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2006 Apple's iTunes store sells it's 1 billionth song

1997 Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82

1996 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine

1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"

1995 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled's Song

1995 Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years

1994 Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88

1994 Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71

1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 53 performances

1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton

1993 "Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 53 performances

1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song

1992 "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per

1992 Bobby Russell, song writer (Honey, Little Green Apples), dies at 52

1992 SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival

1992 Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74

1991 Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song

1991 Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40

1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors

1987 Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released

1987 Boudleaux Bryant, song writer (for Everly Bros), dies at 67

1987 Dorothy Patrick, actress (Torch Song, New Orleans, High Wall), dies

1986 "Song and Dance" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 474 performances

1986 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45

1986 "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the U.K. pop chart

1985 "Song and Dance" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 474 performances

1983 37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy and Cats win

1982 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87

1982 Henry King, U.S. director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies

1982 "Play Me a Country Song" opens and closes at Virginia Theater New York City

1981 Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in New York City

1981 "They're Playing Our Song" closes at Imperial New York City after 1082 performances

1981 Ray Harrison, dancer (American Song), dies at 64

1981 Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67

1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)

1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6

1979 "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances

1979 Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in New York City

1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1979 Today Show gets a new theme song

1976 George Harrison releases "This Song"

1976 Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91

1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python

1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts

1975 Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54

1975 "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival

1975 Teach-In wins Eurovision Song Festival with "Dinge-Dong"

1973 "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 15 performances

1973 "Desert Song" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 15 performances

1971 TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV

1970 Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80

1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"

1969 Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), dies

1968 Julia Sawalha, actress, Saffron-Abfab, Chrissy-Buddy's Song

1968 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117

1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)

1966 Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry)

1965 Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90

1963 Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"

1963 Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"

1963 Marcus Lewis, born in Pontiac, Michigan, singer, Sing me a Song

1963 Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits U.K. charts

1963 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else

1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record

1960 Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker, Lilac Time-Paradise Song

1960 "Flower Drum Song" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 602 performances

1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"

1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1

1958 "Flower Drum Song" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 602 performances

1958 Carl Brisson, actor (Ship Cafe, Ring, Song of Soho), dies at 64

1957 Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Washington D.C.

1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"

1955 Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!"

1955 Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)

1955 Alice Joyce, actress (Song O' My Heart), dies at 65

1954 Harvey Fierstein, born in Brooklyn, New York, playwright, Torch Song Trilogy, ID4

1950 Lusty Song wins Hambletonian

1950 "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 35 performances

1950 "Dance Me a Song" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 35 performances

1949 Tom Waits, born in California, rocker/song writer, Blue Valentine

1949 Gayl Jones, U.S. author and poet, Corregidora, Song for Anninho

1949 Dmitri Shostakovitch' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad

1948 "Carib Song" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 36 performances

1947 Russ Abbott, British TV comedian, September Song

1947 Rubert Holmes, Tenafly, New Jersey, vocalist, Pina Colada song

1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released

1946 Tommy Lee Jones, actor, Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday, Fugitive

1946 "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 142 performances

1946 "Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 142 performances

1945 "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 36 performances

1944 Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in New York City

1939 Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress, Flower Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong

1939 Nancy Kwan, born in Hong Kong, actress, Flower Drum Song, Night Creature

1939 James Caan, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather

1937 Paul Stookey, Balt, singer, Peter, Paul and Mary-Wedding Song

1937 Kamahl, [Kamalesvaran], Australian singer, Elephant Song

1937 Teddy Randazzo, song writer, I'm on the Outside Looking In

1937 Anne Kristen, actress, Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr. Finlay, Sunset Song

1936 Levi Stubbs, rocker, 4 Tops-Same Old Song

1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68

1935 Pierre Kartner, [Father Abraham], Dutch singer, Smurf Song

1935 John Pepper Clark, born in Nigeria, writer, Horn, Song of a Goat

1933 Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Burgos, Spain, conductor, World of Song

1932 Fernando Arrabal, Spanish song/romance writer, Baal Babilonia

1931 Toni Morrison, born in Ohio, novelist, Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon

1929 Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, R&B singer, My Song

1929 Willem Kersters, Flemish composer, Parwati, Gospel Song

1927 Harry Belafonte, calypso singer

1926 Rene Goscinny, French song/cartoon text writer, Asterix

1922 Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer

1919 Betty Comden, Brooklyn, song writer, Comden and Green-Bells are Ringing

1918 Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published

1914 Pee Wee King, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, country vocalist, Pee Wee King Song

1913 Paul Felix, Flemish architect, Sun Song

1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies

1912 W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912

1911 Gustav Mahlers "Tie Song of the Erde" premieres in Munich

1909 Elisabeth Welch, singer, Song of Freedom, Over the Moon

1906 Kam Tong, actor, Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song

1905 Boris Alexandrov, conductor, Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble

1902 Jan RT Campert, writer, Song the 18 dead

1902 Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography, Silent Song

1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) dedicated

1890 Alice Joyce, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actress, Song O' My Heart

1889 Marjorie Rambeau, born in San Francisco, California, actress, Primrose Path, Torch Song

1886 Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer, Hiawatha's Song

1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75

1881 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet and writer, Pipelines, Jewish Song

1873 Guy Standing, English actor, Cradle Song

1870 John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist

1867 Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor, Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth

1859 Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet, Iris, Wood Song

1855 Heinrich Hart, German writer, Song of Humanity

1821 Pierre Dupont, song writer

1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schafers Klageleid"

1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt

1799 Frantisek L. Celakovsky, Czech poet, national anthem, folk song

1797 Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna

1768 Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's 1st patriotic song

1767 Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist and composer, Song of the Clock



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