Events in Music
Music Awards
Mar 2 9th Grammy Awards: "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra wins best record, "Michele" by The Beatles best song

Frank Sinatra
Music Awards
Mar 6 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Bonnie Guitar win

Merle Haggard
- Mar 7 Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man" premieres in NYC
Music Single
Mar 11 Pink Floyd releases 1st single "Arnold Layne"

Syd Barrett

Roger Waters
Event of Interest
Mar 31 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)

Jimi Hendrix
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 6 Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer
- Mar 7 Randel "Randy" Guss, American musician and drummer (Toad the Wet Sprocket), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Mar 11 John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor, singer, presenter and writer (Captain Jack Harkness-Doctor Who), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- Mar 17 Van Conner, rocker (Screaming Trees)
Billy Corgan
Mar 17 Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins), born in Chicago, Illinois

Billy Corgan
Deaths in Music
- Mar 3 Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66
- Mar 6 Nelson Eddy, American baritone (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 65
- Mar 6 Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
- Mar 10 Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
- Mar 11 Geraldine Farrar, soprano/actress (Such Sweet Compulsion), dies at 85
- Mar 16 James Friskin, composer, dies at 80
- Mar 18 Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
- Mar 24 Marc Lavry, Israeli composer, dies at 63
- Mar 25 Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
- Mar 31 Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72