1963 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1963.

Events[edit] January 3 – The Beatles begin their first tour of 1963 with a five-day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do", beginning with a performance in Elgin.[1] January 4 – At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on jukeboxes. January 7 – Gary U.S. Bonds files a $100,000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker, claiming that Checker stole "Quarter to Three" and turned it into "Dancin' Party." The lawsuit is later settled out of court. January 11 – "Please Please Me" is released in the United Kingdom by the Beatles, with "Ask Me Why" as the B-side. January 12 – Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in The Madhouse of Castle Street, a radio play for the BBC in London. February 16 The Beatles achieve their first No. 1 hit single, when "Please Please Me" tops the charts in the UK. Paul Anka marries Marie-Ann DeZogheb.

February 22 – The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company. March 5 – Patsy Cline is killed in small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on her way to Nashville, Tennessee, from Kansas City, Missouri, at the height of her career. March 22 – The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, in the UK. March 23 – The 8th Eurovision Song Contest is held in two studios at the BBC Television Centre, London. After much confusion regarding the results of the Norwegian jury, Denmark snatches victory from Switzerland after a close run. The Danish husband-and-wife duo Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann take the prize with "Dansevise". April 29 – 19-year-old Andrew Loog Oldham signs a contract with the Rolling Stones, becoming their manager. Oldham had seen the band in concert the previous day at the Crawdaddy Club in London. May 2 – The Beatles reach number one in the UK singles chart for the first time with "From Me To You".[2] May 11 – The Beatles album Please Please Me goes to the top of the UK Albums Chart. May 15 – Opening of the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia. May 27 – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second and most influential studio album, is released by Columbia Records. The lead song, "Blowin' in the Wind", is released as a single by Peter, Paul and Mary in June and by Dylan himself in August. May 29 – On the 50th anniversary of its stormy première,[3] 88-year-old Pierre Monteux conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in The Rite of Spring at the Royal Albert Hall, with the composer Stravinsky (81) in the audience. June 7 – The Rolling Stones' first single, a cover version of the Chuck Berry song "Come On", is released in the UK and reaches No. 21. August 3 – The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the final time. August 28 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Musical performers include Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary and Marian Anderson. September 6 – Nippon Crown record label is established as Crown Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Music Entertainment. September 12 – The Beatles reach the UK number one for the second time with the single "She Loves You" (released on 23 August).[2] October 15 British newspaper The Daily Mirror uses the term "Beatlemania" in a news story about the group's concert the previous day in Cheltenham; a Scottish music promoter later claims to have originated the term a week earlier.[4] Berliner Philharmonie concert hall opens.

November 30 – After an unbroken 30-week spell at the top of the UK Albums Chart, The Beatles album Please Please Me is knocked off the top of the charts by the group's latest album With the Beatles (released on 22 November). December 12 – The Beatles reach number one in the UK for the third time with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (released on 29 November).[2] Dalida is rejected by Decca in the UK again. Philips introduce the Musicassette at the Berlin Funkaustellung. Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica, named Studio One. Lord Shorty's "Clock and Dagger" is widely considered the first soca recording. I Nyoman Rembang leaves the Surakarta Conservatorium to teach at the College of Music SMKI in Bali.

Bands formed
Aeolian Singers All-Ohio State Fair Youth Choir Ambassadors of Harmony Anaheim Kingsmen Drum and Bugle Corps The Angels (American group) The Artwoods Baby Huey & the Babysitters The Back Porch Majority Bats (South African band) Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (Minnesota) Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers Bombay Sisters The Brothers-in-Law Bryn Mawr Mainliners Butch Engle & the Styx Camerata Bern Carlton Showband Chicago Brass Quintet The Clefs The Clique (1960s UK band) Colts Drum and Bugle Corps Crni Biseri The Cryin' Shames Daltoni David and the Giants The Deakins Downliners Sect Edmonton Strutters Drum and Bugle Corps El Camino Youth Symphony The Enthusiasts The Escorts (Liverpool band) Europa Cantat Exile (American band) Fairies (British band) The Flames The Fortunes The Fourmost Inez and Charlie Foxx Framus Five Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra Freddie and the Dreamers The Fugs The Gants The Geezinslaw Brothers The Gentrys Gilbert and Sullivan for All Hedgehoppers Anonymous Hep Stars The Hideaways Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra The Honeycombs Irish Chamber Orchestra The Irish Rovers The Kinks Kyiv Chamber Orchestra The Leaves The Liverbirds Livermore-Amador Symphony Liverpool Five Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps Manfred Mann Marek i Wacek The Marionettes Chorale Bob Marley and the Wailers The Master Singers The Mindbenders The Moments (English band) Johnny and Jonie Mosby Mountain City Four Neighb'rhood Childr'n New Birth (band) New York Youth Symphony Orchestra Ethiopia The Others (R&B band) The Outcasts (Texas band) Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano The Poets The Pretty Things The Pussycats The Rockin' Vickers The Rokes Samonikli The Scorpions (Manchester band) Sfinx The Shanes The Shangri-Las Slam Creepers The Sorrows South Carolina Philharmonic The Spencer Davis Group The Squires (Canadian band) Stanford Band Stanford Mendicants The Syndicats Tages Teddy and The Pandas The Three Degrees TPAO Batman Trendsetters Limited Tulsa Youth Symphony Unbelievable Uglies Unit 4 + 2 University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers The V.I.P.'s Valley Concert Chorale Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps The Wilde Flowers The Wolfe Tones The Yardbirds

