This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1963.
Specific locations 1963 in British music 1963 in Japanese music 1963 in Norwegian music
Specific genres 1963 in country music 1963 in jazz
Events 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.Live: Two Red Shoes Ballroom, Elgin, Scotland www.beatlesbible.com, accessed 310 March 2013. 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 – 1963 Camden PA-24 crash: 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, together with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. 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 second time with "From Me To You". 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. The 5th Annual Grammy Awards are held in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, hosted by Frank Sinatra. Tony Bennett and Igor Stravinsky each win the most awards with three, with the former winning Record of the Year for his song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Vaughn Meader's The First Family wins Album of the Year and Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's "What Kind of Fool Am I?" wins Song of the Year. Robert Goulet wins Best New Artist. 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,Gustav Linor in Comoedia, May 30, 1913, At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées: Le Sacre du printemps 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. August 30 – Philips introduces the Musicassette at the Berlin Funkaustellung. 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 third time with the single "She Loves You" (released on 23 August). October 13 – Lesley Gore performs on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. She performs a medley of her smash hits "It's My Party" and "She's a Fool," which charted at #1 and #5, respectively. 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.Radio interview , Radio Tay AM. Accessed 26 May 2007 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 fourth time with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (released on 29 November). date unknown Dalida is rejected by Decca in the UK again. Don Buchla begins to design an electronic music synthesizer in Berkeley, California. Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica, named Studio One. Lord Shorty's "Cloak 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 The 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 Crni Biseri The Cryin' Shames Daltoni David and the Giants The Deakins Downliners Sect Edmonton Strutters Drum and Bugle Corps 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 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 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 released +Albums released in January 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes1 Peace in the Valley Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae 7 Blood, Sweat and Tears Johnny Cash 14 Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style Dean Martin 15 Moving Peter, Paul and Mary 18 Summer Holiday Cliff Richard and The Shadows Soundtrack Do the Bossa Nova Herbie Mann with Baden Powell and Antonio Carlos Jobim Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Duke Ellington and John Coltrane Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins Let's Go! With The Routers The Routers My Baby Loves to SwingVic Damone My Son, the Celebrity Allan Sherman Our Man Down South Eddy Arnold Patti Page on Stage Patti Page Live This Is My Story Dinah Washington The Ventures Play Telstar and the Lonely Bull The Ventures Walk Right In The Rooftop Singers Featuring hit title track Winners Steve Lawrence
+Albums released in February 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes11 Annie Get Your Gun Doris Day and Robert Goulet Soundtrack18 All Alone Am I Brenda Lee I Wanna Be Around... Tony Bennett 20 How the West Was Won Various Artists Soundtrack to 1962 film25 The Barbra Streisand Album Barbra Streisand 27 Follow the Boys Connie Francis 28 The Fabulous Miracles The Miracles Back to the Blues Dinah Washington Best Sellers by Rick NelsonRick NelsonCompilation Big Girls Don't Cry and Twelve Others The Four Seasons Caravan Art Blakey Pat Boone Sings Days of Wine and Roses Pat Boone Don't Play Me CheapIke & Tina Turner The Happy Beat Ray Conniff He's a Rebel The Crystals Jimmie Rodgers in Folk Concert Jimmie Rodgers Just Turn Me Loose! George Maharis Mr. Soul Sam Cooke People Will Say We're In Love Steve Lawrence The Night Has a Thousand EyesBobby Vee
+Albums released in March 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes20 I Could Go On Singing Judy Garland Soundtrack22 Please Please Me The Beatles Debut25 Surfin' U.S.A. The Beach Boys Broadway – My Way Nancy Wilson College Standards The Lettermen Gene Pitney Sings Just for You Gene Pitney The Kingston Trio No. 16 The Kingston Trio Ruby Baby Dion Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World Skeeter Davis
+Albums released in April 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes10 It Happened at the World's Fair Elvis Presley Soundtrack22–24 Dean (Tex) Martin Rides Again Dean Martin Presenting Dionne Warwick Dionne Warwick Affinity Oscar Peterson Trio Afro-Bossa Duke Ellington Baby Workout Jackie Wilson Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax Boots Randolph featuring hit title track Dion Sings to Sandy (and all his other gals) Dion Hobo Flats Jimmy Smith Living It Up! Bert Kaempfert Meets the Ventures Bobby Vee Surfing The Ventures Jazz Samba Encore!Stan Getz & Luiz BonfáDays of Wine and Roses and Other TV RequestsAndy WilliamsCharted at #1 in the US Billboard.
+Albums released in May 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes21 Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy Paul Gonsalves Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius Little Stevie Wonder Live27 The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan For Your Sweet LoveRicky Nelson31 The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage The Miracles LiveDynamiteIke & Tina Turner The End of the World Julie London Jan & Dean Take Linda Surfing Jan and Dean Hats Off to Del Shannon Del Shannon UK Release Live at the Apollo James Brown Live Long Long Ago Tennessee Ernie Ford Sound of Mann Herbie Mann The Ventures Play the Country Classics The Ventures Where Did Everyone Go? Nat King Cole
+Albums released in June 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes1 Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures Bobby Vee & The Ventures Duet7 Blues, Rags and Hollers Koerner, Ray & Glover 10 The Patsy Cline Story Patsy Cline Compilation17 Still Bill Anderson 28 Come and Get These Memories Martha and the Vandellas Blue & Sentimental Ike Quebec Cliff's Hit Album Cliff Richard Compilation Everybody's Favorite Jimmy Dean I'll Cry if I Want To Lesley Gore It's Gonna Work Out Fine Ike & Tina Turner It's You or No One Bobby Darin King of the Surf Guitar Dick Dale Little Town FlirtDel Shannon Quincy Jones Plays Hip Hits Quincy Jones The Star Spangled Banner Pat Boone Uniquely Mancini Henry Mancini
+Albums released in July 1963DayAlbumArtist Notes15 Seven Steps to Heaven Miles Davis 18 Yellow Roses Bobby Darin The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Charles Mingus - Cannonball's Bossa Nova Cannonball Adderley Earthy! Bobby Darin Faithfully Yours Eddy Arnold Greatest American Waltzes Connie Francis In Dreams Roy Orbison Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul Ray Charles So Much in Love The Tymes Debut Sunny Side! The Kingston Trio Wipe Out The Surfaris