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 20 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.
Deep Purple play at Bennet Concert Hall, Birmingham, UK.
The Raiders, formerly Paul Revere And The Raiders, record Just Seventeen for the Columbia Records album Collage in the USA.
Tom Jones is awarded a gold disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. for the album Green Green Grass Of Home.
Tim Dawe releases the album Penrod on Frank Zappa's record label Straight Records in the USA.
The Velvet Underground play the second of five nights at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA.
J. T. Brown (James Thomas Brown), an acclaimed tenor sax player who had backed Elmore James, Eddie Boyd and Roosevelt Sykes, dies aged 51, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Mal Waldron Trio records Free At Last in Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, Europe, for ECM Records.
The Rolling Stones play in The Olympia Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Also on the bill are B.B. King, Ike And Tina Turner and Terry Reid.
Read More
Delaney And Bonnie And Friends play at L'Olympia, Paris, France, supported by P.P. Arnold.
The Strawbs plays at Mothers, Erdington, Birmingham, UK.
The Rolling Stones are awarded a Gold Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. for the album Let It Bleed.
Jazz piano virtuoso Bill Evans records the live album You're Gonna Hear From Me at Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Timothy Michael Hawryluk is born in Spirit River, Alberta, Canada. Under the name Tim Howar, he will find success as an actor, singer and dancer, well-known in musical theater. After fronting the band Van Tramp, he will join Mike And The Mechanics as a vocalist and co-songwriter.
Davy Jones of The Monkees appears on American tv show The Tennessee Ernie Ford Special.