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 16 Facts found
Click to filter results

Filter to between years

Topic:

Genre:

Location:

The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Big Mama Thorntonand her All Star Band plays at The Masonic Temple, Richmond, California, USA.
Brook Benton plays at The Cloisters Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA.
Gene McDaniels plays the penultimate night in a two week season at The Arctic Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen with The Skiffle Group plus Ian Menzies and his Clyde Valley Stompers featuring Fionna Duncan, play at St George's Hall, Bradford, UK.
The Ray Bryant Sextet records The Hucklebuck, Centerpiece and Your Buddy for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Shazam! by Duane Eddy enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No45.
An advertisement for Al's Records shop in London, appears in UK pop paper Record And Show Mirror announcing "Stereophonic records in stock and demonstrated".
The Coasters, The Isley Brothers and Dave 'Baby' Cortez play the thirteenth night in a two-week season at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Lonnie Donegan reaches No1 in the UK pop singles chart with My Old Man's A Dustman.
Duane Eddy, Clyde McPhatter and Bobby Darin play the last night in a week of shows at The Empire, Glasgow, Scotland.
Popular singer Dorothy Dandridge appears US tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Popular singer Dorothy Dandridge appears on tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Big Mama Thornton and her All Star Band plays at The Masonic Temple, Richmond, California, USA.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.