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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. Put Me Off At Buffalo, billed as a "hilarious musical comedy success", is playing at The Bijou Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, USA. The play is based on a popular song of the same name, in which a passenger is mistakenly ejected from a train at Buffalo by an inebriated negro porter, described in the song as a 'coon' and a 'nigger'.
The New City Club Burlesquers are appearing at The Star Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Described as 'Vaudeville top-notchers', Imro Fox And Co, The Montrose Family, Libby And Trayer (in their Artistic Musical Potpourri), Sailor And Barbaretto, Snyder And Buckley (the Merry Monarchs Of The Musical World), Wm Friend And Co and Arthur Deming (The Emperor Of Minstrelsy) open at The Orpheum, San Francisco, California, USA.Billy Hays and His Orchestra record You came Along just In Time and When Carolina Smiles for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the forty-ninth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Spike Jones And His Music Depreciation Revue play at The Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
The Irving Berlin musical and political satire Call Me Madam is playing at The Coliseum, London, England, UK, during a run of 485 performances. Main cast members are Billie Worth (Sally Adams), Anton Walbrook (Cosmo), Jeff Warren (Ken Gibson) and Shani Wallis (Princess Maria). Songs include The Hostess with the Mostes', It's a Lovely Day Today, The Ocarina, They Like Ike and You're Just in Love.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Freddie King records You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling for King Records, in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.
The Elektrons, with The Bird Electric Organ, play at McIlroy's Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
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.Jerry
Butler, The Miracles, The
Marvelettes, Ben E. King, Maxine Brown and
Betty Everett play the last night in a week at The Regal
Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Grant Green Sextet record Besame Mucho, Brazil [originally titled Aquarela do Brasil], Blues For Juanita and other tracks for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Teen movie Summer Holiday, starring Cliff Richard And The Shadows, is released to cinemas in Finland, Europe.
La Luna y el Toro by Mikaela reaches No1 in the popular singles chart in Spain, Europe, for one week.
John 
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The Velvet Underground is playing during three nights at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Paul McCartney holds auditions at the Albery Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, London, England, UK, Europe, to find a new drummer for Wings. The 49 drummers who apply include Mitch Mitchell, formerly with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, but after narrowing the field down to five drummers, the job goes to the less well-known Geoff Britton. On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play the first of two nights at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob Marley, suffering from terminal cancer, is undergoing treatment at the Issels Clinic in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, Europe. He will remain at the clinic until May 1981.Paul McCartney releases the album Tug Of War simultaneously in the USA and UK.
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Nina Simone is playing during twenty nights at Ronnie Scott's Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.African Connexion and Ferenji Warriors play at The 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, England, UK.
Dee Dee Bridgewater plays the second of four nights at Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland, California, USA. During these four nights she records the album Live At Yoshi's, which features several songs associated with Ella Fitzgerald, who had died a year earlier.
Jazz drummer Mike Gilman dies, aged 69, of a stroke while watching TV and preparing a meal in a microwave oven at his sheltered accommodation flat in Manchester, England, UK.
On their first tour together in over twenty years, the surviving members of The Beach Boys play at The Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA.
Bob Dylan plays the first of four nights at Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America.
Girls' Generation play the first of two nights at Marine Messe, Fukuoka, Japan, Asia.
On his All The Rage tour, Ian Siegal plays at The Greystones, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.1901 |
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