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Who we are?
This Week in
Music History
December 9
- 1954 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honored guest of Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- 1964 John Coltrane's Quartet records their greatest work "A Love Supreme" at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
December 9
December 10
- 1927 "Grand Ole Opry" first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
- 1947 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (30) weds bass player Ray Brown (21)
- 1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
- 1967 Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter (Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay), dies in a plane crash at 26
December 10
December 11
- 1946 Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
- 1951 "The Wild Side of Life" single recorded by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (Billboard Song of the Year 1952)
- 1960 Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York City
- 1961 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
- 1964 Sam Cooke, American singer described as "the inventor of soul music" (You Send Me), dies at age 33
December 11
December 12
December 12
- 1792 In Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
- 1915 Frank Sinatra, American singer (Strangers in the Night, My Way) and actor (From Here to Eternity) known as 'old blue eyes', born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1998)
- 1926 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert premieres in Leningrad
- 1965 The Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales)
December 13
- 1895 First complete execution of Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony
- 1961 The Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
- 1961 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
- 1979 "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
December 13
December 14
- 1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
- 1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico" premieres in NYC
- 1969 "Leaving on a Jet Plane" single sung by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by John Denver is No. 1 on US Billboard's Hot Top 100
- 1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe" premieres in London
December 14
December 15
- 1943 Thomas W "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 39 in KC Missouri
- 1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
- 1955 "Folsom Prison Blues" single released by Johnny Cash (Billboard Song of the Year 1968)