I claim June 1st for King Diamond.
20 de Abril (del 90), or if you prefer it in English 20th of April. 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.
“November the Third” by You Ate My Dog
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
Carole King as a song called “The first day of August”.
“Was a hot afternoon, last day of June, and the sky was a fever…”
Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (The First Time)
Big & Rich, “8th of November” referenced Operation Hump on November 8, 1965.
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.
Good King Wenceslas takes place “on the feast of Stephen”. St. Stephen’s Day is December 26th.
Already covered on the list, but Jonathan Coulton also has a “First of May” song and Gillian Welch has April 14covered 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:
The same song also mentions the next three days:
So you can at least add December 26 to the list as well.
ETA: Just noticed this is a revived zombie. Dagnabbit!
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.
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.
“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.
“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
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.