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 23 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.
Bread play the fourth of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by locally-popular blues-rock band Smokestack Lightning.
Jimmy Cliff scores his first hit in the USA when Wonderful World, Beautiful People enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart, where it will peak at No7.
Read More
Spirit play the second of three nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Pyramids play at The California Ballroom, Dunstable, UK.
The Upsetters play at The Four Aces, Dalston, UK.
Today's edition of UK music paper Record Mirror features an illustration depicting Santa Claus with an open sack over his shoulder in which can be seen Bob Dylan, Lulu, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul McCartney, Cilla Black and other pop/rock idols.
The Frost play at Symphony Hall, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Down On The Corner by Creedence Clearwater Revival peaks at No19 in the UK Top Twenty singles chart.
The Miami Rock Festival, a three-day event, begins in Miami, Florida, USA, with featured acts including Canned Heat, Vanilla Fudge and B.B. King. The event is billed as 'the last rock festival of the 60s'.
Judas Priest play at The Locarno Ballroom, Montrose, Scotland.
The Supremes register their 12th US No1 Billboard Top 40 chart hit single with Someday We'll Be Together. On the same day the song reaches No1 in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
Jimi Hendrix continues rehearsals in New York City, USA, with Band Of Gypsys for their upcoming Fillmore East show.
The Third Ear Band play at The Van Dike Club, Plymouth, UK.
The Pioneers play at The Golden Star Club, North London, UK.
Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin becomes the No1 album in the USA, making it America's last No1 album of the 60s.
Entering at No34, the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the top-selling singles in the USA is Without Love by Tom Jones.
Blood, Sweat And Tears, Appaloosa, and The Allman Brothers Band play the second of three nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA.
Badfinger play at The Civic Hall, Solihull, UK.