Here is a list I started keeping on paper before I even had a computer. Songs qualify if they: (1) mention a specific day of the year, (2) have a date in their title, or (3) refer to a famous event that happened on a given day.
In those instances where there are more than one choice for a day, I gave preference to those that actually mention the day, and for some duplicates I chose the more popular song or artist.
Have I missed any? Add to the list in the comment section below.
Note: Holidays that change their day on the calendar every year don’t count!
| DAY | SONG | ARTIST |
| January 1 | New Year’s Day | U2 |
| January 4 | Roving Cowboy | Steve Goodman |
| January 30 | Clothes Line Saga | Bob Dylan |
| February 3 | February 3rd | The Hourglass |
| February 7 | February 7 | The Avett Brothers |
| February 14 | Valentine’s Day | Steve Earle |
| February 15 | February 15 | Lois |
| March 1 | Boys from the County Hell | The Pogues |
| March 4 | Radar | Morphine |
| March 8 | Password | Ben Folds |
| March 16 | Jesus on the Radio | Guster |
| March 18 | Grand Central Station 3/18/77 | Steve Forbert |
| March 20 | Yellow Wings | Ferraby Lionheart |
| March 21 | Town With No Cheer | Tom Waits |
| March 26 | The Ballad of Mott the Hoople | Mott the Hoople |
| April 1 | April Fool’s Day Morn | Loudon Wainwright III |
| April 3 | Brewster, Illinois, April 3rd, 1952 | Bill DeMain |
| April 4 | Pride (In the Name of Love) | U2 |
| April 5 | April 5th | Roseanne Cash |
| April 8 | April 8th | Neutral Milk Hotel |
| April 14 | Tempest | Bob Dylan |
| April 29 | April 29 | The Rembrandts |
| May 1 | The Slow Train Never Ends | Jason & the Scorchers |
| May 31 | Third of May / Ōdaigahara | Fleet Foxes |
| May 4 | Night of the 4th of May | Al Stewart |
| May 5 | Isis | Bob Dylan |
| May 8 | Pretty Little Martha | Loudon Wainwright III |
| May 10 | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | The Band |
| May 17 | May 17th | Elvis Costello |
| May 19 | Miami Beach | Garland Jeffreys |
| May 21 | May 21st | Ariana Gillis |
| May 22 | 5-22-02 | Golden Smog |
| May 24 | Lakeside Park | Rush |
| May 31 | Jeannie Needs a Shooter | Warren Zevon |
| June 3 | Ode to Bille Joe | Bobbie Gentry |
| June 4 | Something More | Kim Richey |
| June 6 | Convoy | C.W. McCall |
| June 12 | Ghost World | Aimee Mann |
| June 13 | The Story of My Life | Blue Highway |
| June 19 | Lucy Mae Blues | Frankie Lee Sims |
| June 23 | Ain’t Living In Sin No More | Paul Thorn |
| June 30 | Last Day of June | Finn Brothers |
| July 3 | The Third of July | John Prine |
| July4 | The Fourth of July | Dave Alvin |
| July 5 | The Letter Home | Elvis Costello & Brodsky Quartet |
| July 7 | Hoochie Coochie Man | Muddy Waters |
| July 12 | July 12, 1939 | Charlie Rich |
| July 13 | Synchronicity | Loudon Wainwright III |
| July 14 | Everything | Material Issue |
| July 15 | St. Swithin’s Day | Billy Bragg |
| July 19 | Framed | Ritchie Valens |
| July 29 | Marie Provost | Nick Lowe |
| July 33 | 33rd of July | Paul Wetserberg |
| August 1 | Winter in My Heart | The Avett Brothers |
| August 7 | August 7 | Bon Jovi |
| August 14 | Letters From The Dead | The Bees |
| August 15 | August 15, 1985 | The Avett Brothers |
| August 25 | Fiesta | The Pogues |
| August 31 | Ever Changing Woman | Merle Haggard |
| September 3 | Papa Was a Rolling Stone | The Temptations |
| September 7 | Chimayo | Will Kimbrough |
| September 9 | The 9th of September | Jim Chestnut |
| September 11 | Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning) | Alan Jackson |
| September 12 | If Music Could Talk | The Clash |
| September 13 | September 13 | Steve Kilbey |
| September 15 | September 15th | David Essex |
| September 21 | September | Earth, Wind & Fire |
| October 1 | When September Ends | Green Day |
| October 2 | Family Reserve | Lyle Lovett |
| October 3 | 3rd of October | Matthew Ryan |
| October 6 | Adios Hermanos | Paul Simon |
| October 24 | Tuesday, October 24th | Clem Snide |
| October 31 | The New Style | Beastie Boys |
| November 5 | Remember | John Lennon |
| November 8 | 8th of November | Big & Rich |
| November 10 | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | Gordon Lightfoot |
| November 11 | Armistice Day | Paul Simon |
| November 22 | The Day JFK Died | Lou Reed |
| December 1 | Sweet Baby James | James Taylor |
| December 4 | We | The Roaches |
| December 8 | I Just Shot John Lennon | The Cranberries |
| December 21 | How to Make the Gravy | Paul Kelly |
| December 23 | I Wanna Roo You | Van Morrison |
| December 24 | Christmas Eve 1942 | David Mead |
| December 25 | Tommy’s Christmas | The Who |
| December 26 | Brick | Ben Folds Five |
| December 28 | Soul’d Out | Josh Rouse |
| December 31 | Birchfield Nines | Michael Franks |
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