Year:1963

Bands Formed

 * Herman's Hermits
 * The Kinks
 * The Seekers
 * The Three Degrees

Singles Released
Be My Baby The Ronettes

Blowin' in the Wind Bob Dylan

Louie Louie The Kingsmen

Albums Released

 * January 14: The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream
 * February: Donald Byrd Band and Voices - A New Perspective
 * February: Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
 * March 22: The Beatles - Please Please Me (album)
 * March 27: The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
 * May: Sandy Bull - Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo
 * May: Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
 * May: Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
 * May 27: Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
 * June: John Coltrane - Impressions
 * June: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman
 * July: Roy Orbison - In Dreams
 * August 12: Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross
 * September: Sam Cooke - Night Beat
 * September 16: The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl
 * October 7: The Beach Boys - Little Deuce Coupe
 * November: Joe Henderson - Page One
 * November: Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
 * November: Various Artists - A Christmas Gift for You From Philles Records
 * December: Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris
 * Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
 * Herbert von Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - 9 Symphonien
 * Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert von Karajan - Symphony No. 9
 * Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
 * Jorge Ben - Samba esquema novo
 * Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
 * Nino Rota - 8½
 * Béla Bartók - The Six String Quartets (The Juilliard String Quartet)
 * John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads
 * John Fahey - Vol. II: Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes
 * The Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train
 * Glenn Gould - The Well-Tempered Clavier: Book I - Preludes and Fugues 1-8
 * Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven
 * Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie - Ella & Basie
 * John Lee Hooker - Don't Turn Me From Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues
 * Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Hilde Rössl-Majdan/Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra/Otto Klemperer - Symphony No 2 'Resurrection'
 * Elmer Bernstein - The Great Escape
 * Mississippi John Hurt - Folksongs and Blues
 * Antônio Carlos Jobim - The Composer of Desafinado, Plays
 * Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfá - Jazz Samba Encore!

Other Events
John F. Kennedy assasinated. ===Classical music [ edit] ===
 * May 9 : first performance Three poems by Henri Michaux of Witold Lutosławski
 * June 2 : First version A hymn of St Columba Of Benjamin Britten
 * June 30 : First execution Dance Preludes by Witold Lutosławski (clarinet / chamber)
 * September 1 : first performance Cantata misericordium of Benjamin Britten
 * September 12 : first performance Symfonisk epic of Johan Kvandal
 * October 15 : First performance of Spirit of the Avalanche by Alan Hovhaness