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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