Today in Music History
Welcome to Today in Music for Tuesday, February 9, 2010.
| Events in Music on this Day in History ... |
1893 - Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1959 - Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1974 - "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1974 - "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1979 - 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
1985 - Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1991 - "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
1992 - Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10)
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| Birthdays in Music on this Day in History ... |
1929 - James Mulcro Drew, composer
1930 - Emil Petrovics, composer
1931 - Xavier Benguerel, composer
1937 - Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
1939 - Barry Mann, RandB singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
More Birthdays in Music on this Day in History
| Deaths in Music on this Day in History ... |
1765 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33
1812 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1817 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
1849 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
1916 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90
More Deaths in Music on this Day in History
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