27 February:ADRIAN SMITH = English musician, member of Iron Maiden
28 February:
PHIL GOULD = British drummer, song writer, and singer, founding member of Level 42 {1980–1987, 1994}
CINDY WILSON = American singer, founding memer of The B-52's
12 March:MARLON JACKSON = American entertainer, singer, dancer and member of The Jackson 5
21 March:JOHN WHITFIELD = British musician and conductor
26 March:PAUL MORLEY = English music journalist
12 April:VINCE GILL = American country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
2 May:MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN = German trumpeter and composer
10 May:JOHN SIMON RITCHIE bka SID VICIOUS = English punk rocker, most famous as the "bass guitarist" of the influential punk rock band The Sex Pistols {1977-1978} = [died: 1979]
18 May:MICHAEL CRETU = Romanian-German musician
27 May:SUSAN JANET BALLION bka SIOUXSIE SIOUX = English singer, songwriter, musician and producer. She is best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996} and the drums-and-voice duo The Creatures {1981–2005}
17 June:PHILIP RYAN pka PHILIP CHEVRON = Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist, member of The Pogues = [died: 2013]
22 June:GARY BEERS = Australian musician, member of INXS
26 June:PATTY SMYTH = American singer and songwriter
3 July:
LAURA BRANIGAN = American singer, songwriter, and actress = [died: 2004]
PETER BREINER = Slovak pianist, conductor, and composer
MARIANNE JOAN ELLIOTT-SAID bka POLY STYRENE = British musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex {1976–1979, 1991, 1995–1996, 2008} = [died: 2011]
18 August:RON STRYKERT = Australian musician, co-founding member of Men at Work
21 August:PETER EDWARD CLARKE pka BUDGIE = English musician, drummer of the alternative rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996} and the drums-and-voice duo The Creatures {1981–2005}
31 August:GLENN TILBROOK = English msician, lead singer and guitarist with Squeeze
1 September:
GLORIA ESTEFAN = Cuban-American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
JON MOSS = English drummer, member of Culture Club
22 September:
JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO = American singer, songwriter and bassist, member of Concrete Blonde
NICK CAVE = Australian musician, singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor
3 October:TIM WESTWOOD = English DJ and presenter of radio and television
5 October:LEE JAY THOMPSON = English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer, member of Madness
7 October:MICHAEL W. SMITH = American contemporary Christian musician
16 October:JACQUELINE McKINNON bka KELLY MARIE = Scottish disco singer
19 October:KARL WALLINGER = Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer, member of World Party
21 October:
STEVE LUKATHER = American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer, member of Toto
JULIAN COPE = English rock musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator
28 October:STEPHEN MORRIS = English multi-instrumentalist, composer and record producer, member of New Order
1 November:LYLE LOVETT = American country singer-songwriter and actor
5 November:MIKE SCORE = English musician, member of A Flock of Seagulls
8 November:PAUL STEPHEN THOMPSON aka PORL THOMPSON or PEARL THOMPSON = English musician, member of The Cure
24 November:CHRIS HAYES = American musician, member of Huey Lewis and the News {1979–2001}
6 December:BOB DRAKE = American multi-instrumentalist avant-garde musician and recording engineer
9 December:
DONNY OSMOND = American singer, actor, radio personality
STEVE TAYLOR = American singer, songwriter, record producer, music executive, film maker, and actor
10 December:PAUL HARDCASTLE = British composer, musician, and multi-instrumentalist
12 December:SHEILA E. = American drummer and percussionist, singer and actress
20 December:
BILLY BRAGG = English singer-songwriter
ANNA VISSI = Greek Cypriot recording artist and actress
22 December:TSAI CHIN = Taiwanese singer
25 December:SHANE MacGOWAN = Irish-British musician and singer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of Celtic trad punk band The Pogues
date unknown:
CHARLES ROLAND BERRY = American composer
KARTIK SESHADRI = Indian sitarist and composer
Timeline of Musical Events
5 January: Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba.
6 January:ELVIS PRESLEY makes final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
16 January:
The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, UK.
