1977 Tour Dates
The surviving 1977 calendar didn’t have much information in it. Thanks to Gordon Johnson for providing detailed information about the 1977 dates from his personal archive. Thanks also to Peter Erskine for providing additional information about the Japan tour in September.
January January Calendar Page ARTICLE ARTICLE 2 ARTICLE 3
1/12 Buffalo, NY Rehearsal
1/13 Bradford, PA Bradford High School
1/14 Buffalo, NY Executive Inn
1/15 Camillus, NY West Genessee High School
1/16 Troy, NY Hudson Valley Community College
1/17 North Hampton, PA North Hampton High School
1/18 Somerset, MA Somerset High School
1/19 Chatham, NJ Chatham Township Article
1/20 Islip Terrace, NY East Islip High School
1/21 North Brunswick, NJ Holiday Inn
1/22 NY, NY Felt Forum
1/23 Baltimore, MD Lyric Theatre
1/24 Wilkes-Barre, PA Hi-Lite Club
1/25 Greenville, PA Thiel College
1/26 Lakewood, OH Lakewood High School
1/27 Cincinnati, OH Maggie’s Opera House
1/28 Canton, OH Old Style Performing Arts
1/29 Davison, MI Davison High School
1/30 St. Clair Shores, MI Lakeview High School
1/31 Fly to Raleigh, NC Travel Day
February Calendar page
2/1 Greenville, NC East Carolina University
2/2 Evansville, IN Memorial High School
2/3 Indianapolis, IN Pike High School
2/4 Muncie, IN Ball State University
2/5 Oxford, OH Miami University
2/6 London, Ontario, Canada Centennial Hall
2/7 Rolling Meadows, IL Rolling Meadows High School
2/8 Elkhart, IN Concord Performing Arts Center
2/9 Caldwood, MI Tibbits Opera House
2/10 Whitehall, OH Whitehall High School
2/11 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall
2/12 Dayton, OH Victory Theatre
2/13 Off in Dayton, OH
2/14 Slippery Rock, PA Slippery Rock State University
2/15 Hopewell Junction, NY John Jay High School
2/16 Sayre, PA Sayre Area High School
2/17 Abington, PA Abington High School
Set I
Blue Birdland
Chameleon
Feelings
Two For Otis
Star Trek
Conquistador
Set II
MacArthur Park (end)
The Fly
Band member intros
Portrait of Alarga
Rocky
Pagliacci
2/18 NY, NY Bottom Line
Review: http://www.mftourdates.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2.18.1977-MF-Review.jpg
2/19 NY, NY Bottom Line
Set I
Blue Birdland
Chameleon
Star Trek
Two For Otis
The Way We Were
Rocky
I Can’t Get Started
Pagliacci
Set 2
Blue Birdland
The Fly
The Way We Were
Two For Otis
Rocky
Pagliacci
2/20 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Place Des Arts
2/21 Jamestown, NY Jamestown College
2/22 Travel Day in Boston, MA
2/23 Boston, MA Music Hall
2/24 Alfred, NY
2/25 Willow Dale, Canada Seneca College
2/26 Travel Day off, Silver Spring, MD
2/27 Rehearsal in Silver Spring, MD
2/28 Silver Spring, MD Villa Rosa Show Boat
March Calendar page
3/1 Philadelphia, PA The Mike Douglas Show
3/2 Westminster, MD
3/3 Salem, VA
3/4 Norton, VA
3/5 Travel & day off, Atlanta, GA
3/6 Forsythe, GA Harlequin Dinner Theater (Atlanta)
3/7 Forsythe, GA Harlequin Dinner Theater (Atlanta)
3/8 Birmingham, AL
3/9 Douglas, GA
3/10 Del Ray Beach, FL
3/11 Miami, FL Joe Rico’s Room
3/12 Miami, FL Joe Rico’s Room
3/13 Miami, FL Joe Rico’s Room
3/14 West Palm Beach JB’s Lounge
3/15 New Orleans, LA
3/16 Travel & Day Off in San Antonio, TX (530 miles)
3/17 San Antonio, TX Burbank High School
