Blue Suede Shoes
1955 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" for Sun Records at Memphis Recording Service studio
The Girl Can't Help It
1956 Musical comedy film "The Girl Can't Help It," starring Jayne Mansfield with cameos by rock 'n' roll stars Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, and Gene Vincent, premieres
- 1957 Meredith Willson's musical "The Music Man", starring Robert Preston and Barbara Cook, opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 1375 performances, wins 5 Tony and a Grammy Award
Ring-A-Ding-Ding
1960 Frank Sinatra's first recording session with Reprise Records, records "Ring-A-Ding-Ding" and "Let's Fall in Love"
- 1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas fan-club single is released
- 1971 Helen Miller and Eve Merriam's musical "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 97 performances
- 1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library [1]
- 1985 "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
- 1991 "A Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 performances
Alice
1992 Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and Kathleen Brennan's avant garde opera "Alice", based on the life and work of Lewis Carroll, premieres at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany
Red Shoes
1993 Marsha Norman, Bob Merrill, and Jule Styne's fairy tale musical "Red Shoes", directed by Stanley Donen, closes at Gershwin Theater, NYC, after 5 performances; loses nearly $8 million
Once Upon a Mattress
1996 Revival of Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer's musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress", starring Sarah Jessica Parker, opens at Broadhurst Theatre, NYC; runs for 188 performances
Got Back Tour Finale
2024 Paul McCartney wraps up his 'Got Back' tour at London's O2 Arena, with guest appearances from Ron Wood during "Get Back", and Ringo Starr drumming on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Helter Skelter"
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