PAUL SIMON and ART GARFUNKEL name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl", backed with "Dancin' Wild", hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts. Garfunkel was Tom Graph (so called because he like to write the pop charts out on graph paper) and Simon was Jerry Landis, a pseudonym he used during his early 1960s solo recordings. They toured for eighteen months before retiring to become college students and then reforming in 1963 as Simon and Garfunkel.
8 February: Bo Diddley records his songs "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Mona" (aka "I Need You Baby").
March: Chicago's Cardinal Stritch bans all rock and roll and rhythm and blues music from Catholic-run schools, saying that "its rhythms encourage young people to behave in a hedonistic manner."
3 March: The second annual Eurovision Song Contest is staged in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. The contest is won by Dutch singer Corry Brokken with the song Net als toen.
19 March:ELVIS PRESLEY purchases a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and calls it Graceland.
14 May: In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos records his Bachiana Brasileira No. 4, with the Orchestre Nationale de la Radiodiffusion Française, for EMI.
14-21 May: In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos records his Bachiana Brasileira No. 7 and Bachiana Brasileira No. 3, with Manoel Braune, piano, and the Orchestre Nationale de la Radiodiffusion Française, for EMI.
6 July: John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet at St. Peter's Church garden fete in Liverpool, England.
5 August: American Bandstand begins its 30 year syndicated run on US network television
19 September: Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino". That year, she's also the first female recording artist to have her own fan club.
Also in 1957
Leonard Bernstein completes work on West Side Story.
American Bandstand premieres on television.
The Casals Festival is founded in Puerto Rico.
Pat Boone stars in his first two Hollywood motion pictures: Bernadine and April Love (film)
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) from 1956's Alfred Hitchcock suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, wins the Academy Award for Best Song. Sung by Doris Day in the film, it proved to be one of her biggest hit records as well.
When Nat King Cole's television show is unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine becomes the first artist to cross TV's color line. Becoming the first white artist to appear as a guest, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000.00. Other top performers follow suit, including Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett, but, despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to pick up a national sponsor.
Gorni Kramer makes his first appearance on Italian television, in Il Musichiere.
Maria Callas is introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
Published Popular Music
"An Affair To Remember" = lyrics by HAROLD ADAMSON & LEO McCAREY; music by HARRY WARREN
"After School" = lyrics & music by DICK WOLF & WARREN NADEL
"All Shook Up" = lyrics & music by OTIS BLACKWELL & ELVIS PRESLEY
"All the Way" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN
"Almost Paradise" = music by NORMAN PETTY
"Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)" = lyrics by SELMA CRAFT; music by MORTON CRAFT
"America" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"April Love" = lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER; music by SAMMY FAIN
"Are You Sincere?" = lyrics & music by WAYNE WALKER
