Big Al’s became a force in jazz shows, presenting:
“Twist” Night: 1962
1971 Blues Pioneers at Northrop
20th Annual Hennepin County Fair: 1926
30th Anniversary of Rock ‘n’ Roll: 1988
31st Annual Scott County Agricultural Society Fair: 1928
5th Annual Rod and Custom Show: 1961
A Different Breed of Cat: 1968
A Night in Spain: 1936
A Song for Minneapolis: 1963
Adelina Patti and Ole Bull: 1856
Airport: 1970
Alan Freed’s Big Beat: 1958
All Star Home Talent Minstrel Show: 1915
Allman Brothers: 1971
American Familiar Music: 1953
American Outdoor Hootenanny Festival: 1963
Andrews Sisters: 1941
Annual Christmas Party: 1968
Annual Tomahawk Days: 1973
Aquatennial Beach Party/Rock Festival: 1973
Aquatennial Shows
Association: 1969
Association: 1970
Auto Show: 1959
Auto Show: 1964
Autumn: 1928
Bacchanlia (sic) Revival: 1970
Bach to Rock: 1969
Back to School Dance: 1967
Bands: 1922
Bandwagon: 1944
Battle of the Red Barn
Beach Boys at Danceland: 1963
Beach Boys: 1972
Bear Cat Dance Marathon: 1928
Beatlemania: 1964
Beatniks in the Cities: 1959
Bel negre with Voodoo to Jive: 1946
Big Al’s: 1964
Big Daddy Wagg: 1968
Big Daddy Wags Night: 1969
Big Jazz Show: 1951
Biggest Show of 1952
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson: 1946
Bill Haley: 1972
Birdland Stars of ’57 Show: 1957
Black Sabbath: 1972
Black Sabbath’s Volume 4 Tour: 1972
Blackboard Jungle: 1955
Blondie and Dagwood: 1962
Blood on the Tracks: 1974
Blues and Folk Marathon II: 1972
Blues and Folk Marathon: 1971
Bluettes: 1922
Bob Dylan: 1965
Bobby Vee: 1959
Boston Symphony Orchestra: 1890
Brique: 1966
British Invasion Reunion: 1973
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Annual Dance: 1952
Bruce Dybvig‘s Big Band: 1946
Builders’ Show: 1965
By the Waters of Minnetonka: 1921
Caravan of Stars: 1959
Castaways
Certs Breath Mints: 1971
Chancellors: 1963
Club Friday: 1949
Coming Out Party: 1936
Concert at Mazourka Hall: 1855
Count Basie and James Rushing: 1946
Crazy Man Crazy: 1953
Cream at the New City Opera House
Creedence Clearwater Revival: 1969
Crossing the Desert: 1914
CSNY: 1970
Dance at Opera Hall: 1915
Danceland: 1962
Dances from the Minneapolis Spokesman: 1935
Dances: 1922
Dances: 1928
Dancing in Tonka: 1959
Dancing Parties: 1928
Danny’s Reasons: 1967
Dark Moments: 1927
Dave Clark Five: 1964
David Soul: 1977
dee jay Magazine: 1956
Del Counts: 1967
Demonic Dance in Red: 1928
Diablos: 1960
Dick Clark Caravan of Stars: 1965
Dinner Dance at the Community House: 1924
Dinner with Drac: 1958
Disc and Needle Record Store: 1954
Disk Jockey Convention 1: 1958
Disk Jockey Convention II: 1959
Dixie in St Paul: 1858
Don Leary’s Record Shop Top Hits: 1955
Don’s Records and Hi-Fi: 1958
Doobie Brothers: 1963
Doobie Brothers: 1971
Doris Hines: 1963
Double Victory Dance:1942
Downtown Bloomington: 1970
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: 1973
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: 1946
Dylan Party Tape: 1960
Early Twin City Radio R&B: 1954
Easter Fair: 1968
Eau Claire Peace Festival: 1970
Edina Shop: 1948
Elton John: 1971
Elvis Brings His Pelvis: 1956
Elvis: 1955
Eric Burdon and War, Crow, and White Lightning: 1970
Eric Clapton: 1981
Ethel Waters: 1935
Events at Mazourka Hall: 1850 – ?
