"What Are You Doing New Year’s (New Year’s Eve)?
“Hooray, hooray, it’s the first of May…”
Paul and Storm have a song about *Christmas Eve Eve *(December 23rd) and their *Way Too Early Christmas Song *mentions that “Halloween was yesterday”, so November 1.
The Temptations:
*It was the third of September
That day I’ll always remember, yes I will
‘Cause that was the day that my daddy died
I never got a chance to see him
Never heard nothin’ but bad things about him
Momma I’m depending on you to tell me the truth
Momma just hung her head and said, son
Papa was a rolling stone
Wherever he laid his hat was his home
And when he died, all he left us was alone.*
ABBA’s Happy New Year
Manilow’s Another New Year’s Eve
Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”
“Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling, Christmas Eve”
Side note: I’m told by someone who saw him perform this in concert that the story is autobiographical, and that in real life, they hooked up.
Midnight Oil
Armistice Day [also name of the album for double points].
Sammy Hagar’s Ten 13 is a song about throwing a birthday party, as Hagar’s birthday is October 13.
Van Halen’s 316 is titled after Wolfgang Van Halen’s birthdate, March 16. But it’s an instrumental so the date doesn’t really factor into the song.
Bobby Goldsboro, Summer
*
It was a hot afternoon
Last day of June
And the sun was a demon*
Suppose that’s more mentioning a date than it having any solid relevance, though…
Another one that’s autobiographical is Alice’s Restaurant, part of which takes place on Thanksgiving.