"At The Hop" = lyrics & music by ARTIE SINGER, JOHNNY MEDORA & DAVE WHITE
"Bernadine" = lyrics & music by JOHNNY MERCER
"Bony Moronie" = lyrics & music by LARRY WILLIAMS
"The Book Of Love" = lyrics & music by WARREN DAVIES, GEORGE MALONE & CHARLES PATRICK
"Boy On A Dolphin" = English lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER, Greek lyrics by JEAN FERMANOGLOU; music by TAKIS MORAKIS
"Build Your Love (On A Strong Foundation)" = by O. JONES
"Butterfly" = lyrics & music by ANTHONY SEPTEMBER
"Bye Bye Love" = lyrics & music by FELICE & BOUDLEAUX BRYANT
"Ca, C'est L'Amour" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by TAINA ELG in the film 'Les Girls'
"Catch a Falling Star" = lyrics & music by LEE POCKRISS & PAUL VANCE
"Chances Are" = lyrics by AL STILLMAN; music by ROBERT ALLEN
"Chantez, Chantez" = lyrics by ALBERT GAMSE; music by IRVING FIELDS
"Cocoanut Sweet" = lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG; music by HAROLD ARLEN
"Come Fly With Me" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN
"Come Go With Me" = lyrics & music by CLARENCE E. QUICK
"Cool" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Could This Be Magic" = lyrics & music by HIRAM JOHNSON & RICHARD BLANDON
"Dark Moon" = lyrics & music by NED MILLER
"The Day The Rains Came" = English lyrics by CARL SIGMAN, French lyrics by PIERRE DELANOË; music by GILBERT BÉCAUD
"Diana" = lyrics & music by PAUL ANKA
"Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by RICHARD RODGERS
"Everyday" = by CHARLES HARDIN, NORMAN PETTY
"Four Walls" = lyrics & music by GEORGE CAMPBELL & MARVIN MOORE
"From a Jack to a King" = lyrics & music by NED MILLER
"Gee, Officer Krupke" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN from the musical 'West Side Story'
"Gigi" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE
"The Girl with the Golden Braids" = lyrics by STANLEY J. KAHAN; music by EDDIE SNYDER
"Goodnight My Someone" = lyrics & music by MEREDITH WILLSON
"Got-Ta Have Something In The Bank, Frank" = by BOB HILLIARD, MORT GARSON
"Great Balls Of Fire" = lyrics & music by JACK HAMMER & OTIS BLACKWELL
"A Handful Of Songs" = by TOMMY STEELE, LIONEL BART & MICHAEL PRATT
"Happy, Happy Birthday Baby" = lyrics & music by MARGO SYLVIA & GILBERT LOPEZ
"Hey Schoolgirl" = lyrics by ART GARFUNKEL; music by PAUL SIMON
"Hula Love" = adapted by BUDDY KNOX from the 1911 song "My Hula Hula Love"
"I Can't Stop Loving You" = lyrics & music by DON GIBSON
"I Feel Pretty" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"I Just Don't Know" = lyrics by JOE STONE; music by ROBERT ALLEN
"I Like Your Kind Of Love" = by MELVIN ENDSLEY
"I'm Sorry" = lyrics & music by BUCK RAM
"In My Own Little Corner" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by RICHARD RODGERS
"In The Middle Of An Island" = lyrics & music by TED VARNICK & NICK ACQUAVIVA
"Island In The Sun" = lyrics & music by HARRY BELAFONTE & IRVING L. BURGIE
"It's Good To Be Alive" = lyrics & music by BOB MERRILL
"Ivy Rose" = lyrics & music by AL HOFFMAN & DICK MANNING
"Jailhouse Rock" = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"Jingle Bell Rock" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH BEAL & JAMES BOOTHE
"Joey's Song" = music by JOE REISMAN
"Just Between You And Me" = lyrics & music by LEE CATHY & JACK KELLER
"Just Born" = lyrics & music by LUTHER DIXON & BILLY DAWN SMITH
"Let It Be Me" = English lyrics by MANN CURTIS, French lyrics by PIERRE DELANOË; music by GILBERT BÉCAUD
"Lida Rose" = lyrics & music by MEREDITH WILLSON
"Liechtensteiner Polka" = English lyrics by JOSEPH SEENER; lyrics & music by EDMUND KOETSCHER & RUDI LINDT
"Lips Of Wine" = lyrics by SHIRLEY WOLFE; music by SY SOLOWAY
