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Comic opera King Dodo is presented at The Studebaker Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The show is billed as featuring "100 superior singers".
An 'Exclusive Vaudeville Bill" including John C. Rice and Sally Cohen is playing at The Suburban Theater, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.A show described as 'opulent vaudeville' is playing at The Orpheum, San Francisco, California, USA. Artists appearing include Edwin Keough and Dorothy Ballard, The Fleury Trio, Sam Edwards And Co, James Roberti and Arnold Billoski, Rosie Rendel ('a transformative dancer') and Lew Hawkins ('the Chesterfield of Minstrelsy')
The Williams And Walker Company's pioneering African-American musical In Dahomey is playing at The Grand Opera House, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of seventeen performances.
Calypso-style pianist Lionel Belasco records Chick A Biddy Rag and Teresita, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA, for their West Indian (Trinidad) marketing genre. He also records Junk Man Rag, Bajan Girl, Buddy Abraham, Little Brown Boy and other tracks, but these recordings will be destroyed and Belasco will re-record them on September 7.
Blues guitarist James Wheeler is born in Albany, Georgia, USA. He will work with Otis Clay, The Impressions, Otis Rush and others, as well as making albums in his own name.
Son House spends the fifth of six days recording blues material at Klack's Store, Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, USA, for the Library of Congress Recording initiative. During these sessions, he will record Levee Camp Blues, Government Fleet Blues, Walking Blues, Shetland Pony Blues, Fo' Clock Blues, Camp Hollers and Delta Blues.
Robert Plotnik is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He will find success Bleecker Bob, in New York City, after opening Bleecker Bob's Golden Oldies in 1967. It became an iconic second hand vinyl store in Greenwich Village, and a gathering place for music lovers. It was in Bleecker Bob's that Patti Smith met Lenny Kaye; Joey Ramone was a regular customer, Robert Plant, David Bowie, Frank Zappa and David Byrne would drop by.
The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.The Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright, starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich, goes on
general release to cinemas in the UK. The film features an original
Cole Porter song, The
Laziest Gal In Town, which is performed by Dietrich.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
The musical Love From Judy is playing at The Saville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 594 performances. The cast includes Jean Carson (Judy), Linda Gray (Grace), Bill O'Connor (Jervis) and Adelaide Hall (Butterfly) and songs including I Never Dream When I'm Asleep, Dear Daddy Long-Legs, Here We Are and A Touch of Voodoo.Ruth Brown plays the second night in a week of shows at The Palms Club, Hallendale, Florida USA.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.
UK pop hitmaker Anthony Newley is playing in a one-man show, Stop The World I Want To Get Off, at Queen's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, which runs for 485 performances.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows begin a six-week season at The Opera House, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe.
Ray Stevens performs Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills on popular tv show American Bandstand at W-Fil Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bobbi Martin records A You're Adorable and A Girl's Prayer at Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th Street, New York City, USA.
Mahalia Jackson, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul And Mary are among the musicians appearing at the Civil Rights March on Washington, DC, USA. Other musicians in attendance (but not performing) include Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr, Judy Garland and Bobby Darin.
Bob Dylan turns The Beatles on to marijuana in the Delmonico Hotel, New York City, USA.
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Helen Shapiro and Chad And Jeremy (Chad Stuart And Jeremy Clyde) appear on UK tv show The Five O'Clock Club.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Mojos and Mark Wynter appear on UK tv show Ready, Steady, Go!, in London, UK.
Bob Dylan's electric folk-rock music, still unfamiliar to his audiences, receives another angry reception at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York, USA.
The Who play at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA, supported by The James Cotton Blues Band and The Caretakers.
Steppenwolf, The Staple Singers and Santana play the second of three nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
999 play at The Riverside Club, Southampton, England, UK, Europe.
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Yessireebob, Cartunes, Crazy Moonbeam, Factory Sheet and Polecats play at The Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Air Supply is awarded a quadruple platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for their compilation album Greatest Hits.
On their The Prayer tour, 
On their 
The Moody Blues play the second of three nights at Universal Amphitheater, Universal City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Art Garfunkel is arrested for the second time in two years when police pull him over for driving through a stop sign in upstate New York, USA. When the officers search his car they find a marijuana cigarette and charge him with possession.Bob Dylan releases his 32nd studio album, Modern Times, in the UK on Columbia Records. Jack Frost, credited as producer, is a pseudonym for Dylan.
Pip Pyle, drummer for several bands including Gong, Hatfield And The North and National Health, dies in his sleep in a hotel in Paris, France, Europe.
Grammy-winning jazz singer, pianist and composer Diana Krall plays in The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Franz Ferdinand are interviewed live on BBC tv show Breakfast in Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK, shortly after the release of their fourth album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action.
Elvin Bishop plays at Weesner Family Amphitheater [formerly Minnesota Zoo Amphitheatre] Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
During the fourth leg of her Piece Of Me residency, Britney Spears plays at The Planet Hollywood Theater Of The Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
On their The River Tour, Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band play at The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays at Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
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