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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.Jessie Stafford And His Orchestra record I'm Following You, I'm Sailing On A Sunbeam, in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Brunswick Records.
Billy Gray, Patti Moore and Ben Lessy with The Larry Greene Trio and The Taylor Maids, are playing at Billy Gray's Bandbox, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The day after Blueberry Hill tops the Billboard r'n'b chart in the USA, Fats Domino plays the song on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York
City, USA.
Weekly UK pop paper the NME [New Musical Express] reports that Philips Records has made a multi-million pound offer for the purchase of US-based Dot Records, whose most successful artist is Pat Boone.
Monique Van Vooren is playing at Cafe Bonaparte, in the Sharaton Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The front page of UK music weekly Melody Maker carries a report stating that British pop idol Cliff Richard and American star Connie Francis have become embroiled in a dispute about the song When The Girl In Your Arms Is The Girl In Your Heart. Richard recently released the original version, but Francis has covered it under the title When The Boy In Your Arms Is The Boy In Your Heart. Richard apparently feels this is "unfair".Hank Ballard And The Midnighters, Junior Lewis, aka C.L. Blast, The Dovells, The Isley Brothers and Solomon Burke play the fifth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Run To Him by Bobby Vee is the highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No69.
Dick Charlesworth And His City Gents, Diz Dizley and Cyril Preston play at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England, UK, Europe
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
The Goldebriars, an aspiring pop group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, which includes Curt Boettcher who will go on to enjoy a solo career as an artist and producer, begins recording an album at Columbia Studios on 30th Street, New York City, USA. (While in the studio, they meet Australian pop hitmaker Rolf Harris.)
Pedal steel guitarist Pete D rake records Danny Boy, Sleepwalk and Forever in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Johnny Mathis releases a new LP, Romantically, on Columbia Records in the USA. It will prove to be his final original studio album for the label before he moves to Mercury Records.
The Beatles meet with EMI Chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood for lunch in the company's boardroom in Manchester Square, London, England, UK, Europe. A presentation of several Silver Discs is made to The Beatles, including the albums Please Please Me and With The Beatles, even though the latter has not yet been released.
Current affairs magazine Newsweek in the USA runs its first feature on The Beatles, declaring, "Beatle music is high-pitched, loud beyond reason, and stupefyingly repetitive. Like rock `n' roll, to which it is closely allied, it is even more effective to watch than to hear. They prance, skip, and turn in circles; Beatles have even been known to kiss their guitars. The style, certainly, is their own."
Joe Williams, with the Jimmy Jones Orchestra, records Hobo Flats and Every Night, at Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for RCA Records.
Muddy Waters And His Blues Band featuring Otis Spann play the second of six nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Paul Nathan, a colleague of American film producer Hal Wallis - who has made several Elvis Presley films - sends him a memo stating that, following recent discussions with The Beatles' press officer, Brian Somerville, there is a possibility that the group could be persuaded to appear in a movie with Presley.
The Serendipity Singers play at The University Of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Harman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, Billy Fury, The Fortunes, Little Frankie and The Country Gents play at The Granada, West Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Country Joe And The Fish play the second of two nights at Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, USA.Having just been sacked from Neil
Young's band Crazy
Horse, songwriter, singer and guitarist Danny Whitten dies
of a combination of Valium, which he was taking for severe
arthritis, and alcohol, which he was using to try to get over his
heroin addiction. Horrified, Neil Young is inspired to write
The
Needle And The Damage Done, about Whitten's addiction and
death.
Judas Priest play the first of two nights at The City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
On their Hide Your Sheep Tour [aka the K.A.T.N. (Kicking Ass and Taking Names tour) Tour], Van Halen play the first of two nights at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA, supported by Joe Whiting And The Bandit Band.
On the Bark At The Moon tour, Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe.
Touring in support of their fourteenth album, The Chronicle Of The Black Sword, Hawkwind play at The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Rolling Stones’ drummer Charlie Watts opens at Ronnie Scott's Club, London, England, UK, Europe, with his 29-piece Big Band, including Cream bassist Jack Bruce on cello.
When police enter Sly Stone's house to arrest him for non-payment of child support, they find him 'incoherent and violent'. As a result, he is charged with cocaine possession for the second time in this year. 
Celine Dion releases her 5th English-language album Let's Talk About Love, in the USA. The album includes My Heart Will Go On, the theme song from the movie Titanic, a No1-selling single worldwide. 20m units of Let's Talk About Love will be sold in its first four months of release, including over 10m in Europe alone, and 31m will be sold as the years go on, making Celine Dion the only female recording artist to have two albums with more than 31m copies sold.
Ozzy Osbourne reveals at the MTV Europe Music Awards that he has cancelled any further series of popular reality tv show The Osbournes.On their 20th Anniversary tour, Smashing Pumpkins play at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rihanna plays the fifth night of her 777 tour, [seven gigs in seven cities over seven days, transported on a Boeing 777] at E-Werk, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Blues guitar virtuoso Matt Schofield plays at The Haven Club, The Bullingdon, Oxford, UK.
London-based rapper 
It is reported that U2, Foo Fighters, Prince and a number of other high profile artists have cancelled their live dates after the brutal attack on concert goers at an Eagles Of Death Metal show at The Batlacan in Paris, France, Europe.
70s punk band Penetration come to end of their 40th Anniversary Tour, with a show at The Georgian Theatre, Stockton, England, UK, Europe.1916 |
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