' "     w.m. Robin Luke
  Robin Luke
  
  Robin Luke is an United States rockabilly singer. He has been enshrined in the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.Luke was living in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii, attending Punahou School, in 1958 when he songwriter and sound recording and reproduction a Billboard Hot 100 hit single with the song, "Susie Darlin," a song named after his then five-year-old...
  
• "Sweet Little Sixteen"     w.m. Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "The Swingin' Shepherd Blues"     w. Rhoda Roberts & Kenny Jacobson m. Moe Koffman
  Moe Koffman
  
  Moe Koffman was a Canada jazz musician and composer. He played the flute, soprano, alto and tenor saxophone and clarinet.He was born Morris Koffman in Toronto in 1928....
  
• "Teacher Teacher"     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "Teacher's Pet"     w.m. Joe Lubin
• "Tears On My Pillow"     w.m. Sylvester Bradford & Al Lewis
• "Tequila"     w.m. Chuck Rio
• "Thank Heaven For Little Girls"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "There's Only One Of You
  There's Only One of You
  
  "There?s Only One of You" is a popular music song with music written by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. The song was published in 1958 in music....
  "     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "Think It Over"     Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  , Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
  , Jerry Allison
• "This Happy Feeling"     w.m. Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  
  Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
   & Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an United States songwriter. He was a partner in a composer and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films....
  
• "This Is All I Ask"     w.m. Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Jenkins
  
  Gordon Hill Jenkins was an United States arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements....
  
• "Time"     w. Julian More, David Heneker & Monty Norman m. David Heneker & Monty Norman
• "To Know Him Is To Love Him"     w.m. Phil Spector
  Phil Spector
  
  Harvey Philip Spector is an United Statesn record producer and songwriter.The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965....
  
• "Tom Dooley
  Tom Dooley
  
  Tom Dooley or Thomas Dooley may refer to:*Thomas Anthony Dooley III , American humanitarian who worked in Laos and Vietnam**Dr Tom Dooley Fund, Irish charity named after the humanitarian...
  "     trad arr. Dave Guard
  Dave Guard
  
  Dave Guard  , was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio....
  
• "True Love Ways"     w.m. Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
   & Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Tulips From Amsterdam"      Ralf Arnie & Gene Martyn
• "A Very Precious Love"     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. Sammy Fain
  Sammy Fain
  
  Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
  
• "Volare
  Volare (song)
  
  "Nel blu dipinto di blu" , popularly known as "Volare" , is Domenico Modugno's signature song. It is the only song ever by an Italian artist to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100....
  "     w. (Eng) Mitchell Parish
  Mitchell Parish
  
  Mitchell Parish was an United States lyricist....
   (Ital) Domenico Modugno
  Domenico Modugno
  
  Domenico Modugno was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italy singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italy Parliament....
   & Franco Migliacci m. Domenico Modugno
  Domenico Modugno
  
  Domenico Modugno was a twice Grammy Award-winning Italy singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italy Parliament....
  
• "Waltz At Maxim's (She Is Not Thinking Of Me)"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "We Belong Together
  We Belong Together (Robert & Johnny song)
  
  "We Belong Together" was a 1958 United States rhythm and blues hit single by Robert & Johnny. It was songwriter by Mitchell, Carr, and Sam Weiss, the first two names being the surnames of the duet themselves....
  , S. Weiss, Robert Carr, Johnny Mitchell
• "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck"     w.m. Bert Carroll & Russell Moody
• "What To Do"     Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "When"     w.m. Jack Reardon & Paul Evans
• "Witch Doctor"     w.m. Ross Bagdasarian
  Ross Bagdasarian
  
  Rostom Sipan Bagdasarian was an United States pianist, singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. In his professional life, he was better known by the stage name David Seville, which he used on his recordings featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks....
  
• "The Wizard"     David, Dane, Paul
• "Woman From Liberia"     Rodgers, Whiting
• "The World Outside"     Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  
  Carl Sigman was a major United States songwriter....
  , Richard Addinsell
  Richard Addinsell
  
  Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British people composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight ....
  
• "Yakety Yak
  Yakety Yak
  
  "Yakety Yak" is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958 in music, spending seven weeks as number one on List of number-one rhythm and blues hits and a week as Hot 100 number-one hits of 1958 on the Billboard Hot 100....
  "     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "You Are Beautiful"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. 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....
  