"Little Biscuit" = lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG; music by HAROLD ARLEN
"The Little Blue Man" = lyrics & music by FRED EBB & PAUL KLEIN
"Little Darlin' " = lyrics & music by MAURICE WILLIAMS
"Loving You" = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"Lucille" = lyrics & music by RICHARD PENNIMAN & ALBERT COLLINS
"Magic Moments" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH
"Mama Look A Booboo" = lyrics & music by LORD MELODY
"Mean Woman Blues" = lyrics & music by CLAUDE DEMETRIUS
"Mi Casa, Su Casa" = lyrics & music by AL HOFFMAN & DICK MANNING
"Moonlight Swim" = lyrics by SYLVIA DEE; music by BEN WEISMAN
"My Heart Reminds Me" (aka "And That Reminds Me") = English lyrics by AL STILLMAN; music by CAMILLO BARGONI
"My Little Baby" = lyrics & music by JOE SHAPIRO and LOU STALLMAN
"My Special Angel" = lyrics & music by JIMMY DUNCAN
"Napoleon" = lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG; music by HAROLD ARLEN
"A New-Fangled Tango" = lyrics by MATT DUBEY; music by HAROLD CARR
"Oh Boy!" = lyrics & music by SUNNY WEST, NORMAN PETTY & BILL TILGHMAN
"Oh, Lonesome Me" = lyrics & music by DON GIBSON
"Old Cape Cod" = lyrics & music by CLAIRE ROTHROCK, MILT YAKUS & ALLAN JEFFREY
"One Hand, One Heart" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Party Doll" = lyrics & music by JIMMY BOWEN & BUDDY KNOX
"Passing Strangers" = by MEL MITCHELL, STANLEY APPLEBAUM
"Peggy Sue" = lyrics & music by JERRY ALLISON, NORMAN PETTY & BUDDY HOLLY
"Pretend You Don't See Her" = lyrics & music by STEVE ALLEN
"Proceed With Caution" = by WILSON STONE
"Promise Her Anything" = lyrics & music by ROY ALFRED
"A Pub with No Beer" = lyrics & music by GORDON PARSONS
"Put A Light In The Window" = lyrics by RHODA ROBERTS; music by KENNY JACOBSON
"Rainbow" = lyrics & music by RUSS HAMILTON
"Raunchy" = music by WILLIAM E. JUSTIS JR & SIDNEY MANKER
"Reet Petite" = by T. CARLO, BERRY GORDY
"Remember You're Mine" = by BERNIE LOWE, KAL MANN
"Rock And Roll Music" = lyrics & music by CHUCK BERRY
"Rock-A-Billy" = lyrics & music by WOODY HARRIS & EDDIE V. DEANE
"Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me" = lyrics & music by MEREDITH WILLSON
"Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me)" = lyrics & music by CLAUDE DEMETRIUS & AARON SCHROEDER
"Sayonara" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"School Day" = lyrics & music by CHUCK BERRY
"Searchin' " = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"Send For Me" = lyrics & music by OLLIE JONES
"Seventy-Six Trombones" = lyrics & music by MEREDITH WILLSON
"She Was Only Seventeen" = lyrics & music by MARTY ROBBINS
"Shiralee" = lyrics & music by TOMMY STEELE
"Short Fat Fanny" = by LARRY WILLIAMS
"Silhouettes" = lyrics & music by FRANK SLAY & BOB CREWE
"Something's Coming" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Somewhere" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN. Introduced by RERI GRIST in the musical 'West Side Story'
"The Song Of Raintree County" = lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER & RAYMOND EGAN; music by RICHARD WHITING
"The Story Of My Life" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH
"The Stroll" = lyrics & music by NANCY LEE & CLYDE OTIS
"Tammy" = lyrics by JAY LIVINGSTON; music by RAY EVANS. Introduced by DEBBIE REYNOLDS in the film 'Tammy and the Bachelor'
"Teddy Bear" = lyrics & music by KAL MANN & BERNIE LOWE. Introduced by ELVIS PRESLEY in the film 'Loving You'
"Tele Vee Shun" = by STAN FREBERG
"Ten Minutes Ago" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by RICHARD RODGERS
"That'll Be The Day" = lyrics & music by BUDDY HOLLY, NORMAN PETTY & JERRY ALLISON
"Till" = lyrics & music by CARL SIGMAN, CHARLES SANANES & PIERRE BUISSON
