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Post by greendemon on Sept 4, 2023 9:37:46 GMT 1
I thought I'd be able to think of loads but my mind's gone blank  Although on the plus side, this thread DID remind me about Mean Girls Day (October 3rd), which then inspired me to look up the next year that it falls on a Wednesday, which isn't until 2029. So there's that. |
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 4, 2023 12:22:43 GMT 1
I just looked up about Mean Girls day - there was a character called Janis Ian, but "At Seventeen" isn't in their soundtrack (nor any of her other songs).
I don't know of any "Star Wars Day" songs (May 4th)
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Post by Whitneyfan on Sept 4, 2023 12:30:09 GMT 1
The 3rd of February 1959 was the "day the music died", which is what Don McLean's 'American Pie' is based around.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Sept 4, 2023 16:34:26 GMT 1
From The Band's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, which was a top 10 hit for Joan Baez in 1971
"In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well"
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Post by Whitneyfan on Sept 4, 2023 16:45:50 GMT 1
Jon Bon Jovi has a solo song called "August 7, 4:15".
Dina Carroll's "The Perfect Year" is about New Years' Eve.
Kirsty MacColl has one called "Halloween".
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Post by suedehead on Sept 4, 2023 18:15:40 GMT 1
Sheryl Crow mentions November 1963 in her song 'Run baby run'. She says it's the date Aldous Huxley died - and I've just checked that was November 22nd, so that's another to add to the list. CS Lewis also died on that date. However, neither death received much news coverage as it was also the day JFK was assassinated. That event was the subject of Peter Gabriel's Family Snapshot. The same singer, in another song, mentioned September '77, the month in which Steve Biko was murdered by South African police. |
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 4, 2023 18:32:51 GMT 1
Enola Gay mentions the time (8:15) but not the date (6th August).
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Post by raliverpool on Sept 4, 2023 19:12:40 GMT 1
Dubstar - St Swithin's Day
The 90s synth pop trio's 1995 cover of the 1984 Billy Bragg composition written about July 15th, the feast day of Saint Swithun.
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Sept 4, 2023 22:27:43 GMT 1
I don't know of any "Star Wars Day" songs (May 4th) Al Stewart has a song called Night Of The 4th Of May |
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