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13 unusual facts about Radio City Music Hall


2011 Oklahoma Sooners football team

The 2012 NFL Draft was held on April 26–28, 2012 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Barney Live In New York City

In New York City is a Barney & Friends stage show, taped at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 6, 1994 and released on video on August 26, 1994.

Delores Ivory Davis

She has performed major oratorios in New York as a soloist with the New York Opera - Title III Program; was an Artist-in-Residence with the St. Paul Opera Company and has been a soloist at Radio City Music Hall.

Dorje Shugden controversy

On July 17, 2008, a large mob of Dalai Lama supporters, who had been attending one of the Dalai Lama's teachings at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, clashed with Shugden protestors after the event, spitting, screaming, and throwing money at them, indicating that they believed that the Shugden protestors were paid by the Chinese government.

Emiliana de Zubeldia

Both began their careers as soloists and shared Zubeldia's broadcasts on Radio City Music Hall, giving talks about Spanish music until the summer of 1934.

Francia White

Her work as a ghost singer caught the ears of a radio executive at NBC Radio City Studios (located at the radio station at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City).

High on You

Formerly a tangible self-contained band, the Family Stone broke up in January 1975 after a disastrous booking at the Radio City Music Hall.

Koby Maxwell

Since arriving in America in the early start of year 2000, he has performed in prominent places such as the Kennedy Center and the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Lindsay Whalen

In her rookie season, she was selected to play in the historic WNBA vs. USA Basketball game at Radio City Music Hall.

Maceo Anderson

They were credited as being the first black act to perform at Radio City Music Hall.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico

Instead, they performed a huge Radio City Music Hall style Christmas Spectacular titled Home For The Holidays.

Ronald Haver

The "restored" version of the film was screened at Radio City Music Hall on July 7, 1983 and was released nationwide.

Taj McWilliams-Franklin

That game was held on August 4, 2004 at the historic Radio City Music Hall in New York City.


Ann McNulty

The trio eventually appeared regularly on radio and at such venues as the Rockefeller Center's Radio City Music Hall, the Yorkville Casino, New York City’s Leitrim House and at Rockaway Beach, Queens.

Don Butterfield

He played in orchestras, including the American Symphony, on albums by Jackie Gleason until he became a full time member at the Radio City Music Hall.

Eh Hee

Other than a solo performance by Matthews in Manchester a few months later, it was not performed again in full until 2007 at an acoustic concert at Radio City Music Hall by Matthews and Tim Reynolds.

Eric Schmertz

When The Rockettes went on strike at Radio City Music Hall in 1967, Schmertz helped negotiate a deal that brought the dancers pay increases of 15%.

George Metesky

As a capacity Radio City Music Hall audience of 6,200 watched Bing Crosby's White Christmas on November 7, a bomb stuffed into the bottom cushion of a seat in the 15th row exploded, injuring four patrons.

Gwen Lux

Her commissions included sculptures for Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the McGraw-Hill Building in Chicago, the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit, and the centerpiece for the first class dining room of the SS United States.

Live Radio City Music Hall 2003

Live Radio City Music Hall 2003 is a live album by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music) and recorded live at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall in early February 2003, two months before Vandross' hospitalization for a serious stroke.

Lloyd Wells

Wells cites his most memorable jobs, naming two appearances at the White House (with Tennessee Ernie Ford) and playing on Sesame Street and The Electric Company form the top penthouse of Radio City Music Hall.

Richard Valentine Pitchford

He performed in New York at The Palace, Radio City Music Hall, Copacabana and other prominent nightclubs and reviews, and in London at the London Palladium.

Ted LeFevre

His assistant design work includes ten international and touring companies of Beauty and the Beast, two new musicals at Goodspeed Opera, and both A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden and Carnevale at Radio City for Tony Walton.

Zarkana

Zarkana began as a seasonal touring show, playing at Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, and the Madrid Arena in Madrid.