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 17 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.
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.
Bandleader Benny Strong is playing during three months at The Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
The popular musical Guys And Dolls is playing at The Shubert Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The popular Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate is playing at The Music Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Frankie Laine is playing at The London Palladium, London, England, UK, during a two-week stint.
Hal McIntyre And His Orchestra play during four weeks at The Roosevelt, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Venerated music publisher and songwriter Will Rossiter (aka W.R. Williams) is the guest of honour at The Chicago Land Music Festival in Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA. During the event, he performs his song I'd Love To Live In Lovelend, to piano accompaniment.
Dinah Washington is playing at The Apollo Theater, New York City, USA, with The Ravens.
The Homing Waltz reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Vera Lynn and Alma Cogan.
Stan Bonsall And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.
The Sons Of The Pioneers perform Night Train To Memphis, Soldier's Joy and other songs, on their radio series The Lucky-U Ranch, in the USA.
Billy May And His Band play the third of four days at Lakeside Park, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Johnny Green, conducting The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, presents a program of Rodgers And Hammerstein favourites at The Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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.