Music History on September 24

1884 Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC
1906 Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom's operetta musical "The Red Mill" opens at the Knickerbocker Theater, NYC

Elmer the Great

1928 George M. Cohan and Ring Lardner's musical play "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC

1930 Noël Coward's play "Private Lives" premieres in London

1955 "The Judy Garland Special" kicks off the anthology performance series "Ford Star Jubilee" on CBS-TV

1955 Ray Golden's musical revue "Catch a Star!" closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 23 performances

1957 "Jailhouse Rock" single released by Elvis Presley (Billboard Song of the Year 1957)

1964 Ringo Starr forms Brikley Building Company Ltd

1969 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati

1976 "Oh! Calcutta!" revival opens at Edison Theater, NYC; runs for 5,959 performances, Broadway’s longest-running musical revue

1977 Russian musical review "Estrada" closes a limited run at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 7 performances

1984 Paul McCartney releases single "No More Lonely Nights"

1991 Rock band Nirvana release their second studio album "Nevermind"

1995 Latin musicians Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat is hit by a jet skier who dies from his injuries off of South Beach, Miami, Florida

1997 31st Country Music Association Awards: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait win

2010 "The Social Network" directed by David Fincher and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake premieres at the New York Film Festival

2022 Farm Aid held in Raleigh, North Carolina; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews. Margo Price, Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats [1]