• "You Are My Destiny
  You Are My Destiny
  
  "You Are My Destiny" is a song written and performed by Saiful Naqiuddin Saiful Baharuddin. It was released in 2008 in music and reached #7 on the US Billboard 100 early that year. The song was also released in the UK, where it reached #6....
  "     w.m. Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  
• "You Cheated"     w.m. Don Burch
• "Young and Warm and Wonderful
  Young and Warm and Wonderful
  
  "Young And Warm And Wonderful" is a popular music song with music by Lou Singer and lyrics by Hy Zaret, published in 1958 in music.The best-known version of the song was a recording by Tony Bennett....
  "     w. Hy Zaret
  Hy Zaret
  
  Hy Zaret was an American lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century....
   m. Lou Singer
• "Zorro"     w. Norman Foster m. George Burns

• Aldo Clementi
  Aldo Clementi
  
  Aldo Clementi is an Italy composer.He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi....
   - Episodi
• 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....
   - String Quartet No. 2
• Benjamin Frankel
  Benjamin Frankel
  
  Benjamin Frankel was a Great Britain composer....
   - Symphony No. 1
• Ferde Grofé
  Ferde Grofé
  
  Ferde Grof? was an United States pianist, arrangement and composer....
   - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D
• Dmitriy Borisovich Kabalevskiy - In the Magic Forest
• Leon Kirchner
  Leon Kirchner
  
  Leon Kirchner is an United States composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences....
   - String Quartet No. 2
• 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....
   - Artikulation
• Peter Mennin
  Peter Mennin
  
  Peter Mennin was an United States composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the The Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role....
   - Piano Concerto
• Thea Musgrave
  Thea Musgrave
  
  Thea Musgrave is a Scottish people-born, United States-based composer of opera and classical music....
   - String Quartet
• Ned Rorem
  Ned Rorem
  
  Ned Rorem is an American composer and Personal journal. He is best known and praised for his song settings.He was born in Richmond, Indiana, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the American Conservatory and then Northwestern University....
   - Symphony No. 3
• 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....
   - Pezzo Ostinato () and Violin Concerto, opp. 102 and 103.
• Carl Ruggles
  Carl Ruggles
  
  Charles "Carl" Sprague Ruggles was an United States composer part of the group which is known as the American Five He wrote finely-crafted pieces using "Consonance and dissonance counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music....
   - Exaltation
• 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....
   - String Quintet, Symphony No. 1
• Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  
  Eduard Tubin was an Estonia composer and conductor....
   - Symphony No. 7
• 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....
   - Poème électronique (1957-58)
• 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,...
   - Symphony No. 9
  Symphony No. 9 (Vaughan Williams)
  
  The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor was written by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams from 1956 to 1957 and given its premiere performance in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent on April 2, 1958, in the composer's eighty-sixth year....
  
• Leó Weiner
  Leo Weiner
  
  Leo Weiner was one of the leading Hungary music educators of the first half of the twentieth century and a composer....
   - Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major

• Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
   - Vanessa (opera)
  Vanessa (opera)
  
  Vanessa is an opera in three acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958, in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti....
  
• Carlisle Floyd
  Carlisle Floyd
  
  Carlisle Floyd is an United States opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah , is based a story in the so-called Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect....
   - Wuthering Heights
• Jakov Gotovac
  Jakov Gotovac
  
  Jakoff Gotovac was born on October 11, 1895 in Split , Croatia, and died on October 16, 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia. He was a composer and conducting of classical music....
   - Dalmaro
• Gian Carlo Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti
  
  Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italy composer and libretto. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship....
   - Maria Golovin
• 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,...
   - Hugh the Drover
  Hugh the Drover
  
  Hugh the Drover is an opera in two acts by Ralph Vaughan Williams to an original English libretto by Harold Child. According to Michael Kennedy, the composer took first inspiration for the opera from this question to Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times Literary Supplement, around 1909-1910:...
  

• The Body Beautiful
  The Body Beautiful
  
  The Body Beautiful is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock....
       Broadway production
• 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....
  (Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  
  Sandy Wilson is an England composer and lyricist, best known for his musical, The Boy Friend ....
  ) - off-Broadway revival
• Expresso Bongo
  Expresso Bongo
  
  Expresso Bongo is a musical first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London on 23 April 1958. Its book was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music written by David Heneker and Monty Norman, also the co-lyricist with Julian More....
       London production
• Flower Drum Song
  Flower Drum Song
  
  Flower Drum Song is a musical theatre written by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Chinese American author C....
  (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....
   and Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
  ) - Broadway production
• Irma La Douce
  Irma la Douce
  
  Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
       London production
• Lola Montez
  Lola Montez
  
  Eliza Rosanna Gilbert , better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Ireland-born dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld....
  , Brisbane production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre
  Her Majesty's Theatre
  
  Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by Charles J....
   on October 1
• Nightcap
  Nightcap
  
  Nightcap : The Unreleased Masters 1972-1991 is a Jethro Tull double CD album released on 22 November 1993 with older and previously unreleased material....
       off-Broadway production
• Oh, Captain!
  Oh, Captain!
  