Bands disbanded
The Springfields

Albums
==Singles=
 * 1) The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Charles Mingus
 * 2) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan
 * 1) Be My Baby The Ronettes
 * 2) Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan

Biggest hit singles
The following singles achieved the highest chart positions in 1963.

Published popular songs
"18 Yellow Roses"    Bobby Darin "Abilene"    w.m. John D. Loudermilk, Lester Brown, Bob Gibson, Albert Stanton "All My Loving"    w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "Another Saturday Night"    w.m. Sam Cooke "Anyone Who Had a Heart" w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach "Call Me Irresponsible" w.Sammy Cahn m. Jimmy Van Heusen from the film Papa's Delicate Condition "Charade"    w. Johnny Mercer m. Henry Mancini. From the film of the same name. "Da Doo Ron Ron"    w.m. Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry "Detroit City"    w.m. Mel Tillis & Danny Dill "Distant Drums"    w.m. Cindy Walker "Dominique"    Singing Nun "Don't Talk To Him"    Cliff Richard, Welch "Don't You Forget It"    w. Al Stillman m. Henry Mancini "Every Time I Think About You"    w.m. Claude Demetrius "Flash! Bang! Wallop!" w.m. David Heneker. Introduced by Tommy Steele in the London production of the musical Half a Sixpence. Steele also performed the song in the Broadway production in 1965 and the 1967 film version (with modified lyrics). "Forget Him" w.m. Mark Anthony (a pseudonym of Tony Hatch) "From Me to You"    w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "From Russia with Love w.m. Lionel Bart "Good Morning, Good Day"    w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock "Half A Sixpence"     w.m. David Heneker "How Do You Do It?"     w.m. Mitch Murray "I Call Your Name"     w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "I Like It"     Mitch Murray "I Saw Her Standing There"     w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "I Want to Hold Your Hand"     w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "If I Ruled the World" w. Leslie Bricusse m. Cyril Ornadel. Introduced by Harry Secombe in the musical Pickwick "It's My Party"     w.m. Herb Wiener, Wally Gold & John Gluck Jnr "Kissin' Cousins"     w.m. Fred Wise & Randy Starr "Losing You"     w.(Eng) Carl Sigman m. Jean Renard "Martian Hop"     w.m. Steven Rappaport, John Spirt, Robert Rappaport "Move Over Darling"     Hal Kanter "On Broadway"     w.m. Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller "On the Beach"     Welch, Marvin, Richard "Our Day Will Come" w.m. Bob Hilliard & Mort Garson "The Pink Panther Theme"    w. Johnny Mercer m. Henry Mancini "Pretty Paper"    Willie Nelson "The Reverend Mr. Black"    Billy Edd Wheeler, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (as Jed Peters) "Ring of Fire" w.m. Merle Kilgore & June Carter "She Loves Me" w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock. Introduced by Daniel Massey in the musical She Loves Me "She Loves You"    w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "Surf City"    w.m. Jan Berry & Brian Wilson "Surfer Girl"    w.m. Brian Wilson "Talk Back Trembling Lips"    w.m. John D. Loudermilk "This Boy" w.m. John Lennon & Paul McCartney "The Times They Are A-Changin'"    w.m. Bob Dylan "The Ugly Bug Ball" w.m. Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, from the film Summer Magic "Viva Las Vegas"    Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman "Washington Square" w.m. Bob Goldstein & David Shire "When Joanna Loved Me" w. Robert Wells m. Jack Segal "Will He Like Me?" w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock. Introduced by Barbara Cook in the Broadway production of She Loves Me. Performed by Anne Rogers in the 1964 London production. "Wives And Lovers"    w. Hal David m. Burt Bacharach "You Were Made For Me"    Mitch Murray

Other notable songs(World)
"Ashita Ga Arusa" w. Yukio Aoshima m. Hachidai Nakamura "En gång i Stockholm" w. Beppe Wolgers m. Bobbie Ericsson "Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi o" w. Rokusuke Ei & Taku Izumi, m. Kyu Sakamoto "Meglio Stasera" w. Franco Migliacci m. Henry Mancini "Oye Como Va" w.m. Tito Puente

Awards
Grammy Awards Grammy Awards of 1963

Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 1963

Leeds International Piano Competition Michael Roll

External Charts
Pop Culture Madness 1963 Pop Music Chart