Events in Music
TV Show Appearance
Jul 1 Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo, appears on Steve Allen Show
- Jul 2 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel"
- Jul 7 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
Film Release
Jul 17 MGM releases film "High Society", a musical re-working of "The Philadelphia Story" set in Newport, Rhode Island; starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, with songs by Cole Porter
Birthdays in Music
- Jul 1 Kenneth Fuchs, American Grammy Award-winning classical composer, and college professor
- Jul 2 Jeffrey Cooper, American R&B guitarist (Midnight Star - "No Parking On The Dance Floor"; "Operator")
- Jul 6 John Jorgenson, American singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- Jul 8 Russell Christian, British rock keyboardist, and vocalist (The Christians - "Harvest For The World"), born in Liverpool, England
- Jul 13 Mark "The Animal' Mendoza [Glickman], American bassist (Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It"), born in Long Island, New York
- Jul 14 Bob Birch, American musician (Elton John), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2012)
- Jul 15 Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division - "Transmission") (d. 1980)
- Jul 15 Joe Satriani, American rock guitarist, born in Westbury, New York
- Jul 18 Audrey Landers [Hamburg], American actress and singer (Dallas; Chorus Line), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jul 20 Michael Gordon, American contemporary classical composer (Natural History; Anonymous Man), and new music promoter (Bang on a Can Festival), born in Miami, Florida
- Jul 20 Paul Cook, English rock drummer (Sex Pistols), born in London, England
- Jul 22 Mick Pointer, British rock drummer (Marillion), born in Brill, Buckinghamshire, England
- Jul 27 Duncan Cameron, American guitarist (Sawyer Brown) and commercial pilot, born in Utica, New York
- Jul 28 Nnenna Freelon (née Pierce), American jazz singer, composer, and arranger, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Jul 29 Patti Scialfa, American singer-songwriter ("As Long As I Can Be (With You)"), wife of Bruce Springsteen, born in Deal, New Jersey
- Jul 30 Phil Fearon, English rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate - "I Don't Want to Lose You"), born in London
Deaths in Music
- Jul 13 Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, Soviet-Russian composer, dies at 54
- Jul 14 Jaroslav Řídký, Czech composer, dies at 58
- Jul 17 Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest and songwriter (Under the Snow), dies at 78
- Jul 26 Miguel Bernal Jiménez, Mexican organist, composer and pedagogue (Tata Vasco; Tres Cartas de México), dies of a heart attack at 46
