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The 'musical dream play' Bluebell In Fairyland is presented at The Vaudeville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 300 performances.
The musical comedy The Prince Of Pilsen is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of four months.
Voice actor Mel Blanc [aka The Man Of 1000 Voices] is born in San Francisco, California, USA. Blanc will become beloved by millions as the voice of Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy Duck and countless other animated characters in movies, on tv and on records.
The musical comedy The Maid Of The Mountains, with music by Harold Fraser-Simpson and J.W. Tate, is playing at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 1352 performances.
The Paul Specht Band, visiting from the USA, play at the opening of the new Lyons Corner House in Coventry St, London, UK.
Ted Lewis And His Band record In The Land Of Jazz, in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Dan Donovan, accompanied by the BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall, records the Cole Porter song Anything Goes, in London, UK.
Relatively unknown bandleader Stan Kenton begins a season with his orchestra at the Rendezvous Ballroom on Balboa-Newport Beach, California, USA.
Xavier Cugat plays at Ciro's, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the sixteenth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA.
Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the tenth of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.
Guy Mitchell is playing during a week-long engagement at The Skyway Lounge, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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.
Tennessee Ernie Ford releases a new single, We're A-Growing Up, on Capitol Records in the USA.
The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The Dr Kildare Theme, aka Three Stars Will Shine Tonight by Richard Chamberlain enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No11 during a six week stay.
Dion plays the second of ten nights at The Boulevard Club, New York City, USA.
My Boy Lollipop by Millie reaches No1 in the Australian pop singles chart.
Jac Holzman of Elektra Records returns for the third time to see The Doors supporting Love at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA. Afterwards, The Doors go on to play a late night show at The Hullabaloo, West Hollywood, California, USA.
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner is playing during a three-week season at The Tropicana, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Family Tree (featuring Bob Segarini) are playing during three nights at The Avalon, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Who play at The Kinetic Playground, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Also on the bill are Joe Cocker And The Grease Band, plus the Buddy Rich Orchestra.
Blodwyn Pig play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Beatles single Get Back is released in Argentina, South America, on Apple Records.
Lee Michaels plays the third of five nights at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
During a Jimi Hendrix Experience gig at the Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Hendrix is plagued by buzzing amplifiers.
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Jimi Hendrix plays at The Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley, California, USA.
The Meters play at The Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The Cure play at Rotation, Hanover, Germany, Europe, supported by The Passions.
Led Zeppelin announces a major European tour, set to begin in mid-June and run through until the first week of July, and including dates in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium.
Bob Marley And The Wailers play at The Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe.
On their Duke tour, Genesis play at The Summit, Houston, Texas, USA.
Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson and The Ethel String Quartet play at The Guild Hall, Portsmouth, England, UK.
The Greek Orthodox Church urges organisers of a Slipknot concert at The Lycabettus Theatre, Athens, Greece, Europe, to cancel the show, accusing the group of promoting Satanism.
On their Destiny Fulfilled tour, Destiny's Child play at The Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe.
Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band begin the European leg of their current tour with a performance at the Pink Pop Festival, Landgraaf, Holland, Europe. Brandon Flowers of The Killers joins Springsteen on stage to sing Thunder Road.
On their ‘Tour Of The Universe’, Depeche Mode play at the O2 Arena, London, England, UK, Europe
On departure after a show in Berlin, Germany, Europe, AC/DC find that their plane has a mechanical problem. They are obliged to charter another plane but the delay makes the group late on stage for their next gig at Valle Novin in Oslo, Norway, Europe. Because of Norway's strict gig curfew laws, the band is forced to cut four songs from their set.
A newly-published online survey of 7,380 people in the UK by market research agency YouGov SixthSense finds that radio is the most popular medium for discovering new music. A third [33%] of those surveyed cited radio, 28% cited recommendations made by friends/word of mouth. 26% found new music mainly via YouTube while 13% cited Facebook or other social networks. Other significant sources included TV or radio advertising [14%], Amazon/iTunes [13%], newspapers [11%], music magazines [5%], music news and reviews websites (4%), last.fm [4%], music magazines' websites (3%) and MySpace [2%].
Los Angeles Superior Court approves a search wa rrant for police to investigate the identity of an individual going by the name of @Gunn2urhead who has been sending death threats via Twitter to Shirley Manson, the singer with Garbage.
It is reported that Leanne Mitchell, the recently released debut album by Leanne Mitchell, the winner of Season 1 of tv show The Voice UK, has sold less then 500 copies and is unlikely even to enter the Top 100 of the Official UK Chart.
Leanne Mitchell, the winner of Season 1 of tv show The Voice UK, makes a live appearances on BBC tv show Breakfast, from Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
Jeff Beck plays at The Columbia Theatre, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Tom Petty cover band Petty Theft play at Slim's, San Francisco, California, USA.
A new production of Jesus Christ Superstar, starring John Lydon (Sex Pistols), Brandon Boyd (Incubus) and Michelle Williams (Destiny's Child), is cancelled due to poor advance ticket sales. The show had been set to open in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in early June.
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Colt Ford and Andrew McMahon play at The Patriotic Festival, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
Elvis Costello begins his Detour tour with an appearance at The Salisbury Festival, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Billie Eilish plays at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
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