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Boruch Minewitz is born in Borovin, Minsk, Belarus, Russia, Europe. He will find success as a harmonica player and movie actor under the name Borrah Minevitch. He will also lead his own group The Harmonica Rascals.John Thomas Wrencher is born in Sunflower, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as blues harmonica player, singer and recording artist Big John Wrencher, aka One Arm John.
Roy Banks Joseph of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, applies for a US Patent for his invention, The Rolmonica, which is a harmonica played by means of a perforated paper music roll. Once manufactured, it will be advertised as a "veritable pocket-sized jazz band".Amos Wells is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He will find fame as blues harmonica master Junior Wells.
Carey Bell is born in Mason, Mississippi, USA. As a blues harmonica player, he will work with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and many others, as well as enjoying a solo career as a recording artist.
Willie Cobbs is born in Monroe, Arkansas, USA. As a pioneering blues singer and harmonica player, he will work with Muddy Waters and Little Walter.
Blues harmonica star Little Walter Jacobs records I Got To Find My Baby in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for
Chess
Records.
Brook Benton and Dinah Washington begin a ten-day season at The Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Lightnin' Hopkins records the album Last Night Blues at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Bluesville Records. Sonny Terry plays harmonica on this album.
Muddy Waters, Little Walter and The "5" Royales play the second night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Ruth
Brown performs Shake A Hand, on daily tv pop show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Eleanor Powell, Johnny Puleo And His Harmonica Gang and Hugh Downs are the guests on tonight's edition of The Kraft Music Hall tv show starring Perry Como on NBCtv in the USA.
From Me To You, the third single by The Beatles, enters the UK pop singles chart at No6. It will peak at No1 during a seventeen week stay.
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Little Stevie Wonder plays at The Airport Drive-In, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fingertips by Little Stevie Wonder begins its second week at No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA.
Manfred Mann record Cock-a-hoop and Now You're Needing Me at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
Lawton Williams (aka Slim Williams) records Stay On The Ball, I'm Not All Here and Squawlein with Chet Atkins as his producer, in RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band includes Floyd Cramer (piano) Jerry Kennedy and Ray Edenton [guitars], Henry Strzelecki [bass], Buddy Harman [drums], Charlie McCoy [harmonica] and The Jordanaires handling backup vocals.
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Stevie Wonder records his version of the Bob Dylan composition Blowin' In The Wind for Tamla Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Sonny Boy Williamson II plays at The Marquee Club, Oxford Street, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Cyril Davies All Stars.
The Marauders play at the Oasis Club, Lloyd Street, Manchester, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Bo Weevils.
The Cyril Davies All Stars with Long John Baldry play at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England, UK.Blues harmonica virtuosi Walter Horton (aka Big Walter 'Shakey' Horton) and Paul Butterfield record live sessions for Swedish Broadcasting Company ("I Blueskvarter") at the bar of The Sutherland Hotel, 4569 South Drexel Ave., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Lawton Williams (aka Slim Williams) records Everything's OK On The LBJ, Don't Look Down and Big Jim, at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Backing musicians include Floyd Cramer on piano, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton on guitars, Charlie McCoy on harmonica and The Jordanaires on backing vocals.
Sleepy John Estes, with Yank Rachell on mandolin and Hammie Nixon on harmonica records the album Newport Blues for Delmark Records in New York City, USA.The Shadows, Ruby Murray, Morton Fraser's Harmonica Gang and others are appearing in the Summer Season at the ABC Theatre, Great Yarmouth, UK.
Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sleepy John Estes, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Lightnin
The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Honeycombs and Tony Sheveton play the second of two nights at Sydney Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
The 1965 Newport Folk Festival comes to an end in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Acts on this day include Bob Dylan, The Paul Butterfield Band, Byron Berline, Hamilton Camp, The Chambers Brothers, The Charles River Valley Boys, Spider John Koerner, Mark Spoelstra, Gordon Lightfoot and Mimi And Richard Farina.
Wilma Burgess records Baby and Wait Til The Sun Goes Up with Owen Bradley as producer in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Backing musicians for this session include guitarists Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy, Ray Edenton and Harold Bradley; steel guitarists Pete D rake and Hal Rugg; bassist Bob Moore; drummer Buddy Harman; pianists Hargus Pig Robbins and Floyd Cramer, harmonica plaer Charlie McCoy and backing vocalists The Jordanaires.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Roland Kirk Quartet and The New Salvation Army Band play the second of six nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band plays the first of three nights at The Ambassador Theatre, Washington DC, USA, supported by
The second day of the three-day long Sky River Rock Festival, is held in fields near Sultan, Washington, USA. Acts playing over the three days include Santana, Big Mama Thornton, James Cotton, Country Joe And The Fish, Richard Pryor, Dino Valenti, Byron Pope, It's a Beautiful Day, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Alice Stuart Thomas, The Youngbloods, New Lost City Ramblers, and local groups such as Juggernaut and Easy Chair. On the last day, The Grateful Dead arrive unscheduled.
Music producer Paul Rothchild, dies of lung cancer, aged 59, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. In a long and acclaimed career he worked with The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and many others.
Beatlejazz, a group specialising in jazz interpretations of The Beatles songs, release the album, All You Need, featuring guest appearances by Toots Thielemans [harmonica], Richard Bona [bass and vocals] and Joe Lovano [saxophone].
Jani Lane, former frontman of glam metal band Warrant is found dead, aged 47, in a Comfort Inn motel room in Woodland Hills, California, USA. The cause of death is later determined as alcohol poisoning.
Grammy-winning electric blues vocalist, harmonica player and drummer Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, dies aged 75, following a stroke, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A posthumous exhibition of works by Dee Dee Ramone of The Ramones begins at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, to mark the 10th anniversary of his death. The exhibition, titled Dee Dee Ramone: A Memorial Exhibition, features nineteen canvases, five paintings on wood and one mixed-media work on card stock. It is set to run until November 17th.
Jazz harmonica and guitar virtuoso Toots Thielemans announces his retirement, at the age of 91. In a lengthy career, as well as pursuing his own projects, Thielemans played with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Simon and many others.
On their Are We There Yet? - 40th Anniversary Tour, Nine Below Zero play at Gorilla, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.1902 |
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