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After several setbacks, The Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth, England, UK, Europe, on the Mayflower, hoping to find an escape from religious persecution across the Atlantic Ocean in America. This epic adventure will inspire the song Sailing Time on the 2020 album A Pilgrim's Tale by Seth Lakeman, which tells the story of the Mayflower's journey.
The 48-mile long Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is opened, in Panama, Central America. It will become a key conduit for the international maritime trade. The canal will inspire references in numerous songs (by J Church, Tempest, Redman, Rakim, Ookla The Mok, Bishop Allen and others) but perhaps the most memorable is The Panama Canal by Animaniacs.
In the 'cabaret special' at The Rose Gardens Family Theatre, Kingston, Jamaica, Mr. and Mrs, Quigley perform Pull For The Shore, and Mrs. Quigley solo renders The Good Ship Mary Ann.
During a successful UK tour, most of the members of The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, a jazz ensemble from the USA, are sailing on the SS Rowan from Glasgow, Scotland, to Derry, Ireland. Eight members of the band are killed when the ship is struck by two others in a collision. Survivors include Sidney Bechet, Evelyn Dove and Cyril Blake.
The New York Times reports that during a recent Transatlantic crossing by the S.S. Berengaria from Southampton to New York City, USA, the ship's orchestra threw overboard all of the sheet music belonging to American bandleader Paul Specht and the Carolina Club Orchestra. The ship's orchestra was furious that Specht's band had been chosen, rather than them, to play for The Prince Of Wales each night in the ballroom of The Berengaria every night during the trip.When Jerome Kern's musical Show Boat has its first performance on Broadway, New York City, USA. the song Ol' Man River is heard in public for the first time.
Harry Reser and His Orchestra, record Where Did You Get That Name? and Here Comes The Show Boat [as Harry Reser's Syncopaters] in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Jessie Stafford And His Orchestra record I'm Following You, I'm Sailing On A Sunbeam, in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Brunswick Records.
Gil Robbins is born in Spokane, Washington, USA. He will become a singer, guitarist and songwriter with 1960s folk group The Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song Michael [Row the Boat Ashore] will become an unexpected international pop hit in 1962.
Popular songwriter Richard A. Whiting dies, aged 46, from a heart attack in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. His best-known songs included Hooray for Hollywood, Ain't We Got Fun? and On the Good Ship Lollipop.
The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic by two British battle cruisers. From a crew of over 2,200 men, only 114 survive. The incident is recorded in the 1960 song Sink The Bismarck by Johnny Horton, which reached No6 in the USA and No1 in Canada.
Harbor Lights by The Ray Anthony Orchestra on Capitol Records enters the Billboard Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No15 during a run of fifteen weeks on the chart.
Cowboy Copas records Tennesse Flat Guitar, Those Gone And Left Me Blues, I'm Glad I'm On The Inside Looking Out and Four Books In The Bible, at King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Shrimp Boats by Jo Stafford enters the Billboard magazine popular singles chart, where it will peak at No2 during a seventeen-week run.
R'n'b group The Orioles record Shrimp Boats, Trust In Me, A Scandal, It's Over Because We're Through and It Ain't Gonna Be Like That, for Jubilee Records in New York City, USA.
MGM's movie remake of the Kern-Hammerstein musical play Show Boat, starring Howard Keel, Ava Gardner and Kathryn Grayson, is released to cinemas in West Germany, Europe.
Charlie Parker plays a gig aboard the excursions boat SS Peter Stuyvesant, New York City, USA.Paul Barnes And His Polo Players record What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?, I Will Not Be Moved, SaySi Si, Slow Boat To China, Someday You'll Want Me and other tracks for Icon Records in the USA.
Noel Stookey (later to become Paul of folk trio Peter, Paul And Mary) reads a New York Herald Tribune newspaper story in The Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, about a Father's Day boat cruise up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain. The trip had gone awry due to counterfeit tickets and overcrowding. Stookey shows the story to his young acquaintance Bob Dylan who had arrived in New York from Minnesota the previous winter. Inspired by the story, Dylan returns the next day with Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Disaster Blues, composed in the style of his idol, Woody Guthrie.
