Events in Music
Music Single
Dec 15 "Folsom Prison Blues" single released by Johnny Cash (Billboard Song of the Year 1968)
- Dec 19 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" for Sun Records at Memphis Recording Service studio
Music History
Dec 29 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
- Dec 31 "Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 4 Brian Prout, American singer (Diamond Rio - "Meet In The Middle"), born in Troy, New York
- Dec 4 Cassandra Wilson [née Fowlkes], American jazz singer-songwriter, born in Jackson, Mississippi
- Dec 6 Bill Lloyd, American singer (Foster & Lloyd - "Crazy Over You"), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Dec 6 Bright Sheng, Chinese-American concert pianist, composer (Never Far Away; Hot Pepper), conductor, and music teacher born in Shanghai, China.
- Dec 6 Rick Buckler, British rock drummer (The Jam), born in Woking, Surrey, England
- Dec 6 Tish Hinojosa, American country singer ("Something in the Rain"), born in San Antonio, Texas
- Dec 8 Kasim Sulton, American session and touring bass guitarist (Utopia; Todd Rundgren; Meatloaf), born in Staten Island, New York
- Dec 8 Nathan East, American jazz, R&B, and rock session and touring bass player (Fourplay; Phil Collins), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dec 9 Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician, born in Bangkok, Thailand
- Dec 10 Garth Smith [Davies], British punk rock bassist (Buzzcocks), born in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England
- Dec 15 Paul Simonon, British rock bassist (The Clash; Havana 3 AM), and visual artist, born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, England
- Dec 20 Ed Kuepper, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter (The Saints), born in Bremen, Germany
- Dec 21 Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese musician, born in Agano, Niigata Prefecture
- Dec 29 Jan Pijnenburg, Dutch rock drummer (Doe Maar - "Bomb"), born in Vught, Netherlands
- Dec 29 Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, American rock guitarist, arranger, and producer (Pat Benatar Band), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Dec 30 Dindo Yogo [Mabeli], Congolese singer and musician, known as La Voix Cassée, born in Lokutu, Belgian Congo (d. 2000)
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