Songs With Specific Dates

"It was a hot afternoon
Last day of June
And the sun was a demon"



Always 10 years ago.

 

Cinco de Mayo - War

 

Elton John - Medly (Yell help) "I wish tonight wasn't Wednesday night. I wish it wasn't the thirteenth of July"
Boomtown Rats - Nothing Happened Today "Tomorrow's Wednesday Today is Tuesday And this is the date March 28th"

CCR - Born On The Bayou " I can Remember The Fourth Of July"

 

Riot in Cell Block #9, The Robins
"July 2nd, 1953"

 

Framed, Ritchie Valens
"July 19, 1953"

 

Al Stewart has at least two.

"The Last Day of June, 1934" on Past Present and Future. (The night that Ernst Roehm was murdered by Hitler).
"You Don't Even Know Me" on Orange: "All right I took you to the Hendrix Concert on the seventh day of May*, and through the summer of 1967 we were part of the seeds of change".

*Dearest anoraks: this would have been at the Saville Theatre, London

 

ELO - The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644)

 

Zager & Evans's notorious "Mr. Turnkey" has the protagonist mention the date of his crime which was the same day as a famous festival (August 16, 1969).

 

Either I missed it or y'all have forgotten the most dumb example:

"IN THE YEAR 2525" by.... what was the name Zager & Evans?!

 

Ooops.... they have another song???

 

Fourth of July - Pete Droge

Like you, I've been hurt
Seen my face in the dirt
But I never reacted like you
The last time we met, you seemed so upset
When you left town you did not say bye
Then I heard you'd been seen way down in Eugene
Working as a factory slave
And though the life that you took came from no storybook
You spent it before it was saved
On the Fourth of July
See the sparks in the sky
When you're sick of the trying
And you're tired of the crying
Then the Fourth of July
Is a good day to die
They'll celebrate each year
Your independence from here
If you only had just a glimmer of hope
Then I know you'd have done some great things
But you tossed out your gift
And it's making me wish
I'd been there when you found yourself down
But you turned to no one
But a bullet and a gun
And the bang blended in with the day
And I sit here, and I drink
It still hurts me to think
Of the sad songs that we used to play
On the Fourth of July
See the sparks in the sky
When you're sick of the trying
And you're tired of the crying
Then the Fourth of July
Is a good day to die
They'll celebrate each year
Your independence from here

 

"October 16, what a night. A vodka, an orange and a Diamond White"

Game Of Life, by, er, me.

 

I guess this means december 31, 1989:

"It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty nine"

Abba: Happy New Year (1980)

 

Surely we set it for 3PM,
Surely we said it was March the 10th...

Sparks: Equator

 

Sorry if I missed these earlier, but Bruce's "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", and "Christmas" by The Who....

I'm not positive that the dates are mentioned in the songs and not just the titles, but couple I remember for sure reference the dates in the lyrics:

Earth Wind & Fire, "September": “Do you remember/ The 21st night of September?”

(Apparently I do!)

The Band, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", although god help me, I vastly prefer Joan Baez's version: “By May 10th, Richmond had fell”....

 

Carole King - The First Day In August

On the first day in August
I want to wake up by your side
After sleeping with you
On the last night in July

 

Robert Wyatt - September the Ninth

 

Archie Shepp & Jasper van 't Hof - 5th of May

 

The name of this song should be "13th Of July."

 

Hey, that's the first sentence of this song: