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Musical comedy The Sultan Of Sulu is playing at The Studebaker Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Columbia Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, USA, presents a burlesque show featuring The Social Maids with their 'sensational number' The Jelly Roll, described as 'the hit of the season'. The same show also offers Stone And Pillard - The Dancing Demons.
Musical comedy The Only Girl, written by Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom, is playing at The Garrick Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The New Place, a club near Algonquin, Illinois, USA, popular with Chicago-area rock fans, is destroyed by a fire.Albert Alfred Dreares is born in Key West, Florida, USA. He will find success as jazz drummer Al Drears.
Jack Winston And His Orchestra come to the end of a three-week residency in The Cooper Club, Henderson, Texas, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the third night in a week of dates at The Palace Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra play in The Paradise Restaurant, New York City, USA.
Under the name Bill McKinley, harmonica virtuoso Bill ‘Jazz’ Gillum records Poor Boy Blues for Vocalion Records in Chicago Illinois. The track also features Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam.
Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra play in Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Big Bill Broonzy records Keep Your Hand On Your Heart, Why Should I Spend My Money, Night Watchman Blues, In The Army Now and other tracks for OKeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Washboard Sam plays washboard on these cuts.
Songwriter Borney Bergantine, dies of hyperpotassamia and pneumonia in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is best-remembered for the evergreen My Happiness, a major hit from the late 1940s.
Cliff Richard records Memories Linger On and It's You, in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.
Darryl Jones is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will become a respected session man, and will replace Bill Wyman as bassist for The Rolling Stones in 1994.
Jazz drummer Ira Sullivan And The Chicago Jazz Quintet record a tribute to Charlie Parker in The Birdhouse, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The tracks will be released by Vee-Jay Records on the album Bird Lives!
The Biggest Show Of Stars for '62, featuring Fats Domino, Brook Benton, Gene Chandler, Bruce
Channel, Don And
Juan and The
Impressions comes to an end with a show in Houston, Texas, USA.
Speedy
Gonzales by Pat
Boone enters the UK Top 30 pop singles chart, where it will
peak at No2 during a fourteen week stay.
Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, The Drifters, and Esther Phillips play a live show in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, Mickie Most, Julie Grant, The Flintstones and The Rolling Stones play at The Odeon, Southend, England, UK, Europe.
The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Mighty Clouds Of Joy, The Swan Silvertones, The Soul Stirrers, The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama, The Pilgrim Jubilees, The Swanee Quintet, The Gospelaires, The Violinaires, the Rev. Claude Jeter and others play at Washington Temple, Washington DC, USA.
Muddy Waters And His Blues Band featuring Otis Spann play the fourth of six nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Chuck Berry, The Moody Blues, The Graham Bond Organisation and Long John Baldry play at The Gaumont, Hanley, UK.
The Everly Brothers perform The Price Of Love on tv show Hullabaloo in the USA. This edition also features The Vogues and Trini Lopez.
The Bee Gees play at The Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, supported by Spanky And Our Gang.
Albert Collins plays the fourth of seven nights at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Charlie Musselwhite.
Ten Years After and Nazareth play at The Embassy Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
La Femme Accident by Liverpool band Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (aka OMD) enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No42 during a four-week run.
Enuff Z'Nuff release their debut LP, Enuff Z'Enuff, in the USA.
The 
Melissa Etheridge and Del Amitri play at The World Music Theatre, Tinley park, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Linda Ronstadt and The Neville Brothers play at Poplar Creek, Hoffman Estates near Chicago, Illinois, USA.
On their first tour together in over twenty years, the surviving members of The Beach Boys play the first of two nights at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Dennis Flemion, who was a member of Chicago band The Smashing Pumpkins from 1996 to 1997, drowns, aged 57, in Wind Lake, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA. Flemion was also noted as a founder member of controversial independent rock band The Frogs.
Television play at The Metro, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Otis Taylor releases a new LP, Fantasizing About Being Black, on Inakustic Records in the UK and Ireland.1902 |
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