3/18 El Paso, TX
3/19 Thatcher, AZ
3/20 Tucson, AZ
3/21 Scottsdale, AZ Saguaro High School
Set I
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Star Trek
Primal Scream
Feelings
Conquistador
Set II
MacArthur Park (intro)
Rocky
Sweet Firebird 3
Pagliacci
3/22 Montebello, CA
3/23 Le Moore, CA
3/24 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
3/25 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
3/26 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
3/27 Vallejo, CA
3/28 Roseburg, OR
3/29 Springfield, WA
3/30 Aberdeen, WA
3/31 Seattle, WA
Unconfirmed date/venue (MF made no appearances here in 1977,
but setlist puts it in this period):
Knoxville, TN Halls High School
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Suite Firebird #3
Theme from Star Trek
Pagliacci
April Calendar page
4/1 Laramie, WY
4/2 Lakewood, CO Alameda High School (End of tour)
25 Days off
4/28 Mentor, OH Mentor High School (Start of Tour)
4/29 Steger, IL Red Lion
4/30 Terre Haute, IN South Vigo High School
May Calendar page
5/1 Beardstown, IN Beardstown High School
5/2 Verona, WI Verona High School
5/3 Appleton, WI Fox Valley Lutheran High School
5/4 St. Paul, MN Prom Center
5/5 Colby (Madison), WI Madison Area Tech College
5/6 Muskegon, MI Michigan Theatre
5/7 Okemos, MI Okemos High School
5/8 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada White Pines Collegiate School
5/9 Travel Day and off in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5/10 Willowdale, Canada Seneca College
TV show (filmed at Seneca College near Toronto)
Give It One
Primal Scream https://youtu.be/K2QxehKabIY
Feelings
Conquistador
Rocky
Airegin
I Can’t Get Started
Blue Birdland
Clinic
Rocky
5/11 Rochester, NY Town & Country
5/12 Fairless Hills, PA Pennsbury High School
5/13 Baltimore, MD Civic Center (doubleheader with Buddy Rich)
1) Blue Birdland (Intro)
2) Give It One
3) Star Trek
4) Two For Otis
5) Feelings
6) Conquistador
7) Rocky
8) Pagliacci
9) Blue Birdland (End)
per Steve Schulz, Facebook
5/14 Belair, MD Hartford Community College
5/15 Annapolis, MD National Guard Armory
5/16 Cedar Grove, NJ Meadowbrook High School
5/17 Day off
5/18 N. Brunswick, NJ Holiday Inn
5/19 Rosemere, Quebec, Canada Rosemere High School
5/20 Travel Day
5/21 Halifax, Nova Scotia Dalhousie University
5/22 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5/23 Erie, PA Calabrese Club
5/24 Travel to Chicago, IL
5/25 Bloomington, IL Red Lion
5/26 Springfield, MO Glendale High School
5/27 St. Louis, MO Chase Park Plaza
5/28 Rapid City, SD Stevens High School
5/29 Travel to Chicago, IL
5/30 Chicago, IL Water Tower Drury Lane Theatre
June
6/1 Troy, MI
6/2 Travel to NYC
6/3 Day off in NYC
6/4 NY, NY Palladium
6/5 King’s College Gymnasium Wilkes Barre, PA Program p1 Program p2
6/6 Indianapolis, IN Beef & Boards Dinner Theater
6/7 St. Louis, MO Barn Dinner Theater
6/8 Tulsa, OK
6/9 New Orleans, LA
6/10 Houston, TX
6/11 Atlanta, GA Hilton Hotel (possible day off per Gordon Johnson)
6/12 Atlanta, GA Fox Theater
6/13 Atlanta, GA Omni Hotel
6/14 Travel to Columbus, OH
6/15 Columbus, OH
6/16 Dayton, OH
6/17 Chagrin Falls, OH Private Performance at Hillbrook Club
6/18 Philadelphia, PA Academy of Music (?)
