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The Four Musical Colbys, Fred Niblo, The Holloway Trio, The Nichols Sisters, Rose Coghlan and others play at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Klaw And Erlanger's Troubadours present Harry B. Smith's musical comedy The Liberty Belles at The Madison Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
A Grand Vaudeville Entertainment for the benefit of the Medical Department of San Francisco Polyclinic, is staged at The Alhambra Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical comedy The Maid Of The Mountains, with music by Harold Fraser-Simpson and J.W. Tate, is playing at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 1352 performances.Blues singer Coley Jones, accompanying himself on guitar, records Frankie And Albert for Columbia Records, in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Ewen Hall, a male vocalist, accompanied by string quartet and piano, records The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi and Lonesome That's All, for Brunswick Records in Room No1, 799 Seventh Avenue, New York City, USA.
Bing Crosby and Judy Garland perform Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, These Lush Moments, Blue Boy and Boise, Idaho, on The Bing Crosby Show on CBS radio in the USA, On her own, Garland performs Rock-A-Bye Your Baby [With a Dixie Melody]
I'll See You In My Dreams, a movie musical starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas, is released to cinemas in the USA. The film is a fictionalised biography of song lyric writer Gus Kahn.
Nat King Cole plays during two weeks at The Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Sonny Thompson And His Orchestra are playing during a string of dates in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.While serving with the US Army in Germany, Elvis Presley has his first karate lessons with 'The Father of German Karate' Jurgen Seydel.
Elvis Presley is filming scenes for his tenth movie Kid Galahad in Culver Studios, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
A party is thrown by the company Music Distributors for Connie Francis at The Ambassador Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.The Michel Legrand Big Band records the Richard Rodgers melodies The Lady Is A Tramp, Have You Met Miss Jones' and This Can't Be Love for Philips Records in New York City, USA. The tracks will appear on the LP The Michel Legrand Big Band Plays Richard Rodgers.
The Gil Evans Orchestra records Johmpa-Bokuis-Shay-I'd Par and Concorde for Verve Records in New York City, USA.
Jazz vibes players Cal Tjader And Gary McFarland record Original No1 and Greensleeves for Verve Records in the USA. The tracks will remain unreleased.
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Dusty Springfield begins a week in cabaret at Mr Smiths, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.John Mayall is in recording studios in London, UK, for the second of two days, working on the tracks Jenny and Picture On The Wall, with Peter Green on guitar.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
The new No1 single in the USA is Na Na
Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye by Steam on the Billboard Top 40 chart.
The Moody Blues, featuring Swindon-born Justin Hayward, enter the UK albums chart with To Our Children's Children's Children, which will peak at No2.
Edgar Winter plays at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.Legendary blues guitarist Albert King and his disciple Stevie Ray Vaughan perform together on a Canadian sound stage for the live music television series In Session. The performance will, in due course, be released as an LP and as a DVD.
Poison Girls play a Bopal Solidarity benefit show at Sheffield University, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
Wishbone Ash play at Central Park, Bar Gates Centre, Burton-On-Trent, England, UK, Europe.
Four teenage girls, Amy Ayres, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison and Eliza Thomas, are murdered in the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in Austin, Texas, USA. This horrific killing spree will enter the annals of infamy as The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders but despite several confessions, no one will ever be sentenced for the crime. In 2002, Okkervil River will record and release the song Westfall, inspired by the incident.
Nirvana appear on UK tv show Tonight With Jonathan Ross. Their host announces that they will play Lithium, but they launch into the rather less viewer-friendly Territorial Pissings instead, then trash their gear.Smokey Robinson plays at The Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Florence And The Machine play a sold-out gig at The Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Toronto, Canada-based duo Crystal Castles release a new version of their song Not In Love with Robert Smith of The Cure handling vocals, in the UK.
Lady Gaga visits the White House in Washington, DC, USA, to offer assistance to the Obama administration's anti-bullying campaign. Gaga meets with administration staffers, but is unable to speak with the president, who is in Kansas.Amy MacDonald plays at The Gasometer, Vienna, Austria, Europe, supported by Andy Burrows.
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