Music History on July 25

Radio Premiere

1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington

Music History

1936 Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker marries his childhood sweetheart Rebecca Ruffin

Music History

1946 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey

  • 1964 Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks
  • 1964 Meredith Wilson's musical "Here's Love", based on thefil "Miracle on 34th Street". closes at Shubert Theater, NYC. after 338 performances

Music History

1965 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock

Music Concert

1966 Brian Jones' final performance as a Rolling Stone

You Can't Hurry Love

1966 The Supremes release single "You Can't Hurry Love"

Music History

1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival (across 3 days); performers included: Bo Diddley, Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Guess Who, Santana, Tim Buckley, Byrds, Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Chicago Transit Authority, Chuck Berry, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors

#1 in the Charts

1970 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song "(They Long to Be) Close to You" as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1

Music Concert

1973 George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album

  • 1975 Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban's musical "A Chorus Line", opens at the Shubert Theatre, NYC; for record setting longest-running Broadway show run of 6,137 performances, and 10 Tony Award wins

Fame

1975 RCA releases David Bowie single "Fame", with cameo appearance by John Lennon

  • 1976 Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's opera "Einstein on the Beach" premieres at Théâtre Municipal, in Avignon, France

Music History

1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image

Back in Black

1980 Atlantic Records/ and Albert Productions release "Back in Black", the seventh studio album by AC/DC; their first featuring lead singer Brian Johnson is a worldwide smash, selling over 50 million copies,

  • 1997 Canadian rocker Rick Danko (The Band) gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling

Music History

2002 Revival of Herb Gardner's stage comedy "I'm Not Rappaport", starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen, opens at the Booth Theatre, NYC; runs for 53 performances