Ol' Man River
1928 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records featuring Bing Crosby
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
1968 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" first performed as a 15-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London
- 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 performances
- 1969 After 88 weeks, the Beatles' album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" drops off the charts
Music History
1969 Jim Morrison allegedly exposes himself on stage at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Florida
Dark Side of the Moon
1973 Harvest (UK) and Capitol Records (US) release Pink Floyd's 8th studio album "Dark Side of the Moon"; it stays on Billboard Top 200 Album charts for most of the next 14 years, selling over 50 million copies worldwide
Music Concert
1974 George Harrison announces his concert tour of US in November
- 1975 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
- 1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
Academy of Country Music Awards
1976 11th Academy of Country Music Awards: Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn win
Sophisticated Ladies
1981 Duke Ellington's musical "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne, NYC; runs for 767 performances
Music History
1985 American singer Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for substance abuse rehabilitation
- 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco NYC after 41 performances
- 1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
Grammy Awards
1994 36th Grammy Awards: "I Will Always Love You"; Whitney Houston; Sting; Toni Braxton; Mary Chapin-Carpenter win
Grammy Awards
1995 37th Grammy Awards: "All I Want to Do" by Sheryl Crow; "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen win
Music History
1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert" opens at Lyceum Theater, NYC; runs for limited run of 16 performances
17th Soul Train Music Awards
2003 17th Soul Train Music Awards: LL Cool J, Mariah Carey & Nelly win
Joni Mitchell Receives Gershwin Prize
2023 Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.