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;# $Header: /home/cna/billr/src/xcalentool/dates/RCS/music,v 1.2 1991/03/07 16:21:19 billr Exp billr $
;# Dates for events in the traditional and popular music world
;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com
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;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
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;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu)
;# and RPC Rodgers, UCSF, Nov. 1988
;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com).
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00000117 Led Zeppelin's first album released (1969)%i19690117
00000119 Premiere of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore in Rome (1853)%i18530119
00000125 Bob Dylan plays second "Hurricane" benefit (Astrodome, 1978)%i19780125
00000126 The song "We are the World" is recorded as a benefit to starving Africans (1985)%i19850126
00000128 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden (1970)%i19700128
00000129 John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" is first performed (1728)%i17280129
00000130 1st jazz record in United States is cut. (1917)%i19170130
00000130 The first jazz record was cut by "The Original Dixieland Jazz Band" (1917)%i19170130
00000131 Grateful Dead busted (New Orleans, 1970)%i19700131
00000203 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, & Big Bopper killed in plane crash ("The Day The Music Died"), outside Mason City, IA (1959)%i19590203
00000205 Glenn Miller records Tuxedo Junction (1940)%i19400205
00000207 Beatles arrive in America for first time (1964)%i19640207
00000207 Steven Stills makes first digitally recorded rock album (1979)%i19790207
00000207 The Beatles first visit the United States (1964)%i19640207
00000209 Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show (and American TV) for the first time. (1964)%i19640209
00000212 Beatles play Carnegie Hall (New York City, 1964)%i19640212
00000219 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" banned in Britain (1972)%i19720219
00000220 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden without advertising (1974)%i19740220
00000225 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, first performs at Carnegie Hall (1953)%i19530225
00000303 Buffalo Springfield formed (Los Angeles, 1966)%i19660303
00000304 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer. (1678)%i16780304
00000307 Last Gilbert and Sullivan opera produced (1896)%i18960307
00000312 Randy Stonehill's birthday
00000313 Allman Brothers record live album (Fillmore East, 1971)%i19710313
00000321 The Beatles first appeared at the Cavern Club (1961)%i19610321
00000322 Ten Years After plays their last concert (1974)%i19740322
00000326 Emerson, Lake, & Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live (1971)%i19710326
00000327 David Mullen's birthday
00000329 Dr. Hook gets group picture on cover of "Rolling Stone" (1973)%i19730329
00000329 Phil Keaggy's birthday
00000410 Paul McCartney announces departure from Beatles (1970)%i19700410
00000413 The twenty-three year old Van Cliburn of Kilgore, Texas wins the Tchaikovsky competition (1958)%i19580413
00000418 Gene Autry records "Back in the Saddle Again" (1936)%i19360418
00000418 Yes breaks up after 13 years (1981)%i19810418
00000419 The musical "Carousel" opens (1945)%i19450419
00000420 Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow for the first time since leaving 60 years earlier (1986)%i19860420
00000429 "Hair" premiers on Broadway (1968)%i19680429
00000507 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time. (1824)%i18240507
00000512 Pink Floyd performs first quadrophonic concert (1977)%i19770512
00000520 The Jimi Hendrix Experience signed by Reprise Records (1967)%i19670520
00000531 The Who perform loudest concert ever--76,000 watts (1976)%i19760531
00000601 Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper" (1967)%i19670601
00000601 The Beatles release their album "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967)%i19670601
00000606 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's
00000607 Blind Faith debuts in concert (London's Hyde Park, 1969)%i19690607
00000610 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull & 2000 fans (Red Rocks, 1971)%i19710610
00000611 Jelly Roll Morton records "Kansas City Stomp" (1928)%i19280611
00000616 Monterey Pop festival opens (1967)%i19670616
00000620 The Tallehatchie Bridge, mentioned in the song "Ode to Billy Joe", is torn down (1972)%i19720620
00000621 Columbia Records announces first mass production of LPs (1948)%i19480621
00000702 Felix Pappalardi & Leslie West form Mountain (1969)%i19690702
00000706 Jefferson Airplane formed (San Francisco, 1965)%i19650706
00000712 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" (Kamisky Park, 1979)%i19790712
00000717 "Yellow Submarine" premieres (London Pavilion, 1968)%i19680717
00000725 Bob Dylan goes electric (Newport Folk Festival, 1965)%i19650725
00000725 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut (Fillmore East, 1969)%i19690725
00000728 Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens (1973)%i19730728
00000801 Concert for Bangla Desh (Madison Square Garden, 1971)%i19710801
00000804 John Lennon states "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus" (1966)%i19660804
00000813 Rock group Jefferson Airplane is formed (1965)%i19650813
00000815 Beatles play Shea Stadium (New York City, 1965)%i19650815
00000815 Woodstock, 3 day rock concert, begins. 400,000 people show up! (1969)%i19690815
00000817 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y. (1969)%i19690817
00000826 Jimi Hendrix gives last performance (Isle of Wight, 1970)%i19700826
00000826 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens (New York City, 1970)%i19700826
00000829 The Beatles gave their last public concert at Candlestick Park. (1966)%i19660829
00000909 Ludwig van Beethoven's last public performance. (1825)%i18250909
00000919 Simon & Garfunkel reunite (Central Park, New York City, 1981)%i19810919
00000919 The song "Dixie" is first sung by its composer, a blackfaced minstrel singer, Daniel Decatur Emmett (1859)%i18590919
00000923 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep country (1969)%i19690923
00000926 John Philip Sousa gives his first public concert, playing for the first time "The Liberty Bell March" (1892)%i18920926
00001007 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York (1954)%i19541007
00001012 The Jimi Hendrix Experience formed (London, 1966)%i19661012
00001019 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time. (1845)%i18451019
00001022 The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York held its grand opening (1883)%i18831022
00001025 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show (1964)%i19641025
00001027 Opera star Beverly Sills gave her last performance. (1980)%i19801027
00001028 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky debuts his 6th Symphony, the "Pathetique" in St. Petersburg (1893)%i18931028
00001102 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters U.S. charts at
00001109 First issue of "Rolling Stone" published (1967)%i19671109
00001115 Al Jolson puts on blackface for the first time (1909)%i19091115
00001116 Bill Ham first demonstrates psychedelic "Light Show" (1965)%i19651116
00001121 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet. (1959)%i19591121
00001123 Enrico Caruso made his American debut in New York appearing in Rigoletto (1903)%i19031123
00001125 "The Last Waltz" concert played by The Band at Winterland (1976)%i19761125
00001125 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" (1867)%i18671125
00001126 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall (1968)%i19681126
00001127 Premier of the Ravel's "Concerto for the Left Hand" (1931)%i19311127
00001203 Montreux Casino burns down during Frank Zappa concert (1971)%i19711203
00001206 Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway (near San Francisco, 1969)%i19691206
00001209 The Who's "Tommy" premieres (London, 1973)%i19731209
00001213 George Gershwin's composition "An American in Paris" makes its debut in Carnegie hall (1928)%i19281213
00001216 Don McLean's "American Pie" released (1971)%i19711216
00001223 First Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, Thespis (1871)%i18711223
00001224 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain. (1910)%i19101224
00001225 John Philip Sousa composes "Stars and Stripes Forever" (1896)%i18961225
00001225 The Christmas Carol "Silent Night" was song for the first time at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria (1818)%i18181225
00001227 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung. (1903)%i19031227
00001231 Jimi Hendrix introduces Band of Gypsies at Fillmore East (1969)%i19691231
