Months in 1947: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 6 of 6
Feb 18th - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
Apr 26th - "Bless the Bride" musical opens in London
Oct 2nd - "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances
Oct 9th - Julie Styne & Sam Cohn's musical "High Button Shoes," premieres in NYC for 727 performances
Oct 10th - Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro," premieres in NYC
Dec 11th - Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in Wings," premieres in NYC
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 270
Jan 1st - Gary "BB" Coleman,
blues vocal/guitarist/producer
Jan 1st - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
Jan 4th - Chris Cutler,
English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
Jan 7th - David Porcelijn,
Dutch composer/conductor
Jan 8th - David Bowie,
[Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
Jan 8th - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)
Jan 13th - John Lees,
England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
Jan 15th - Pete Waterman,
rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
Jan 17th - Ulysses Dove,
dancer/choreographer
Jan 20th - George Grantham,
rocker (Poco-Crazy Eyes)
Jan 20th - Ronald Townson, rock singer (5th Dimension-We Can Fly)
Jan 21st - Jimmy Ibbotson,
Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Jan 21st - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
Jan 21st - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
Jan 24th - Warren Zevon,
Chicago, rocker (Excitable Boy)
Jan 27th - Nedra Telley,
NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby)
Jan 27th - Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
Jan 29th - David Byron,
vocalist (Uriah Heep)
Jan 29th - Marián Varga, Slovak musician
Jan 30th - Martin Christoph Redel,
composer
Jan 30th - Steve Marriott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Humble Pie-Eat It, Faces)
Feb 1st - Mike Brant,
Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
Feb 1st - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
Feb 2nd - Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
Feb 3rd - Chose Alberts,
[Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years)
Feb 3rd - Dave Davies, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Kinks-Lola)
Feb 3rd - Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come)
Feb 3rd - Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, vocalist/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
Feb 9th - Joe Ely,
Amarillo Tx, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
Feb 9th - Major Harris, US R&B-singer (Love won't Let me wait)
Feb 10th - Butch Morris,
American jazz cornetist and composer
Feb 12th - Guus Willemse,
Dutch bassist/singer (Solution)
Feb 13th - Tony Butler,
rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
Feb 15th - John Adams,
Worcester Mass, composer (Nixon in China)
Feb 17th - Ben Cramer,
Dutch vocalist (Clown)
Feb 18th - Dennis De Young,
Chicago Il, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again)
Feb 24th - Lonnie Turner,
bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
Feb 24th - Rupert Holmes, English musician
Feb 26th - Sandie Shaw [Sandra Goodrich],
Dagenham, Essex, English rocker (Girl Don't Come)
Feb 27th - Gidon Kremer,
Riga Latvia, violinist (Tchaikovsky Prize 1970)
Mar 4th - Jan Garbarek,
Norwegian musician
Mar 5th - Eddie Hodges,
Miss, actor/singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
Mar 5th - Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
Mar 6th - Kiki Dee,
Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
Mar 7th - Donna Loren,
Boston Mass, singer/actress (Beach Blanket Bingo)
Mar 8th - Mike Allsup,
Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
Mar 8th - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
Mar 10th - Tom Scholz,
rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
Mar 11th - Mark Stein,
singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
Mar 13th - Lesley Collier,
British ballet dancer
Mar 13th - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
Mar 15th - Ry[land] Cooder,
LA, blues guitarist (Crossroads)
Mar 15th - Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
Mar 17th - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
Mar 18th - Barry Wilson,
Engld, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
Mar 20th - Carl Palmer,
drummer (Asia-Heat of the Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
Mar 22nd - Harry Vanda,
[Vandenberg], Hague Neth, rock guitarist (Easybeats)
Mar 24th - Mike Kellie,
rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
Mar 24th - Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
Mar 24th - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
Singer Elton John (Mar 25th)
Mar 25th - Elton John,
[Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
Mar 26th - Carmen Krolis,
Suriname/Neth singer
Mar 29th - Bobby Kimball,
[Robert Toteaux], Vinton LA, rocker (Toto-Roseann)
Mar 31st - Al Goodman,
rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
Mar 31st - Jon-Jon Poulos, Chicago Ill, rocker (Buckinghams)
Apr 2nd - Emmylou Harris,
Birmingham Alabama, country singer (Together Again)
Apr 4th - Salvatore Sciarrino,
composer
Apr 6th - Tony Cooner,
Essex, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
Apr 7th - Patricia Bennett,
US singer (He's So Fine)
Apr 7th - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
Apr 7th - Charles 'skip' Pitts, Washington D.C., soul and blues guitarist (Shaft), (d. 2012)
Apr 8th - Steve Howe,
London, rock guitarist (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)
Apr 10th - Bunny Waller,
vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
Apr 10th - Karl Russell, rocker
Apr 10th - Bunny Wailer, Jamaican musician
Apr 13th - Thanos Mikroutsikos,
Greek composer & former minister
Apr 15th - Bojoura,
[Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
Apr 15th - Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
Apr 15th - Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
Apr 15th - Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
Apr 16th - Gerry Rafferty,
Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
Apr 19th - Murray Perahia,
NYC, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988)
Apr 20th - Björn Skifs,
Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
Apr 21st - Alan Warner,
rocker (Foundations)
Rocker Iggy Pop (Apr 21st)
Apr 21st - Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
Apr 21st - John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
Apr 23rd - Saskia,
[Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
Apr 23rd - Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
Apr 24th - Hubert Ann Kelly,
US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 28 of 28
Jan 11th - Eva Tanguay,
Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
Jan 26th - Grace Moore,
American soprano/actress (One Night of Love), dies at 48
Jan 28th - Reynaldo Hahn,
composer, dies at 72
Feb 3rd - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg,
Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74
Feb 6th - Luigi Russolo,
composer, dies at 61
Feb 8th - Ernest Samuel Williams,
composer, dies at 65
Mar 5th - Alfredo Casella,
Italian composer/conductor (La Giara), dies at 63
Mar 6th - Ludwig Weber,
composer, dies at 55
Mar 11th - Victor Hely-Hutchinson,
composer, dies at 45
Mar 19th - Willem F J Pijper,
Dutch composer/critic, dies at 52
Mar 28th - Rudolph Hermann Simonsen,
composer, dies at 57
Apr 6th - Vaclav Kapral,
composer, dies at 58
Apr 9th - Konrad Friedrich Noetel,
composer, dies at 43
May 11th - Ture Rangstrom,
composer, dies at 62
May 30th - Sidney Hugo Nicholson,
composer, dies at 72
May 31st - Henri G Casadesus,
Fr altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66
Jun 2nd - Hermann Darewsky,
composer, dies at 64
Jun 12th - Jazeps Medins,
composer, dies at 70
Jul 1st - Clarence Lucas,
composer, dies at 80
Jul 12th - Jimmie Lunceford,
American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
Jul 15th - Walter Donaldson,
American songwriter (b. 1893)
Jul 24th - Ernest Austin,
composer, dies at 72
Aug 13th - Johan H T Norlind,
Swedish musicologist, dies
Sep 12th - Harry Rowe Shelley,
composer, dies at 89
Sep 28th - Francisco Santiago,
composer, dies at 58
Oct 6th - Leevi Antti Madetoya,
composer, dies at 60
Oct 29th - Theodore Samuel Holland,
composer, dies at 69
