# A Calendar of Dates Mentioned in Popular Music Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 29, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731 "2013-01-29T19:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/81 "2017-09-22T10:05:31Z")
I claim June 1st for King Diamond. > [@](#): > > Did you know? > 13 day have come and gone > Since we had the **first of June** > The spirits of the unborn > Will play tonight > Forgive them, they didn’t die ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/82 "2017-09-23T11:09:52Z")
[20 de Abril](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGwZ0a-UCIg) (del 90), or if you prefer it in English [20th of April](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiwTmE_C1pU). There’s also at least a self-cover with Willie de Ville (I think that’s where the translation to English comes from, before Oysterband recorded it) but I don’t find it in YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/83 "2017-09-25T00:29:18Z")
> [@](#): > > He gave me a time and a place to be > On November the third, our anniversary “November the Third” by You Ate My Dog ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/84 "2017-09-25T02:38:38Z")
Gee, no other flower children around? From the musical “Hair”, “I met a boy named Frank Mills on September 12th right here, in front of the Waverly…” My brother got married specifically on that date because of the haunting song, the bride wore a lovely see-through pants dress. Well, lace at least. Dennis ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/85 "2017-09-25T03:03:56Z")
Carole King as a song called “The first day of August”. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/86 "2017-09-25T04:11:17Z")
“Was a hot afternoon, last day of June, and the sky was a fever…” Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (The First Time) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/87 "2017-09-25T10:44:49Z")
Big & Rich, “8th of November” referenced Operation Hump on November 8, 1965. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/88 "2017-09-25T11:13:16Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > “By May the 10th, Richmond had fell” - The Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” I love The Band, but that lyric always bothered me. It actually fell April 3. May 10 was nearly a month after Lincoln’s assassination and just over a month after Appomattox. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/89 "2017-09-25T11:39:31Z")
_Good King Wenceslas_ takes place “on the feast of Stephen”. St. Stephen’s Day is December 26th. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/90 "2017-09-25T12:02:39Z")
Already covered on the list, but Jonathan Coulton also has a “First of May” song and Gillian Welch has [April 14](https://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/welch-gillian/april-14th-part-i-1290.html)covered in a two-part song (“April 14th, Part I” and “Ruination Day, Part II”). Not covered yet: December 23 or, as Paul and Storm call it, [Christmas Eve Eve](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTaXqu4uEuw): > [@](#): > > Today we sing the praises of December 23rd > Although it’s not a holiday per se > It’s just the day that is the day before the day > Before the day that is the best day in the world The same song also mentions the next three days: > [@](#): > > The 24th is Christmas Eve, the 25th is Christmas > And the 26th is Boxing Day and marks the Feast of Stephen So you can at least add December 26 to the list as well. ETA: Just noticed this is a revived zombie. Dagnabbit! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/91 "2017-09-25T22:19:20Z")
This one is debatable, but in the Fairport Convention song “Matty Groves”, Sandy Denny sings “A holiday, a holiday, the first one of the year…” I would assume that means New Year’s Day, but as this song is a medeival murder ballad (at least, it’s a story song that takes place in an unspecified medeival time), the “first day of the year” probably means March 1st (which was the original New Year’s Day). Although the date is not actually specified in the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/92 "2017-09-25T23:19:09Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I love The Band, but that lyric always bothered me. It actually fell April 3. May 10 was nearly a month after Lincoln’s assassination and just over a month after Appomattox. Yes, but the lyric isn’t “On May 10th”, it’s “By May 10th”. So if it happened on April 3rd, then it had happened by May 10th. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/93 "2017-09-26T13:27:27Z")
“A ragged man came shuffling through A puppet king on the **fourth of June** ” **Marillion** ’s “King of Sunset Town”. There’s a further reference that says “And everyone assembled here Remembers how it used to be Before the twenty-seventh came This place will never be the same” Not sure if the 27th is a date in June as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/94 "2017-09-26T15:48:03Z")
“Rally” by Phoenix on the album _It’s Never Been Like That_, which got suggested for me by my music streaming service just now: Remember the time we talked about everlastings? Don’t you know we’ll both fall to pieces too? **April 22nd** at the Avalon, you teased me Hook up with me, meet at the rally ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731/95 "2017-09-27T00:38:29Z")
We have lots of Christmas dates, but we can also add another Dec 26 to the list. It’s the day you gave away George Michael’s heart: Wham’s Last Christmas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-calendar-of-dates-mentioned-in-popular-music-lyrics/648731.md?page=4)