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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. 
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.
Smith 'Hezzy' Adair, who will play bass, guitar and harmonica with Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Hezzy is seen second from the right in the attached pic.Country-blues slide guitarist and harmonica player Frank Hutchison records The Last Scene of The Titanic, Worried Blues, All Night Long and other tracks for OKeh Records in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Singing trio The Gumm Sisters play the fourth of seven nights with the Gilmore Circus at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will find stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.
Blind Boy
Fuller records Mama Let Me Lay
It On You in New York City, USA. The song will become better
known as Baby
Let Me Follow You Down, when it is recorded by Bob
Dylan in 1962.
Roy Acuff records Stuck Up Blues, Lying Woman Blues, Be Honest With Me, Worried Mind and other tracks for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the fifty-second night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Lenny Herman And His Orchestra play during a six-week engagement at The Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.
The Three Peppers play at The Capitol Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA, during a four week engagement.
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.Harry
Belafonte records John Henry, Lord Randall, Tol' My Captain, The Next Big River and
Mark Twain, in RCA Victor's Manhattan
Center, New York City, USA. The Tracks will appear on his album
Mark
Twain.
The successful Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens for its first night at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, UK. The show stars Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins. It will run for 2,281 performances. Stars attending the first night include Ingrid Bergman, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Rattigan and John Strachey.
Solomon Burke, Ral Donner, The Drifters, and B.B. King play two shows in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sam Cooke is billed as headliner, but he completely misses the first show and appears for only five minutes during the second.
Barbra Streisand attends The Tony Awards in New York City, USA, hoping to win the Best Supporting Actress in a Musical award for her role in the Broadway hit I Can Get It For You Wholesale. She loses to Phyllis Newman in the show Subways Are For Sleeping.
Del Shannon, The Springfields (including Dusty Springfield], Johnny Tillotson and Kenny Lynch play at The Essoldo, Stoke-On-Trent, England, UK, Europe
Yes It Is, the b-side of Ticket To Ride by The Beatles, enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA at No71. It will peak at No46.
The Alex Harvey Soul Band plus Long John Baldry and the Hoochie Coochie Men play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK.
The Quartette Tres Bien records A Taste Of Honey and Summertime for Decca Records in Technosonic Studio Inc, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The track will appear on their LP Stepping Out! The Exciting Piano Rhythms Of The Quartette Tres Bien.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.The Temptations, Edwin Starr, The Monitors and Willie Tyler are playing during a week of shows at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Al Green is playing during a week of shows at The Pine Grill, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
Little Bitty Pretty One by The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, enters both the Billboard US Pop Singles and Black Singles charts simultaneously. It will peak at No13 in the Pop chart and No8 in the Black chart.
Ashley Gorley is born in Danville, Kentucky, USA. He will find success as a songwriter, composing hits including Jason Aldean's Just Gettin' Started, Carrie Underwood's Good Girl, Luke Bryan's That's My Kind Of Night and Thomas Rhett's T-Shirt.
Bob
Dylan is in the Power Station, New York City, working on tracks for his album Infidels. Mark Knopfler is acting as
co-producer. Knopfler also plays guitar on the album, along with
former Rolling Stones' axeman Mick Taylor. On this day, Dylan
works on the songs How Many Days, Foot Of Pride, Don't
Drink No Chevy and others.
Freddie Mercury of Queen releases his first solo album, Mr Bad Guy, which will peak at No10 in the UK.
Acclaimed and influential old time banjo player Snuffy Jenkins dies in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, as a result of colon cancer.
Mick Ronson, guitarist for Mott The Hoople, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review band, dies aged 46 of cancer, in London, England, UK, Europe.Carlos Guitarlos releases his comeback album, Straight From The Heart in record stores in California, USA. Carlos first found critical success as guitarist with Los Angeles-based blues outfit Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs before relocating to San Francisco, California, USA, where he spent several years scraping a living as a street busker on the corner of 16th and Mission.
Bill Wyman, former bass guitarist of The Rolling Stones, is at Ottakar’s bookshop, Gloucester, UK, signing copies of his new book, Treasure Islands.On her Circus Tour, Britney Spears plays the second of two nights at The Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois, USA.
Sarah Brown, Kathy Von and Jenn Bostic play at Belcourt Taps And Tapas, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
On her The Mrs Carter Show World Tour Beyonce plays the first of six nights at The O2 Arena, London, UK.
Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) cancels its show at The 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland, Europe, because Lynne has flu and cannot sing.
Chvrches' singer Lauren Mayberry reveals that she cannot stay in her own home after the band's current tour ends because of rape and death threats from supporters of Chris Brown and Tyga. The Scottish electro-pop trio has been embroiled in an escalating feud with Brown and Tyga, after stating that they were 'upset, confused and disappointed' by their recent collaborator, EDM star Marshmello's decision to work with Chris Brown and Tyga.
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