Yip Yip Yaphank
1918 Irving Berlin's military musical revue "Yip Yip Yaphank" opens at the Century Theater, later transferring to the Lexington, NYC
Radio History
1955 WINS radio (New York City), announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B records (DJ's play Fats Domino's "Ain't That A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
Music History
1969 Film adaptation of Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant", directed by Arthur Penn, and starring Guthrie premieres
- 1973 Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
Pussy Cats
1974 RCA records releases "Pussy Cats", the tenth album by American singer Harry Nilsson in the US; album was produced by John Lennon and Nilsson worked through a serious vocal chord injury which diminished his vaunted range
- 1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1, stays at top for 6 weeks
Music History
2016 City of San Francisco unveils a statue of singer Tony Bennett outside of the Fairmount Hotel, where he first performed his signature song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" in 1961