6/19 Peabody, MA Holiday Inn
6/20 Peabody, MA Holiday Inn
6/21 Lake George, NY
6/22 Day Off
6/23 Bristol, CT Lake Compounce
6/24 Brockton, MA Brockton High School
6/25 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Performing Arts Center
6/26 Baltimore, MD Famous Ballroom
6/27 Silver Springs, MD Villa Rosa Show Boat
6/28 NY, NY Carnegie Hall
6/29 Wildwood, NJ London Ale House
6/30 Wildwood, NJ London Ale House
July
7/1 Eynon, PA (near Scranton) Weldwood Lounge
7/2 Cheswick, PA (near Pittsburgh) The Great Gatsby
7/3 Toronto, Canada The Forum, Ontario Place
7/4 Travel & day off, NYC
7/5 – 7/11 NY, NY Recording (New Vintage)
7/12 Mike Douglas Show taping
Conquistador https://youtu.be/gDwsxCkbMPY
Interview
Gonna Fly Now (Rocky)
Theme from Star Trek
7/13 Philadelphia, PA Robin Hood Del
7/14 Rain date for above
7/15 to 7/19 Days off?
Sometime during this period in July, MF spent 4 days in Italy (per newsletter).
MF appeared on RAI-TV show “Sensa Pete” – Conquistador video
“Auditorio A” show recorded in Naples, Italy for channel RAI-2, likely between July 15-19, 1977 – Aired Friday nights August 5 – September 23, 1977 (8 shows) – conductor Pino Presti, host Gino Paoli. – Thanks to Stephen Lovelady for the info!
then traveled to Switzerland with several band members
7/20 Travel to Montreux, Switzerland
7/21 Day off
7/22 Rehearsal for Montreux Summit/CBS All-Stars
7/23 Rehearsal for Montreux Summit/CBS All-Stars
7/24 Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland All-Star Concert/Recording
7/25 London, England CBS Convention Grosvenor House (same line-up as Montreux)
7/26 Travel to Harrisburg, PA
7/27 Harrisburg, PA Zembo Mosque Theatre
7/28 Cleveland, OH Front Row Theatre
7/29 Toledo, OH Seneca Auditorium (Shared the bill with Woody Herman Orchestra)
7/30 Louisville, KY Macauley Theatre
7/31 Cincinnati, OH Maggie’s Opera House
August
8/1 Day off
8/2 Youngstown, OH Idora Park (Shared the bill with Stan Kenton Orchestra)
8/3 Cincinatti, OH The Fribleys (private party)
8/4 Cincinatti, OH The Fribleys (private party)
8/5 Washington, DC Carter Baron Amphitheatre
8/6 Milwaukee, WI Miller Jazz Oasis at Summerfest )
Blue Birdland
Give It One
Star Wars
Airegin
Rocky
Conquistador
Pagliacci
8/7 Waitsfield, VT (near Burlington) Vermont Jazz Festival, Glen Ellen Ski Area
8/8 Cedar Grove, NJ The Meadowbrook
8/9 Minneapolis, MN Orchestra Hall
8/10 Chicago, IL Park West
8/11 NYC? Recording? (Gordon Johnson’s notes)
8/12 Rochester Hills, NY The Meadowbrook (w/ Buddy Rich)
8/13 San Francisco, CA Masonic Auditorium
8/14 Santa Monica, CA Civic Auditorium
8/15 to 9/11 Vacation
8/26 MF plays national anthem at Yankee Stadium, NY
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September
Japan Tour Poster from Peter Erskine
9/12 Rehearsal
9/13 to 9/14 Days off
9/15 Travel to Tokyo, Japan
9/16/77 – Friday – Tokyo – Kosei Nenkin Hall
9/17/77 – Saturday – Nagoya – Nagoya Shimin Kaikan
9/18/77 – Sunday – OFF
9/19/77 – Monday – Osaka – Osaka Kosei Nenkin
