Today in Music History (Part 4)
Sub-Topics: Blues - Country & Western - Dance - Folk Music - Heavy Metal - Jazz - Opera - Pop Music - Reggae - Rock n Roll - Songwriter
Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 499
1978-06-21 - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Rice's musical "Evita," premiers in London
1978-10-09 - 12th Country Music Assn Award
1978-10-09 - John Kander & Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in NYC
1978-12-21 - "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
1979-01-12 - 6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
1979-01-26 - Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth
1979-02-11 - Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC
1979-05-02 - 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell
1979-05-31 - Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
1979-10-08 - 13th Country Music Assn Award:[Approx]
1979-10-08 - J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies," premieres in NYC
1979-11-01 - A L Webber musical "Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres
1979-11-02 - Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London
1980-03-08 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
1980-05-01 - 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins
1980-05-14 - "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
1980-05-25 - "Musical Chairs" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 15 performances
1980-06-09 - 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1980-08-25 - Gower Champion's musical "42nd Street," premieres in NYC
1980-10-13 - 14th Country Music Assn Award:[approx]
1981-01-30 - 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins
1981-02-01 - Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
1981-02-19 - George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine"
1981-03-12 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981-03-31 - 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1981-04-19 - William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in NYC
1981-04-30 - 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones
1981-05-11 - Andrew Lloyd Webber/TS Eliot's musical "Cats," premieres in London
1981-05-12 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" opens at Nederlander NYC for 333 perfs
1981-06-08 - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
1981-10-12 - 15th Country Music Assn Award:
1981-12-20 - Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in NYC
1982-01-25 - 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1982-02-04 - Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes," premieres in NYC
1982-02-14 - "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1982-04-29 - 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell
1982-05-09 - Arthur Kopit's musical "Nine," premieres in NYC
1982-06-07 - 16th Music City News Country Awards: Barbara Mandrell
1982-06-30 - "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander NYC after 333 perfs
1982-07-01 - ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)
1982-07-20 - T Macauly & D Vosburghs musical "Windy City," premieres in London
1982-07-27 - Menken & Ashman's musical "Little Shop of Horrors," premieres in NYC
1982-10-11 - 16th Country Music Assn Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skagg
1983-01-17 - 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers
1983-02-13 - E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in NYC
1983-05-09 - 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson
1983-06-06 - 17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff
1983-10-10 - 17th Country Music Assn Award: Alabama wins
1983-12-04 - David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby," premieres in NYC
1983-12-21 - Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in NYC
1984-01-16 - 11th American Music Award: Michael Jackson
1984-05-14 - 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama
1984-06-04 - 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
1984-07-11 - England's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1984-09-25 - 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented
1984-10-08 - 18th Country Music Assn Award: Alabama wins
1984-10-31 - Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London
1985-01-28 - 12th American Music Award
1985-04-25 - Roger Miller's musical "Big River," premieres in NYC
1985-05-08 - 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Judds win
1985-06-10 - 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
1985-08-10 - Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1985-09-22 - Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
1985-10-14 - 19th Country Music Assn Award: Ricky Skaggs wins
1985-12-02 - Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in NYC
1986-01-27 - 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
1986-04-14 - 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire
1986-06-09 - 20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
1986-09-05 - MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins
1986-10-13 - 20th Country Music Assn Award:
1987-01-26 - 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
1987-03-24 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987-04-06 - 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1987-06-08 - 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987-07-01 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1987-10-12 - 21st Country Music Assn Award: Hank William Jr wins
1987-11-05 - Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres
1988-01-25 - 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston
1988-03-21 - 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
1988-03-30 - 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988-04-14 - "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988-05-14 - "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1988-06-06 - 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers
1988-10-10 - 22nd Country Music Assn Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1989-01-30 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
1989-04-10 - 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
1989-04-12 - 3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker
1989-04-13 - "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1989-04-22 - "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs
1989-06-05 - 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
1989-09-20 - Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
1989-10-09 - 23rd Country Music Assn Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
1989-10-12 - Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London
1989-10-19 - Astor Piazzolla & Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in NYC
