1964 in Music

Events 1 - 100 of 124

• Jan 3 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
• Jan 6 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
• Jan 10 "Introducing the Beatles" released 1st Beatles album released in the US
• Jan 11 "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 302 performances
• Jan 11 The Beatles single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reaches #80 in US (Cashbox)
• Jan 16 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St James Theater NYC for 2,844 performances
• Jan 18 The Beatles make their first appearance on US Billboard Chart with single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at #45
• Jan 20 "Meet The Beatles" album released in US
• Jan 25 The Beatles get their first US #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox)
• Jan 29 Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" & "Sie Liebt Dich"
• Feb 1 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
• Feb 1 The Beatles' 1st #1 hit "I Want to Hold Your Hand," topped the Hot 100, stays #1 for 7 weeks before being replaced by "She Loves You"
• Feb 3 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
• Feb 6 "Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
• Feb 7 Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
• Feb 7 Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony premieres

• Feb 11 Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington, D.C. Coliseum
• Feb 12 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
• Feb 15 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks
• Feb 16 "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances

• Feb 19 UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
• Feb 21 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper to US
• Feb 22 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
• Feb 24 "My Heart Skips a Beat" single released by Buck Owens (Billboard no. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles 1964)
• Feb 27 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
• Feb 29 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 28 performances
• Mar 2 Beatles begin filming "A Hard Day's Night", Harrison meets Patti Boyd

• Mar 14 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 performances
• Mar 21 Beatles' single "She Loves You" goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• Mar 21 9th Eurovision Song Contest: Gigliola Cinquetti for Italy wins singing "Non ho l'eta" in Copenhagen
• Mar 22 Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times Magazine section
• Mar 26 "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances

• Apr 3 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
• Apr 4 "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 9 performances
• Apr 4 Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• Apr 11 "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
• Apr 17 "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 3 performances


• Apr 17 "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 375 performances
• Apr 18 "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 3 performances
• Apr 18 "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 performances
• Apr 19 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma" premieres in West Berlin

• Apr 27 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in US
• May 2 Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• May 9 Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"

• May 24 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
• May 26 "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances

• May 30 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
• May 30 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
• May 30 The Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes #1 in the United States
• Jun 2 "Folies Bergère" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
• Jun 2 Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts
• Jun 3 Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro & Bobby Vee)
• Jun 4 Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark

• Jun 6 The Beatles arrive in Netherlands
• Jun 7 Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam
• Jun 8 "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)", recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean, is released
• Jun 10 Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
• Jun 11 Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference
• Jun 11 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend

• Jun 25 WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
• Jun 27 "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
• Jul 2 Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You", Paul McCartney plays piano
• Jul 4 Beachboys' "I Get Around" reaches #1
• Jul 6 Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London
• Jul 10 The Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night", their 3rd studio album
• Jul 20 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet
• Jul 25 "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 338 performances
• Jul 25 Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks
• Jul 31 Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot
• Aug 1 Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• Aug 5 Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
• Aug 8 "110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 330 performances
• Aug 8 Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam
• Aug 8 Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert
• Aug 9 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands
• Aug 11 Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in NYC
• Aug 18 Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd US visit
• Aug 22 Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go" reaches #1

• Aug 29 "Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 performances

• Sep 15 Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
• Sep 17 Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)

• Sep 17 Supremes release "Baby Love"
• Sep 20 Paramount Theater (NYC) presented the Beatles with Steve & Eydie
• Sep 22 "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
• Sep 30 "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 125 performances
• Oct 6 "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
• Oct 20 "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 569 performances

