1963 in music

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Events

• January 1 - The Beatles start a 5 day tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, "Love Me Do".
• January 4 - At Cortina d'Empezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the year's most-played artist on juke boxes.
• January 7 - Gary U.S. Bonds files a $100,000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker, claiming that Checker stole "Quarter to Three" and turned it into "Dancin' Party." The lawsuit is later settled out of court.
• January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
• January 12 - Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in The Madhouse of Castle Street, a radio play for the BBC in London.
• February 16 - The Beatles receive their first #1 hit single, when "Please Please Me" tops the charts in the UK
• February 16 - Paul Anka marries Marie-Ann DeZogheb
• February 22 - The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company.
• March 5 - Patsy Cline is killed in small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on her way to Nashville, Tennessee from St. Louis, Missouri.
• April 29 - 19 year old Andrew Loog Oldham signs a contract with The Rolling Stones, becoming their manager. Oldham had seen the band in concert the previous day at the Crawdaddy Club in London.
• The Beatles record their first album, Please Please Me
• Dalida receives the Music Oscar for the world song success.
• The Righteous Brothers begin performing together;
• Lonnie Mack begins his musical career;
• The Kinks form
• Herman's Hermits form
• Philips introduce the Musicassette at the Berlin Funkaustellung
• Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned recording studio in Jamaica, named Studio One
• Lord Shorty's "Clock and Dagger" is widely considered the first soca recording