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 14 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.
The Walt Disney animated movie Cinderella [subtitled A Love Story With Music] gets its first public screening, on limited release in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The film includes the songs A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.
Oran 'Hot Lips' Page plays the sixth night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Country star Slim Whitman plays the sixth night in a two-week season at the London Palladium, London, UK.
During an extensive national tour, singing cowboy Gene Autry plays in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the sixth night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Billy Ficca is born in Delaware, USA. He will find success as a rock drummer working with Television, The Waitresses, The Neon Boys and others.
The Ingrid Bergman film Stromboli, directed by Roberto Rossellini, is released to cinemas in the USA. The controversy surrounding the film because a well-publicised affair between Bergman and Rossellini, will inspire folk singer Woody Guthrie to write the innuendo-laden song Ingrid Bergman.
The Barbara Carroll Trio records Dancing On The Ceiling, Barbara's Carol, Morocco Parts 1 And 2, You Stepped Out Of A Dream, The Puppet That Dances Bop and Let's Have A Party, for Savoy/Discovery Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Miles Davis Sextet, including Stan Getz and Art Blakey plays the seventh of eight nights at Birdland, New York City, USA. Also on the bill are The Charlie Parker Quintet and The Bud Powell Trio.
Papa Celestin's Band record When the Saints Go Marching In for Bandwagon Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The Jolly Joyce Agency of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, is running ads in trade magazines showing its impressive client roster of recording artists, which includes The Red Caps, The Three Peppers, The Four Tunes, Earl Plummer, The Four Blues and others.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the first night of two weeks at Ciro's, San Francisco, California, USA.