Jones ' former animation unit was laid off after completing the final cartoon in their pipeline, The Iceman Ducketh, and the rest of the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio was closed in early 1963.

Iwerks did special effects work outside the studio as well, including his Academy Award nominated achievement for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( 1963 ).

In the 1940s, Tsuburaya started his own special effects laboratory ( set up at his home ), and in 1963, founded his own studio for visual effects, Tsuburaya Productions.

In 1963, Smith took his act to the border when the Inter-American Radio Advertising's Ramon Bosquez hired him and sent him to the studio and transmitter site of XERF-AM at Ciudad Acuña in Mexico, a station whose high-powered border blaster signal could be picked up across much of the United States.

He continued to record a number of well-reviewed studio albums, particularly Criss Cross, also from 1963, and Underground, from 1968.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

Moving images of Walter Cronkite reading the news in his studio every night for six years are gone with the exception of his coverage of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the JFK assassination in 1963.

During 1963, just one year before he co-founded The Byrds, he was a studio musician in New York City, recording with Judy Collins and Simon & Garfunkel.

Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963.

Warner Bros shut down the Original Termite Terrace studio in 1963 and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises assumed production of the shorts, licensed by Warner Bros. After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of Looney Tunes in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly-renamed Warner Bros .- Seven Arts animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on The Fairly OddParents as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on Roger Ramjet.

Warner Bros. shut down its animation studio completely in 1963, and the directors of Termite Terrace went their separate ways.

In spite of releasing mostly singles, he released a well received blues-inflected LP in 1963, Night Beat, and his most critically acclaimed studio album Ain't That Good News, which featured five singles, in 1964.

Paul Revere & the Raiders also recorded a version of " Louie Louie " in April 1963 in the same Portland studio as The Kingsmen.

In 1963, the group recorded two albums for Newtown, a Christmas album titled Sleigh Bells, Jingle Bells and Blue Bells, and a faux-live album ( compiled from their studio recordings with an added audience track ), Sweethearts of the Apollo, taking from a title giving to them after the group successfully performed at the Apollo Theater, however the group failed to match their live success with any following records and left Newtown for more established Cameo-Parkway Records, releasing the top 40 hit, " Down the Aisle ( The Wedding Song )".

The studio pottery Troika was set up in 1963.

At least three episodes were filmed without a live studio audience: " The Bad Old Days ," which featured an extended flashback sequence that relied on optical effects that would have been impractical to shoot with a live audience in the studio ; " The Alan Brady Show Presents ," which required elaborate set and costume changes ; and " Happy Birthday and Too Many More ," which was filmed on November 26, 1963, only four days after President Kennedy's assassination.

The studio recording with the Philharmonia from 1963 has timings of I.

Other notable television performances that have appeared on bootleg video include the Swedish show Drop In from October 1963 ( four songs ); the April 1964 UK special Around The Beatles ( six songs mimed to new recordings ); the June 1964 Australian special The Beatles Sing for Shell ( seven songs survived in complete form, plus fragments of two others ); and a September 1968 appearance on Frost on Sunday ( new vocals for " Hey Jude " and " Revolution " over studio backing tracks, plus brief improvisations ), for which multiple takes are available.

BBC documentation shows that " Sheila " and two versions of " Three Cool Cats " were recorded and never broadcast, but the tapes were likely reused or discarded, a fate shared by some of The Beatles ' studio session tapes prior to late 1963.

RCA Victor made several studio cast recording albums as well, including a Lerner and Loewe series with Jan Peerce, Jane Powell, and Robert Merrill, as well as a 1963 album of excerpts from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with its 1952 revival leads, Leontyne Price and William Warfield, but a different supporting cast.

On 7 September 2009, a total of 13 original studio albums ( the first seven produced by George Martin ) recorded by Black between 1963 and 2003 were released for digital download.

* Eddie Mannix ( 1891 – 1963 ), movie studio executive,

* Robert Fitzgerald, 1963, unrhymed poetry with varied-length lines ( ISBN 0-679-72813-9 ) An audio CD recording read by John Lee is available ( ISBN 1-4159-3605-6 ) 2006

The Righteous Brothers started their recording career on the small Moonglow label in 1963 with two albums and two moderate hits: " Little Latin Lupe Lu " and " My Babe ".

The Rolling Stones featured a slide guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon / Paul McCartney song " I Wanna Be Your Man ".

* 2001 Jazz Casual: Paul Winter / Bola Sete & Vince Guaraldi ( 1963 television recording )

Lee, who had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands, the LAG's and Lee's American Four.

Therefore, at 10: 00 am on Monday, 11 February 1963, The Beatles and George Martin started recording what was essentially their live act in 1963, and finished 585 minutes later ( 9 hours and 45 minutes ).

In July 1963, Dolphy and producer Alan Douglas arranged recording sessions for which his sidemen were among the leading emerging musicians of the day, and the results produced the albums Iron Man and Conversations.

This was Morrison's first recording, taking place in November 1963 at Ariola Studios in Cologne with Morrison on saxophone ; it made the lower reaches of the German charts.

In January 1963, The Beach Boys recorded their first top-ten ( cresting at # 3 in the United States ) single, " Surfin ' USA ", which began their long run of highly successful recording efforts at Hollywood's Western Recorders on Sunset Boulevard.

A stereo recording of Hindemith conducting the requiem with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, with Louise Parker and George London as soloists, was made for Columbia Records in 1963 and later issued on CD.

The first recording, featuring Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau and Pears, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Britten, was produced in 1963.

In 1988, the British film director Derek Jarman made a screen adaptation of War Requiem of the same title, with the 1963 recording as the soundtrack, produced by Don Boyd and financed by the BBC.

Part of the original personnel of the 1956 recording released their own versions, Chet Atkins recorded it for the 1963 album The Guitar Genius, and also, Presley's lead guitarist Scotty Moore recorded the song for his 1964 album The Guitar that Changed the world.

In the 1960s WLS was a major force in introducing new music and recording artists. WLS weekly Silver Dollar Survey, distributed free via record stores, was retitled Silver Beatle Survey during the height of Beatlemania The first US airplay of a record by The Beatles (" Please Please Me ") was on the WLS Dick Biondi show on February 8, 1963.

A recording by The Kingsmen in 1963 is the best-known version.

On April 6, 1963, a rock and roll group from Portland, Oregon, called The Kingsmen, chose " Louie Louie " as their second recording, their first having been " Peter Gunn Rock.

The recording and publishing of 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea was an unusual one: it did not employ the movie's cast, and years later, a 12-inch 33⅓ rpm album of the film, with a nearly identical script, but another different cast, was sold by Disneyland Records in conjunction with the re-release of the movie in 1963.

" Puff, the Magic Dragon " is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording.

The group incorporated the song into their live performances before recording it in 1962 ; their 1962 recording of " Puff " reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent two weeks atop the Billboard easy listening chart in early 1963.

After giving birth in 1963 to a daughter, Kenya, Knight returned to recording with the Pips in order to support her family.

The nearest we have to a recording of a ' live ' set by James is his last recorded session by Bobby Robinson, in New York City in 1963 shortly before James death.