1953 in music

See also: 1952 in music, other events of 1953, 1954 in music, 1950s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Albums released 3 Top hits on record 4 Published popular music 5 Musical theater 6 Musical films 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

• Elvis Presley records for the first time
• Jackie Wilson's musical career begins
• The Platters' musical career begins
• Wonderful Town Broadway musical version of My Sister Eileen by Leonard Bernstein with Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

Albums released

Top hits on record

• "Crazy Man Crazy" - Bill Haley & His Comets
• "Your Cheatin' Heart" - Hank Williams
• "Please Don't Leave Me" - Fats Domino
• "Crying In The Chapel" - The Orioles
• "The Clock" - Johnny Ace with the Beale Streeters
• "Shake A Hand" - Faye Adams
• "Mama (He Treats Your Daughter Mean)" - Ruth Brown
• "Good Lovin' " - The Clovers
• "The Doggie in the Window" - Patti Page

Published popular music

• "And This Is My Beloved"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest
• "Angel Eyes"     w. Earl Brent m. Matt Dennis
• "Anna"     w.(Eng) William Engvick (Ital) F. Giordano m. R. Vatro
• "Answer Me, My Love"     w. (Eng) Carl Sigman (Ger) & m. Gerhard Winkler & Fred Ravich
• "Baubles, Bangles And Beads"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest
• "Bell Bottom Blues"     w. Hal David m. Leon Carr
• "Bimbo"     w.m. Rodney Morris
• "Black Hills Of Dakota"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sammy Fain
• "The Boy Friend"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
• "Can-Can"     w.m. Cole Porter
• "Caribbean"     w.m. Mitchell Torok
• "C'Est Magnifique"     w.m. Cole Porter
• "Changing Partners"     w. Joe Darion m. Larry Coleman
• "Chicka Boom"     w.m. Bob Merrill
• "Crying In The Chapel"     w.m. Artie Glenn
• "Dragnet"     m. Walter Schumann
• "Ebb Tide"     w. Carl Sigman m. Robert Maxwell
• "Eh, Cumpari!"     trad Ital w. m. adapt. Julius LaRosa & Archie Bleyer
• "Ev'rybody Loves Saturday Night"     Campbell
• "Fate"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin Adapted from Symphony No. 2 in B Minor.
• "From Here To Eternity"     w. Robert Wells m. Fred Karger
• "Gambler's Guitar"     w.m. Jim Lowe
• "Gee!"     w.m. Viola Watkins, Daniel Norton & William Davis
• "Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite"     James Hudson, Calvin Carter
• "The Happy Wanderer"     w.(Ger) Florenz Siegesmund & Edith Möller (Eng) Antonia Ridge m. Friedrich Wilhelm Möller
• "Here's That Rainy Day"     w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
• "Hold My Hand"     w.m. Jack Lawrence & Richard Myers
• "I Believe"     w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman
• "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely"     w.m. Pat Ballard
• "I Love Paris"     w.m. Cole Porter
• "I Really Don't Want To Know"     Howard Barnes, Don Robertson
• "I'm Walking Behind You"     w.m. Billy Reid
• "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"     w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Nat Simon
• "It's All Right With Me"     w.m. Cole Porter
• "Just Walkin' In The Rain"     w.m. Johnny Bragg & Robert S. Riley
• "Little Things Mean A Lot"     w.m. Carl Stutz & Edith Lindeman
• "Make Love To Me"     w. Alan Copeland & Bill Norvas Music from "Tin Roof Blues" 1923.
• "The Man That Got Away"     w. Ira Gershwin m. Harold Arlen
• "The Man With The Banjo"     w. (Eng) Robert Mellin m. Fritz Schulz Reichel
• "Marriage Type Love"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
• "Matilda, Matilda!"     w.m. Harry Thomas
• "Melancholy Serenade"     m. Jackie Gleason
• "Mexican Joe"     w.m. Mitchell Torok
• "Money Burns A Hole In My Pocket"     w. Bob Hilliard m. Jule Styne
• "Money Honey"     w.m. Jesse Stone
• "No Other Love"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
• "Non Dimenticar"     w.(Eng) Shelley Dobbins (Ital) Michele Galdieri m. P. G. Redi
• "Not Since Nineveh"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest From Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances".
• "Oh! My Pa-Pa"     w. John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons m. Paul Burkhard
• "The Olive Tree"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin
• "Rags To Riches"     w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
• "Ricochet"     w.m. Larry Coleman, Joe Darion & Norman Gimbel
• "Rock Around The Clock"     w.m. Jimmy De Knight & Max C. Freedman
• "Santa Baby"     w.m. Joan Javits, Phil Springer & Tony Springer
• "Satin Doll"     m. Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
• "Secret Love"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sammy Fain
• "Seven Lonely Days"     w.m. Alden Shuman, Earl Shuman & Marshal Brown
• "Shake A Hand"     w.m. Joe Morris
• "Sippin' Soda"     adapt. P. Campbell
• "The Song From "Moulin Rouge"" (aka "Where Is Your Heart")     w. (Eng) William Engvick (Fr) Jacques Larue m. Georges Auric
• "Stranger In Paradise"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest
• "Such A Night"     w.m. Lincoln Chase
• "Sway" ("Quien Sera")     w. (Eng) Norman Gimbel (Sp) Pablo Beltran Ruiz m. Pablo Beltran Ruiz
• "Teach Me Tonight"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Gene De Paul
• "Tell Me A Story"     w.m. Terry Gilkyson
• "Tell Us Where The Good Times Are"     w.m. Bob Merrill
• "That's Amore"     w. Jack Brooks m. Harry Warren
• "Vaya Con Dios"     w.m. Larry Russell, Inez James & Buddy Pepper
• "Wanted"     w.m. Jack Fulton & Lois Steele
• "You, You, You"     w.(Eng) Robert Mellin (Ger) Walter Rothenberg m. Lotar Olias
• "Young At Heart"     w. Carolyn Leigh m. Johnny Richards

