See also: 1958 in music, other events of 1959, 1960 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
9 Awards

Events

Albums released

Top hits on record

Published popular music

  • "77 Sunset Strip"     w.m. Mack David & Jerry Livingston
  • "All I Need Is The Girl"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Along Came Jones"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "Alvin's Harmonica"     w.m. Ross Bagdasarian
  • "Angela Jones"     w.m. John D. Loudermilk
  • "Anyone Would Love You"     w.m. Harold Rome
  • "The Battle Of New Orleans"     trad arr. Jimmy Driftwood
  • "Best Of Everything"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Lionel Newman
  • "The Big Hurt"     w.m. Wayne Shanklin
  • "Big Iron"     w.m. Marty Robbins
  • "Bobby Socks To Stockings"     w.m. Richard di Cicco, Russell Faith & Clarence Kehner
  • "Boom, Boom Baby"     Burgess
  • "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"     w.m. Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield
  • "The Children's Marching Song"     trad arr. Malcolm Arnold
  • "China Doll"     w.m. Cindy Walker
  • "Ciao, Ciao, Bambina"     w.(Eng) Mitchell Parish (Ital) Eduardo Verde & Domenico Modugno m. Domenico Modugno
  • "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Come Softly To Me"     w.m. Gary Troxel, Barbara Ellis & Gretchen Christopher
  • "Delaware"     w.m. Irving Gordon
  • "Desafinado"     w. Newton Mendonça w. (Eng) Jon Hendricks & Jessie Cavanaugh m. Antonio Carlos Jobin
  • "Don't You Know"     w.m. adapt. Bobby Worth
  • "Do-Re-Mi"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Dream Lover"     w.m. Bobby Darin
  • "Early In The Morning"     adapt Bruce Belland & Glen Larson
  • "Edelweiss"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "El Paso"     w.m. Marty Robbins
  • "Endlessly"     w.m. Clyde Otis & Brook Benton
  • "Everything's Coming Up Roses"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Frankie"     w. Howard Greenfield m. Neil Sedaka
  • "Game Of Poker"     w. Johnny Mercer m. Harold Arlen
  • "Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye"     w.m. Jack Vaughn
  • "Greenfields"     w.m. Terry Gilkyson, Rich Dehr & Frank Miller
  • "Greenwillow Christmas"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Handy Man"     w.m. Otis Blackwell & Jimmy Jones
  • "The Hanging Tree"     w. Mack David m. Jerry Livinston
  • "Happy Anniversary"     w. Al Stillman m. Robert Allen
  • "The Happy Organ"     w.m. Ken Wood, David Clowney & James Kreigsmann
  • "Heartaches By The Number"     w.m. Harland Howard
  • "He'll Have To Go"     w.m. Joe Allison & Audrey Allison
  • "High Hopes"     w. Sammy Cahn m. James Van Heusen
  • "I Ain't Never"     w.m. Mel Tillis
  • "I Feel Sorry For The Girl"     w.m. Glenn Paxton, Robert Goldman & George Weiss
  • "I Know"     w.m. Carl Stutz & Edith Lindeman
  • "I Need Your Love Tonight"     w.m. Sid Wayne & Bix Reichner
  • "I Wanna Be Around"     w.m. Johnny Mercer & Sadie Vimmerstedt
  • "If I Ever Fall In Love Again"     w. Peter Wildeblood m. Peter Greenwell
  • "I'll Never Fall In Love Again"     Johnnie Ray
  • "I'm Gonna Get Married"     w.m. Lloyd Price & Harold Logan
  • "I'm Looking Out The Window"     John Jacob Niles, Don Raye
  • "I'm Never Gonna Tell"     Hoffman, Manning, Markwell
  • "In A Little While"     w. Marshall Barer m. Mary Rodgers
  • "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"     w.m. Paul Anka
  • "Kansas City"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "Kookie, Kookie"     w.m. Irving Taylor
  • "Let Me Entertain You"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Like Young"     m. Andre Previn
  • "Lipstick On Your Collar"     w. Eddie Lewis m. George Goehring
  • "Little Donkey"     w.m. Eve Boswell
  • "The Little Drummer Boy"     w.m. adapt. Henry Onorati, Katherine Davis & Harry Simeone
  • "Little Tin Box"     w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock
  • "The Little White Bull"     Lionel Bart, Michael Pratt, Jimmy Bennett
  • "Living Doll"     w.m. Lionel Bart
  • "Lock Up Your Daughters"     w. Lionel Bart m. Laurie Johnson
  • "Lonely Blue Boy"     F & B Wiseman
  • "Lonely Boy"     w.m. Paul Anka
  • "Lonely Goatherd"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Lonely Street"     w.m. Carl Belew, Kenny Sowder & W. S. Stevenson
  • "Love Potion Number Nine"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "Love Will Find Out The Way"     w.m. Glenn Paxton, Robert Goldman & George Weiss
  • "Lullaby In Ragtime"     w.m. Sylvia Fine
  • "The M.T.A."     w.m. adapt. Jacqueline Steiner & Bess Hawes
  • "Maria"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Marina"     w.(Eng) Ray Maxwell m. Rocco Granata
  • "May You Always"     w.m. Larry Markes & Dick Charles
  • "Memphis"     w.m. Chuck Berry
  • "Merely Marvellous"     w. Dorothy Fields m. Arthur Hague