"Till There Was You" = lyrics & music by MEREDITH WILLSON. Introduced by ROBERT PRESTON and BARBARA COOK in the musical 'The Music Man'
"Tonight" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM & LEONARD BERNSTEIN; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Tonite, Tonite" = by W. NOBLES
"Treat Me Nice" = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"Trouble (In River City)" = lyrics & music by MEREDITH WILLSON. Introduced by ROBERT PRESTON in the musical 'The Music Man'
"The Twelfth Of Never" = adapted folk song, lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER; music by JERRY LIVINGSTON
"Twenty-Six Miles" = lyrics & music by BRUCE BELL & GLEN LARSON
"A Very Special Love" = lyrics & music by ROBERT ALLEN
"Wake Up Little Susie" = lyrics & music by FELICE & BOUDLEAUX BRYANT
"Walking Along" = by SAM WEISS, WINSTON WILLIS
"White Silver Sands" = lyrics & music by CHARLES G. MATTHEWS & GLADYS REINHARDT
"A White Sport Coat" = lyrics & music by MARTY ROBBINS
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" = lyrics & music by DAVE WILLIAMS & SUNNY DAVID
"Whole Lotta Woman" = lyrics & music by MARVIN RAINWATER
"Why Baby Why" = lyrics & music by LUTHER DIXON & LARRY HARRISON
"Why Don't They Understand?" = by JACK FISHMAN, JOE HENDERSON
"Wild Is The Wind" = lyrics by NED WASHINGTON; music by DIMITRI TIOMKIN
"Wind In The Willows" = by WECHT, SINGER, SINGER
"Witchcraft" = lyrics by CAROLYN LEIGH; music by CY COLEMAN
"Wonderful! Wonderful!" = lyrics by BEN RALEIGH; music by SHERMAN EDWARDS
"Yellow Bird" = lyrics & music by ALAN BERGMAN, MARILYN KEITH & NORMAN LUBOFF
"Yes Tonight, Josephine" = lyrics & music by WINFIELD SCOTT & DOROTHY GOODMAN
"You Need Hands" = lyrics & music by ROY IRWIN
"You Send Me" = lyrics & music by L. C. COOKE
Classical Music
AARON COPLAND
Orchestral Variations
PIERRE GABAYE
Boutade
LÁSZLÓ LAJTHA
Symphony No. 7, Revolution (A tribute to the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 against the Soviet suppression)
WALTER PISTON
Viola Concerto
HILDING ROSENBERG
String Quartets nos. 8 - 12
EDMUND RUBBRA
Seventh Symphony
ROGER SESSIONS
Symphony No. 3
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 11 G minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905"
ELIE SIEGMEISTER
Symphony No. 3
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Gruppen for three orchestras (1955–57)
TORU TAKEMITSU
Requiem
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Symphony no. 4
MALCOLM WILLIAMSON
A Vision of Beasts and Gods, song-cycle for high voice & piano
Santiago de Espada, overture for orchestra
Symphony No. 1: Elevamini, for orchestra
Opera
SAMUEL BARBER
Vanessa
JOHN EATON
Ma Barker
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
The Greek Passion
DOUGLAS MOORE
Gallantry
ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Assassinio nella Cattedrale
FRANCIS POULENC
Dialogues of the Carmelites (Dialogues des Carmelites)
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Daughter of the Clouds
Musical Theatre
BELLS ARE RINGING
London production
BRIGADOON
(Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe)
Broadway revival
DAMN YANKEES
(Richard Adler and Jerry Ross)
London production
HARMONY CLOSE
London production opened at the Lyric, Hammersmith on April 17.
THE MUSIC MAN
(Meredith Willson)
opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway on December 19, 1957 and ran for 1375 performances.
NEW GIRL IN TOWN
Broadway production
WEST SIDE STORY
(Leonard Bernstein)
Broadway production
ZULEIKA
London production, Saville Theatre
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 21st August 2011
Last edited: 10th February 2024