  Oh, Captain! is a musical comedy based on the film The Captain's Paradise. The film starred Alec Guinness as a philandering ship's captain, with a wife in one port and a mistress in another....
  Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   production opened at the Alvin Theatre on February 4 and ran for 192 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...
  (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....
  ) - Broadway production
• Valmouth
  Valmouth
  
  Valmouth is a 1919 novel by British author Ronald Firbank....
       London production
• West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  (Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  ) - London production
• Where's Charley?
  Where's Charley?
  
  Where's Charley? is a Musical theater with music & lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas....
       London production

• April Love
• Damn Yankees
  Damn Yankees (film)
  
  Damn Yankees is a 1958 in film musical film made by Warner Bros., a modern version of the Faust legend set in 1950 involving the New York Yankees baseball team....
  starring Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter
  
  Tab Hunter is an United States actor and singer who appeared in more than 40 major feature films....
  , Gwen Verdon
  Gwen Verdon
  
  Gwyneth Evelyn ?Gwen? Verdon was an United States dancer and actress....
   and Ray Walston
  Ray Walston
  
  Ray Walston was an American Stage , television and feature film actor who played the title character on the situation comedy My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences....
  
• The Duke Wore Jeans
  The Duke Wore Jeans
  
  The Duke Wore Jeans is a 1958 in film English film by producer Nat Cohen starring Tommy Steele and with June Laverick....
  starring Tommy Steele
  Tommy Steele
  
  Tommy Steele Order of the British Empire is an England entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star....
  
• Gigi
  Gigi (1958 film)
  
  Gigi is a 1958 in film Cinema of the United States musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette....
  starring Leslie Caron
  Leslie Caron
  
  Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood Musical film stars in the 1950s....
  , Louis Jourdan
  Louis Jourdan
  
  Louis Jourdan is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case , Gigi , The Best of Everything , and Octopussy ....
  , Maurice Chevalier
  Maurice Chevalier
  
  Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
   and Hermione Gingold
  Hermione Gingold
  
  Hermione Gingold was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove....
  
• King Creole
  King Creole
  
  King Creole is an United States motion picture directed by Michael Curtiz, released by Paramount Pictures on July 2, 1958. The film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau....
  starring 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"....
  
• Mardi Gras
  Mardi Gras
  
  The terms "Mardi Gras" and "Mardi Gras season", in English language, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, ending on the day before Ash Wednesday....
  
• Senior Prom
  Senior Prom
  
  Senior Prom is a still-classified United States Air Force program to develop a Stealth technology unmanned aerial vehicle for Surveillance aircraft , designed to be launched from a Lockheed DC-130, B-52 Stratofortress, or B-1 Lancer....
  
• The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
  The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
  
  The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw is a 1958 in film western film comedy film, starring Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield....
  starring Kenneth More
  Kenneth More
  
  Kenneth Gilbert More Order of the British Empire was an England actor....
  , Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield
  
  Jayne Mansfield was an United States actor working both on Broadway theatre and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years....
   and Sid James
  Sid James
  
  Sid James was a South African actor and comedian, who made his name in a series of England sitcoms before starring in the popular Carry On films....
  .
• South Pacific
• The Tunnel of Love
  The Tunnel of Love
  
  The Tunnel of Love is a 1958 in film romantic comedy based on the Broadway theatre hit by Peter De Vries and Joseph Fields. The film follows a married suburban couple who for reasons unknown, are unable to conceive a child and soon endure endless red tape on a path of adopting a child....
  

• Aladdin
  Aladdin (TV special)
  
  Aladdin was a 1958 musical comedy written especially for television with a book by S.J. Perelman and music and lyrics by Cole Porter, telecast in color on the DuPont Show of the Month by CBS....
  (Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  ) televised on February 21 starring Cyril Ritchard
  Cyril Ritchard
  
  File:Cyril Ritchard & Eddie Mayehoff VtaSP.jpgCyril Ritchard was an Australian theatre, film and television actor, and television director....
  , Basil Rathbone
  Basil Rathbone
  
  Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
  , Dennis King
  Dennis King (actor)
  
  Dennis King was an English actor and singer.Born Dennis Pratt, King had a stage career in both drama and musical theater. He emigrated to the USA in 1921 and went on to a successful career on the Broadway stage....
  , Sal Mineo
  Sal Mineo
  
  Salvatore Mineo, Jr. , better known as Sal Mineo, was a Golden Globe-winning United States film and theatre actor, best known for his Academy Awards-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause....
  , Anna Maria Alberghetti
  Anna Maria Alberghetti
  
