10 November:STEVE BROOKSTEIN = English jazz and soul singer, winner of first series of The X Factor in 2004
11 November:DAVID L COOK = American Christian country music singer-songwriter, comedian
15 November:
OL' DIRTY BASTARD = American rapper and producer =[died: 2004]
JENNIFER CHARLES = American singer, musician, composer, and poet
21 November:ALEX JAMES = English musician and songwriter, bassist with Blur
25 November:TUNDE BAIYEWU = British singer of Nigerian descent, member of Lighthouse Family
29 November:
MARTIN CARR = British musician, member of The Boo Radleys
JONATHAN KNIGHT = American singer, member of New Kids on the Block
2 December:NATE MENDEL = American bassist for Foo Fighters
9 December:BRIAN BELL = American guitarist, singer and songwriter, member of Weezer
16 December:LALAH HATHAWAY = American vocalist and daughter of Donny Hathaway
Timeline of Musical Events
4 January: Guitarist JIMI HENDRIX is jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist NOEL REDDING.
6 January: Gibson Guitar Corporation patents its Gibson Flying V electric guitar design.
13 January:JOHNNY CASH performs his famous concert at Folsom State Prison in California.
21 January: Simon & Garfunkel release album The Graduate Original Soundtrack.
January: The Beatles launch Apple Corps, Ltd., a disastrously mismanaged entertainment company that included a recording studio, a record label, and clothing store.
1 February:
PRISCILLA PRESLEY gives birth to Elvis' only child, LISA MARIE at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Universal Studios offers The Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film, which is never made.
12 February:JIMI HENDRIX is given an honorary high school diploma from Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. Hendrix is also given the key to the city.
16 February:The Beatles, Mike Love, Mia Farrow, Donovan and others travel to India to visit the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh.
18 February: David Gilmour joins Pink Floyd, replacing founder Syd Barrett, who checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.
21 February: McGraw-Hill, Inc., outbids eight other publishers and pays $150,000 for the U.S. rights to Hunter Davies' authorized biography of the Beatles.
22 February: Florence Ballard of the Supremes is released from her contract with Motown.
28 February: Frankie Lymon dies.
1 March: Johnny Cash and June Carter got married in Franklin, Kentucky. Merle Kilgore was best man. He co-writes "Ring of Fire."
8 March: Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater in New York City.
25 March: The 58th and final new episode of The Monkees airs on NBC.
30 March: The Yardbirds record their live album Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater.
3 April: Simon & Garfunkel release the critically acclaimed album Bookends.
4 April: James Brown appears on national television, in an attempt to calm feelings of anger in the United States following the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
April: The Beatles' new record company, and management and publishing firm, Apple Corps, Ltd., opens offices in London
6 April: The 13th Eurovision Song Contest is held in the Royal Albert Hall, London. The winning song, Spain's "La La La" is sung by Massiel, but only because Spanish authorities wouldn't allow Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan. The UK finish in second place, just one point behind, with the song "Congratulations" sung by Cliff Richard, which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe.
7 April: Singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone's performance at Westbury Music Fair is dedicated to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. The song "Why? (the king of love is dead)" by Gene Taylor is performed for the first time. the show was partially released on the Emmy nominated album Nuff Said (1968).
29 April: The rock musical Hair opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre.
4 May: Mary Hopkin performs on the British TV show Opportunity Knocks. Hopkin catches the attention of model Twiggy, who recommends her to Beatle Paul McCartney. McCartney would soon sign Hopkin to Apple Records.
5 May: Buffalo Springfield performs together for the last time in Long Beach, California.
7 May: Aretha Franklin records her sophomore live LP Aretha In Paris at the Olympia Theater.
7-13 May: Karlheinz Stockhausen composes his fifteen intuitive music works, Aus den sieben Tagen.
26 May: Blues artist Little Willie John dies in prison after being convicted of manslaughter.
30 May: The Beatles begin recording what would become their double-LP, thereafter known, for obvious reasons, as The White Album, but officially titled, simply, The Beatles. Sessions would span over 4 months, ending on October 14.
June: David Ruffin is fired from The Temptations
7 July: The Yardbirds perform for the last time before disbanding.
18 July: Mina presents her Italian white soul hits "Se stasera sono qui" and "Colpo al cuore". The performance is transmitted live without playback from the Auditorio A of the Radiotelevisione Italiana regional headquarters in Naples.
4 August: Yes performs for the first time, at a summer camp.
23 August: Simon & Garfunkel give live concert at the Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California. Recording is later released on CD in 1994 by Australian company Vigotone Records as Voices of Intelligent Dissent.
