notable events in music that took place in the year 1959. 1959 in British music 1959 in Norwegian music 1959 in country music 1959 in jazz January 5 –...

notable events in country music that took place in the year 1959. The first Grammy Award for outstanding performances in the country music genre is presented...

February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash...

Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) 1957: Sings English Folk Songs (Steve Benbow) 1959: Sweet England (Shirley Collins) Music of the United Kingdom (1950s)...

(Elizabeth Cronin) 1958 "The Rising of the Moon" (The Clancy Brothers) 1958 "Her Mantle So Green" (Margaret Barry) 1959 "The Bunch of Roses" (Seamus Ennis)...

Kirsty MacColl (1959–2000) 1953 "The Queen Among The Heather" (Jeannie Robertson) v t e v t e "KIRSTY MACCOLL". Official Charts. 13 June 1981. Retrieved...

The Eurovision Song Contest 1959, staged in Cannes, is won for the Netherlands by "'n Beetje" sung by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, lyrics by...

releases of the year 1959 in Norwegian music. 16 – The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet holds its first performance in Folketeatret in Oslo. 29 – The 7th...

is a summary of 1959 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. January – Ealing Jazz Club opens in London. 21 April...

November 1959. 1959 in music List of Billboard number-one singles of 1959 List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1959 "Top Sides of 1959-Hot 100...

Contest 1959 was the fourth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on Wednesday 11 March 1959 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes...

The Sanremo Music Festival 1959 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1959), officially the 9th Italian Song Festival (9º Festival della canzone italiana), was...

the year's longest unbroken run in the peak position. 1959 in music List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1959 List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one...

In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern. The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (ongaku), combining the kanji...

Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, scored number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 (see 1959 in music). Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1959, it...

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...

of Music is a 1959 musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The Sound of Music may also refer to: "The Sound of Music" (song), title song from the 1959 musical...

on CBS from October 2, 1959, to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?" The theme music for this season, written...

positions. The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart was first introduced in the June 1, 1959 issue of Billboard, under the name "Bubbling Under the Hot 100"....

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese. In the 1960s, it was known as iê-iê-iê, the Portuguese transcription...

Experimental Music to Musical Experiment". Perspectives of New Music 35, no. 1 (Winter): 187-204. Metzger, Heinz-Klaus. 1959. "Abortive Concepts in the Theory...

top-ten hits during the year. 1959 in music List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1959 Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1959 Whitburn, Joel (2012). Pop...

Music Man may refer to: The Music Man, a 1957 Broadway musical play by Meredith Willson The Music Man (album), a 1959 jazz album by Jimmy Guiffre featuring...

is a 1959 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The film stars Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Motilal and Lalita Pawar. The music was...

"The Sound of Music" is the title song from the musical of the same name that premiered in 1959. It was composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics written...

the public to enjoy as a distinct piece of music. The score was so lengthy that it had to be released in 1959 on three LP records, although a one-LP version...

year in music pages. 2025 in music, 2025 in American music 2024 in music, 2024 in African music, 2024 in Asian music, 2024 in British music, 2024 in American...

performer, or even a general style of music. In music, parody has been used for many different purposes and in various musical contexts: as a serious...

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959. March 2–April 22 – The recording sessions for the extremely influential Miles Davis jazz...

The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories;...