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 25 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 stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Winifred Atwell, Lance Percival, Ronnie Carroll, Antonio Vargas And The Spanish Dancers, Gerard Sety, Des Lane, Toni Ros, The Mistins and The Don Robb Group are playing during the summer season at The Star Light Roof, The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
The Mills Brothers are playing during three weeks at The Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Rolling Stones play at The British Legion, South Harrow, London, England, UK, Europe. Support band is local combo Blues By Five.
Read More
The Honeys record The One You Can't Have in Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The session is produced by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.
Brian Templeton, vocalist of successful blues group The Radio Kings is born in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.
Tony Bennett records When Joanna Loved Me and So Long Big Time for Columbia Records in their 30th Street studio, New York City, USA.
Sweets For My Sweet by The Searchers peaks at No2 in the Singles Chart in Sweden, Europe.
Jeff Ballard is born in Santa Cruz, California, USA. He will find success as a jazz drummer, woking with Ray Charles, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau.
The Sonny Stitt - Brother Jack McDuff Quartet records Soul Shack, Love Nest and other tracks in Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
The Escorts play a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Chrissie Hynde, later to lead The Pretenders, is given her first guitar for her 21st birthday.
Read More
The Stanley Brothers record Don't Cheat In Our Hometown, for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Roy Orbison plays at The Granada, Tooting, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Searchers, Bob Luman, Freddie And The Dreamers, Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, The Sons Of The Piltdown Men, Cherry Roland and Gary And Lee.
Rusty 'Ko Ko' Adams is playing during thirteen days at The Little Brown Jug, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA, with Jo Ann And Ray Cantrell.
The Everly Brothers spend the second of two days recording songs, including Warum, in German at the Teldec Studio in Hamburg, Germany, Europe, with producer Wolf Kabitzky.
Vocalist Freda Payne records Sweet Pumpkin, After The Lights Go Down Low and Love Theme From David And Lisa, for Impulse Records in RCA Studios, New York City, USA.
The Contours record Do The See Saw for Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Tommy Roe, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, Heinz And The Saints, The Dennisons and Johnny Sandon And The Remo Four play at The ABC, Cleethorpes, England, UK, Europe.
Barbra Streisand and Liberace play in The South Shore Room, Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, The Clark Brothers, The Strong Brothers, The Karl Denver Trio, Barbara Law, Norman Collier, Marty Wilde And The Wildcats, David Whitfield, Dailey And Wayne, Susan Kane, Eden Kane, Arthur Worsley, The King Brothers, Morecambe And Wise, Julie Grant The Bal Carron Trio, The Mudlarks, Carole Gray and The Pamela Devis Dancers play at The ABC, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe. The show is in aid of the Blackpool Boys' Club Building Fund and The National Association of Youth Clubs, and also features Reginald Dixon at the Organ.
The Top Ten records played on WABC Radio, New York City, USA, for this week, are as follows :

1. Be My Baby - The Ronettes (Philles)

2. My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels (Smash)

3. Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (Epic)

4. The Monkey Time - Major Lance (Okeh)

5. Heat Wave - Martha And The Vandellas (Gordy)

6. Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals (Philles)

7. If I Had a Hammer - Trini Lopez (Reprise]

8. Sally, Go 'Round the Roses - The Jaynetts (Tuff)

9. Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms And the Enchanters (United Artists]

10. Mickey's Monkey - The Miracles (Tamla)

The penultimate edition of BBC radio series Pop Go The Beatles, starring The Beatles, is broadcast in the UK.