1989-11-12 - George Forest's musical "Grand Hotel," premieres in NYC
1989-11-15 - "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1989-12-07 - C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in NYC
1990-01-22 - 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
1990-03-14 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990-04-09 - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 1,700
1924-08-02 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
1924-08-31 - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (God's Little Acre, Music Man)
1924-10-18 - Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster, Canadian musician
1924-12-14 - Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
1925-01-25 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
1925-02-22 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925-03-04 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1925-03-06 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1925-03-13 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1925-04-18 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician
1925-04-26 - Jørgen Ingmann, Danish musician
1925-04-30 - Johnny Horton, American musician (d. 1960)
1925-05-23 - Mac Wiseman, American musician
1925-07-16 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1925-07-19 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1925-08-09 - Robert Heppener, composer (Hymns & Conversations, Movie Music)
1925-08-28 - Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1925-09-01 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)
1925-09-16 - B. B. King, American musician
1925-11-30 - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician
1926-01-01 - Claire Polin [Schaff], composer flautist/musicologist
1926-02-02 - Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
1926-03-04 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926-12-25 - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and musician (d. 1987)
1927-01-28 - Ronnie Scott, jazz musician/club-owner
1927-03-17 - Kenneth S Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist
1927-03-20 - John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer (Chamber Music for brass quintet)
1927-05-01 - William Mitchell Byers, musician
1927-05-05 - Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
1927-07-07 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
1927-09-08 - Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
1927-09-20 - Johnny Dankworth, English musician and composer
1927-10-25 - Barbara Cook, Atlanta Ga, stage singer/actress (Music Man)
1927-11-18 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
1928-02-02 - Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
1928-03-12 - Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928-03-12 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
1928-04-03 - Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
1928-04-19 - Alexis Korner, Paris, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him)
1928-07-14 - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
1928-07-17 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1928-07-20 - Peter Ind, jazz musician
1928-08-08 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
1928-08-28 - James Wild, music teacher
1928-08-30 - Johnny Mann, Balt Md, music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
1928-09-09 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician (Black Messiah)
1928-10-04 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
1928-11-10 - Ennio Morricone, Rome Italy, composer/musician
1928-12-28 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (d. 2001)
1929-01-02 - Art Prysock, jazz musician
1929-01-15 - "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
1929-02-25 - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1929-03-26 - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1929-04-09 - Harvey Lichtenstein, pres (Bkln Academy of Music)
1929-06-23 - Dave King, Twickenham England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1929-09-23 - Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster
1929-11-19 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
1929-12-03 - Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance)
1929-12-12 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1929-12-13 - Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
1930-03-18 - Pat Halcox, British musician
1930-03-19 - Ornette Coleman, jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1930-04-24 - Jerome Callet, American musician
1930-08-13 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
1930-09-23 - Ray Charles, American musician (d. 2004)
1931-01-25 - Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
1931-03-07 - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
1931-05-17 - Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1931-10-14 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1931-11-16 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
1931-12-01 - Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986)
1931-12-26 - Thomas Eden Binkley, musician
1932-02-11 - Jerome Lowenthal, Phila, pianist/prof (Jerusalem Academy of Music)
1932-04-12 - Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
1932-04-26 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
1932-07-07 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
1932-12-09 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician
1933-03-06 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer
1933-04-15 - Roy Clark, American musician
1933-11-29 - John Mayall, MacClesfield England, pop musician (Don't Washed Me Time)
1933-12-05 - Bernard van Beurden, Dutch composer/music educator
1934-01-30 - Tammy Grimes, Lynn Mass, actress (Can't Stop the Music)
1934-02-07 - Earl King, American musician (d. 2003)
1934-03-04 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician
1934-03-07 - Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
1934-04-17 - Don Kirshner, rock & roll producer (invented bubblegum music)
1934-04-29 - Otis Rush, American musician
1934-06-07 - Samuel Lipman, music critic
1934-09-07 - Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
1934-10-07 - [Everett] LeRoi Jones, [Amiri Baraka], US writer (Black Music)
1934-10-26 - Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia)
1934-10-30 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1934-11-14 - Ellis Marsalis, jazz musician
1935-01-10 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
1935-03-30 - Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
1935-04-11 - Richard Berry, musician
1935-04-23 - Bunky Green, American musician
1935-10-01 - Julie Andrews, England, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
