Welcome to MusicDayz

The world's largest online archive of date-sorted music facts, bringing day-by-day facts instantly to your fingertips.
Find out what happened on your or your friends' Birthday, Wedding Day, Anniversary or just discover fun facts in musical areas that particularly interest you.
Please take a look around.

Showing all 16 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

The American-Yiddish musical revue Bagels And Yox is playing at The Holiday Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 208 performances.
The Shelly Manne Septet records Deep Purple, It Don't Mean A Thing, The Princess Of Evil and Slightly Brightly, for Dee Gee Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Craig Leon is born in Miami, Florida, USA. He will find success as a record producer, composer and arranger, perhaps best-known for the part he played in launching the careers of many recording artists including The Ramones and Blondie.
The popular musical Blossom Time, starring Gordon MacRae, is broadcast on The Railroad Hour radio show, sponsored by The Association of American Railroads, on the ABC Network in the USA.
Roy Milton And His Solid Senders play at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mario Lanza records The Best Things In Life Are Free, Temptation and Trees in Radio Recorders Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The tracks will be used in his radio series The Mario lanza Show.
In his final recording session for Decca Records in the USA, Woody Guthrie records an alternative version of This Land Is Your Land, featuring amended lyrics. He also records a childrens' song, Kissin' On. Guthrie is, by this time, suffering from Huntington's Chorea. In 1992, the session producer, Milt Gabler, will admit that had he known how ill Guthrie was, he never would have scheduled a session.
Frank Sinatra, with arranger and conductor Alex Stordahl, records I Could Write A Book for Columbia Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The song was originally written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1940 Broadway musical Pal Joey.
The Irving Berlin musical and political satire Call Me Madam is playing at The Coliseum, London, England, UK, during a run of 485 performances. Main cast members are Billie Worth (Sally Adams), Anton Walbrook (Cosmo), Jeff Warren (Ken Gibson) and Shani Wallis (Princess Maria). Songs include The Hostess with the Mostes', It's a Lovely Day Today, The Ocarina, They Like Ike and You're Just in Love.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
The musical comedy Wish You Were Here, is presented at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 598 performances.
The musical Love From Judy is playing at The Saville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 594 performances. The cast includes Jean Carson (Judy), Linda Gray (Grace), Bill O'Connor (Jervis) and Adelaide Hall (Butterfly) and songs including I Never Dream When I'm Asleep, Dear Daddy Long-Legs, Here We Are and A Touch of Voodoo.
The revue An Evening With Beatrice Lillie is presented at The Booth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 276 performances. As well as its actress-singer star, the show features piano duettists Eddie And Rack.
The Harry James Orchestra is playing during four weeks at Cocoanut Grove, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Exotica vocalist Yma Sumac is appearing during a four-week engagement at The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.