Random selection from around 530 Facts
Click to filter results
The Metropolitan Orchestra records a version of The Blue Danube for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.Milt Shaw And His Detroiters record Walking With Susie for Columbia Records in the USA.
George Eisenberg of Brooklyn, New York, USA, files patent application Serial No. 351,874. with the US Patent office for an electrical amplification device to be fitted to a violin, "so that the resultant volume is equal to that of several stringed instruments instead of to one".
Cootie Williams And His Orchestra play the last of seven nights at The Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Al Morgan plays the sixth night of two weeks at The Lookout House, Covington, Kentucky, USA.
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the thirty-fourth night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.
Hal Otis is playing during a two-week engagement at The Cairo, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Doris Day enters the UK charts with Secret Love, which will go on to No1 and hold that slot for nine weeks.
Fats Domino plays the second of three nights at the 5-4 Club, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Count Basie, the Miles Davis Sextet, The Stan Getz Quintet andthe Oscar Petersen Trio play at The Messehalle, Koln, Germany, Europe.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the last of six nights at The Hippodrome, Manchester,UK.
Keren Woodward of 
Cab Calloway performs during the intermission at the Harlem Globetrotters - College All Americans contest at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Ricky Valance plays at The Gaumont Ballroom, Bradford, England, UK, supported by Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages.
Faron Young records The Comeback and Over-Lonely And Under-Kissed in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Session-players on these tracks include Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, Lightning Chance, Buddy Harman, Marvin Hughes and The Jordanaires.
Vocalist Dodo Greene records Trouble In Mind, Down By The Riverside and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Blue Note Records.
Sammy Davis Jr. plays the second night in a week of shows at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The first edition of UK tv show Ready, Steady, Goes Live!, features Dionne Warwick, Manfred Mann, Tom Jones, The Yardbirds, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers and Zoot Money.
Marvin Gaye spends the second of three days recording Little Darling (I Need You) for Tamla Records, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The song is written by the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
Lou Rawls is playing during two weeks at The Cave, Vancouver, British Ciolumbia, Canada.Charlie Daniels adds guitar and Kenny Buttrey adds drums to the songs The Boxer and Little Sadie, for Bob Dylan's album Self Portrait, in Columbia Records Music Row studio, Nashville, Tennessee.
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac reaches No1 in the Billboard albums chart in the USA. Much of the album was recorded at The Record Plant in Sausalito, California, USA.
On their 
Nirvana spend the first of five days recording at Smart Studios, owned by producer Butch Vig, in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.Prince's former bodyguard, Charles "Big Chick" Huntsberry, dies of heart failure, aged 49.
Neil Finn of Crowded House fame begins a week of solo shows at the St James Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand. During the week he is joined on stage by guests including his brother, Tim Finn, plus Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Lisa Germano, Ed O'Brien and Phil Selway of Radiohead, Johnny Marr of The Smiths and Sebastian Steinberg of Soul Coughing.
The Bravery play 
Brad Paisley sings When I Get Where I'm Going during the funeral of Buck Owens at the Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield, California, USA. Also on hand are Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, Lulu Roman, John Berry and Trace Adkins
On their 
Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at The Skyway Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
On the North American leg of their Decades World Tour Nightwish play at Sokol Auditorium, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
1902 |
2021 |