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William Alexander Greer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. He is better remembered as jazz drummer Sonny Greer, who worked with Duke Ellington for thirty one years.
Ginger Baker, later to find fame as the drummer with rock supergroup Cream, takes heroin for the first time. He will becomea registered addict in 1961.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers record the album The Witch Doctor, at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Blue Note Records.
Jazz drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton closes a run at the Jazz Gallery, New York City, USA.
Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, including drummer Ringo Starr, are fulfilling a three month residency at the Rock And Calypso Ballroom, Butlins, Skegness, England, UK, Europe.
Hank Locklin records Happy Journey and I Need You Now with producer Chet Atkins at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Musicians playing on the session are pianist Floyd Cramer, backing vocalists The Jordanaires, guitarists Ray Edenton and Grady Martin, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and accordionist Anita Kerr.
Claude King records Shopping Center, I've Got The World By The Tail and another version of Sheepskin Valley in Bradley Film and Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Notable players on the session include guitarists Grady Martin and Harold Bradley, Buddy Harman on drums and Floyd Cramer on piano.
The Detours play at The White Hart Hotel, Acton, London, England, UK, Europe. In due course, the group will evolve into The Who.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers play the last of six nights of shows at The Minor Key, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Dave Clark Five, Mark Wynter, Susan Maughan and compere Alan Field play the fourth night in a week of shows at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
Skeeter Davis, with producer Chet Atkins, records What Am I Gonna Do With You, Don't Let Me Stand In Your Way, Let Me Get Close To You and La La La at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features guitarists Ray Edenton, Jerry Hubbard and Wayne Moss, steel guitarist Pete Drake, pianists Floyd Cramer and Ray Stevens, bassist Henry Strzelecki, drummer Buddy Harman, plus The Nashville Strings
Dusty Springfield heads the bill at The Hippodrome, Brighton, UK. Supporting acts include Eden Kane, Val McCullam, The Interns and The High Numbers (aka The Who).
The Byrds enter the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA with their folk-rock cover of the Bob Dylan song Mr Tambourine Man, which will peak at No1, during a ten-week run.
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"Exciting hit recording stars" The Who play at The Town Hall, High Wycombe, UK. The contract specifies that the group will receive £125 or 60% of the gross takings.
Willie Nelson records Did I Ever Love You, I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye and other tracks with producer Chet Atkins in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Players on the sessions include guitarists Ray Edenton and Wayne Moss, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Ray Stevens.
Petula Clark is recording tracks in Pye Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. Among the session players in the studio is guitarist John McLaughlin.
The Top Ten singles being played on KGB Radio, San Diego, California, USA, for the week beginning on this date, are as follows :
1. Spooky Classics IV
2. Itchycoo Park The Small Faces
3. Judy in Disguise John Fred And The Playboy Band
4. Green Tambourine Lemon Pipers
5. Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus The Beatles
6. She's a Rainbow The Rolling Stones
7. Nobody But Me The Human Beinz
8. It's Wonderful The Young Rascals
9. The Lesson Vikki Carr
10. If I Could Build My World Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
1. Spooky Classics IV
2. Itchycoo Park The Small Faces
3. Judy in Disguise John Fred And The Playboy Band
4. Green Tambourine Lemon Pipers
5. Hello Goodbye/I Am The Walrus The Beatles
6. She's a Rainbow The Rolling Stones
7. Nobody But Me The Human Beinz
8. It's Wonderful The Young Rascals
9. The Lesson Vikki Carr
10. If I Could Build My World Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac release their debut album Fleetwood Mac on Blue Horizon Records in the UK.
Spirit record Poor Richard and It's All The Same for their Columbia Records album The Family That Plays Together.
Jimi Hendrix and drummer Mitch Mitchell fly in for the opening of Sgt. Pepper's Club, in Majorca, Spain, Europe.
The Cream begin their third and final tour of America at Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California, USA. Their support band is It's A Beautiful Day, for whom this gig is the first big break.
Having been put back by a couple of weeks, Magic Bus by The Who is released as a single in the UK on Track Records.
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Assistant US Attorney Michael J. Osman advises the FBI that his office has decided not to prosecute Jim Morrison of The Doors for lewd and lascivious behaviour in Miami, Florida, USA, a month earlier. The case is dropped.
The Doors host a party for the press in the Penthouse Suite of the Hilton Hotel, New York City, USA.
With Quincy Jones as his musical arranger, Ringo Starr of The Beatles records a new version of Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing at EMI's Abbey Road studios, London, England, UK, Europe, for his solo album Sentimental Journey.
Ringo Starr of The Beatles is working on the songs Bye Bye Blackbird (arranged by Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees) and Whispering Grass in Morgan Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, for his solo debut album Sentimental Journey. 
On their Tusk tour, Fleetwood Mac play the first of two nights at Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The Stray Cats play at The Greyhound, Fulham, London, England, UK, Europe.Mongo Santamaria and the Hugh Masekela Band play the eleventh of thirteen nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Who play the second of two nights at The Coliseum, St Austell, Cornwall, England, UK, Europe.
The Who release a their ninth album, Face Dances, in the UK, and play the second of two nights at The NEC, Birmingham.
The Who play the second of two nights at The N.E.C., Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.Ringo Starr appears on the CBS-tv show Entertainment Tonight in the USA to promote his made-for-tv film, Princess Daisy.
Selling his record collection to raise $12 for a ticket, Kurt Cobain [later to form Nirvana] goes with Buzz Osborne and Matt Lukin of The Melvins to see Black Flag at The Mountaineer Club, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts And Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones are working in London, England, UK, Europe, on a video for their side-project Willie And The Poor Boys.
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart records the Gyuto Monks from Tibet, at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in California, USA. The tracks will be released as the album Freedom Chants from the Roof of The World.
On their Behind The Mask Tour, Fleetwood Mac play the second of five nights at The National Tennis Centre, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania.
Mia Zapata, lead singer for Seattle-based punk band The Gits is beaten, strangled and possibly raped, in the Central District of Seattle, Washington, USA. The Seattle music community, including its most famous bands - Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden - will help raise $70,000 to hire a private investigator for three years, but no killer is ever identified.
Singer and songwriter Don Partridge, known as The King Of The Buskers, dies aged 68 of a heart-attack in Peacehaven, UK. Partridge is best-remembered for his 1968 hit Rosie, which transformed him from a street busker into a major success.
Chuck Ruff, best-known as a drummer with The Edgar Winter Band, dies after surgery and a lengthy coma, aged 60, in San Francisco, California, USA.Pete McNeal, a drummer known for his work with several well known artists including Cake and Norah Jones is arrested on child molestation charges in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Chris Cornell, drummer and singer of Soundgarden, begins an acoustic solo tour entitled Songbook, with a show at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland.
Charlie Watts, drummer with The Rolling Stones, dies aged 80, surrounded by his family, in hospital in London, England, UK, Europe. He had been treated for throat cancer in 2004, underwent emergency surgery in July 2021 and announced he would not appear on the upcoming tour with the band.1895 |
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