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James Edwards Yancey is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success as blues pianist and recording artist Jimmy Yancey.
The Orpheum Show, featuring McIntyre And Heath, Joe Welch, Les Aglos Trio, Elizabeth Murray, W.C.Fields, The Serenaders, Macomber And Engleton and The Union Gatling Guards, plays at The Grand Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
The Bohemian Burlesquers are playing during a week of shows at The Empire Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.Felix Arndt records his own composition, the ragtime piano solo From Soup To Nuts, in New York City, 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.With alcoholism fast making him unreliable, Delta blues vocalist and guitarist Tommy McClennan records eight songs including Bluebird Blues and Roll Me Baby in his last recording session, in RCA Studio A for Bluebird Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the sixth night of two weeks at Ciro's, 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.
The current No1 song in the UK, based on sheet music sales, is The Loveliest Night Of The Year, by Mario Lanza.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
The Norman Burns Quintet plays at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single A Voice In The Wilderness, by Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
Julius LaRosa is playing during two weeks at The Racquet Club, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Jerry Wallace is playing during a two-week engagement at El Cortez, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Ray Peterson is playing during a week of shows at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Oh, What A Price by Fats Domino enters the Billboard R'n'B Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No7.
Connie Francis is playing during a week of shows at Blinstrub's Club, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.A package tour scheduled to begin tonight in Pensacola, Florida, USA, is cancelled because all of its major artists have suffered medical emergencies. Brenda Lee has developed cellulitis from a skating injury, Johnny Burnette is recuperating from a tonsillitis operation, Bob Beckham has burst a blood vessel in his throat and Gary Miles has contracted pneumonia.
Gene Vincent releases a new single, If You Want My
Lovin'/Mr Lonliness, on Capitol Records, in
the USA.
Surrender, by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1 during an eleven-week run.
The Fendermen release a new single, Heartbreakin' Special/Can't You Wait, in the USA on Soma Records.
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And Scruggs record Handsome Molly, Coal Loadin' Johnny, Hear
The Whistle Blow and Too Old For A Broken Heart in Columbia
Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Rose Maddox is playing during two weeks at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Country-gospel singing star Ira Louvin of The Louvin Brothers is shot six times by his wife Faye, at his home near Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She tells police that he was beating her, reportedly declaring, "if the bastard don't die I'll shoot him again!" A 'lunacy warrant' is issued and she is arrested. 
The Beatles are working on tracks for the film Help! In EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK. On this day they record If You've Got Trouble and That Means A Lot, neither of which are released.
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The Magnificent Men are playing a week of shows at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Cream spend the last of eleven days of recording in Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA, working on the album Wheels Of Fire.
The James Cotton Blues Band records Somethin' You Got in the USA. It will be released on their album Pure Cotton.
On their Destiny Tour, The
Jacksons including Michael
Jackson, play in Leeds, UK. The band stays at The
Dragonara Hotel overnight.
On their In The Long Grass tour, The Boomtown Rats play at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Kylie Minogue tops the UK singles chart for the first time with I Should Be So Lucky, released by the independent PWL Records, because every major UK label turned it down.
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Rush play at The Bayfront Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, supported by Mr Big.
Internationally successful guitarist Ivor Mairants dies aged 89, of cancer in London, UK. Mairants was widely regarded as a leading authority on the instrument in all its forms.The Jon Butler Trio plays at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
On his 20/20 Experience World Tour, Justin Timberlake plays the first of two nights at Madison Square Garen, New York City, USA.
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