This Day In Music History For Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Christmas edition Birthdays Broadway Shows & Plays Billy Gibbons (1949) Composer Francois-Adrien Boieldieu (1775) Composer Zoltan Kodaly (1882) Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770) The Musical "The Red Shoes" opened at the Gershwin Theatre. (1993) Charts Today the song "The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page topped the charts and stayed there for 13 weeks. (1950) Today the song "April Love" by Pat Boone topped the charts and stayed there for 6 weeks. (1957) Today the song "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul topped the charts and stayed there for 3 weeks. (1972) Happy Holidays from DataDragon! Thank you for being visitor #2503927. Talk about Music and Music History in our message forums! Like Sudoku games? Check out our new Sudoku web game site. Visit Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best for up to date information on the Broadway star! [ This Day in Music History | Pick Your Own Day | Sources ] [ Music Education | How Does This Work? | Add a Resource | Easily Printed Version ] This Day in Music History, compiled and maintained by Kevin Lux for DataDragon Information Services server spam filter