Events in Music on May 16

Music Premiere

1946 "Annie Get Your Gun" musical by Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields opens at Imperial Theater NYC, starring Ethel Merman and featuring "There's no Business Like Show Business"

Composer and Lyricist Irving Berlin — Composer and Lyricist
Irving Berlin

Event of Interest

1947 Billie Holiday is arrested in her New York apartment for possession of narcotics

Jazz Musician Billie Holiday — Jazz Musician
Billie Holiday

1952 "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1963 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances

Event of Interest

1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute

Singer-Songwriter and Actress Barbra Streisand — Singer-Songwriter and Actress
Barbra Streisand

1969 The Who's Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault

Event of Interest

1970 Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70

Actor/Comedian Bill Cosby — Actor/Comedian
Bill Cosby

1971 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych, London
1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 performances
1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis

Album Release

1980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album

Musician and Beatle Paul McCartney — Musician and Beatle
Paul McCartney

#1 in the Charts

1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks

Actress Bette Davis — Actress
Bette Davis

1982 "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
1984 "When Doves Cry" single released by Prince (Billboard Song of the Year 1984)
1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 performances

Event of Interest

1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show

Parody Singer and Comedian Weird Al Yankovic — Parody Singer and Comedian
Weird Al Yankovic

1992 "Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 performances

Film Release

2002 "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman opens in cinemas