Events in Music
- Mar 14 Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
Event of Interest
Mar 16 Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Mar 19 Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
Event of Interest
Mar 24 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
Glenn Miller
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 8 Ivana Loudova, composer
- Mar 8 Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
- Mar 10 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, American composer, born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
- Mar 10 Piotr Warzecha, composer
- Mar 15 Mike Love, American vocalist (Beach Boys - "Fun, Fun, Fun"), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 17 Paul Kantner, American rock singer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2016)
- Mar 17 Clarence Collins, US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
- Mar 17 Edward Harper, composer
Wilson Pickett
Mar 18 Wilson Pickett, American R&B singer (Funky Broadway), born in Prattville, Alabama (d. 2006)
Wilson Pickett
- Mar 22 Jeremy Clyde, English musician (Chad & Jeremy) and actor (The Iron Lady), born in Dorney, Buckinghamshire
- Mar 28 Alf Clausen, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mar 28 Charles Ray "Charlie" McCoy, American Grammy-winning session musician and harmonica player (Hee Haw), born in Oak Hill, West Virginia
Deaths in Music
- Mar 4 Edoardo Mascheroni, Italian composer, dies at 81
- Mar 7 Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik), dies at 63
- Mar 8 José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer, dies at 67
- Mar 9 Carlos Pedrell, composer, dies at 62
- Mar 11 Walford Davies, English composer, dies at 71
- Mar 12 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72