Music History on October 11

1948 "Love Life" opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 252 performances
1948 Frank Loesser's musical "Where's Charley?", starring Ray Bolger, and directed by George Abbott, opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 792 performances and wins a Tony Award

On Your Toes

1954 Revival of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "On Your Toes" opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 64 performances

1967 "Yoko Plus Me" art exhibition by Yoko Ono opens in London (the "Me" is John Lennon)

1969 American blues musician Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3

1974 Columbia Records releases "Streetlife Serenade", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's third studio album

1976 10th Country Music Association Awards: Mel Tillis wins
1978 Columbia Records releases "52nd Street", singer-songwriter Billy Joel's sixth studio album; it becomes his 1st chart-topper, and wins 3 Grammy Awards

1979 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 53 performances

1981 Then unknown musician Prince Rogers Nelson opens for The Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum

1982 16th Country Music Association Awards: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skaggs win

1983 "Can't Slow Down" second studio album by Lionel Richie is released

1990 "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances
2018 Swedish dramatic soprano Nina Stemme is awarded the fourth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize

2019 NBA YoungBoy releases the album mixtape "AI YoungBoy 2" which debuts at #1 on the US Billboard 200

2022 Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour with a show in Seattle, Washington after his testing positive for COVID-19