Months in 1948: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 9 of 9
Jan 13th - 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin
Jan 24th - "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 124 perfs
Mar 20th - 1st live televised musical Eugene Ormandy on CBS followed in 90
Mar 20th - 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC
Mar 21st - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
May 18th - "Ballet Ballads" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 62 performances
May 24th - Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
Jul 10th - "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances
Nov 29th - 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (NYC)
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 258
Jan 2nd - Kerry Minnear,
Dorset, English rocker (Gentle Giant)
Jan 3rd - Larry McNeeley,
Lafayette Ind, banjo player (Glen Campbell Hour)
Jan 7th - Kaz Lux,
Poland/Netherland, singer
Jan 7th - Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, singer (& Messina-This is it, Footloose)
Jan 9th - Bill Cowsill,
Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
Jan 9th - Paul King, Dagenham Essex, English rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
Jan 10th - Cyril Neville,
US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon)
Jan 10th - Donald Fagen, Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)
Jan 10th - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
Jan 14th - T-Bone Burnett,
musician/producer
Jan 14th - Tim Harris, rocker (Foundations)
Jan 15th - Ronnie Van Zant,
rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Jan 17th - Mick Taylor,
rock bassist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
Jan 17th - Anne Queffélec, French pianist
Jan 20th - Melvyn Paul Pritchard, England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
Jan 22nd - Gilbert Levine,
American conductor
Jan 23rd - Anita Pointer,
Oakland, rock vocalist (Pointer Sisters-She's So Shy)
Jan 24th - Michael Des Barres,
British actor and rock singer
Jan 26th - Corky Laing,
rocker (Mountain)
Jan 27th - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That's Dancing)
Jan 29th - Bill Kirchen,
singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
Jan 29th - Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On)
Jan 29th - Marc Singer, Vancouver Canada, actor (V, Dallas)
Feb 2nd - Alan McKay,
rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland)
Feb 2nd - Tony DeMeur, rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge)
Rocker Alice Cooper (Feb 4th)
Feb 4th - Alice Cooper,
[Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker (School's Out)
Feb 5th - David Denny,
rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
Feb 5th - Nigel Tufnel, rocker (Spinal Tap)
Feb 7th - Jimmy Greenspoon,
LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
Feb 8th - Dan Seals,
McCamey Texas, country singer (England Dan & John Ford Coley-You Still Move Me)
Feb 17th - José José,
Mexican singer and actor
Feb 18th - Ketih Knudsen,
Ames IA, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
Feb 19th - Mark Andes,
Philadelphia Pa, rock bassist (Spirit, Heart, Fireball)
Feb 19th - Tony Iommi, rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)
Feb 20th - Billy Zoom, musician
Feb 27th - Eddie Gray,
rock guitarist (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
Mar 1st - Burning Spear,
[Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
Mar 1st - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
Mar 2nd - Larry Carlton,
rock composer (Against All Odds, Who's the Boss)
Mar 2nd - Rory Gallagher, Donegal, Irish rock guitarist and songwriter (See Here)
Mar 4th - Chris Squire,
London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
Mar 4th - Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], Wales, rocker (You Drive Me Crazy)
Mar 5th - Eddy Grant,
Guyana, reggae performer (Electric Avenue)
Mar 5th - Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
Mar 5th - Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
Mar 5th - Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
Mar 8th - Little Peggy March,
[Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
Mar 9th - Jeffrey Osborne,
Providence RI, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)
Mar 9th - Jimmy Fadden, Long Beach California, singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
Mar 11th - George Kooymans,
Dutch guitarist/singer (Golden Earring)
Mar 12th - Dana Walden,
rock keyboardist (Champaign)
Mar 12th - James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