  Anna Maria Alberghetti is an Italian-born actress and operatic singer.Born in Pesaro she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Awards in 1962 as Best Actress for Carnival ....
   and Una Merkel
  Una Merkel
  
  Una Merkel was an United States film actress.Merkel resembled the popular actress Lillian Gish, and her resemblance allowed her to begin her career as a stand-in for Gish in 1920's Way Down East ....
  .
• Hansel and Gretel (William Engvick
  William Engvick
  
  "William Engvick" is an American lyricist.Many of his songs were collaborations with Alec Wilder, including the score for the semi-forgotten musical television special Pinocchio ....
   and Alec Wilder
  Alec Wilder
  
  Alec Wilder was an United States composer.His family was prominent in Rochester; a downtown building bears the family's name. As a young boy, he travelled to New York City with his mother and stayed at the Algonquin Hotel....
  ) televised on April 27 starring Barbara Cook
  Barbara Cook
  
  Barbara Cook is a Tony Award winning United States singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway theatre musical theatre Candide and The Music Man among others....
   and Red Buttons
  Red Buttons
  
  Red Buttons was an American comedy and actor....
  
• Kiss Me, Kate
  Kiss Me, Kate
  
  Kiss Me, Kate is a Musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew....
  starring Alfred Drake
  Alfred Drake
  
  Alfred Drake was an United States actor and singer.Born Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents emigrated from the town of Recco, in the Province of Genoa, Drake began his Broadway theatre career while still a student at Brooklyn College....
  , Patricia Morison
  Patricia Morison
  
  Patricia Morison is an United States theatre and motion picture actor and singer. She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage....
  , Julie Wilson
  Julie Wilson
  
  Julie Wilson is an United States singer and actress.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Wilson headed to New York City during World War II and found work in two of Manhattan's leading nightclubs, the Latin Quarter and the Copacabana ....
  , Bill Hayes
  Bill Hayes
  
  Bill Hayes is an United States actor and singer....
   and Jack Klugman
  Jack Klugman
  
  Jacob Joachim "Jack" Klugman is an American television and film actor, known primarily for his roles in sitcoms, movies and television. He is best-known for his role as Tony Randall's sloppy roommate, Oscar Madison, in The Odd Couple shown on American television during the 1970s, and for his starring role in Quincy, M.E., in the 197...
  

• January 1 - Grandmaster Flash
  Grandmaster Flash
  
  Joseph Saddler better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an United States hip hop musician and disc jockey; one of the pioneers of Hip hop music disc jockey, cutting, and audio mixing ....
  
• January 8 - Steve Garvey, Buzzcocks
  Buzzcocks
  
  Buzzcocks are an England punk rock band formed in Manchester in 1976. They have been led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Shelley for nearly their entire existence....
  , The Teardrops
  The Teardrops (band)
  
  The Teardrops were a New Wave music band formed in Manchester, England, in 1978. This band comprised Buzzcocks bassist Steve Garvey , the seemingly only remaining member, and former The Fall members, Tony Friel and Karl Burns....
  
• January 11 - Vicki Peterson
  Vicki Peterson
  
  Vicki Peterson is a United States rock music musician . In 1981 she founded The Bangs, later renamed The Bangles, with her sibling Debbi Peterson and Susanna Hoffs....
  , The Bangles
  The Bangles
  
  The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles through much of the decade....
  
• February 16 - Ice-T
  ICE-T
  
  * Ice-T is a U.S. rapper and actor.* ICE-T is a tilting model of the German DBAG Class 411 series of high-speed trains....
  
• February 21 - Jake Burns
  Jake Burns
  
  Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as a member of Stiff Little Fingers....
  , Stiff Little Fingers
  Stiff Little Fingers
  
  Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
  
• February 21 - Mary Chapin Carpenter
  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  
  Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer....
  
• March 5 - Andy Gibb
  Andy Gibb
  
  Andy Gibb was an England singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, also known as the Bee Gees....
   (+ 1988)
• March 8 - Gary Numan
  Gary Numan
  
  Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
  
• March 9 - Martin Fry
  Martin Fry
  
  Martin Fry is lead singer of the band ABC ....
  
