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William Knight Kirchen is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. He will find success as guitarist, singer and songwriter Bill Kirchen, a member of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen from 1967 to the mid-1970s.
Amos Milburn records I Love You Anyway, Ain't Nothing Shaking, Real Crazy, That Was Your Last Mistake - Goodbye, Women Women and Just One More Drink, for Aladdin Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Billy May And His Band play the third of four days at Lakeside Park, Denver, Colorado, USA.Nat King Cole records It's Only A Paper Moon and Sweet Lorraine in Capitol Recording Studios, 151 West 46th Street, New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming of his latest movie, Follow That Dream, in Crystal River, Florida, USA.
When Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee play at Sugar Hill, San Francisco, California, USA, the performance is recorded and released as the album Live At Sugar Hill.
Female saxophonist Vi Redd opens for a month-long engagement at The Sugar Hill, San Francisco, California, USA.
Popsicles And Icicles by The Murmaids enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA. It will go on to peak at No3. The song is written by David Gates, and the record is produced by Kim Fowley at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California, USA. Vocal arrangements for The Murmaids sessions were by Skip Battin.
The Beach Boys play the second of two nights at The Terrace Ballroom (aka The Lagoon), 464 South Main Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Jan And Dean release a new single, Ride The Wild Surf, on Liberty Records in the USA. The b-side is the oddly-titled The Anaheim, Azusa And Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review And Timing Association.
Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby record Hear That Band, The New Vienna Woods, Knees Up Mother Brown and That Travellin' Two-Beat in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and saxophonist Jimmy Heath play at The Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The show is recorded and will be released as the album Jam Gems - Live At The Left Bank.
During her two week engagement at The Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, a lien is placed on her salary to cover debts she has failed to pay to her lawyer, William Morsae.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Brian Hyland performing Sealed With A Kiss; James Brown and John Andrea are also on the show.
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When The Great Society play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA, they learn that their vocalist Grace Slick is planning to join Jefferson Airplane.
Samuel J. Hoffman dies aged 63 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He had been a pioneer of electronic music, a notable player of the early electronic musical instrument the theremin. He featured prominently on several science fiction movie soundtracks, and recorded three studio albums with bandleader Les Baxter, regarded as forerunners of the exotica genre. As late as 1967, he was working with Captain Beefheart.
The Nazz play the third of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA. The group includes future solo star Todd Rundgren.
Steppenwolf play the first of two nights at The Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.Dreams by Fleetwood Mac reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA. The song is written by Mac member Stevie Nicks.
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Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, vocalist and bandleader Del Porter, dies aged 75 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He found fame working with Glenn Miller, and recorded with Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, Red Nichols and Spike Jones, as well as fronting his own band.
The Human League play at the Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, Californa, USA, supported by R.E.M., whose singer Michael Stipe is struck with an idea for a song, which will eventually become So. Central Rain.
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On her Heart Of Stone tour, Cher plays at The Seashore Performing Arts Center, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, USA.
On their Brigade tour, Heart play at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California, USA.
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On her Most Wanted Tour, Hilary Duff plays at The Corel Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
It is announced that actor Corey Feldman has been subpoenaed in the Michael Jackson child molestation case in Santa Maria, California, USA.
The Vans Warped Tour, plays at the Pontiac Silverdome, Detroit, Michigan, with a bill including My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, The Transplants, MxPx, All-American Rejects, Dropkick Murphys, Thrice, Atreyu and Senses Fail. 
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.
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Aguilera reaches No1 in the Billboard 200 Albums Chart in the USA with Bionic, with first-week sales of 110,000 copies.
Miley Cyrus and her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth dine at the Casa Vega restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
Crosby, Stills And Nash play at Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.Mumford And Sons, Ellie Goulding, Postal Service, Haim, Kendrick Lamar, The Lumineers, The National, Courtyard Hounds and others play on the second day of the three-day-long Lollapalooza Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Paul Revere, leader and keyboardist of 60s hit-making band Paul Revere And The Raiders, dies aged 76 at his home in Idaho, USA.
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Lady Antebellum announce a new tour during a gig streamed on Facebook Live, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, during which they perform several new tracks from their upcoming album, Heart Break. The tour is to be called the You Look Good World Tour and will cover North America, South Africa, the UK and Europe, and features Kelsea Ballerini and Brett Young as support acts.
On the North American leg of their WorldWired tour, Metallica play at The M+T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, supported by Avenged Sevenfold and Volbeat.
On their Wheels Of Soul tour, The Tedeschi Trucks Band plays at The Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheatre, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, supported by Hot Tuna and The Wood Brothers.
On his No More Tours II tour, Ozzy Osbourne plays at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, Houston, Texas, USA, supported by Stone Sour.
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, officially names November 1st Five Finger Death Punch Day, in recognition of the band's worldwide success.1949 |
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