  • "Milord"     w. (Eng) B. G. Lewis (Fr) Joseph Mustacchi m. Marguerite Monnot
  • "Morgen"     w. (Eng) Noel Sherman (Ger) Peter Mosser m. Peter Mosser
  • "Mr Blue"     w.m. Dewayne Blackwell
  • "The Music Of Home"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "My Favourite Things"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "My Heart Is An Open Book"     w. Hal David m. Lee Pockriss
  • "My Wish Came True"     w.m. Ivory Joe Hunter
  • "Never Will I Marry"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Oh! Carol"     w. Howard Greenfield m. Neil Sedaka
  • "Only Love Me"     w. (Eng) Mann Curtis (Ital) Pinchi m. V. Panzuti
  • "Only Sixteen"     w.m. Barbara Campbell
  • "Personality"     w.m. Lloyd Price & Harold Logan
  • "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down"     w.m. Harlan Howard
  • "Pillow Talk"     w.m. Buddy Pepper & Inez James
  • "La Plume De Ma Tante"     w.m. Al Hoffman & Dick Manning
  • "Poison Ivy"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "Politics And Poker"     w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock
  • "Promise Me A Rose"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  • "Put Your Head On My Shoulder"     w.m. Paul Anka
  • "Quiet Village"     m. Les Baxter
  • "Rawhide"     w. Ned Washington m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  • "Red River Rock"     trad arr. Tom King, Ira Mack & Fred Mendelsohn
  • "Ring-A-Ling-A-Lario"     w.m. Gerry Grant, Arthur Kent & Joe Reisman
  • "Rose's Turn"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Roulette"     m. Trevor H. Stanford
  • "Running Bear"     w.m. J. P. Richardson
  • "The Same Old Me"     F. Owen
  • "Sea Of Love"     w.m. George Khoury & Phil Baptiste
  • "See You In September"     w. Sid Wayne m. Sherman Edwards
  • "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat"     w. Bob Hilliard m. Lee Pockriss
  • "Shout"     O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley
  • "Shy"     w. Marshall Barer m. Mary Rodgers
  • "Side Saddle"     m. Trevor H. Stanford
  • "Sixteen Going On Seventeen"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Sleep Walk"     m. Ann Farina, Johnny Farina & Santo Farina
  • "Small World"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Some People"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Sorry, I Ran All The Way Home"     w.m. Harry Giosasi & Artie Zwirn
  • "The Sound Of Music"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Strange Are The Ways Of Love"     w. Ned Washington m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  • "Summertime Love"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  • "Sweet Nothin's"     Ronnie Self
  • "Take Me Along"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  • "Tall Paul"     w.m. Bob Roberts, Robert Sherman & Richard Sherman
  • "Tallahassee Lassie"     w.m. Frank C. Slay Jr, Bob Crewe & Frederick A. Picariello
  • "Teen Angel"     w.m. Jean Surrey & Red Surrey
  • "A Teenager In Love"     w.m. Jerome "Doc" Pomus & Mort Shuman
  • "There Goes My Baby"     w.m. Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
  • "This Magic Moment"     w.m. Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
  • "Three Steps To Heaven"     Cochran
  • "The Tijuana Jail"     w.m. Denny Thompson
  • " 'Til I Kissed You"     w.m. Don Everly
  • "Till Tomorrow"     w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock
  • "Time And The River"     w.m. Aaron Schroeder & Wally Gold
  • "Together Wherever We Go"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "Tomboy"     w.m. Joe Farrell & Jim Conway
  • "Too Long At The Fair"     w.m. Billy Barnes
  • "Tucumcari"     Olofson, McIntyre
  • "The Untouchables"     m. Nelson Riddle
  • "Venus"     w.m. Ed Marshall
  • "Waterloo"     w.m. John D. Loudermilk & Marijohn Wilkin
  • "We Got Love"     w. Kal Mann m. Bernie Lowe
  • "What Do You Want?"     Les Vandyke
  • "What'd I Say"     w.m. Ray Charles
  • "When Did I Fall In Love?"     w. Sheldon Harnick m. Jerry Bock
  • "Why"     w. Bob Marcucci m. Peter De Angelis
  • "The Wonder Of You"     w.m. Baker Knight
  • "Wonderful You"     Stallman, Jacobson
  • "A Worried Man"     w.m. Dave Guard & Tom Glazer
  • "You'll Never Get Away From Me"     w. Stephen Sondheim m. Jule Styne
  • "You're Starting To Get To Me"     Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen

Musical theater

  • Destry Rides Again     Broadway production
  • Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be     Stratford production
  • Fiorello     Broadway production
  • Gypsy\     Broadway production
  • Lend An Ear     Broadway revival
  • Little Mary Sunshine     Broadway production
  • Lock Up Your Daughters     London production
  • On The Town     Broadway revival
  • The Sound Of Music     Broadway production

Musical films

Births

Deaths

Awards

Grammy Awards

Eurovision Song Contest