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Milton And Dollie Nobles, The Knight Brothers, Miss Susie Fisher, Banks And Winona Winter, The Mortons and The Petching Brothers are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Watson's Oriental Burlesquers are playing twice daily at The Standard Theater, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The New City Club Burlesquers are appearing at The Star Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.
The popular musical comedy The Belle Of New York, with music by Gustave Kerker and book by Hugh Morton, is presented at The Great Northern Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 205 performances.
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 425 performances.
Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.
Ambrose And his Orchestra record I'll Get By, A Precious Little Thing Called Love and Hello, Sunshine, Hello, in Chelsea, London, UK, for Decca Records. The tracks are not released.
Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record Little Pal and Song Of India [Concert version] in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Ray Starita And His Ambassadors Club Band record All Alone In Lovers' Lane and The Five O'Clock Girl - Selection, Parts 1 and 2,, in London, UK, for Columbia Records.
The Ink Spots play during a week of shows at The Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois, 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 musical Hazel Flagg, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Hilliard, is playing at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 190 performances.
Billie Holiday begins a six-day season at Pep’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Stuck On You, by Elvis Presley reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, for the first of four weeks.
James O'Gwynn records What Do You Want From Me, Slowly, When You're Lonesome and Don't We All Have The Right [To Be Wrong]?, with producer Shelby Singleton in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Guitarists on the session are Kelso Herston, Harold Bradley and Jerry Kennedy.
Despite facing severe losses, The Twist Spectacular Tour plays the second of five nights at St Nicholas Arena, New York City, USA, headlined by Chubby Checker with Joey Dee And The Starliters, Dee Dee Sharp, The Dovellsand The Carroll Brothers.
The Beatles play at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England, UK, Europe. Also billed to play are John Leyton, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Big Three and Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas. John Leyton, however, falls ill and is unable to perform.
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When Bob Dylan plays at The Bear, Chicago, Illinois, USA, he meets Mike Bloomfield for the first time. Bloomfield will become his guitarist when he makes his change to electric music, and will play on Like A Rolling Stone and many other tracks.
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Walk On By by Dionne Warwick enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No6.
Gene Pitney and The Honeybus play at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
The Cowsills record Indian Lake in New York City, USA. It will peak at No10 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Taj Mahal, Johnny Winter, The Keef Hartley Band, Hardin And York, Marsha Hunt, Little Free Rock, Renaissance, Krokodil, Brainbox, Bobbey's Children, Organisation and Kraftwerk play on the second day of the Pop And Blues Festival in The Grugahalle, Essen, Germany, Europe.
Columbia Records release a Hall Of Fame reissue single of Bob Dylan's Just Like A Woman and I Want You, in the USA.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.
Nina Simone is playing during twenty nights at Ronnie Scott's Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.
Eric Clapton plays at Byrne Arena, Meadowlands, New Jersey, USA.
Van Halen reach No1 in the USA on the Billboard album chart with 5150.
On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of three nights at The Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas.
Jimmy Mathias (aka Jimmy Jazz) and Nigel Cope, two members of Liverpool, UK, rap band The 25th Of May are charged with possession of class A and B substances.
Stiff Little Fingers play at The Forum, Kentish Town, London, England, UK.
Tears For Fears play at The NIA Academy, Birmingham, England, UK.
Seth Lakeman plays at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Ruarri Joseph.
Toby Keith, Brooks And Dunn, The Oak Ridge Boys, Firefall, Carlene Carter, Mary Gauthier and Little Jimmy Dickens are among the artists taking part on the second of two days of the Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California, USA.
Blackfield play at Matrix, Bochum, Germany, Europe.
Country music star Brad Paisley provides the voice for an animated version of himself on an episode of the Comedy Central tv series South Park, singing the American national anthem at a fictitious Denver Nuggets basketball game and performing I Swear with Cartman.
Rapper Drake, plays at Nottingham Arena, Nottingham, UK
On their Made In Germany tour, Rammstein play at The 1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Singer-songwriter Phildel launches her debut album, The Disappearance Of The Girl, with a sold-out live gig at St. Pancras Old Church, London, UK.
Blues-rock combo The Matt O'Ree Band plays an acoustic show at Surf Taco, Jackson, New Jersey, USA.
Green Day attend the Opening Night Gala Premiere of the documentary Broadway Idiot at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Newport Beach, California, USA.
David Gray plays at The Palace Of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA.
Volbeat play at The Abraham Chavez Theatre, El Paso, Texas, USA.
Laura Gibson plays at The Manc Soup Kitchen, Manchester, England, UK.
On his tour in support of the album Love In The Modern Age, Josh Rouse plays at The Garage, London, England, UK, Europe.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at The MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre, Tampa, Florida, USA, supported by The Struts.
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry - www.ifpi.org/about.php) releases its estimates for global recorded music revenues in 2017. That figure was $17.3 bn - an 8.9% growth on the $15.7bn for 2016.
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