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Joey Dee And The Starliters record This Boat's Gonna Rock Tonight!, for Roulette Records in New York City, USA.
The Beatles support Johnny Kidd And The Pirates on another Riverboat Shuffle aboard the MV Royal Iris, sailing down The Mersey, Liverpool, UK.
Peggy Lee records Little Boat (O Barquinho) in Studio B, Capitol Records, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bill Justis, working with producer Shelby Singleton, records Gotta Travel On, Michael Row The Boat Ashore, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd records Bossa, Cantaloupe Island and Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Ferry Cross The Mersey by Gerry and the Pacemakers enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No8.
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Popular comedy songwriter and singer Allan Sherman is starring in the stage show at The Boat Travel And Outdoors Show, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Also appearing is June Valli.
The 'N Betweens play at Queens Beat Club, Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. The band's members will find greater fame after a name-change to 
Robert Plant plays at The Ship And Rainbow, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, UK, Europe. Plant will find greater fame after he joins Led Zeppelin.
David Crosby records the songs The Wall Song, Games, Tamalpais High, Laughing, Wooden Ships, and Kids And Dogs, at Hollywood Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA.In a Chinese junk sailing round the Statue Of Liberty in the harbour of New York City, USA, John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles hold a business meeting with Ken Mansfield, head of Apple Records in the USA.
The re-united original line-up of Kiss begin their comeback by holding a press conference aboard the decomissioned WW2 aircraft carrier USS Intrepid in New York City, USA.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers play at the Molson Ice Polar Beach Party, which is staged aboard a Russian ice-smashing ship, moored in Resolute Bay in the Arctic Circle.
Mark Knopfler's second solo album, Sailing To Philadelphia is awarded a Gold Disc by the BPI in the UK.
The MV Tampa, carrying over 400 distressed Indonesians, including women and children in various states of health and stress, who had been rescued from a sinking boat, is refused permission to land on the Australian territory of Christmas Island. According to a subsequent poll, 77% of Australians
expressed support for their government's stance. The MV Tampa incident will become a global scandal, and is recorded in the song 77% by Australian band The Herd.
The Red Thread release their third album, Ship In The Attic, Birds In The Subway, on Badman Records in the UK.
Phil Rudd, drummer of AC/DC is arrested after police raid his boat, anchored at Tauranga Beach Marina in North Island, New Zealand, and find 25 grams (.88 ounces) of pot.Verizon Wireless announces that music streaming service Rhapsody will ship on its LTE devices, with integrated billing.
Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Gene Ween and Dave Dreiwitz, Wavves, The Antlers, Yuck, Free Energy, Boom Bip, J Mascis [solo acoustic], Lou Barlow, Keepaway, Ozma, The Nervous Wreckords, The Knocks, Sleeper Agent and Yacht Rock Revue set off on The Weezer Cruise, a five-day event on the ship Carnival Destiny, sailing from Miami, Florida, USA, to the island of Cozumel off the Gulf Coast of Mexico.The heavy metal cruise known as the 70,000 Tons Of Metal Festival, comes to an end in Miami, Florida, USA. Artists appearing aboard the ship, The Majesty Of The Seas, over the past five days have included Amorphis, Exciter, Cannibal Corpse, Atheist, Stratovarius, Venom, Children Of Bodom, Crowbar, Nightwish and Hammerfall.
Cloud Boat release their second album, Model Of You, on Apollo / R&S Records in the USA.
Jefferson Starship perform live on The Moody Blues Cruise 2018 at Celebrity Eclipse, Miami, Florida, USA.
On the Southern Rock cruise, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Preacher Stone perform on board MS Brilliance of the Seas, Tampa, Florida, USA.
On the third day of the 70,000 Tons Of Metal cruise, Aeternam, Amberian Dawn, Battle Beast, Belphegor, Benediction, Beyond Creation, Cannibal Corpse, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Evergrey, Evertale, Exodus, Freedom Call, GYZE, Goatwhore, Insomnium, Korpiklaani, Masterplan, Meshuggah, Obscura, October Tide, Psychostick, Sepultura, Seven Spires, Sinister, Sirenia, Sonata Arctica, Triosphere, Witchery and Wolfheart play aboard the Independence of the Seas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.1620 |
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