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 159

• Jan 5 Ted Harris Poley, American rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It), born in Englewood, New Jersey
• Jan 6 Mark O'Toole, English musician (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax), born in Walton, Liverpool
• Jan 6 Yuri, Mexican actress and singer, born in Veracruz, Mexico
• Jan 10 Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies), born in Winnipeg, Canada
• Jan 15 Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer, born in Suomussalmi, Finland
• Jan 19 Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer, born in Jocotenango, Guatemala
• Jan 27 Migi, [Miguel Drummond, pop musician (Curiosity Killed Cat)
• Jan 29 Roddy Frame, rock vocalist/guitarist (Aztec Camera-Stray)
• Jan 31 Remi Bouchard, Canadian composer (1989 India Open), born in Manitoba, Canada
• Jan 31 Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer), born in Oakland, California (d. 2013)
• Feb 1 Jani Lane, American musician & singer (Warrant-Cherry Pie), born in Akron, Ohio
• Feb 1 Dwayne Goettel, Canadian musician
• Feb 1 Mario Pelchat, Canadian francophone singer, born in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Canada
• Feb 4 Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
• Feb 5 Alexia Vassiliou, Cypriot singer & film score composer, born in Famagusta, Cyprus
• Feb 5 Duff McKagan [Michael Andrew], American bassist (Guns N' Roses), born in Seattle, Washington
• Feb 6 Skip Ewing, American country vocalist (Coast of Colorado), born in Redlands, California
• Feb 6 Gordon Downie, Canadian rock singer-songwriter & musician (The Tragically Hip), born in Amherstview, Ontario (d. 2017)
• Feb 6 Richie Hayward, American musician & songwriter (Little Feat), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2010)
• Feb 9 Rachel Bolan [James Southworth], American musician and songwriter (Skid Row), born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey
• Feb 14 Rob Jones "The Bass Thing" English musician (The Wonder Stuff), born in Stourbridge, West Midlands (d. 1993)
• Feb 18 Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
• Feb 19 Doug Aldrich, American rock guitarist, born in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Feb 20 Terry Ilous, rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket) [or Jun 28]
• Feb 23 John Norum, Swedish rocker (Europe), born in Vardø, Norway
• Feb 27 Ewen Vernal, British pop bassist (Deacon Blue), born in Glasgow, Scotland
• Feb 29 Jahred Shane, Afro-Brazilian rapper/singer of Hed PE
• Mar 1 Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
• Mar 1 Clinton Gregory, Martinsville, Virginia, American country and bluegrass singer-songwriter (Play, Ruby, Play)
• Mar 3 Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
• Mar 6 Reniet Vrieze, rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
• Mar 6 Madonna Wayne Gacy [Stephen Bier Jr.], American musician (Marilyn Manson band), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Mar 7 Denyce Graves, American mezzo-soprano (Carmen), born in Washington, D.C.
• Mar 8 Peter [Ped] Gill, English drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood, born in Liverpool
• Mar 10 Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper (Money Love), born in Stockholm, Sweden
• Mar 11 Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera), born in Abilene, Texas (d. 2018)
• Mar 12 Tony Terry, American soul singer and actor (With You), born in Pinehurst, North Carolina
• Mar 15 Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
• Mar 16 Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter
• Mar 18 Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist
• Mar 18 Rozalla, Zambian singer
• Mar 19 Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
• Mar 20 Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer
• Mar 26 Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)
• Mar 30 Tracy Chapman, American singer/songwriter (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car)
• Mar 31 Erik Turner, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie), born in Omaha, Nebraska
• Apr 4 Robbie Rist, American actor (Oliver-Brady Bunch) and musician, born in Los Angeles, California
• Apr 5 Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
• Apr 6 Johnny Dee [DiTeodoro], American heavy metal drummer (Britny Fox-Boys in Heat, King Kobra), born in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
• Apr 8 Biz Markie, rocker (Meteor Man, Townsend Television)
• Apr 9 Soyo Oka, Japanese musician, born in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan
• Apr 10 Reni [Alan John Wren], English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold), born in Manchester, England
• Apr 10 Felicia Collins, American guitarist (David Letterman), born in Albany, New York
• Apr 11 Steve Azar, American singer and songwriter, born in Greenville, Mississippi
• Apr 11 Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist and musician, born in Colorado Springs
• Apr 12 Amy Ray, American singer and songwriter (Indigo Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
• Apr 13 Bill D'Angelo, heavy metal rocker (Femme Fatale) (d. 2005)
• Apr 16 Dave Pirner, American rocker (Soul Asylum), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Apr 17 Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle), born in Ravenna, Ohio
• Apr 18 Jim Ellison, American musician (Material issue) (d. 1996)
• Apr 18 Bez [Mark Berry], English percussionist and dancer (Happy Mondays), born in Bolton, Lancashire
• Apr 23 Gen [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones), born in Wiltshire, England
• Apr 25 Andy Bell, English rocker (Erasure-Oh L'Amour), born in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, England
• Apr 28 Noriyuki Iwadare, Japanese composer
• Apr 30 Barrington Levy, Jamaican musician
• May 5 Lorraine McIntosh, Scottish pop singer (Deacon Blues) and actress, born in Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland
• May 8 Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur)
• May 9 Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
• May 16 Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)

• May 28 Phil Vassar, American country music singer
• May 30 Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)

• May 31 Darryl "DMC" Matthews McDaniels, American Hip Hop musician (Run-DMC), born in NYC, New York
• May 31 Scotti Hill, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love), born in Manhasset, New York
• Jun 3 Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
• Jun 3 Doro Pesch, German singer
• Jun 4 Chris Kavanagh, British rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111), born in Woolwich, London, England
• Jun 4 Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
• Jun 5 Mags, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
• Jun 5 Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
• Jun 6 Paul "Guru" Josh, British musician (Infinity), born in London, England (d. 2015)
• Jun 9 Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
• Jun 10 Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
• Jun 13 Christian Wilhelm Berger, Romanian composer and organist, born in Bucharest, Romania
• Jun 19 Brian Vander Ark, American musician
• Jun 22 Kevin Sargeant, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
• Jun 22 Mike Edwards, British rock vocalist (Jesus Jones-Devil you Know)
• Jun 22 Tommy Cunningham, rocker (Wet Wet Wet-Wishing I Was)
• Jun 23 Joey Allen, Ft Wayne Indiana, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
• Jun 29 Stedman Pearson, Essex, rock vocalist (Five Star-Silk & Steel)
• Jul 1 Poi Burton, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
• Jul 2 Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life)
• Jul 3 Gary Ryan [Moss], American rock bassist (Joan Jett & The Blackhearts), born in California
• Jul 4 Mark Allen Slaughter, American guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live), born in Las Vegas, Nevada

• Jul 13 Damon Johnson, American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter (Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders), born in Macon, Georgia
• Jul 17 Craig Morgan [Greer], American singer (My Kind of Livin'), born in Kingston Springs, Tennessee
• Jul 20 Chris Cornell, American musician (Soundgarden, Audioslave), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2017)
• Jul 27 Rex Brown, American musician (Pantera), born in Graham, Texas

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• Jan 1 Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer, dies at 84
• Jan 7 Colin C McPhee, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles), dies at 62
• Jan 7 Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
• Jan 15 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
• Jan 20 Jan Rychlik, Czech composer, dies at 47
• Jan 22 Marc Blitzstein, American composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58
• Jan 23 Louis Horst, American dance choreographer and composer, dies at 80
• Jan 27 Lieb Glantz, Ukrainian-born tenor, composer and Zionist, dies at 65
• Feb 9 Willie Bryant, American singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
• Feb 15 Jack Teagarden [Weldon Leo Teagarden], American trombonist and actor (Meet Band Leaders), dies from bronchial pneumonia at 58
• Mar 1 Sergius Kagen, American pianist and composer, dies at 54
• Mar 20 Jean Rogister, Belgian virtuoso violist and composer, dies at 84
• Mar 29 Ted Collins, pianist (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 63
• Mar 30 Willem Andriessen, Dutch composer and pianist (Beethoven), dies at 76
• Apr 1 Božidar Kunc, Croatian composer, dies at 60
• Apr 18 Albe Vidaković, Croatian composer, dies at 49
• May 6 Harold Morris, composer, dies at 74
• May 10 Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
• May 10 Ignace Lilien, Dutch-Austrian composer, dies at 66
• May 20 Rudy Lewis, American rocker (Drifters), dies at 27
• May 25 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer, dies at 92
• May 28 John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
• Jun 1 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer, dies at 66
• Jun 10 Louis Gruenberg, Russian-American composer (Daniel Jazz), dies at 79
• Jun 18 Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58
• Jun 20 Edgar Barrier, American actor (Phantom of the Opera, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered), dies from a heart attack at 57
• Jun 27 Daniel Lazarus, French composer, dies at 65
• Jun 29 Milenko Živković, Yugoslavian composer, dies at 63
• Jun 29 Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (b. 1928)
• Jul 1 Pierre Monteux, French-American conductor (Concert Bldg Orchestra), dies at 89
• Jul 31 Jim Reeves, American country singer and actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim), dies in air crash at 39
• Aug 2 Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71
• Aug 14 Johnny Burnette, American rockabilly singer-songwriter-guitarist (Train Kept A-Rollin', You're Sixteen), drowns at 30
• Aug 24 Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73
• Aug 27 Alexey Semyonovich Zhivotov, composer, dies at 59
• Aug 31 Carole Coleman, singer (Make Mine Music), dies at 42
• Sep 1 George Georgescu, Romanian conductor and composer, dies at 76
• Sep 3 Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, dies at 82
• Sep 9 Charles O'Neill, Canadian composer, dies at 82
• Sep 14 Mary Howe, American composer and pianist (Sand), dies at 82
• Sep 26 Ida Moore, actress (Mr Music, Johnny Belinda), dies at 82
• Sep 28 George Dyson, English musician and composer, dies at 81
• Sep 28 Nacio Herb Brown, American composer (Singin' In The Rain), dies at 68
• Oct 1 Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (Melodie Lehre), dies at 76
• Oct 10 Bedřich Havlík, Czech composer, dies at 71
• Oct 10 Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52
• Oct 10 Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (The Art of Piano Playing), dies at 76
• Oct 15 Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (Still of the Night), dies at 73
• Nov 3 John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
• Nov 5 Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer, dies at 57
• Nov 11 Edward Steuermann, composer, dies at 72
• Nov 16 Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
• Nov 20 John Tasker Howard, composer, dies at 73
• Nov 30 Don Redman, American jazz musician and orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
• Dec 11 Sam Cooke, American singer and entrepreneur described as "the inventor of soul music" (You Send Me), shot to death at 33
• Dec 22 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, Spanish composer and folklorist, dies at 66
• Dec 23 Arrigo Pedrollo, Italian composer, dies at 86
• Dec 29 Miroslav Krejci, composer, dies at 73

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