See also: 1952 in music, other events of 1953, 1954 in music, 1950s in music and the list of 'years in music'

Table of contents
1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Top hits on record
4 Published popular music
5 Musical theater
6 Musical films
7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

Albums released

Top hits on record

Published popular music

  • "And This Is My Beloved"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest
  • "Angel Eyes"     w. Earl Brent m. Matt Dennis
  • "Anna"     w.(Eng) William Engvick (Ital) F. Giordano m. R. Vatro
  • "Answer Me, My Love"     w. (Eng) Carl Sigman (Ger) & m. Gerhard Winkler & Fred Ravich
  • "Baubles, Bangles And Beads"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest
  • "Bell Bottom Blues"     w. Hal David m. Leon Carr
  • "Bimbo"     w.m. Rodney Morris
  • "Black Hills Of Dakota"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sammy Fain
  • "The Boy Friend"     w.m. Sandy Wilson
  • "Can-Can"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Caribbean"     w.m. Mitchell Torok
  • "C'Est Magnifique"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Changing Partners"     w. Joe Darion m. Larry Coleman
  • "Chicka Boom"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  • "Crying In The Chapel"     w.m. Artie Glenn
  • "Dragnet"     m. Walter Schumann
  • "Ebb Tide"     w. Carl Sigman m. Robert Maxwell
  • "Eh, Cumpari!"     trad Ital w. m. adapt. Julius LaRosa & Archie Bleyer
  • "Ev'rybody Loves Saturday Night"     Campbell
  • "Fate"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin Adapted from Symphony No. 2 in B Minor.
  • "From Here To Eternity"     w. Robert Wells m. Fred Karger
  • "Gambler's Guitar"     w.m. Jim Lowe
  • "Gee!"     w.m. Viola Watkins, Daniel Norton & William Davis
  • "Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite"     James Hudson, Calvin Carter
  • "The Happy Wanderer"     w.(Ger) Florenz Siegesmund & Edith Möller (Eng) Antonia Ridge m. Friedrich Wilhelm Möller
  • "Here's That Rainy Day"     w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
  • "Hold My Hand"     w.m. Jack Lawrence & Richard Myers
  • "I Believe"     w.m. Ervin Drake, Jimmy Shirl, Irvin Graham & Al Stillman
  • "(Oh Baby Mine) I Get So Lonely"     w.m. Pat Ballard
  • "I Love Paris"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "I Really Don't Want To Know"     Howard Barnes, Don Robertson
  • "I'm Walking Behind You"     w.m. Billy Reid
  • "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"     w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Nat Simon
  • "It's All Right With Me"     w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Just Walkin' In The Rain"     w.m. Johnny Bragg & Robert S. Riley
  • "Little Things Mean A Lot"     w.m. Carl Stutz & Edith Lindeman
  • "Make Love To Me"     w. Alan Copeland & Bill Norvas Music from "Tin Roof Blues" 1923.
  • "The Man That Got Away"     w. Ira Gershwin m. Harold Arlen
  • "The Man With The Banjo"     w. (Eng) Robert Mellin m. Fritz Schulz Reichel
  • "Marriage Type Love"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Matilda, Matilda!"     w.m. Harry Thomas
  • "Melancholy Serenade"     m. Jackie Gleason
  • "Mexican Joe"     w.m. Mitchell Torok
  • "Money Burns A Hole In My Pocket"     w. Bob Hilliard m. Jule Styne
  • "Money Honey"     w.m. Jesse Stone
  • "No Other Love"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Non Dimenticar"     w.(Eng) Shelley Dobbins (Ital) Michele Galdieri m. P. G. Redi
  • "Not Since Nineveh"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest From Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances".
  • "Oh! My Pa-Pa"     w. John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons m. Paul Burkhard
  • "The Olive Tree"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest from music by Alexander Borodin
  • "Rags To Riches"     w.m. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross
  • "Ricochet"     w.m. Larry Coleman, Joe Darion & Norman Gimbel
  • "Rock Around The Clock"     w.m. Jimmy De Knight & Max C. Freedman
  • "Santa Baby"     w.m. Joan Javits, Phil Springer & Tony Springer
  • "Satin Doll"     m. Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington
  • "Secret Love"     w. Paul Francis Webster m. Sammy Fain
  • "Seven Lonely Days"     w.m. Alden Shuman, Earl Shuman & Marshal Brown
  • "Shake A Hand"     w.m. Joe Morris
  • "Sippin' Soda"     adapt. P. Campbell
  • "The Song From "Moulin Rouge"" (aka "Where Is Your Heart")     w. (Eng) William Engvick (Fr) Jacques Larue m. Georges Auric
  • "Stranger In Paradise"     w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest
  • "Such A Night"     w.m. Lincoln Chase
  • "Sway" ("Quien Sera")     w. (Eng) Norman Gimbel (Sp) Pablo Beltran Ruiz m. Pablo Beltran Ruiz
  • "Teach Me Tonight"     w. Sammy Cahn m. Gene De Paul
  • "Tell Me A Story"     w.m. Terry Gilkyson
  • "Tell Us Where The Good Times Are"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  • "That's Amore"     w. Jack Brooks m. Harry Warren
  • "Vaya Con Dios"     w.m. Larry Russell, Inez James & Buddy Pepper
  • "Wanted"     w.m. Jack Fulton & Lois Steele
  • "You, You, You"     w.(Eng) Robert Mellin (Ger) Walter Rothenberg m. Lotar Olias
  • "Young At Heart"     w. Carolyn Leigh m. Johnny Richards

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths