Drink

The Wine, Women And Song Burlesquers perform a concert at The Star Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.

The Wine, Women And Song Extravaganza is presented at The Dewey Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Blues singer Margaret Johnson, accompanied by guitar, piano and harmonica, records Good Woman Blues, Second-handed Blues and Dead Drunk Blues for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA, with producer Ralph Peer.

Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band record Don't Drink It In Here and Get The "L" On Down The Road, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Brunswick Records.

Asa Martin and Fiddlin' Doc Roberts record All That I've Got's Done Gone and Drunken Man's Dream for Champion Records in Gennett Recording Studio, Starr Piano Company Building, Whitewater Gorge Park, Richmond, Indiana, USA.

Bob Crosby And His Orchestra, with vocalist Marion Mann, record Gin Mill Blues, Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Old Spinning Wheel and If I Had You for Decca Records in the USA.

Ray Heatherton, Ramona Skit and the Leo Reisman Orchestra perform songs including I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, Red, Hot And Blue!, The Ozarks Are Calling Me Home, The Show Is On, Your Eyes Have Told Me So, The Goose Hangs High, I've Got You Under My Skin [written by Cole Porter] and Plenty Of Money And You, on radio show The Schaefer Beer Nine O'clock Revue in the USA.

Teddy Hill And His NBC Orchestra, with Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, record Gin And Jive in New York City, USA, for Bluebird/RCA Records.

Sonny Boy Williamson 1st records Blues That Made Me Drunk in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is accompanied on guitar by Big Bill Broonzy.

Jazz bandleader Bob Zurke, suffering from pneumonia, collapses while performing at the Hangover Club, Los Angeles, California, USA. He is admitted to to Los Angeles General Hospital but afflicted with complications from the pneumonia and acute alcoholic poisoning, he will die the following day, aged 33.

Ruby Wright records Waltz Of The Wind, You Don't Know What You're Getting and Rummy Dumb Bunny, in King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Big Bill Lister records Haunted Hungry Heart, In The Shadow Of The Pine, Another Night To Wonder and Blowing The Suds Off My Beer in the studio of KCOR Radio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Standing over 6' 7" without his cowboy boots and hat, Lister was nicknamed "Radio's Tallest Singing Cowboy".

Elvis Presley visits the home of his Korean War veteran cousin, Junior Smith, who dies of alcohol poisoning on this day.

Bob Scobey And His Frisco Band are playing at Bourbon Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Seriously drunk blues musician and recording artist Pat Hare is arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, for the murders by shooting of his married girlfriend and an attending police officer. He will be sentenced to life imprisonment. Throughout the 1940s and '50s Hare had been an in-demand accompanist to a roster of blues greats including Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Bobby 'Blue' Bland and Junior Parker.

Shortstuff Macon plays at Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York State, USA. After the show, he records My Jack Don't Drink Water, Corrina, Hell Bound Blues, Messing With That Thing and Rock Road Bad Treatin', which will appear on the Folkways Records album Big Joe Williams And Short Stuff Macon - Hell Bound And Heaven Sent.

The Moody Blues play at The Whisky A Go Go, Birmingham, UK.

Goldie And The Gingerbreads play an afternoon show at Notre Dame Hall, Leicester Square, London, England, UK, with Paddy, Klaus And Gibson.

Bill Anderson records Wine and How The Other Half Lives for his Decca Records album Bright Lights And Country Music at Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Chambers Brothers and The Hard Times play the tenth of eleven nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Hour Glass and The Sunshine Company play the last of three nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA. Hour Glass, features Gregg and Duane Allman, later to form The Allman Brothers Band.

Canned Heat and The Fraternity of Man play the first of five nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Turtles play the first of two nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The United States of America play the second of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by The Rockets.

The Steve Miller Band plays the first of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Chicago Transit Authority.

The Byrds play the last of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Blues Image.

In East Grinstead, Sussex, UK, coroner Dr. Angus Sommerville records a verdict of death by misadventure on The Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones. Although Jones' body contained significant quantities of drugs and alcohol, Dr Somerville concludes that the cause of death was drowning, but notes that, "For a man of his age, his heart was a bit larger than it should have been. It was fatty and flabby. His liver was twice the normal weight. It was in a state of fatty degeneration".

Duran Duran play at The Rum Runner, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.

R.E.M. play the L.E.A.F. benefit at The Moonshadow Saloon, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Suffering from multiple substance abuse issues, Stevie Ray Vaughan enters a detox centre in Marietta, Georgia, USA.

Elton John enters rehab in Chicago, Illinois, USA, to combat his bulimia and various drug and alcohol addictions.

Blues singer-guitarist Thunderbird Davis dies aged 52, of a heart attack while playing onstage at The Blues Saloon, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

Johnny Cash plays the second of two nights at The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California, USA.

Whitney Houston and her husband Bobby Brown are banned for life from The Bel Air hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, after wrecking their room. The couple had smashed up a TV and ripped two doors off their hinges. The walls and carpets were said to be stained by alcohol.

Avant-garde rock guitarist Robert Fripp, with Andrew Keeling, David Singleton and The Metropole Orkest conducted by Jan Stulen, records The Wine Of Silence at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe. The live recording will be released nine years later.

Immediately after attending a Prince concert at The Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 year old Omar Rodriguez, drunk on Remy Martin, drives his Lincoln Navigator into four of the venue's security guards causing minor injuries. He is arrested and charged with attempted murder.

In collaboration with Cheshire, UK, family brewers Robinsons, Iron Maiden announce the imminent launch of a new beer, Trooper, whose label bears an image of their stage-character Eddie. Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson played a role in refining the taste of the new beer.

Bassist Cordell Mosson (aka Cordell "Boogie" Mosson, of Parliament-Funkadelic, dies of liver failure, aged 60, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

The Doobie Brothers play at The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, California, USA.

Spiders And Snakes play at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.

On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at The Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.