Events in Music
Music History
May 14 Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love" premieres
Music Premiere
May 16 Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields' musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman and featuring "There's No Business Like Show Business" opens at Imperial Theater, NYC
Music Concert
May 26 Darius Milhaud's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague
Birthdays in Music
- May 1 Jerry Weiss, American jazz musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears), born in NYC, New York
- May 1 Nick Fortuna, American rock bassist (The Buckinghams), born in Chicago, Illinois
- May 2 Lesley Gore [Goldstein], American pop singer ("It's My Party"; "You Don't Own Me"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
- May 7 Bill Danoff, American vocalist (Starland Vocal Band), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
- May 7 Bill Kreutzmann, American rock drummer (Grateful Dead), born in Palo Alto, California
- May 10 Dave Mason, British guitarist and singer-songwriter ("We Just Disagree"), born in Worcester, England
Donovan (76 years old)
May 10 Scottish guitarist and singer-songwriter ("Sunshine Superman"; "Mellow Yellow"; "Season Of The Witch"), born in Glasgow, Scotland
- May 10 Graham Gouldman, English bassist and singer-songwriter (10cc), born in Manchester, England
- May 11 (Michel) "Plume" Latraverse, Canadian rock and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, born in Montreal, Quebec
- May 14 Alan David Marks, American concert pianist and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1995)
- May 16 Robert Fripp, British progressive rock guitarist, composer (King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"; Fripp & Eno; Bowie - "Heroes"), record producer (Roches; Peter Gabriel; Darryl Hall), and Mr. Toyah Wilcox, born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset
- May 16 Roger Earl, British drummer (Foghat - "Slow Ride"), born in Hampton Court Palace, London, England
- May 17 Udo Lindenberg, German musician, born in Gronau, Westphalia
- May 19 Trevor Veitch, Canadian-American folk-rock musician (3's a Crowd, Tom Rush), and pop record producer (Toni Basil's "Mickey"), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Cher (76 years old)
May 20 American singer ("I Got You Babe"; "If I Could Turn Back Time"), and actress (Mask; Moonstruck), born in El Centro, California
- May 23 Danny Klein, American rock bassist (J Geils Band - "Centerfold"), born in NYC, New York
- May 23 Famoudou Don Moye, American jazz percussionist and drummer (Art Ensemble of Chicago), born in Rochester, New York
- May 24 Steve Upton, British-Welsh rock drummer (Wishbone Ash, 1969-90 - There's the Rub; Locked In), born in Wrexham, Wales
- May 25 Timothy "Tim" Hinkley, British singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Jody Grind), born in London
- May 26 Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist and producer (Mott the Hoople; The Spiders From Mars), born in Kingston upon Hull, England (d. 1993)
- May 27 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz double bassist, born in Osted, Zealand, Denmark (d. 2005)
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