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Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra record Betsy Brown and Sell It, for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Billy Hays and His Orchestra record Do You Believe and Sittin' And Whittlin' for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
The 1st Academy Awards are presented at a private dinner in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA. Warner Brothers Production receive an 'honorary award' for 'producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry'. Tickets cost $5 and only 270 people attend the fifteen minute-long event.
Lillie Mae Jones is born in Flint, Michigan, USA. She will find success as jazz and r'n'b vocalist Betty Carter.
Lillie Mae Jones is born in Flint, Michigan, USA. She will find success as jazz and r'n'b vocalist Betty Carter.
Bud And Joe Billings, a pseudonym for Frank Luther and Carson Robison, record When It's Springtime In The Rockies, Barnacle Bill The Sailor No2 and Sleepy Rio Grande, at Victor Studio, Trinity Baptist Chuirch, New York City, USA for Victor Records.
The 1st Academy Awards are presented at a private dinner in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA. Warner Brothers Production receive an 'honorary award' for 'producing The Jazz Singer, the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry'. Tickets cost $5 and only 270 people attend the fifteen minute-long event.Doc Golly's Blue Melodians play at the Spencer High School Senior Prom in the Country Club, Spencer, Iowa, USA. Leader of the band, Cecil Golly, will go on to find fame as a big band leader.
Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record Laughing Marionette, Your Mother And Mine and S'posin' in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.