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Gospel

A Musicale is held at the YMCA Hall, Richmond, Virginia, USA, featuring the Second Baptist Quatette.
Gospel star Mahalia Jackson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Barret Deems, a jazz percussionist often billed as 'the world's fastest drummer', is born in Springfield, Illinois, USA. He will play with Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Red Norvo and many more.
Blues and gospel composer and recording artist Thomas Andrew Dorsey and his new wife Nettie Harper, leave Chicago, Illinois, USA, to go on the road with Ma Rainey and her band.
Roe Erister Hall is born in Forest Grove, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as Rick Hall, best-known as the owner and proprietor of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA. Hall will be influential in recording and promoting country and soul music, and in helping develop the careers of Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Duane Allman, Etta James and others.
Willie Wynn, tenor voice of country and gospel recording band The Oak Ridge Boys, is born in Moultrie, Georgia, USA.
Gospel group Joshua White And His Carolinians record King Jesus Knows I'm Coming for Columbia Records in New York City, USA. The group is led by folk-blues singer-guitarist Josh White.
Popular gospel group The Johnson Family Singers appear on the show Hymn Time on WBT Radio, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Popular gospel group The Johnson Family Singers make another of their regular appearances on the show Hymn Time on WBT Radio, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. On tonight's broadcast they sing The Lord Is There, We Are Going Down the Valley and Jesus Is Living in Me.
Christopher O'Doherty is born in Auckland, New Zealand. He will find success as a musician, artist and designer under the name Reg Mombassa. He will be a co-founder of Australian band Mental As Anything, but will also pursue his interest in painting [mainly portraits and landcapes] and create cartoonish designs for surfwear company Mambo Graphics.
Paul Robeson sings and speaks at the founding convention of The National Negro Labor Council, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
The Southern Jubilee Singers record a session for Chess Records at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe records Let's Talk About Jesus for Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper record Have Mercy On Me, I Cried Again, The Clinch Mountain Waltz, My Lord's Gonna Shake My Hand and Will The Lord Let You In in Castle Studio, The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Vickie Bowman is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She will find success as Vickie Winans of gospel group The Winans.
Frankie Laine, Frankie Lymon, Nelson Riddle and Tex Williams are the musical guests on tv series Star Time in the USA.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe comes to the end of a UK tour at The Coliseum, London, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
Singer-songwriter Marijohn Wilkin is playing at The Plantation Club, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Otis Williams records You Know How Much I Care and Little Turtle Dove, for King Records in Cincinatti, Ohio, USA.
Country-gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers play in Bainbridge, Ohio, USA.
Country-gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers play in Rome, Georgia, USA.
Country-gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers play in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Michael [Row The Boat Ashore] by The Highwaymen enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No1 during a stay of fourteen weeks.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Springfield, Missouri, USA.
Della Reese is playing at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Big Spring, Texas, USA.
Martha Carson, with producer Wink Martindale, records Can't You Love Me?, Everything Happens For The Best and other songs for Dot Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calornia, USA.
The Corinthian Gospel Singers record Working On The Building, A Man Called Jesus and other tracks for their Sharp Records album A City Called Heaven in the USA.
The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Caravan, featuring Muddy Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee, Reverend Gary Davis and Cousin Joe Pleasants plays at The Guildhall, Portsmouth, England, UK, Europe.
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Buck Owens and His Buckaroos record When Jesus Calls All His Children In, It Was With Love, Wouldn't You Be Ready, An Eternal Vacation and Jesus Saved Me in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Clara Ward And The Ward Singers play the first of two nights of benefit shows for The Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital, at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Aretha Franklin records I Take What I Want, Tracks Of My Tears and I Can't See Myself Leaving You at Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA.
Aretha Franklin releases her latest single, I Say A Little Prayer, in the UK, Europe. the song is composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play the second of two nights at The Fillmore East, New York City, USA, with Ten Years After and The Staple Singers.
Jazz trumpet virtuoso Woody Shaw plays at the Left Bank Jazz Society, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Entering at No45, the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the top-selling singles in the USA is Oh Happy Day by The Edwin Hawkins Singers.
Charley Pride enters the Billboard Country Music Singles Chart with You Win Again, which will peak at No1.
During his third gospel tour, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Ocean State Performing Arts Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
The Jamaica World Music Festival begins in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Caribbean. Acts over the next three-days include Peter Tosh, Rick James, The Clash, The Grateful Dead, Aretha Franklin and, in their final show before disbanding, Squeeze.
While promoting their compilation album Songs To Learn And Sing, Echo And The Bunnymen play the second of two nights at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, Europe. Support on this gig is provided by The Woodentops.
Blues and gospel composer and recording artist Thomas Andrew Dorsey , aka Georgia Tom, Barrelhouse Tom and Texas Tommy, dies aged 93 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The National Endowment for the Arts, in conjunction with the R.I.A.A., announces its Top Ten songs of the 20th century. At No1 is Judy Garland's rendition of Over The Rainbow. Also making the list: Bing Crosby's White Christmas [No2], Aretha Franklin's Respect [No4], Don McLean's American Pie [No5], and The Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling [No9].
Aretha Franklin plays the first of two nights at Harrah's in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Aretha Franklin plays the second of two nights at Harrah's in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Bono of U2 joins the Soweto Gospel Choir in St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, the day before Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday to sing a birthday tribute for the retired archbishop.
Mumford And Sons release their second album, Babel in the USA and Canada.
Justin Bieber plays at The KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
The Levon Helm Band releases a new album, The Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3, on Vanguard Records in the UK. The album, recorded live at various sessions in Woodstock, New York State, USA, features guest contributions from Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint Jimmy Vivino and others.
Harold Battiste dies, aged 83, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He found success for several decades as a composer, arranger, performer and teacher, working with Sam Cooke, Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Sonny and Cher, Dr. John and others.
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