9/20/77 – Tuesday – Tokyo – Kosei Nenkin Hall
9/21/77 – Wednesday – Saga – Saga Shimin Kaikan
9/22/77 – Thursday – Fukuoka – Denki Hall
9/23 Kagoshima, Japan
9/24 Kyoto, Japan
9/25 Day off
9/26 Hiroshima, Japan
09/27/77 Nakano Sunplaza, Tokyo, Japan
Intro
Gonna Fly Now
Airegin
Pagliacci
Blue Birdland
I Can’t Get Started
9/28 Yokohama, Japan
9/29 Tokyo, Japan
9/30 Travel to USA
October
10/1 Vancouver, British Columbia Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/2 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre
10/3 Portland, OR Sunset High School
10/4 Spokane, WA Opera High School
10/5 Louistown, ID
10/6 Boise, ID Boise State University
10/7 Dalles, OR
10/8 Travel & Day off
10/9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
10/10 Sacramento, CA
10/11 Monterey, CA Civic Center
10/12 Travel & Day off
10/13 Fullerton, CA Plummer High School
10/14 Redlands, CA University of Redlands
10/15 Salt Lake City, UT
10/16 Seward, NE
10/17 Hiawatha, KS Hiawatha High School
10/18 Omaha, NE Performing Arts Center
10/19 Storm Lake, IA Buena Vista College
10/20 cedar Rapids, IA
10/21 Kenosha, WI St. Joseph High School
10/22 Chicago, IL Park West
10/23 Cincinnati, OH Music Hall
10/24 Travel & Day off, NYC
10/25 Pennsburg, PA Upper Perkiman High School
10/26 NY, NY Radio City Music Hall
10/27 NY, NY Rehearsal
10/28 White Plains, NY Westchester Civic Center
10/29 Allentown, PA Symphony Hall
10/30 Travel & Day off, Grand Rapids, MI
November
11/1 Rock Island, IL
11/2 Peru, IN Peru High School (2 shows) The newsletter was incorrect–This was not at Purdue University.
Thanks to John Disher for sorting this out!
Second Show:
Blue Birdland
Gonna Fly Now
Primal Scream
Airegin
Pagliacci
Blue Birdland
Christmas Medley
Blue Birdland
11/3 Crystal Lake, IL
11/4 Day off
11/5 Bloomington, IN Indiana University
11/6 Albion, MI Albion College
11/7 Midland, MI Center for the Arts
11/8 Ashtabula, OH Civic Auditorium
11/9 Syracuse, NY
11/10 Gloversville, NY Gloversville High School
11/11 Day off
11/12 Dayton, OH
11/13 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Music Hall
11/14 Carlisle, PA Carlisle High School POSTER
11/15 North Port, NY North Port High School
11/16 North Port, NY North Port High School (clinic/workshop?)
11/17 Newark NJ Symphony Hall
11/18 Glastonbury, CT Glastonbury High School
11/20 Norfolk, VA Omni
11/21 Raleigh, NC NCSU, Stewart Theatre
11/22 & 11/23 Days off
11/24 New Castle, PA
11/25 Band travels while MF plays for USC-UCLA halftime, USC Coliseum, per Daily Trojan article dated 11.22.77
11/26 Skokie, IL Niles West High School
11/28 Chicago, IL Hilton Hotel
11/29 Eau Claire, WI IW
11/30 Travel & Day off, Milwaukee, WI
December
12/1 Milwaukee, WI
12/2 Holland, MI
12/3 Day off
12/4 Okemos, MI Okemos High School
12/5 Livonia, MI Clarenceville HS
12/6 Roscommon, NI
12/7 Flint, MI
12/8 Travel & Day off
12/ 9 Willowdale, Canada Seneca College (near Toronto)
12/10 Willowdale, Canada Seneca College (near Toronto)
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