• April 11 - Stuart Adamson
  Stuart Adamson
  
  Stuart Adamson , was an English-born Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He founded the top-40 Scottish art-punk band The Skids and later the more mainstream rock group Big Country, as well as the 1990s alternative country rock act, The Raphaels....
  , Big Country
  Big Country
  
  Big Country were a Rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following....
   (+ 2001)
• April 12 - Will Sergeant
  Will Sergeant
  
  Will Sergeant is an English guitarist, best known for being a member of Echo & the Bunnymen, Electrafixion and Glide . Born in the centre of Liverpool, he grew up in the suburb of Melling, Merseyside....
  , Echo & the Bunnymen
  Echo & the Bunnymen
  
  Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. Their original lineup consisted of singer Ian McCulloch , guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les Pattinson, supplemented by a drum machine....
  
• April 18 - Les Pattinson
  Les Pattinson
  
  Les Pattinson is an English musician, best known for his work as the bassist of the Liverpool based band , Echo & the Bunnymen.Active from 1978 to the band's split in 1992, he returned for the 1997 album, Evergreen ....
  , Echo & the Bunnymen
• May 2 - Mayumi Horikawa, Japanese singer-songwriter and model
• May 21 - Mike Barson
  Mike Barson
  
  Mike Barson , sometimes nicknamed Monsieur Barso, is an England musician, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of the Two Tone band , Madness ....
  , Madness
  Madness (band)
  
  Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
  
• May 25 - Paul Weller
• May 27 - Neil Finn
  Neil Finn
  
  Neil Mullane Finn, Order of British Empire is a singer and songwriter and one of New Zealand's foremost popular musicians. He is the frontman for Crowded House and previously for Split Enz....
  , Crowded House
  Crowded House
  
  Crowded House is a rock music group formed in Sydney, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States ....
  
• May 30 - Marie Fredriksson
  Marie Fredriksson
  
  Marie Fredriksson is a Sweden pop music singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for forming one half of the pop duo Roxette, which she created together with Per Gessle in 1986....
  , Roxette
  Roxette
  
  Roxette is a Sweden pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle.This duo achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with their hit singles "The Look", "Listen To Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" and "Joyride "....
  
• June 7 - Prince
• June 17 - Jello Biafra
  Jello Biafra
  
  Eric Reed Boucher , more widely known by the stage name Jell-O Biafra, is an United Statesn musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party ....
  , Dead Kennedys
  Dead Kennedys
  
  The Dead Kennedys were an United States punk band from the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978....
  
• June 30 - Esa-Pekka Salonen
  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  
  Esa-Pekka Salonen is a prominent Finland orchestral conducting and composer. He is currently Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London....
  , conductor
• July 5 - Paul Daniel
  Paul Daniel
  
  Paul Daniel CBE is an England conducting. He is particularly noted for performances and recordings of opera and of British music.As a boy, he sang in the choir of Coventry Cathedral, where he received musical training....
  , conductor
• July 7 - Michala Petri
  Michala Petri
  
  Michala Petri is a Denmark recorder player. Petri is sought after as a soloist with many noted orchestras, including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields....
  , recorder
  Recorder
  
  The recorder is a woodwind instrument musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina....
   performer
• July 25 - Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running Ecstatic Peace! records....
  , Sonic Youth
  Sonic Youth
  
  Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
  
• July 30 - Kate Bush
  Kate Bush
  
  Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
  
• July 31 - Bill Berry
  Bill Berry
  
  William "Bill" Thomas Berry is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years, before retiring from the group and becoming a farmer....
  , R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  
  R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  
• August 3 - Robert Buck, 10,000 Maniacs
  10,000 Maniacs
  
  10,000 Maniacs was a United States-based alternative rock band, formed in 1981 and active with various line-ups through 2007. Their best-known member is Natalie Merchant, who left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career....
  
• August 6 - Randy DeBarge
  Randy DeBarge
  
  William Randall "Randy" DeBarge is an United States R&B/soul music singer and bass guitarist, best known for being one of the original members of the popular Motown Records family singing quintet, DeBarge....
  
• August 7 - Bruce Dickinson
  Bruce Dickinson
  
  Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, airline Aviator, radio show host, DJ, historian, Presenter#Television presenters, diver, Fencing, record producer, novelist, and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
  , musician, Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  
  Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
  
• August 16 - Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
  
• August 17 - Belinda Carlisle
  Belinda Carlisle
  
  Belinda Jo Carlisle is an United States singer. Carlisle has enjoyed success twice during her career, first as lead singer and founding member of the seminal, all-female band New Wave music band The Go-Go's, then as a successful international solo artist....
  , The Go-Go's
  The Go-Go's
  
  The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
  
• August 22 - Ian Mitchell, Bay City Rollers
  Bay City Rollers
  
  The Bay City Rollers were a Scotland pop/rock band of the 1970s. Their youthful, clean-cut image, distinct styling featuring tartan-trimmed outfits, and cheery, sing-along pop hits helped the group become among the most popular musical acts of their time....
  
