Music Events:

• 1855 - First performance of Offenbach's "Entrez, messieurs, mesdames" and "Une Nuit blanche" Paris.


• 1913 - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine recorded by Henry Burr & Albert Campbell begins a run of 3 weeks at #1 on the US charts.


• 1930 - Jimmie Rodgers recorded "Those Gambler's Blues"


• 1930 - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes recorded by Nat Shilkret begins a run of 7 weeks at #1 on the US charts.


• 1931 - First performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' ballet Job, A Masque for Dancing in London.


• 1939 - Vocalist Billie Holiday records Them There Eyes


• 1941 - The Band Played On recorded by Guy Lombardo begins a run of 2 weeks at #1 on the US charts.


• 1947 - Peg O' My Heart recorded by Buddy Clark begins a run of 6 weeks at #1 on the US charts.


• 1952 - Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" charted.


• 1952 - Delicado recorded by Percy Faith goes to #1 on the US charts for a week.


• 1954 - Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He sang That's All Right (Mama) and Blue Moon of Kentucky.


• 1954 - Elvis Presley cut his first sessions for Sun Records .


• 1958 - Webb Pierce recorded the Top 10 single "Falling Back to You"


• 1969 - Merle Haggard's #1 single, "Workin' Man Blues" charted.


• 1969 - Spinning Wheel recorded by Blood, Sweat & Tears peaks at #2 on the Top 100 chart for 3 weeks.


• 1973 - Vocalist Ella Fitzgerald records Carnegie Hall, ’73


• 1980 - George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" hit #1 on the country chart.


• 1980 - John Conlee debuted on the Grand Ole Opry.


• 1986 - There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) recorded by Billy Ocean goes tot #1 on the US charts for 1 week.


• 1986 - Janet Jackson (age 20) became the youngest artist since Stevie Wonder to have a #1 album in the US with Control.


• 1990 - First performance of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Clarinet Quintet. David Shifrin soloist at a Chamber Music Northwest concert in Portland, OR.