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An operetta double bill of The Magic Melody and At The Lower Harbour, both with music by Jacques Offenbach, opens at the American Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for eight performances.
Musical revue The Passing Show Of 1919, featuring "a gigantic gathering of glorious girls in gorgeous gowns" plays at The Winter Garden, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
The play Green
Grow The Lilacs, which features several folk songs performed by
future singing cowboy Tex Ritter, plays the fourth of six days at The National Theatre, Washington
DC, USA. The play will subsequently provide the plot for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma.
Bing Crosby and The Boswell Sisters play the eighth of fourteen nights at The Paramount Theatre, Times Square, New York City, USA.
Jazz Information newsletter reports that 'Ben Webster, well known tenor sax man formerly with Teddy Wilson, has joined Duke Ellington's Orchestra which is playing one-nighters around New England this week.'
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.
Danny Kaye is headlining at The Palace Theater, New York City, USA, during a lengthy run of shows.
US R'n'B pioneer Joe Turner records Blues In The Night for Atlantic Records in New York City.
On his 25th birthday, 
Clyde McPhatter, Little Anthony And The Imperials, Ben E. King and Tarheel Slim, play at the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Daniel Dale Johnston is born in Sacramento, California, USA. He will find acclaim as singer and songwriter Daniel Johnston after moving to Austin, Texas in the 1980s.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.At Radio Recorders studio, Hollywood, California, USA, Elvis Presley begins recording soundtrack songs for his next movie, Fun In Acapulco.
Glenn Yarbrough, until recently a member of The Limeliters, is playing during four weeks of shows at The Hungry i, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill are Wes Harrison and The Town Criers.Country singer Lefty Frizzell records there's No Food In This House, The Rider, I Was Coming Home To You and other tracks in the USA.
The Times reports that every man in the Berlin-based 1st Battalion of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) has signed a petition asking The Beatles to come and play for them.
The second 
Take Me For What I'm Worth by The Searchers peaks at No6 in the Singles Chart in Sweden, Europe.
The New Christy Minstrels are playing during a lengthy engagement at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisana, USA.
The Grateful Dead play the first of two nights at Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Duane Dee, with producer Kelso Herston, records It Won't Matter So Much, That Was My Shining Hour and Money Trees Don't Grow (On The Streets Of Chicago) in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Falsetto vocalist Tiny Tim makes his TV debut on the series premiere of Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In in the USA.
Bridget St. John plays at Helius, in the Nag's Head, Clapham, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Allman Brothers Band plays the first of four nights at the Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dion plays the first of four nights at The Mainpoint, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
The album Why Do Fools Fall In Love by Diana Ross is awarded a platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
The intriguing trio of Carl Perkins, Brian Setzer (Stray Cats) and French singing star Johnny Halliday perform together in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for a French tv show.
Duran Duran's Sing Blue Silver tour plays at The International Centre, Fukuoka, Japan, Asia.Revered Texan steel guitar player Jimmy Day dies aged 65 of cancer in Houston, Texas, USA. In a long career he played with Webb Pierce, Red Sovine, Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Lefty Frizzell, Elvis Presley, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Willie Nelson, Johnny Bush, Ferlin Husky, George Jones, Tracy Nelson And Mother Earth, Leon Russell, Commander Cody and Skeeter Davis.
Stepping briefly out of retirement, octogenarian Vic Damone plays at The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
On his Bare Bones tour, Bryan Adams plays at The Luhr Center, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA.Hungarian folk group Muzsika play at Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire, UK.
Neil Diamond announces his retirement from live touring after having been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
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