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 21 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

1976
Linda Ronstadt appears on UK tv show The Old Grey Whistle Test.
PermaLink
1976
Trapeze play at Barbarella's, Manchester, UK.
PermaLink
1976
The Top Ten Singles on WABC Radio in New York City, USA, are :



1. Disco Duck, Part 1 - Rick Dees And His Cast of Idiots (RSO)

2. Tonight's the Night - Rod Stewart (Warner Brothers)

3. Love So Right - The Bee Gees (RSO)

4. Just To Be Close To You - The Commodores (Motown)

5. Muskrat Love - The Captain And Tennille (A+M)

6. The Rubberband Man - The Spinners (Atlantic)

7. Whispering/Cherchez la Femme/Se Si Bon - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (RCA)

8. If You Leave Me Now - Chicago (Columbia)

9. Fernando - ABBA (Atlantic)

10. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (Reprise)

PermaLink
1976
A son, Joseph Sumner, is born to Frances Tomelty, actress and first wife of Sting ([real name, Gordon Sumner].
PermaLink
1976
Andy Fairweather Low plays at Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
PermaLink
1976
Nazareth play at The Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland.
PermaLink
1976
Patti Smith plays at The Bottom Line, New York City, USA.
PermaLink
1976
Cado Belle play at The Top Rank, Brighton, UK.
PermaLink
1976
Loudon Wainwright III records a live session for Radio 1 deejay John Peel in London, UK.
PermaLink
1976
The Eagles play at Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, supported by J.D. Souther.
PermaLink
1976
Jazz guitarist Irving Ashby records Shivers and Funkville U.S.A. in Los Angeles, California, USA, for his RCA Records album Guitar Player. Hampton Hawes plays piano on the session.
PermaLink
1976
Singer-songwriter, recording artist and music producer Daniel Santacruz is born in New Jersey, USA.
PermaLink
1976
Man play at The Town Hall, Birmingham, UK, supported by Alcatraz.
PermaLink
1976
Radio Birdman play a live set for a radio bradcast in Double Jay Studio, Sydney, Australia.
PermaLink
1976
Brian Robertson, guitarist of Thin Lizzy, is injured at The Speakeasy Club, London, England, UK, Europe, when Gordon Hunte, guitarist of the band Gonzalez attacks Scottish vocalist Frankie Miller with a broken bottle. Robertson intercepts the attacker but suffers serious damage to tendons in his hand, obliging Thin Lizzy to cancel their upcoming tour of the USA.
PermaLink
Read More
1976
Abba arrive at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe, on a promotional visit.
PermaLink
1976
Caravan play at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
PermaLink
1976
Brian Wilson performs Back Home, from the Beach Boys' latest album 15 Big Ones, on the Mike Douglas Show on tv in the USA.
PermaLink
1976
Lynn Anderson is the musical guest on this week's edition of The Bobby Vinton Show on tv in the USA.
PermaLink
1976
Jerry Lee Lewis, brandishing a Derringer pistol, drives to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and demands that Elvis Presley should come out to speak with him. Elvis declines. Jerry Lee goes home.
PermaLink
1976
Mud play at The Locarno, Portsmouth, UK.
PermaLink