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The Rock Island And La Salle Railroad Company opens its line to Rock Island, Illinois, USA. Running between Rock Island and LaSalle, Illinois, then linking through to New Orleans, it will become popularly known as The Rock Island Line and will inspire the folk/blues song Rock Island Line, first recorded by music archivist John Lomax in 1934 as sung by inmates in an Arkansas State Prison, and later popularized by Lead Belly.
Ragtime and jazz bandleader, arranger and composer James Reese Europe is born in Mobile, Alabama, USA. With his Society Orchestra, he will become the first black bandleader to appear on a record.
The Hawaiian Glee Club, Warren And Blanchard, Jessie Dale and Wincherman's Trained Bears are among the entertainments on offer at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.Samuel David Bailey is born in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. He will find acclaim as jazz drummer Dave Bailey working with Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Gerry Mulligan and many others.
Chick Webb and his Orchestra, with Ella Fitzgerald on vocals, play the sixteenth night of a lengthy engagement at the Flamingo Room in Levaggi's Restaurant, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Playing in the restaurant's basement are The Ink Spots.
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Daffan's Texans record Weary Steel Blues, Don't Be Blue For Me, Strip Tease Swing and other tracks for Okeh
Records in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs Don't Do Something To Someone Else, Sitting By The Window, Sorry and Where Or When, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
The Five Keys record Hucklebuck With Jimmy, Too Late, With A Broken Heart, Happy Am I, Your Teardrops and Just Like Two Drops Of Water, for Aladdin Records at WOR Studios, New York City, USA.
The revue An Evening With Beatrice Lillie is presented at The Booth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 276 performances. As well as its actress-singer star, the show features piano duettists Eddie And Rack. The Betty McGuire group is playing during six weeks at The Prince George, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Please, Please, Please, the debut single by James Brown, is reviewed in trade magazine Billboard in the USA with the words, "a dynamic religious fervour runs through the pleading solo here. Brown and The Famous Flames group let off plenty of steam."
The Everly Brothers play the first of two days at the Central Florida State Fair, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Ronnie Hawkins records The Ballad Of Caryl Chessman in New York City, USA, for Roulette Records. Levon Helm, later to play with The Band, is the drummer on the track.
Columbia recording artist Jill Corey is playing during two weeks at Beverly Hills, Southgate, Kentucky, USA.
Are You Sure by The Allisons enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No2 during a stay of sixteen weeks.
The Limeliters appear on WLW-Ttv's 50-50 Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They had been booked to appear two days earlier, but a plane strike delayed their arrival.
The Miracles, B.B. King, Gene Chandler, Don Covay, Baby Jane And The Rockabyes, Rick Henderson And His All-Stars and Henry La Mont play the first night of a week at The Howard Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
The Detours, featuring future leader of The Who, Pete Townshend, play at The Grand Ballroom, Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK, EuropeThe Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at Pearce Hall, Maidenhead, UK.
Jody Miller performs He Walks Like A Man on weekly tv pop show American
Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The The Who play at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Cannonball Adderley, The Vagrants, Blue Cheer and Sagittarius.
Rhythm and blues harmonica player Little Walter Jacobs is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery, Evergreen Park, near Chicago, Illinois, USA, but his grave will remain unmarked until 1991, when fans Scott Dirks and Eomot Rasun will arrange to have a marker designed and installed.Patrick Dane and The Front Line, play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Led Zeppelin enter the Billboard albums chart in the USA with their eponymous debut album. It will peak at No10.
Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Witherspoon play during a week of shows at Red Foxx's club, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Spade Cooley, a popular Western Swing bandleader of the 1940s, is paroled from Vacaville Prison, California, USA, where he has served eight years for the murder of his wife.
With his band now billed as The Hype, David Bowie plays at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, Europe.Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida, USA, supported by Motley Crue.
The Commodores are playing during five nights at Baileys, Watford, England, UK, Europe.
On the second part of their Happy In Flares tour, Doctor And The Medics play at The Paradise Club, Reading, England, UK, Europe.Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, McCoy Tyner and Grover Washington, Jr. are among the performers playing in the One Night With Blue Note concert at the Town Hall, New York City, USA. The show is part of the promotion for the re-launch of Blue Note records.
Chicago-based guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson spends the second of two days recording his album All My Life at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, Kansas, USA.
It is announced on Blink 182’s website that the band is to stop working together for an unspecified length of time, in order to be able to, “spend some time enjoying the fruits of their labors with their loved ones."
On their Changed tour, Rascal Flatts play at The Covelli Centre, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
Bon Iver plays during an eight-night run of shows at The Eventim Apollo, London, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the second of fourteen shows at Le Grand Rex, Paris, France, Europe.1854 |
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