Mar 12th - Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
Mar 16th - Michael Bruce,
rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)
Mar 17th - Pat Lloyd, rocker
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Mar 22nd)
Mar 22nd - Andrew Lloyd Webber,
London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
Mar 22nd - Randy Hobbs, rocker (Johnny Winter Band, McCoys)
Mar 23rd - David Olney,
American musician
Mar 25th - Kelly Garrett,
actress/singer (Holdin)
Mar 25th - Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
Mar 26th - Kyung-Wha Chung,
Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
Mar 26th - Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO)
Mar 26th - Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
Mar 28th - John Evans,
(Aka Evan) rock drummer (Jethro Tull)
Mar 30th - Dave Ball,
rocker (Procul Harum)
Mar 30th - Jim Dandy Mangrum, vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy)
Mar 31st - Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
Apr 1st - Jimmy Cliff,
Reggae singer
Apr 1st - Simon Crowe, rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye)
Apr 2nd - Dimitris Mitropanos,
Greek singer
Apr 3rd - Garrick Ohlsson,
Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
Apr 4th - Berry Oakley,
Chicago Ill, rocker (Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man)
Apr 4th - Gail Davies, Broken Bow Ok, country singer (Blue Heartache)
Apr 4th - Pick Withers, rocker (Dire Straits)
Apr 7th - Carol Douglas,
American singer
Apr 12th - Sandra "Lois" Reeves,
American singer
Apr 14th - Larry Ferguson,
Nassau, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
Apr 14th - Ty Grimes, rocker (Capt Beefheart Band Drums
Apr 15th - Michael Kamen,
American composer (d. 2003)
Apr 17th - Jan Hammer,
composer (Escape from TV, Miami Vice)
Apr 18th - Catherine Malfitano,
NYC, soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
Apr 20th - Craig Frost,
keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
Apr 21st - Paul Davis,
Meridian Mi, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
Apr 27th - Katie Pierson,
NJ, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)
Apr 28th - Dorothée Berryman,
French Canadian actress and singer
Apr 30th - Wayne Kramer,
guitarist (MC5, Dangerous Madness)
May 1st - James Wise,
US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 36 of 36
Jan 1st - Hermann K J Zilcher,
German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66
Jan 1st - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73
Jan 21st - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,
composer, dies at 72
Jan 26th - Ignaz Friedman,
composer, dies at 65
Feb 7th - "Red" McKenzie,
blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
Feb 21st - Frederick Archibald Lamond,
composer, dies at 80
Mar 27th - Karel Candael,
Flemish composer, dies at 64
Apr 21st - Carlos Lopez Buchardo,
composer, dies at 66
Apr 24th - Joseph Wihtol,
composer, dies at 84
Apr 24th - Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
May 8th - Alfred Holy,
composer, dies at 81
May 12th - Isidor Achron,
composer, dies at 55
May 24th - Alfred Kastner,
composer, dies at 78
May 31st - Jose Vianna da Motta,
composer, dies at 80
Jun 1st - Sonny Boy Williamson,
[John Lee], blues player, dies at 34
Jun 7th - Georges Adolphe Hue,
composer, dies at 90
Jun 8th - Franz Carl Bornschein,
composer, dies at 69
Jun 14th - Ernst Henrik Ellberg,
composer, dies at 79
Jun 14th - John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80
Jun 20th - George Frederick Boyle,
composer, dies at 61
Jun 27th - George Templeton Strong,
composer, dies at 92
Jul 21st - Donald Nichols Tweedy,
composer, dies at 58
Jul 27th - Francesco Spetrino,
composer, dies at 91
Aug 20th - David John de Lloyd,
composer, dies at 65
Aug 26th - Oscar L Fernandez,
Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
Aug 27th - Oley Speaks,
composer, dies at 74
Aug 27th - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, composer, dies at 50
Oct 23rd - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa,
composer, dies at 71
Oct 24th - Franz Lehar,
Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78
Nov 12th - Umberto Giordano,
composer, dies at 81
Nov 23rd - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov,
composer, dies at 63
Nov 24th - Raoul Armand Georg Koczalski,
composer, dies at 64
Nov 30th - Franco Vittadini,
composer, dies at 64
Dec 7th - Godfrey Turner,
composer, dies at 35
Dec 14th - Reginald Owen Morris,
composer, dies at 62
Dec 17th - Edgar Istel,
composer, dies at 68
