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 –...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

(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)...

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

100 in 1959 (see 1959 in music). Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1959, it was very popular with teenagers in the late 1950s/early 1960s in an...

2016. "Stadium Orch Gets 1st Negro". New York Daily News. June 18, 1959. "Debut Music Series Set: 9 Programs Listed Here by Young Concert Artists", The...

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...

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"....

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...

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

hits during the year. 1959 in music List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1959 (U.S.) Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1959 Whitburn, Joel (2012)...

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

Gospel music star Mahalia Jackson appears as a church choir soloist. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected Imitation of Life (1959) for...

was released in 1959 the trend in music was for loud music. The 330 was not favored because of the trend toward loud guitar driven music. The ES-330 was...

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...

"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...

first recorded by Marty Robbins in September 1959. Western music's influence would continue to grow within the country music sphere, western musicians like...

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...

publisher (link) Songstuff Music Glossary Collins Music Encyclopedia, London 1959, article "Symphony" Benward & Saker (2009). Music in Theory and Practice:...