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Malvina Milder is born in San Francisco, California, USA. She will find international acclaim as folk singer and songwriter Malvina Reynolds, whose best-known songs are Little Boxes, What Have They Done To The Rain? and Morningtown Ride.
Hughey Emmett, Leonard And Leonard, Howard Chambers, The Rosseaus, Olivio and Avery And Hart are providing the entertainment every afternoon and evening at The Chutes, Fulton Street And Tenth Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA.
Comic opera King Dodo is presented at The Studebaker Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The show is billed as featuring "100 superior singers".
Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra are playing during a one-month engagement at The Casa Manana, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The popular musical Guys And Dolls is playing at The Shubert Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.The Homing Waltz reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Vera Lynn and Alma Cogan.
Patti Page and Jimmie Rodgers play during ten nights at Araneta Coliseum, The Philippines, Asia.
Bobby Rydell is playing during a week of shows at The Frolics, Salisbury, Massachusetts, USA.
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated plays its regular Thursday night residency at The Marquee, London, UK.
Trail-blazing Tejano-country singer Emilio Navaira, is born in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Ernest Tubb And His Texas Troubadours play in Nisland, South Dakota, USA, supported by Linda Manning.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio-based scenes at MGM Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for his fifteenth movie Viva Las Vegas.
Barbara Lynn performs (I Cried At) Laura's Wedding on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sarah Vaughan, with Quincy Jones as producer, records Mr. Lucky and The Boy From Ipanema for Mercury Records in New York City, USA.
When The Rolling Stones record an appearance on tv show Scene At 6.30 in Manchester, England, UK, 200 fans have to be hosed to keep them under control.
Al Bishop and The Faxar record More [Theme From Mondo Cane] in Oslo, Norway, Europe, for HMV Records.
Shirley Bassey is playing during an engagement at The Sahara, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The No1 hit single People Got To Be Free by The Rascals is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
The Herbie Mann Septet records Hold On I'm Comin', Soul March and Honky Tonk for Atlantic Records at American Sound Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, 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.A small ad in trade magazine Billboard announces that Steve Paul's The Scene, a popular New York City, USA, nightclub and music venue, is up for sale.
Albert King and Cold Blood play the last of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
The first "electric Western" movie musical Zachariah is released to cinemas in Sweden, Europe. The film stars John Rubenstein, Patricia Quinn and Don Johnson, but is perhaps best-remembered for its cameo appearances by Country Joe And The Fish, Elvin Jones, Doug Kershaw, The James Gang, White Lightning and The New York Rock Ensemble. It will lose almost $1.5m.
The Skids appear on the cover of UK pop music weekly paper Record Mirror.
Sting plays the first of three nights at The Greek Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at the Festival Ground, Werchter, Belgium, Europe, to an audience of 55,000.
Don Henley plays at The Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Richard Marx and Wilson-Phillips play at Star Plaza, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob Dylan's childhood home, the Zimmerman house in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, is sold to an un-named buyer for an undisclosed amount.
Sonic Youth play at The Melody Ballroom, Portland, Oregon, supported by Nirvana.
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US President George Bush declares Eminem to be 'The biggest threat to American youth since polio'. 
The Festival On The Farm, a three-day event, comes to an end at Purton House, Swindon. Acts appearing today include FaBluSis, The Ramodes and Dodging The Bullet.
Warner/Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group Corp., announces that it has extended its worldwide agreement with songwriter and performer Roger Waters, a founding member of Pink Floyd. The new deal means that Warner/Chappell Music will continue to administer Roger Waters' share of all Pink Floyd songs from their first UK album number one in 1970 up until the point when Waters left the band.Successful musician, bandleader and impresario Tito Burns, active in both jazz and rock and roll, dies aged 89 of complications from prostate cancer, at his home in London, England, UK, Europe.
Barbra
Streisand releases a new album, What Matters Most [Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan &
Marilyn Bergman], in the USA.
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