• August 22 - Vernon Reid
  Vernon Reid
  
  Vernon Reid is an English guitarist, songwriter, composer and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
  , Living Colour
  Living Colour
  
  Living Colour is an American funk metal band from New York City, formed in 1983. A prominent all-African American band of that movement, which also included Jane's Addiction, Faith No More, Primus , and 24-7 Spyz in the late 1980s, Living Colour rose to fame with their debut album Vivid in 1988....
  
• August 29 - Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  
  Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
  
• September 6 - Buster Bloodvessel
  Buster Bloodvessel
  
  Buster Bloodvessel is an English singer and frontman of the 2 Tone band Bad Manners. His stage name was taken from the bus conductor played by Ivor Cutler in The Beatles' 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour ....
  , Bad Manners
  Bad Manners
  
  Bad Manners are an England Second Wave ska revival musical ensemble. They quickly became the novelty favourites of the fad through their bald, enormous-bodied frontman's silly on-stage antics, earning early exposure through their Top of The Pops TV exploits and an appearance in the live film documentary, Dance Craze....
  
• September 10 - Siobhan Fahey
  Siobhan Fahey
  
  Siobhan Fahey was a founding member of the 1980s United Kingdom girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister....
  
• September 19 - Lita Ford
  Lita Ford
  
  Lita Ford is an United States rock music musician and singer who was the lead guitarist for The Runaways and achieved popularity for her solo career during the 1980s....
  
• September 22
• Andrea Bocelli
  Andrea Bocelli
  
  Dr. Andrea Bocelli, Order of Merit of the Republic, Doctor of Laws is an Italians Operatic pop tenor and a classical music singer who has also performed in operas....
  , opera singer
• Joan Jett
  Joan Jett
  
  Joan Jett is an American rock music guitarist, singer, songwriter, Record producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock N' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard charts Hot 100 No....
  , rock musician
• October 9 - Al Jourgensen
  Al Jourgensen
  
  Al Jourgensen is a Cuban-American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry . He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa , Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan....
  , Ministry
  Ministry (band)
  
  Ministry was an United States industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s....
  
• October 10 - Tanya Tucker
  Tanya Tucker
  
  Tanya Denise Tucker is an American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top Ten and Top 40 hits....
  
• October 13 - Derri Daugherty
  Derri Daugherty
  
  Derri Daugherty is an United States record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for band The Choir....
  , The Choir
  The Choir
  
  The Choir is an atmospheric alternative Christian rock band, led by Derri Daugherty on guitar and vocals, Steve Hindalong on drums--who also writes most of the band's lyrics--as well as Tim Chandler on bass, Dan Michaels on lyricon, electric flute and saxophone and Marc Byrd on guitar, the latter of whom is a relatively recent addition to the...
  , The Lost Dogs
• October 14 - Thomas Dolby
  Thomas Dolby
  
  Thomas Dolby is an England musician and producer....
  , English rock musician
• October 20 - Mark King
  Mark King (musician)
  
  Mark King is an England musician. He is most famous for being the lead singer and bassist of the band , Level 42. In the early 1980s King popularized the 1970s-era slap and pop style for playing the bass guitar by incorporating it into pop music....
  , Level 42
  Level 42
  
  Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
  
• October 20 - Ricky Byrd, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
  Joan Jett
  
  Joan Jett is an American rock music guitarist, singer, songwriter, Record producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock N' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard charts Hot 100 No....
  
• October 27 - Simon Le Bon
  Simon Le Bon
  
  Simon John Charles Le Bon is the lead singer and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot, Arcadia ....
  , Duran Duran
  Duran Duran
  
  Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
  
• November 10 - Frank Maudsley, A Flock of Seagulls
  A Flock of Seagulls
  
  A Flock of Seagulls are a British Grammy Award winning band originally formed by brothers Mike Score and Ali Score , with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds ....
  
• November 22 - Jason Ringenberg
  Jason Ringenberg
  
  Jason Ringenberg is an American musician, and former lead singer of Jason & the Scorchers. He is also a songwriter and guitarist.The band had several minor hits, including "Golden Ball and Chain" and a blistering rock version of Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie."...
  , Jason & the Scorchers
  Jason & The Scorchers
  
  Jason & the Scorchers, originally Jason & the Nashville Scorchers, were a Rock music / Country rock band formed in 1981 and led by singer/songwriter Jason Ringenberg....
  
• November 27 - Tetsuya Komuro
  Tetsuya Komuro
  
  , also known as 'TK', is a Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and record producer born on November 27, 1958 in Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. He is recognized for introducing dance music to the Japanese mainstream....
  , Japanese songwriter and music producer
• December 7 - Timothy Butler, Psychedelic Furs
  Psychedelic Furs
  
  The Psychedelic Furs are an England Rock music band founded in 1977....
  