Events: 1941
Events: 1942
Events: 1943
Events: 1944
Events: 1945
Events: 1946
Events: 1947
Events: 1948
Events: 1949
Events: 1950
Events: 1951
Events: 1952
Events: 1953
Events: 1954
Events: 1955
Events: 1956
Events: 1957
Events: 1958
Events: 1959
Events: 1960
Events: 1961
Events: 1962
Events: 1963
Events: 1964
Events: 1965
Events: 1966
Events: 1967
Events: 1968
Events: 1969
Events: 1970
Events: 1971
Events: 1972
Events: 1973
Events: 1974
Events: 1980s-1990s
Everything from Bach to Boogie Woogie: 1943
Faces, Deep Purple, and Southern Comfort: 1971
Fair Minneapolitan Waltz: 1886
Fake Buddy Miles Fiasco: 1971
Fantasy Park: 1975
Favorite Songs: 1956
Festival of Hope: 1970
Festival of Modern Jazz: 1953
Festival of Music: 1973
Fifth Annual Negro Newspaper Week: 1946
First Phonograph Recording
First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1954
Fleetwood Mac: 1973
Flight: 1968
Flinthill Singers: 1966
Floating Dancing Pavilion: 1908
Folk Music Revival Has America Singing – And Minneapolis Strums Along: 1963
Football Jamboree
Four Laddies: 1958
Fourth of July Picnic: 1942
Frank Cammarata: 1965
Frank Sinatra: 1942
Go For a Goal, North Stars: 1970
Goliards: 1965
Gopher Gunners’ Carnival: 1921
Grand Exposition and Style Show: 1923
Great Kiss-Off Contest: 1974
Great U of M Panty Raid: 1952
Guessing Party and Dance: 1922
Gypsy: 1972
H.T. Three: 1965
Happening ’67
Harlem Globetrotters: 1962
Harvest Moon Ball : 1945
Hazel Scott: 1945
Hellraising in Hopkins: 1915
Hennepin County Fair: 1955
Hootenanny For Dancers: 1963
Hootenanny TV show: 1963
House of Leather: 1969
Humphrey Campaign: 1968
Hurry Down to Bleecker: 1960
Inter-University Hootenanny: 1963
International Auto Show ’71
International Student Strike: 1969
Jack Costanzo and Gerrie Woo: 1973
Janis Joplin: 1969
Jarreau: 1970
Jazz at the Philharmonic: 1944
Jazz at the Philharmonic: 1946
Jazz at the Philharmonic: 1953
Jazz at the Philharmonic: 1954
Jazz at the Philharmonic: 1956
Jazz Festival: 1960
Jazz for Moderns Tour: 1957
Jazz for Moderns: 1958
Jefferson Airplane: 1970
Jimi Hendrix: 1968
Jimmie Lunceford’s Orchestra: 1940
Jimmy Rogers: 1957
Joe Cocker: 1969
Joey Dee and the Starlighters: 1966
Johhnie Ray Goes to Jail: 1952
John Mayall: 1972
Johnny Cash and The Fendermen: 1960
Johnny Cash: 1967
Johnny Mathis: 1963
July at the Treasure Inn: 1947
Katherine Dunham: 1944
KDWB DJ Earl L. Trout III Jailed: 1967
KDWB Underground Show: 1969
KDWB-a-Go-Go Dance Party: 1965
KDWBeach Boys: 1965
Kennedy Assassination: 1963
Key Club Shows: 1954
Key Club Shows: 1955
Key Club Shows: 1961
Key Club: 1952
Key Club: 1953
Key Club: 1959
Key Club: 1960
KSTP Studios: 1936
Larry Lyons: 1935
Leon Russell: 1971
Liberace: 1956
Loring Park Festival: 1971
Lots More Blues, Rags and Hollers: 1964
Louis Armstrong: 1948
Love-Ins at Loring Park: 1967
Mamas and Papas in Minneapolis: 1966
Mankato State: 1973
Marathon III: 1973
