; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=1,12 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $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 ;# ;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file ;# ;# 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). ;# 00000117 Led Zeppelin's first album released (1969)%s19690117 00000119 Premiere of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore in Rome (1853)%s18530119 00000125 Bob Dylan plays second "Hurricane" benefit (Astrodome, 1978)%s19780125 00000126 The song "We are the World" is recorded as a benefit to starving Africans (1985)%s19850126 00000128 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden (1970)%s19700128 00000129 John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" is first performed (1728)%s17280129 00000130 1st jazz record in United States is cut. (1917)%s19170130 00000130 The first jazz record was cut by "The Original Dixieland Jazz Band" (1917)%s19170130 00000131 Grateful Dead busted (New Orleans, 1970)%s19700131 00000203 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, & Big Bopper killed in plane crash ("The Day The Music Died"), outside Mason City, IA (1959)%s19590203 00000205 Glenn Miller records Tuxedo Junction (1940)%s19400205 00000207 Beatles arrive in America for first time (1964)%s19640207 00000207 Steven Stills makes first digitally recorded rock album (1979)%s19790207 00000207 The Beatles first visit the United States (1964)%s19640207 00000209 Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan show (and American TV) for the first time. (1964)%s19640209 00000212 Beatles play Carnegie Hall (New York City, 1964)%s19640212 00000219 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" banned in Britain (1972)%s19720219 00000220 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden without advertising (1974)%s19740220 00000225 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, first performs at Carnegie Hall (1953)%s19530225 00000303 Buffalo Springfield formed (Los Angeles, 1966)%s19660303 00000304 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer. (1678)%s16780304 00000307 Last Gilbert and Sullivan opera produced (1896)%s18960307 00000312 Randy Stonehill's birthday 00000313 Allman Brothers record live album (Fillmore East, 1971)%s19710313 00000321 The Beatles first appeared at the Cavern Club (1961)%s19610321 00000322 Ten Years After plays their last concert (1974)%s19740322 00000326 Emerson, Lake, & Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live (1971)%s19710326 00000327 David Mullen's birthday 00000329 Dr. Hook gets group picture on cover of "Rolling Stone" (1973)%s19730329 00000329 Phil Keaggy's birthday 00000410 Paul McCartney announces departure from Beatles (1970)%s19700410 00000413 The twenty-three year old Van Cliburn of Kilgore, Texas wins the Tchaikovsky competition (1958)%s19580413 00000418 Gene Autry records "Back in the Saddle Again" (1936)%s19360418 00000418 Yes breaks up after 13 years (1981)%s19810418 00000419 The musical "Carousel" opens (1945)%s19450419 00000420 Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow for the first time since leaving 60 years earlier (1986)%s19860420 00000429 "Hair" premiers on Broadway (1968)%s19680429 00000507 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony presented for first time. (1824)%s18240507 00000512 Pink Floyd performs first quadrophonic concert (1977)%s19770512 00000520 The Jimi Hendrix Experience signed by Reprise Records (1967)%s19670520 00000531 The Who perform loudest concert ever--76,000 watts (1976)%s19760531 00000601 Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper" (1967)%s19670601 00000601 The Beatles release their album "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967)%s19670601 00000606 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's 00000607 Blind Faith debuts in concert (London's Hyde Park, 1969)%s19690607 00000610 Denver police tear gas Jethro Tull & 2000 fans (Red Rocks, 1971)%s19710610 00000611 Jelly Roll Morton records "Kansas City Stomp" (1928)%s19280611 00000616 Monterey Pop festival opens (1967)%s19670616 00000620 The Tallehatchie Bridge, mentioned in the song "Ode to Billy Joe", is torn down (1972)%s19720620 00000621 Columbia Records announces first mass production of LPs (1948)%s19480621 00000702 Felix Pappalardi & Leslie West form Mountain (1969)%s19690702 00000706 Jefferson Airplane formed (San Francisco, 1965)%s19650706 00000712 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" (Kamisky Park, 1979)%s19790712 00000717 "Yellow Submarine" premieres (London Pavilion, 1968)%s19680717 00000725 Bob Dylan goes electric (Newport Folk Festival, 1965)%s19650725 00000725 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut (Fillmore East, 1969)%s19690725 00000728 Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens (1973)%s19730728 00000801 Concert for Bangla Desh (Madison Square Garden, 1971)%s19710801 00000804 John Lennon states "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus" (1966)%s19660804 00000813 Rock group Jefferson Airplane is formed (1965)%s19650813 00000815 Beatles play Shea Stadium (New York City, 1965)%s19650815 00000815 Woodstock, 3 day rock concert, begins. 400,000 people show up! (1969)%s19690815 00000817 The Woodstock Music and Art Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y. (1969)%s19690817 00000826 Jimi Hendrix gives last performance (Isle of Wight, 1970)%s19700826 00000826 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens (New York City, 1970)%s19700826 00000829 The Beatles gave their last public concert at Candlestick Park. (1966)%s19660829 00000909 Ludwig van Beethoven's last public performance. (1825)%s18250909 00000919 Simon & Garfunkel reunite (Central Park, New York City, 1981)%s19810919 00000919 The song "Dixie" is first sung by its composer, a blackfaced minstrel singer, Daniel Decatur Emmett (1859)%s18590919 00000923 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep country (1969)%s19690923 00000926 John Philip Sousa gives his first public concert, playing for the first time "The Liberty Bell March" (1892)%s18920926 00001007 Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York (1954)%s19541007 00001012 The Jimi Hendrix Experience formed (London, 1966)%s19661012 00001019 Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' is performed for first time. (1845)%s18451019 00001022 The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York held its grand opening (1883)%s18831022 00001025 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show (1964)%s19641025 00001027 Opera star Beverly Sills gave her last performance. (1980)%s19801027 00001028 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky debuts his 6th Symphony, the "Pathetique" in St. Petersburg (1893)%s18931028 00001102 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters U.S. charts at 00001109 First issue of "Rolling Stone" published (1967)%s19671109 00001115 Al Jolson puts on blackface for the first time (1909)%s19091115 00001116 Bill Ham first demonstrates psychedelic "Light Show" (1965)%s19651116 00001121 Jack Benny (Violin) & Richard Nixon (Piano) play their famed duet. (1959)%s19591121 00001123 Enrico Caruso made his American debut in New York appearing in Rigoletto (1903)%s19031123 00001125 "The Last Waltz" concert played by The Band at Winterland (1976)%s19761125 00001125 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" (1867)%s18671125 00001126 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall (1968)%s19681126 00001127 Premier of the Ravel's "Concerto for the Left Hand" (1931)%s19311127 00001203 Montreux Casino burns down during Frank Zappa concert (1971)%s19711203 00001206 Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway (near San Francisco, 1969)%s19691206 00001209 The Who's "Tommy" premieres (London, 1973)%s19731209 00001213 George Gershwin's composition "An American in Paris" makes its debut in Carnegie hall (1928)%s19281213 00001216 Don McLean's "American Pie" released (1971)%s19711216 00001223 First Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, Thespis (1871)%s18711223 00001224 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain. (1910)%s19101224 00001225 John Philip Sousa composes "Stars and Stripes Forever" (1896)%s18961225 00001225 The Christmas Carol "Silent Night" was song for the first time at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria (1818)%s18181225 00001227 "Sweet Adaline", a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung. (1903)%s19031227 00001231 Jimi Hendrix introduces Band of Gypsies at Fillmore East (1969)%s19691231