7 September: Led Zeppelin performs for the first time; at their first show, they are billed as The New Yardbirds (the Yardbirds had disbanded two months earlier, and guitarist Jimmy Page subsequently formed this new group).
14 September: The two sons of singer Roy Orbison, 10-year-old Roy DeWayne Orbison and 6-year-old Anthony King Orbison, die in a house fire in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Orbison's youngest son is saved.
15 September:
Song of Summer, Ken Russell's noted TV documentary about Frederick Delius, is shown for the first time as part of the BBC's Omnibus series.
PocketDiscs are released in several test markets in the United States.
8 November: John and Cynthia Lennon are divorced.
15 November: 500,000 people march in Washington, D.C. for peace, which becomes the largest anti-war rally in U.S. history. In attendance: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair
17 November: Diana Ross & the Supremes replace The Beatles' hugely-successful "Hey Jude" at number-one in the U.S. with "Love Child"; this would be the last of five turnovers at number-one between the two most successful music acts in America during the 1960s.
22 November: The Beatles (also known as "The White Album") by The Beatles is released. Also released is The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks.
26 November: Cream plays their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It will be the last time Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker play together until their 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1 December: Jimi Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler quits over differences with Hendrix during the recording of Electric Ladyland
3 December: Elvis Presley's 1968 Comeback Special airs on NBC.
9 December: TCB airs on NBC starring Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations, becoming the first variety special in America to feature an exclusively African American cast. Shinjuku Music Festival is broadcast for the first time by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting.
22 December:
The Animals reunite for one benefit concert at the Newcastle City Hall while Eric Burdon & The Animals are disbanding.
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company perform their last concert together before Janis goes solo.
Also in 1968:-
New Jersey Police confiscate 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Two Virgins album at Newark Airport, saying that the cover, which features a nude photo of the two artists, is "pornographic". In Chicago, Illinois, police officers shut down a record shop for displaying the album cover.
Published Popular Music
"1,2,3, Red Light" = lyrics & music by SAL TRIMACHI and BOBBI TRIMACHI
"1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero" = lyrics & music by BOBBY RUSSELL
"Abraham, Martin and John" = lyrics & music by DICK HOLLER
"Les Bicyclettes de Belsize" = lyrics & music by LES REED & BARRY MASON
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN & ROBERT B. SHERMAN from the film of the same name
"Classical Gas" = music by MASON WILLIAMS
"Congratulations" = lyrics & music by BILL MARTIN and PHIL COULTER
"Dear World" = lyrics & music by JERRY HERMAN from the musical 'Dear World'
"Eli's Coming" = lyrics & music by LAURA NYRO
"The Fool on the Hill" = lyrics & music by JOHN LENNON & PAUL McCARTNEY
"For the Good Times" = lyrics & music by KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
"Galveston" = lyrics & music by JIMMY WEBB
"Heffalumps and Woozles" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN & ROBERT B. SHERMAN from the film 'Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day'
"Honey Pie" = lyrics & music by JOHN LENNON & PAUL McCARTNEY
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH from the musical 'Promises, Promises'
"Indian Lake" = lyrics & music by TONY ROMEO
"Indian Reservation" = lyrics & music by JOHN D. LOUDERMILK, first recorded by DON FARDON
"Little Green Apples" = lyrics & music by BOBBY RUSSELL
"Mac Arthur Park" = lyrics & music by JIMMY WEBB
"Mr. Bojangles" = lyrics & music by JERRY JEFF WALKER
"My Way" (French: "Comme d'habitude") = lyrics & music by CLAUDE FRANÇOIS & JACQUES REVAUX; English lyrics by PAUL ANKA
"The Night They Raided Minsky's" = lyrics by LEE ADAMS; music by CHARLES STROUSE from the film 'The Night They Raided Minsky's'
"A Perfect Gentleman" = lyrics by LEE ADAMS; music by CHARLES STROUSE. Introduced by JASON ROBARDS and NORMAN WISDOM in the film 'The Night They Raided Minsky's'
"Promises, Promises" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH from the musical 'Promises, Promises'
"Save The Country" = lyrics & music by LAURA NYRO
"Stand By Your Man" = lyrics & music by BILLY SHERRILL & TAMMY WYNETTE
"Stoned Soul Picnic" = lyrics & music by LAURA NYRO
"Sweet Blindness" = lyrics & music by LAURA NYRO