• December 9 - Nick Seymour
  Nick Seymour
  
  Nick Seymour is a bass guitar player, painting, and record producer. He is best known for being the bass guitarist in the Australasian rock group Crowded House and brother to Mark Seymour of successful group Hunters and Collectors....
  , Crowded House
  Crowded House
  
  Crowded House is a rock music group formed in Sydney, Australia and led by New Zealand musician and singer-songwriter Neil Finn. Finn is widely recognised as the primary songwriter and creative direction of the band, having led it through several incarnations, drawing members from New Zealand , Australia and the United States ....
  
• December 11 - Nikki Sixx
  Nikki Sixx
  
  Nikki Sixx is an United States bass guitar, author, photographer, and the main songwriter for the heavy metal music band M?tley Cr?e. He has also played bass for glam metal band London , the experimental band 58 , and the hard rock bands Brides of Destruction and, more recently, Sixx:A.M....
  , Mötley Crüe
  Mötley Crüe
  
  M?tley Cr?e are a Grammy Award-nominated American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1981.The band was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drum kit Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead vocalist Vince Neil....
  
• December 14 - Mike Scott
  Mike Scott (musician)
  
  Michael 'Mike' Scott is the founding member and chief songwriter of rock band The Waterboys. He has also produced two solo albums, Bring 'em All In and Still Burning....
  , The Waterboys
  The Waterboys
  
  The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott . The band's membership, past and present, has been composed mainly of musicians from Scotland, Ireland and England....
  
• December 14 - Peter Stacy, The Pogues
  The Pogues
  
  The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan....
  
• December 17 - Mike Mills
  Mike Mills
  
  Michael Edward Mills is the bass guitar player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist, piano player and background singer, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, guitar, string, wind and percussion instruments....
  , R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  
  R.E.M. is an American Rock music band formed in Athens, Georgia, Georgia , in 1980 by Michael Stipe , Peter Buck , Mike Mills , and Bill Berry ....
  
• December 23 - Victoria Williams
  Victoria Williams
  
  Victoria Williams is an United States singer/songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career....
  
• December 28 - Mike McGuire, Shenandoah
  Shenandoah (band)
  
  Shenandoah is an American country music band founded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1985 by Marty Raybon , Ralph Ezell , Stan Thorn , Jim Seales , and Mike McGuire ....
  
• date unknown
• Chuck Girard
  Chuck Girard
  
  Chuck Girard and moved to Santa Rosa, CA in his young teens) is an United States musician, and was a member of The Castells, The Hondells and later, Love Song , one of the pioneer Christian rock groups....
  , Love Song
  Love Song (band)
  
  Love Song was one of the main Jesus music bands, one of the first Christian rock bands. It was founded in 1970 by Chuck Girard, Tommy Coomes, Jay Truax, and Fred Field....
  

• January 21 - Ataúlfo Argenta
  Ataúlfo Argenta
  
  Ata?lfo Exuperio Martin de Argenta Maza was a distinguished Spanish people Conductor . Born in Castro Urdiales in Spain's Cantabria region, he played pivotal roles in the founding of the Festival Internacional de Santander and the Madrid Chamber Orchestra....
  , conductor
• February 5 - Lew Brown
  Lew Brown
  
  Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
  , lyricist
• March 25 - Tom Brown
  Tom Brown (trombonist)
  
  Tom Brown, sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown , was an early New Orleans dixieland jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally....
  , jazz trombonist
• March 28 - W.C. Handy - Blues composer
• April 1
• Bretislav Bakala
  Bretislav Bakala
  
  Bretislav Bakala was a Czech people Conducting, pianist, and composer. He studied conducting at the Brno Conservatory with Franti?ek Neumann, composition with Leo? Jan?cek at the organ school....
  , pianist, conductor and composer
• Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan
  
  Alfred Bryan was a United States songwriter....
  , songwriter
• April 10 : 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....
  , singer
• May 20 - Irma Baltuttis
  Irma Baltuttis
  
  Elsbeth Johanna Irma Baltuttis was a Germany singer and entertainer based in Leipzig, Germany. After some training in music during the Third Reich, her singing career took place entirely within the German Democratic Republic after the Soviet occupation of the East Zone....
  , singer
• June 3 - Maude Nugent
  Maude Nugent
  
  Maude Nugent was a United States of America songwriter. She wrote and composed the song Sweet Rosie O'Grady in 1896.Her husband was the songwriter William Jerome....
  , songwriter (born 1877)
• June 15 - José Pablo Moncayo
  José Pablo Moncayo
  
