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Accordion player Guido Deiro records Put Me To Sleep With An Old-fashioned Melody and Down In Bom-Bombay for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record Little Pal and Song Of India [Concert version] in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Cliff Richard And The Drifters (later re-named The Shadows), Don Lang And The Frantic Five, The Most Brothers (inlcuding Mickie Most), The Top Town Teenagers, Rory Blackwell and Tony Marsh play at The Odeon, Canterbury, UK.Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Al Saxon, Peter Elliott, Roy Young, The Four Jays, The Landis Brothers, Tony Marsh and The Tony Allen Group play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK.
The Biggest Show Of Stars 1960 Winter Edition package tour plays at the Indiana Theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Acts on the bill include Freddy Cannon, Clyde McPhatter, The Clovers, Bobby Rydell, Johnny And The Hurricanes, The Isley Brothers, The Crests, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Sammy Turner and Linda Laurie.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the fifth night in a week of shows at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, UK.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys play at The Town Hall, Birmingham, UK.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Kathy Kirby, Jerry Lordan, Peter Elliott and The Four Jones Boys play at The Colston Hall, Bristol, UK.
Guitar instrumental group The Shadows begin their first UK tour without front-man Cliff Richard.
British pop idol Cliff Richard has a recording session in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK, during which he records Blue Moon, Temptation and other tracks.
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Richard begins a UK tour at The Hippodrome, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group.
British teen pop idol Cliff Richard holds a birthday party for his mother, Dorothy. Later in the day, Cliff And The Shadows play at The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the eighth night in a six-week season at The Opera House, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe.The results of the annual readers poll in UK rock weekly NME [New Musical Express] are published, with the following results :
- World Music Personality: Elvis Presley.
- World Male Singer: Elvis Presley.
- British Male Singer: Cliff Richard.
- World Female Singer: Connie Francis.
- British Female Singer: Helen Shapiro.
- World Vocal Group: Everly Brothers.
- British Vocal Personality: Adam Faith.
- British Vocal Group: The Springfields.
- British Small Group: The Shadows.
- Instrumental Personality: Bert Weedon.
- British Disc of the Year: Johnny Remember Me by John Leyton.
- New Singer: John Leyton.
Cliff Richard becomes the first British artist to enter the UK singles chart at No1, with The Young Ones.
The film soundtrack album The Young Ones by Cliff Richard and The Shadows reaches No1 in the UK albums chart.
Cliff Richard records Summer Holiday at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK, but this version will remain unissued.
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Ray Charles plays at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe. The audience includes UK hitmakers Cliff Richard and The Shadows who have flown from London, UK, specially for the show.
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Cliff Richard records I Found A Rose, Moonlight Bay and Some Of These Days in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.
Cliff Richard flies from London to South Africa where he will spend the New Year.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at The Granada, Dover, England, UK, Europe, supported by Patsy Ann Noble, The Vernons Girls, Alan Randall and The Trebletones.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows have a recording session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London, England, UK, Europe, during which he records Your Eyes Tell On You, written by Hank Marvin.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows continue with their summer season at The ABC, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe
Cliff Richard is voted Most Promising Singer in a readers' poll in the pop-oriented magazine Sixteen in the USA.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows record What've I Gotta Do in Jubilee Hall, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe.
In The Savoy Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe, The Beatles collect their Melody Maker Poll awards for 1963's Top Vocal Group and Best Pop Vocal Record (From Me To You). Melody Maker 1963 poll awards :
Top Male Singer : Cliff Richard
Top Vocal Group : The Beatles
Best Pop Vocal Record : From Me To You – The Beatles
Best Girl Singer : Susan Maugham
Best Hope for 1964 : Billy J. Kramer
Top Disc Jockey – David Jacobs.
Cliff Richard is in the Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, continuing with the filming of his next movie, Wonderful Life.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows are in The Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, working on the film Wonderful Life.
Cliff Richard is in Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, recording On My Word, Paradise Lost, Just Another Guy and The Minute You're Gone, with vocal backing by The Jordanaires.
Cliff Richard spends the second of two days at EMI Studios, Milan, Italy, Europe, recording various songs in Italian.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows continue with their Christmas season in the pantomime Aladdin, at The London Palladium, London, UK.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows continue with their season at The Palladium Theatre, London, England, UK.
UK pirate radio station Radio Caroline announces that Engelbert Humperdinck has been killed in a car crash on the M1 motorway. The story turns out to be incorrect.Amen Corner, Cilla Black, Harmony Grass and Peter Sarstedt appear live on UK tv show Top Of The Pops.
Mary Hopkin appears on weekly UK tv series It's Cliff Richard. Hank Marvin of The Shadows is also a guest on this edition of the show.The fund-raising triple-album, Concert For Bangladesh is released in the USA on Apple Records, featuring live performances from George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and others.
Cliff Richard is in PWL Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, recording with serial hitmakers Stock, Aitken and Waterman.
On his HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson arrives at Mumbai airport in India, where he is greeted by actress Sonali Bendre, who puts the traditional Hindu "tilak" mark on his forehead.
The LP Miles From India is released in the UK. The album is a
celebration of the music of Miles Davis, created by a
collaboration between original Davis sidemen, including Chick Corea and John McLaughlin, with Indian
classical musicians.
Record producer/composer Quincy Jones and British musician Jerry Dammers, co-founder of The Specials, are presented by President Jacob Zuma of South Africa with the prestigious Order of the Companions of OR Tambo.1915 |
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