Musical theater

• Airs On A Shoestring     London production
• At The Lyric     London production
• The Boy Friend     London production
• Braziliana     London production
• The Buccaneer     London production
• Can-Can     Broadway production
• Hazel Flagg
• John Brown's Body
• John Murray Anderson's Almanac
• The King And I     London production
• Kismet     Broadway production
• Maggie
• Me And Juliet     Broadway production
• Paint Your Wagon     London production
• The Wayward Way
• Wonderful Town     Broadway production

Musical films

• The Band Wagon
• By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
• Calamity Jane
• The Desert Song
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• I Love Melvin
• The Jazz Singer
• Kiss Me Kate
• Lili
• Peter Pan
• The Road To Bali
• Singin' In The Rain

Births

• January 6 - Malcolm Young, AC/DC
• January 10 - Pat Benatar
• January 15 - Boris Blank, Yello
• January 23 - Steve Perry, Journey
• January 23 - Robin Zander, Cheap Trick
• January 26 - Lucinda Williams
• January 29 - Luis Perez, Los Lobos
• February 18 - Robin Bachman, drummer, Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• March 23 - Chaka Khan
• March 31 - Sean Hopper, Huey Lewis & the News
• May 8 - Billy Burnette, Fleetwood Mac
• May 14 - David Byrne
• May 15 - Mike Oldfield
• May 16 - Richard Page, Mr. Mister
• May 17 - George Johnson, The Brothers Johnson
• June 8 - Bonnie Tyler
• June 12 - Rocky Burnette
• June 19 - Larry Dunn, Earth Wind & Fire
• June 20 - Cyndi Lauper
• June 20 - Alan Longmuir, The Bay City Rollers
• June 26 - Mick Jones, The Clash
• June 29 - Colin Hay, Men At Work
• July 6 - Nanci Griffith
• July 29 - Geddy Lee, Rush
• July 31 - Hugh MacDowell, Electric Light Orchestra
• August 1 - Robert Cray
• August 16 - J.T. Taylor, Kool & the Gang
• August 17 - Kevin Rowland, Dexy's Midnight Runners
• August 27 - Alex Lifeson, Rush
• August 29 - Rick Downey, Blue Oyster Cult
• September 7 - Benmont Tench, keyboardist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and others
• September 11 - Tommy Shaw, Styx
• October 10 - Midge Ure
• October 14 - Kazumi Watanabe, jazz preformer
• October 15 - Tito Jackson, The Jackson 5
• October 16 - Tony Carey, Rainbow
• October 20 - Tom Petty
• October 21 - Charlotte Caffey, The Go Go's
• October 26 - Keith Strickland, The B52's
• October 31 - Johnny Clegg
• November 11 - Andy Partridge, XTC
• November 13 - Andrew Rankin, The Pogues
• November 30 - June Pointer, The Pointer Sisters
• Keith Green

Deaths

• October 3 - Arnold Bax, composer
• Kiki, The Queen of Montparnasse