Events in Music
- Apr 12 Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around Clock"
- Jul 30 Elvis Presley joins the Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
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- Jul 31 American television personality and songwriter Steve Allen (32) weds American actress Jayne Meadows (33)
- Aug 7 Musician Johnny Cash (22) marries 1st wife Vivian Liberto (20)
Musicians Who Died in 1954
- Jan 10 Fred Raymond, Austrian composer, dies at 53
- Jan 11 Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (Brave Soldier), dies at 83
- Jan 13 Roland Diggle, English-born American composer and organist, dies at 69
- Jan 27 Paul-Marie Masson, French musicologist (L’Opéra de Rameau), and composer, dies at 71
- Feb 2 Theodor Rogalski, Romanian composer, dies at 52
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