"Take Ten Terrific Girls" = lyrics by LEE ADAMS; music by CHARLES STROUSE from the film 'The Night They Raided Minsky's'
"Ten Feet off the Ground" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN & ROBERT B. SHERMAN from the film 'The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band'
"This Guy's In Love With You" = lyrics by HAL DAVID; music by BURT BACHARACH
"Wichita Lineman" = lyrics & music by JIMMY WEBB
"The Windmills of Your Mind" = lyrics by ALAN BERGMAN & MARILYN BERGMAN; music by MICHEL LeGRAND from the film 'The Thomas Crown Affair'
"The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" = lyrics & music by RICHARD M. SHERMAN & ROBERT B. SHERMAN from the film 'Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day'
"You Rat, You" = lyrics by LEE ADAMS; music by CHARLES STROUSE from the film 'The Night They Raided Minsky's'
Classical Music
MILTON BABBITT
Relata II for orchestra
SAMUEL BARBER
Twelfth Night and To Be Sung on the Water, op. 42
LUCIANO BERIO
O King
Sinfonia
Chemins III
Questo vuol dire che for three female voices, small chorus, tape and other available resources
CARLOS CHÁVES
Pirámide (ballet)
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Piano Concerto
GEORGE CRUMB
Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death for baritone, electric guitar, electric double bass, amplified piano/electric harpsichord, and two percussionists
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Music for Solo Violin
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Stedman Caters
Stedman Doubles (revised version)
Fantasia on a Ground and 2 Pavans (after Purcell)
Epistrophe for two pianos
L’homme armé
EDISON DENISOV
Osen' (Autumn), for 13 solo voices
Oda, pamyati Khe Gevara (Ode in Memory of Che Guevara)
Romanticheskaya muzïka (Romantic Music)
CRISTÓBAL HALFFTER
Symposion
Yes, Speak Out, Yes
ROY HARRIS
Symphony no. 12
Concerto for Amplified Piano, Brass, Double Bass, and Percussion
Sonata for Cello and Piano (revised version)
HANS WERNER HENZE
Das Floβ der Medusa
HEINZ HOLLIGER
h for wind quintet
LADISLAV KUPKOVIC
Souvenir (one of his few recorded works)
HELMUT LACHENMANN
temA for flute, voice and cello
GYÖRGY LIGETI
Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet)
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Livre pour orchestre
BO NILSSON
Attraktionen, for string quartet
PER NØRGÂRD
Rejse ind i den gyldne skærm (Voyage into the Golden Screen)
ROGER SESSIONS
Symphony no. 8
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
String Quartet no. 12 in D? major, op. 133
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major, op. 134
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Aus den sieben Tagen
Kurzwellen
Stimmung
Spiral
JOHN TAVENER
The Whale (cantata)
DAVID TUDOR & LOWELL CROSS
Reunion
CHARLES WUORINEN
Flute Variations II
String Trio
IANNIS XENAKIS
Nomos Gamma for 98 musicians dispersed among the audience
Opera
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Prodigal Son
CARLOS CHÁVEZ
Los visitantes (revision of Panfilo e Lauretta)
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Revelation and Fall
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Help, Help, The Globolinks!
ÁSTOR PIAZZOLLA
María de Buenos Aires
Musical Theatre
CABARET
(Kander and Ebb)
London production
CANTERBURY TALES
London production
DAMES AT SEA
Off-Broadway production opened at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre on December 20 and transferred to the Theatre de Lys on April 22, 1969 for a total run of 575 performances.
THE DANCING YEARS
(Ivor Novello)
London revival
DARLING OF THE DAY starred Patricia Routledge and Vincent Price
(lyrics by: E. Y. Harburg; music by: Jule Styne)
Broadway production opened at the George Abbott Theatre on January 27 and ran for 31 performances.
GEORGE M!
Broadway production
GOLDEN BOY
London production
GOLDEN RAINBOW
Broadway production
HAIR
Broadway (1,750 performances) and London (1,997 performances) productions
HOUSE OF FLOWERS
off-Broadway revival
LADY, BE GOOD!
London revival
MAN OF LA MANCHA
London production
PROMISES, PROMISES
Broadway production (1,281 performances)
THE HAPPY TIME musical/comedy featuring Robert Goulet
286 performances at the Broadway Theatre featuring Robert Goulet 1968 Tony Award winner for Best Actor in a Musical. Nominee 1968 Tony Award Best Musical.
ZORBA
after the movie (ZORBA THE GREEK, 1964) and book (NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS, 1952)
1969 Tony Award for Best Musical and numerous other nominations, 1969 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (to Fred Ebb, the first year of that category) and three other nominations. 305 performances starting 11/16/68 at the Imperial Theatre, NY. (Revival 9/16/83 at the Broadway Theatre, NY, ran 362 performances with 1984 Theatre World Award to actor Robert Westenberg.)
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