March for Peace: 1970
Marigold Ballroom: 1966
Married Folks Dancing Club Events: 1915
Married Folks Dancing Club Opening Ball: 1916
Matt’s Sweet Shop: 1927
Meade Lux Lewis: 1963
Meade Lux Lewis: 1964
Melodee Record Shop: 1947
Mercury Records: 1963
Merry Men of Rhythm: 1946
Merrymen of Rhythm: 1946
Michael’s Mystics: 1969
Midwest Rock Festival: 1969
Mighty Tiny: 1970
Minneap’lis Minnesota
Minneapolis Ain’t Talkin’ to St. Paul: 1945
Minneapolis Auditorium: 1968
Minneapolis Journal March, 1899
Minneapolis Musicians Union Local 73: 1891
Minneapolis Spokesman: 1934
Minneapolis: 1953
Minnesota Cadet Lancers: 1883
Minnesota Folk Song Society: 1961
Minnesota Mine: 1918
Minnesota Orchestra Summer Pops Jubilee: 1969
Minnesota Theater: 1928
Minnesota’s State Centennial: 1958
Minnetonka Record: 1931
Minnie from Minnesota: 1921
Minstrel Shows: 1891
Modern Jazz for 57” Show: 1957
Modern Jazz Piano Lesson
Moody Blues: 1971
Moonlight River Excursion: 1922
Moonshiner’s Dance Part One: 1927
More Dances from the Minneapolis Spokesman: 1935
Mr. Lucky’s: 1964
Mr. One-Man Riot: 1967
National Dance Contest: 1959
New City Opera House: 1969
New Orleans Rhythm Kings: 1928
New Year’s Eve: 1968
New Year’s Eve Party: 1967
Night of Stars: 1967
Ninth Annual Upper Midwest Auto Show: 1963
Norman Granz’s Jazz: 1948
Norman Granz’s Jazz: 1952
Norman Granz’s Jazz: 1955
Northern Light: 1974
Northtown Mall Opening: 1972
Northwest Boat, Sports and Travel Show: 1962
Northwest Radio Show: 1927
Norwegian Independence Day: 1897
Olson’s Hall Free Public Dance: 1928
Open Air Celebrations
Open Air I: 1971
Open Air II: 1971
Open Air III: 1971
Open Air Pop Festival 1970
Open Air Rock Festival: 1970
Open House: 1959
Oscar Socks: 1956
Panorama of Folk Songs: 1944
Peacerock Festival: 1971
People’s Fair: 1970
Percy Hughes: 1946
Perfect Records: 1926
Performances: 1920
Performances: 1921
Performances: 1929
Performances: 1932
Performances: 1940
Pete Fountain: 1966
Pete Seeger: 1972
Peter Rabbit: 1966
Phantasmagoria: 1969
Platter Chatter: 1943
Play it Cool: 1963
Poco: 1971
Pop Concert Committee: 1956
Psychedelic Soundburst: 1967
Public Dance: 1928
Rare Earth with Poco: 1972
Ray Charles: 1963
RCA-Victor: 1957
Rebel Without a Cause: 1955
Red Foley and his Ozark Jubilee: 1957
Republican Talent Show: 1950
Return of Adelina Patti: 1887
Rhumboogie Club Christmas Night and New Year’s Eve: 1943
Rhythm and Blues Revue: 1956
Riots of 1967
Rock ‘n’ Roll Show
Rock ‘n’ Roll Revue: 1955
Rock Around the Clock Film: 1956
Rock Festival: 1973
Rock for Freedom: 1958
Rock Rock Rock: 1957
Rock, Pretty Baby! Film: 1957
Rod McKuen: 1970
Rollie Williams: 1959
Route 66 in Minneapolis: 1963
Royal Arcanum: 1944
Sam Cooke Show: 1963
Sangerfest: 1889
Save Big Money at Menard’s: 1972
Scott County Fair: 1927
Second Annual State Basketball Tournament Dance: 1956
Service Center Dance: 1942
Shawn Phillips: 1973
Shores of Minnetonka: 1921
