Music History for
April 2
Today's:
1739 - George Frideric Handel's "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" was written.
1800 - Beethoven's "Opus 21: Symphony No. 1 in C major" was first performed for Baron von Swieten.
1803 - Composer Franz Lachner was born.
1942 - Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded "American Patrol."
1963 - "Best Foot Forward" with Liza Minnelli opened in New York City.
1964 - The Beach Boys recorded "I Get Around."
1965 - Freddie & the Dreamers recorded "Do The Freddie."
1965 - The Beach Boys appeared on ABC-TV's Shindig! and performed "Do You Wanna Dance?"
1978 - KISS released the album Double Platinum.
1967 - Steve Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group to form Traffic.
1972 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a news conference in New York to discuss their appeal of the Immigration Department's decision to deport John.
1974 - The British radio station Piccadilly Radio went on the air.
1975 - "Rock and Roll All Nite" / "Getaway" was released by KISS.
1987 - The Prince album Sign O' The Times was released worldwide.
1993 - Roberta Flack appeared on the ABC-TV soap opera Loving.
1997 - Joni Mitchell was reunited with Kilauren Gibb. Gibb was the daughter that Mitchell had given up for adoption 32 years before.
1998 - Rob Pilatus (Milli Vanilli) died in a hotel room in Frankfurt, Germany.
1998 - A new wing opened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened in Cleveland, OH.
1999 - The Black Crowes performed in Knoxville, TN. One of the concertgoers later sued the band for $385,000 in a claim that he had suffered significant hearing loss at the show.
2002 - Lee Anderson Minnelli sued her stepdaughter Liza Minnelli for elder abuse and breach of contract. The claim was filed based on the will of Vincente Minnelli.
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