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 39 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
The Paul Winter Sextet is playing during three weeks at The London House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Miles Davis is playing during a two-week engagement at The Sutherland Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are playing during two weeks at The Latin Casino, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Maurice Chevalier is starring in a one-man show during four weeks at The Ziegfeld Theater, New York City, USA.
Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane play at The San Juan Hotel, Puerto Rico, Caribbean.
Accordionist and singer Dick Contino is playing at Ray's Supper Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Eddie Fisher is playing at The Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The John Coltrane Quartet is playing during six nights at The Jazz Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Luisillo And His Spanish Dance Theatre, a 28-piece troupe, provide music and dance billed as "The Greatest Show Ever Brought To Town" during a week of shows at Sky, Singapore, Asia.
The Jimmy Smith Quintet records Picknickin', Prayer Meetin', Red Top, When The Saints Go Marching In and other tracks for Blue Note Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Fats Domino releases a new single, Hum Diddy Doo, on Imperial Records in the USA.
The Triodes play their debut gig, at Sausalito Teen Club, Sausalito Women's Club, 120 Central Avenue, Sausalito, Marin County, California, USA. The band includes Bill Champlin who will find greater success as leader of The Sons Of Champlin.
Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys play at The Folklore Centre, 110 MacDougall Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Barbra Streisand records the Cole Porter song Who Would Have Dreamed in Columbia Studio A, New York City, USA, but this version will not be released.
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra record Blind Bug and Stalking Monster, for the Reprise Records soundtrack to the film Night Creature, in Solna-Sundbyberg, Sweden, Europe.
Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, Kenny Lynch, The Honeys, The Kestrels, Dave Allen and the Red Price Orchestra, and The Beatles play at The ABC, Carlisle, England, UK, Europe. After the show, The Beatles are ejected from a Golf Club Dance at The Crown And Mitre Hotel, along with Helen Shapiro and Kenny Lynch.
Read More
Cliff Richard releases his twentieth single, Summer Holiday, in the UK.
Ferlin Husky plays at Joe Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Jo Stafford records It Started All Over Again, I'll Never Smile Again and For You, with Nelson Riddle as arranger, for Reprise Records in the USA.
Wealthy twenty-four year old tobacco farm owner Billy Zantzinger arrives, somewhat drunk, at the Spinsters Ball in the Emerson Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. After causing various disturbances, including a fist fight with another guest, Zantzinger, demands a drink from black bartender Hattie Carroll. Carroll is busy serving another guest, so Zantzinger calls her racist names and strikes her with his cane, from which she dies soon after. Zantzinger is arrested, but gets off with a minor sentence. Bob Dylan, inspired by this story, will write his song The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll.
Marty Robbins releases a new single, Teenager's Dad / Cigarettes And Coffee Blues on Columbia records in the USA.
The Charles River Valley Boys play at Club 47, Cambridge (near Boston), Massachusetts, USA.
Sonny Boy Williamson II releases a new single, Bye Bye Bird, on Checker Records in the USA.
George Hamilton IV plays in Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
Today's edition of The Broadside, a folk music magazine based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, features Ralph Rinzler and John Herold of The Greenbrier Boys. The magazine itself includes items about Odetta, Jim Kweskin and Maria Muldaur, Sleepy John Estes and more.
Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa, with Antonio Carlos Jobim on guitar, record Sambalero, How Insentive and Um Abraco No Getz for Verve Records in Webster Hall, New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley films the Bossa Nova Baby scene for his next movie, Fun In Acapulco, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Brian Hyland, Little Eva and The Brook Brothers play at The Granada, Woolwich, England, UK, Europe
Bill Anderson and Ray Price play in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada.
Mel Torme records Cast Your Fate To The Wind, The Gift, My Gal’s Back In Town and Gravy Waltz for Atlantic Records at United Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Judy Garland is playing during a three-week engagement at the South Shore Room, Harrah's Resort, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
Pop and soft-rock singer-songwriter Joshua Kadison is born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He will score two Top 40 hits, Jessie and Beautiful In My Eyes, from his 1993 debut album Painted Desert Serenade.
Jazz trumpeter Bobby Hackett, with Sir Charles Thompson on piano, records As Long As He Needs Me, I'd Do Anything and other tracks for his Columbia Records' album Jazz Impressions Of Lionel Bart's Oliver, at Columbia Records' 30th Street studio in New York City, USA.
Duke Ellinbgton And His Orchestra play in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
When Bob Dylan and Happy Traum play together in the basement of Gerde's Folk City, New York City, USA, their performance is recorded and will eventually be released as a bootleg, The Banjo Tape.
The Barron Knights play at The Spa Royal Hotel, Bridlington, England, UK, Europe.