1936-01-09 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher
1936-03-19 - Amancio D'Silva, musician
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 400 of 576
1995-10-31 - Louis Levy Jr, music publisher, dies at 84
1995-11-11 - Kenneth Goldstein, folklorist/enthomusicologist, dies at 68
1995-11-23 - Jr. Walker, American musician (b. 1931)
1995-11-30 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1995-12-25 - Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101
1996-01-06 - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician, dies at 80
1996-01-08 - William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud, musician/songwriter, dies at 52
1996-01-08 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
1996-01-14 - Pamelo Mounk'a, musician, dies at 50
1996-01-16 - Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1996-01-26 - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1996-02-07 - Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
1996-02-07 - Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
1996-03-19 - Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65
1996-03-22 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1996-03-31 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, musician, dies at 37
1996-04-01 - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89
1996-05-01 - William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
1996-05-11 - Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46
1996-05-19 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, musician, dies at 61
1996-05-21 - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60
1996-05-26 - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician, dies at 45
1996-05-27 - Pud Brown, jazz musician, dies at 79
1996-06-01 - Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48
1996-06-15 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88
1996-06-28 - Willard F. McMurry, musician, dies at 89
1996-07-11 - Louis Gottlieb, musician, dies at 72
1996-07-17 - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996-07-17 - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996-07-19 - Emmanual Tettey Mensah, musician, dies at 77
1996-07-28 - Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
1996-09-09 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996-09-09 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
1996-09-17 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63
1996-10-02 - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85
1996-10-08 - Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85
1996-10-12 - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer, dies at 84
1996-10-16 - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68
1996-10-17 - Christopher Acland, musician, dies at 30
1996-10-22 - John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47
1996-11-13 - William Ballard Doggett, jazz musician, dies at 80
1996-11-19 - Edward Kassner, music publisher, dies at 76
1996-12-05 - Peter Hall, folklorist/musician, dies at 60
1996-12-10 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62
1996-12-18 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist, dies at 74
1996-12-23 - Ronnie Scott, musician/club-owner, dies at 69
1997-01-01 - Townes Van Zandt, musician, dies at 52
1997-01-01 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
1997-01-08 - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76
1997-01-22 - Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster, dies at 66
1997-01-22 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1997-02-02 - Chico Science Francisco Franca, musician, dies at 40
1997-02-10 - Brian McManus Connolly, musician, dies at 47
1997-02-18 - Eric William Fenby, musician, dies at 90
1997-02-23 - Tony Williams, jazz musician, dies at 51
1997-05-29 - Jeff Buckley, musician, drowns at 30
1997-06-02 - Doc Cheatham, jazz musician, dies of stroke at 91
1997-06-12 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
1997-06-21 - Art Prysock, jazz musician, dies at 68
1997-07-12 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian musician (b. 1959)
1997-08-02 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian musician (b. 1938)
1997-08-16 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
1997-09-12 - Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66
1997-09-29 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55
1997-11-05 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959)
1997-11-10 - Tommy Tedesco, American musician (b. 1930)
1997-12-14 - Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
1997-12-24 - Alan Fluck, musical educationalist, dies at 69
1997-12-24 - Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57
1998-01-05 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
1998-01-15 - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
1998-01-16 - David "Junior" Kimbrough, blues musician, dies at 67
1998-01-25 - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher, dies at 99
1998-01-26 - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99
1998-02-05 - Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
1998-02-07 - Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51
1998-02-25 - Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer.
1998-03-12 - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
1998-03-20 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician
1998-04-01 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)
1998-04-05 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1998-05-02 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
1998-05-07 - Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
1998-07-12 - Jimmy Driftwood, American folk songwriter and musician (b. 1907)
1998-10-14 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
1998-12-25 - Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
1999-01-23 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
1999-02-02 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
1999-02-07 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
1999-04-21 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
1999-04-26 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
1999-05-17 - Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian record producer and musician (b. 1949)
1999-06-02 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
1999-06-16 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
1999-07-03 - Mark Sandman, American musician (b. 1952)
1999-07-22 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
1999-08-16 - Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (b. 1914)
1999-08-25 - Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
1999-09-08 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
1999-10-04 - Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
