Fairport Convention again: “The Bonnie Black Hare”
On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day
With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray
Last Days of May by Blue Öyster Cult. It’s actually a very fine tune, too.
“I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” “… born on the Fourth of July”
“September Song” mentions May, September, and December.
“April In Paris”
“June Is Busting Out All Over”
“Harvest Moon” mentions “I ain’t had no loving since January, February, June, or July”
Those are just the ones that come quickly to mind.
I always thought it was *late **December *back in '63
The demon warp is comin’ alive in nineteen-sixty-five, yeah, WOW!
Grandma got run over by a reindeer coming home from our house Christmas Eve.
Sorta close- Randy Newman “Dayton Ohio 1903” and “Louisiana 1927”.
According to the song Independance Day , Martina Macbride’s mom used dad for a fire log. Or something to that effect.
SSG Schwartz
Paul McCartney: “1985” (from Band on the Run)
The Happenings: “See You in September”
Adler and Ross: “Six Months Out of Every Year” has both years and months:
"When we met in 1938, it was November
When I said that I would be his mate, it was December
I reasoned he would be the greatest husband that a girl had ever found.
That’s what I reasoned. That’s what I reasoned. Then April came around . . . . "
Battle Of New Orleans
In 1815 (?) we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip’
Rainmaker on Nillsson’s Harry CD
Fourth day of August, last rain was in May,
When the rainmaker came to Texas in the middle of a dusty day.
Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore, also on Harry
When we got married back in 1944,
We’d board that silver liner on the way to Baltimore.
OK, if we’re allowed indirect dates, how about January 29, 1979, in I Don’t Like Mondays by the** Boomtown Rats**.
We by The Roches mentions “The 4th of December”
And then there was the Mamas and the Papas’ “Monday, Monday”
Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams
“In the beginning, back in 1955…” (Let There Be Rock, AC/DC)
1984 (instrumental, Van Halen, from the album of the same name…that’s a stretch, I know)
Though it’s not in an actual song, on the cover of the Oasis album “Be Here Now”, it says August 26 Tuesday, which happens to be the date the CD was released, in 1997.
Also, “June 28 was the date” is a lyric in the Geto Boys song “Six Feet Deep”.
“Six Months out of Every Year” - is that a different song than the one from Damn Yankees? Er, yes, it seems to be…
So, I claim the one from the musical.
And as my final contribution, there is “Saturday Night Is The Lonliest Night Of the Week” which mentions all seven days: “I don’t mind Sunday night at all, and Monday is the day when people come to call,…”
Your comment made me want to say that Stormy Monday mentions the days of the week with no dates attached. There’s also A Sunday Kind Of Love and Never On Sunday for the same sort of thing.
Loquillo y los Trogloditas, ¿dónde estabas tú en el 77?, where were you in '77 (when Spain was in the process of voting the Constitution and things were exploding in many ways).
Celtas Cortos, 20 de Abril del 90. April 20th, '90. The whole song is a letter to a (girl? definitely female)friend the author hasn’t seen in a while.
Many habaneras about the “war of Cuba” (the Spanish War). The sinking of the Maine is often mentioned, although not its specific date.
I’m right now listening to Joaquín Sabina’s De Purísima y Oro (lit. “sky blue and gold,” phrased to describe a bullfighter’s clothes). The lyrics include the reference tercer año triunfal (third victorious year, taken from the way the Nacionales talked c. 1940) to place it on 1938, yet a lot of the references are actually for later years (for example, the movie Gilda is from 1946).
Bee Gees had “Fifth of May”
Tom Paxton wrote a song based on Ron Kovic’s book “Born on the Fourth of July”
The show The Fantastics had “Try to remember that kind of September” which also states “Deep in December it’s nice to remember”