Six Days on the Road: 1963
Ski-U-Mah, an Indian Intermezzo: 1908
Snelling: 1904
Snookum Russell: 1946
Social Dance in the IOOF Hall: 1915
Songs: 1922
Sonny Without Cher: 1967
Soul of a City Festival: 1970
Sound Storm Rock Revival: 1970
Sounds of the ’40s Show: 1974
St. Louis Park Echo: 1955
St. Louis Park Rockers: 1964
St. Paul Auto Show: 1958
Stage Bars: 1941
Stephen Stills and Manassas: 1972
Stepin Fetchit: 1941
Steppenwolf: 1969
Sterling Minstrel Show: 1936
Sugar Chile: 1946
Summer ’68 Action Tour for Teenagers: 1968
Super Colossal Midsummer Hop: 1964
Super Dance Attraction: 1933
Super Sunday Spectacular: 1969
Super Sunday: 1967
Surfin’ Bird: 1964
Sussman Lawrence: 1978
Swing Show: 1940
T.C. Atlantic: 1967
Teenagers Underground Music Society: 1963
Teensters! Here is what’s next in YOUR Music: 1967
Ten Years After: 1971
Thank-Going Hop: 1962
Thanksgiving Hop: 1963
The 1956 Contest Craze
The Appeal: 1892
The Biggest In-Person Show of ’56′
The Biggest Show of Stars for ’58: 1958
The Coronados: 1965
The Crusher: 1965
The Doors: 1968
The Eagles, Yes, and Gentle Giant: 1972
The Four Notes: 1941
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan: 1963
The Gestures: 1964
The Ike and Tina Turner Revue: 1967
The Lady from St. Paul: 1932
The Loon Club: 1962
The Mashed Potato: 1962
The Melodee Record Shop: 1946
The Minneapolis Journal Waltzes: 1890
The Minneapolis Song: 1903
The Minnesota Boat Club March: 1891
The Ravens: 1947
The Replacements: 1981
The Rolling Stones: 1964
The Sack: 1958
The Southernaires: 1946
The Suburbs: 1977
The Trip: 1967
The Twist: 1962
The Wild One: 1954
They Named it Minnesota: 1958
To Know Him is to Love Him: 1958
Toast-and-Jam Session: 1950
Tommy Dorsey: 1944
Tooth Of Crime: 1974
Top Flight, a Musical Fantasia: 1944
Twin Cities Jazz Musicians Awards: 1946
Twin Cities Shuffle: 1927-1930
Twist Around the Clock: 1962
Twist Show: 1962
Ukuleles: 1925
United Artists’ Symphony Orchestra: 1920
University Two-Step: 1897
Untamed Youth: 1957
Up With People: 1967
Vine Hill Tavern: 1935
War-related Events: 1942
WCCO: 1973
WDGY and The Advent of Top 40: 1956
WDGY Thanksgiving Holiday Spectacular: 1969
WDGY: 1955
WDGY: 1967
WDGY/Minnesota Vikings Huddle Club: 1967
What the World Needs Now is Love: 1966
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1945
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1946
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1949
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1950
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1951
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1952
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1953
What Was the First Rock ‘n’ Roll Record: 1955
White Heat: 1935
Williams and June: 1935
Winter Carnival
Winter Dance Party: 1959
WLOL: 1956
WMIN: 1956
Wolfman Jack: 1965
X-Navy Band: 1946
Year of the Folk Boom: 1960
Zimmy at Gaity: 1959
Zoot Suits: 1944
