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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. 
Pollard's Australian Juvenile Opera Company performs the musical show A Gaiety Girl at The Tivoli Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.The Six Brown Brothers Saxophone Sextet records That Moaning Saxophone Rag in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Folk singer, songwriter and recording artist Vin Garbutt is born in South Bank, Middlesbrough, England, UK.
Frankie Masters And His Orchestra are playing for the Ice Show - Calendar Capers - at The Boulevard Room of The Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Sons Of The Pioneers perform On The Rhythm Range, Bonaparte's Retreat, A Summer Night's Rain and other songs, on their KHJ-Mutual radio series The Lucky-U Ranch, in Los Angeles, California, USA.Jack Parnell And His Orchestra play at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, with Gene Williams and Irene Miller; Joe 'Mr Piano' Henderson; Jeffrey Lenner.
The Ed Sullivan Show includes an r'n'b section, featuring Bo Diddley, LaVern Baker and The 5 Keys. Sullivan so abhors Bo Diddley's eponymous theme song that he instructs him to sing Sixteen Tons instead. Bo wisely ignores him.
The Association Of Record Dealers holds its annual dinner and awards bash at The Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City, USA. Connie Francis collects the award for Best Female Vocalist, whilePaul Anka is chosen as Best Male Vocalist.
Tim Brinkhurst, later to be the guitarist in UK 90s hit-making act Soho, is born. He will later release records using such names as Oosh!, Yossarian, and change his own name to Tim London.
Paul Anka records Love Me Warm And Tender, I Never Knew Your Name and I'd Like To Know in New York City, USA.
Frances Faye records Do Nothin till You Hear from Me, Its All Right With Me, Love For Sale and So In Love for Verve Records at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band on the session features Al Porcino, Stu Williamson, Conte Candoli, Ray Triscari, trumpets; Harry Betts, Pete Carpenter, Vern Friley, trombones; Red Callender, tuba; Kenny Shroyer, bass trombone; Bud Shank, alto sax; Bob Enevoldsen, Gene Cipriano, tenor saxes; Bill Hood, baritone sax; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Al Hendrickson, guitar; Joe Mondragon, bass; Earl Palmer, drums; Milt Holland, conga.
The Billy J. Kramer Pop Parade tour, featuring Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, The Caravelles, The Fourmost, Houston Wells, Tommy Quickly and The Marauders plays at The Gaumont, Watford, England, UK, Europe.
The Rolling Stones, Pretty Things, The Animals, Gene Vincent, Long John Baldry And The Hoochie Coochie Men, and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers play at The Glad Rag Ball, Empire Pool, Wembley, London, UK.
The Beach Boys play at the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, supported by The Gentrys and The Strangeloves.
The Outsiders play at the Easy Beat Club, Hengelo, Netherlands, Europe. For this gig they play without bassist Appie Rammers.
Josh White Jr. plays to an audience of 300 at The Association Of College Unions convention in The University Of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.Motown Records re-release I Want You Back/ABC and The Love You Save/I'll Be There by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, on their Yesteryear imprint in the USA.
The Who launch another tour with a gig at The Summit, Houston, Texas, USA. Drummer Keith Moon is arrested for disorderly conduct at the after-concert party. 
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. The Wiz, an all-black remake of The Wizard of Oz, starring Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow and Diana Ross as Dorothy, is released in The Philippines.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
Prince plays in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Jazz pianist Bobby Enriquez plays at Huntington Public Library, Long Island, New York State, USA.
Austrian-born Hans Spialek, a revered orchestrator of musicals, dies aged 89 of cancer, in New York City, USA. Spialek orchestrated 147 musicals from 1926 to 1967, including Broadway musicals by Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and others.
Midge Ure plays at The Gaumont, Southampton, England, UK, Europe.
Promoting their debut LP, Night Of A Thousand Candles, The Men They Couldn't Hang play at The Bierkeller, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
Lee Aaron plays at The Dominion, London, England, UK, Europe.
On her Under My Spell tour, Paula Abdul is playing at The Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, New York State, USA.
On their Into The Great Wide Open tour, Tom Petty And The Hewartbreakers play at Key Arena at Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Metal Church play at Club Citta, Kawasaki, Japan, Asia.
Allow Us To Be Frank by During the London Jazz Festival, Alan Barnes performs his show Five Takes on Benny Goodman at The Purcell Room, London, UK.
On his Back To Bass tour Sting plays at The Wells Fargo Theatre, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Marcus Bonfanti plays 
On their Drones World Tour, Muse play the last of three nights at Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.Culture Club, Belinda Carlisle and Tom Bailey play at The Venue, Hull, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the sixth of ten shows at The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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