  Jos? Pablo Moncayo was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and Conducting. As composer, Jos? Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Ch?vez....
  , Mexican composer
• June 23 - Armas Järnefelt
  Armas Järnefelt
  
  Edvard Armas J?rnefelt was a Finland composer and conductor.Armas J?rnefelt was the son of general August Aleksander J?rnefelt and Elisabeth J?rnefelt ...
  , composer
• August 5 - Joseph Holbrooke
  Joseph Holbrooke
  
  Joseph Charles Holbrooke was an England composer, conductor , and pianist. He later changed his name to Josef. He was sometimes referred to as "the cockney Wagner"....
  , composer
• August 15 - Big Bill Broonzy
  Big Bill Broonzy
  
  Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific United States blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences....
  , blues musician and composer
• August 17 - Florent Schmitt
  Florent Schmitt
  
  Florent Schmitt was a France composer. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, Gustave Sandre, and Gabriel Faur?....
  , composer
• August 21 - Stevan Hristic
  Stevan Hristic
  
  Stevan Hristic , was the most popular Serbs composer of the first half of the 20th century, remembered best for his technically cultivated compositions in the Neoromanticism , veristic, and Romanticist-Impressionist music styles....
  , composer
• August 26 - 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,...
  , composer
• September 20 - Yvonne Arnaud
  Yvonne Arnaud
  
  Yvonne Arnaud was a France-born pianist, singer and actress.Germaine Yvonne Arnaud was born in 1892. From 1905 to 1911 she performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe and United States....
  , pianist, singer and actress
• October 25 - Artie Matthews
  Artie Matthews
  
  Artie Matthews was a songwriter, pianist, and ragtime composer.Artie Matthews was born in Braidwood, Illinois; his family moved to Springfield, Illinois in his youth....
  , ragtime composer and songwriter
• October 27 - John Wooldridge
  John Wooldridge
  
  Wing Commander John De Lacy Wooldridge, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, Distinguished Flying Medal, was a United Kingdom film composer....
  , film composer
• November 3 - Harry Revel
  Harry Revel
  
  Harry Revel was an English composer of musical theatre.Revel was born in London. Before emigrating to the United States in 1929, he wrote musicals for productions in Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna and London....
  , composer of musicals
• November 27 - Artur Rodzinski
  Artur Rodzinski
  
  Artur Rodzinski was a Poles conducting of opera and symphonic music....
  , conductor
• December 1 - Boots Mallory
  Boots Mallory
  
  Patricia "Boots" Mallory was an American film actress, dancer and model ....
  , dancer
• December 8 - Julia Lee
  Julia Lee
  
  Julia Lee is an American actor. She was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and began studying acting at age 14. She went on to earn a degree in theater from University of California, Irvine....
  , female blues singer
• December 11 - Paul Bazelaire
  Paul Bazelaire
  
  Paul Bazelaire , was a France cellist and composer. He won many prizes for literature and poetry in France and Belgium....
  , cellist
• December 29 - Doris Humphrey
  Doris Humphrey
  
  Doris Batcheller Humphrey was a dancer of the early twentieth century. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois but grew up in Chicago, Illinois; she was a descendant of Pilgrim William Brewster and Simon James Humphrey....
  , dancer and choreographer
• date unknown
• Samuel Antek
  Samuel Antek
  
  Samuel Antek was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conducting Arturo Toscanini. He joined at the orchestra's inception in 1937 and played with it until its dissolution in 1954....
  , violinist and conductor
• Tiny Bradshaw
  Tiny Bradshaw
  
  Myron C. Bradshaw was an United States jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer from Youngstown, Ohio....
  , jazz and blues musician
• Martin Shaw
  Martin Shaw (composer)
  
  Martin Edward Fallas Shaw OBE was a prolific England composer of music for plays, songs, hymns and children in the first half of the 20th Century....
  , composer
• Vassili Nebolsin
  Vassili Nebolsin
  
  Vassili Vassilyevich Nebolsin was a Russians conductor . He studied at the college of the Moscow Philharmonic and became conductor of the orchestra in 1918....
  , conductor
• John Strachan
  John Strachan (singer)
  
  John Strachan was a Scottish farmer and singer of Bothy ballad.John Strachan was born on a farm, Crichie, near Stuartfield in Aberdeenshire. His father had made his fortune by trading in horses, and had rented the farm....
  , ballad singer

Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....

• Eurovision Song Contest 1958
  Eurovision Song Contest 1958
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1958 was the 3rd Eurovision Song Contest. The convention that the winning country from a year hosted the following year's contest was introduced in this year....