Not sure how many we'll get but I'll open the bidding with Rush, "Lakeside Park" - "...everyone would gather on the 24th of May..."
The parameters are that it can't be the name of a holiday - that's too easy, i.e Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years day, Independence Day, etc... but it can be the calendar date, December 25, January 1, July 4, etc. It can also include the year, i.e. May 3, 1955, but at the least it has to have a month and numerical day.
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"It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty delta day..." Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Chicago Transit Authority - Prologue, August 29, 1968
Chicago Transit Authority - Someday (August 29, 1968)
From Bob Dylan's 'Clothes Line Saga'
"...It was January the 30th, and everybody was feelin' fine."
Here's a list of song lyrics that are now outdated. Fun reading.
Al Stewart: "The Last Day of June 1934"
Bee Gees: "First of May"
Temptations: "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" ("It was the third of September...")
lyric U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love) "early morning, April 4...."
song title ELO - The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644)
"A puppet king on the 4th of June"
King of Sunset Town, Marillion.
Terry Reid - The Fifth of July [produced by Trevor Horn]
Originally Posted by señormoment
"I married Isis on the fifth day of May." 'Isis'
"Wouldn't it be odd, if there really was a God, and he looked down on Earth and saw what we've done to her?" -- Adrian Belew ('Men In Helicopters')
Chicago - Saturday In the Park ("Think it was the 4th of July")
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - September Fifteenth (not a lyric, but the title of the piece)
Nilsson - Rainmaker
("First day in August, last rain was in May")
Trini Lopez - The 32nd of May
Trini Lopez shares a birthday with me, as does Mike Oldfield.
Not too many bands named after calendar dates. The only one I can think of is The Ides of March.
Not a specific date but, "September 77, Port Elizabeth, weather fine" - Biko, Peter Gabriel.
No songs about 9/11 ?
Paul Kelly - How to make Gravy
and how could I forget the most obvious one:It's the 21st of December
And they're ringing the last bell
Bruce Springsteen - 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Friday Night, August the 14th - Funkadelic.
yea, that was the first thing that crossed my mind when I read the thread title, I would've thought there'd have been quite a few by now.
The Irish Rover - The Dubliners (among others)
On the Fourth of July, 1806
We set sail from the sweet Cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the Grand City Hall in New York
'Twas a wonderful craft
She was rigged fore and aft
And oh, how the wild wind drove her
She stood several blasts
She had twenty seven masts
And they called her The Irish Rover
There are several by Bruce Springsteen, but they don't mention the date specifically. Probably there was no need to.
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Is all about the murderous events of 30 January 1972 in Derry in Northern Ireland.
Conclusion of 'Remember' by John Lennon: "....remember, remember the 5th of November."
but it doesn't mention the actual date (see the first post in the thread). Same applies to "New Year's Day", which is disqualified for the same reason.
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