Random selection from around 5,300 Facts
Click to filter results
Movie
For the first of two nights, as live accompaniment to the film
Blonde Or
Brunette at The
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California, USA, Harding And
Harding, billed as 'Two Dark Spots of Joy', present the stage show
Jazzmania, which includes a demonstration of the latest Broadway dance craze, The
Black Bottom. Also on the bill are Milt Franklyn And
His Band of Soloists.
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra play at The Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The MGM musical comedy film Royal Wedding, starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is released to cinemas in the USA.
The film-noir crime movie Inside The Walls Of Folsom Prison is released to cinemas in France, Europe. When Johnny Cash sees the movie, he will be inspired to write the song Folsom Prison Blues, one of his first hit singles.
It is reported that Nat King Cole has been signed by Warner Brothers to co-star in the movie Blue Gardenia. Cole will sing the title song in the film, due to start shooting on December 22.
Papa George Lightfoot records Wine, Women, Whiskey, When The Saints Go Marching In, Jump The Boogie and Mean Ol' Train in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for Imperial Records.
The Chords, The Clovers, The Four Tunes, The Hollywood Flames and The Robins, later to find international fame as The Coasters, play at the Fifth Annual Blues Jubilee, hosted by Gene Norman at The Hollywood Shrine Auditorium, Hollywood, California, USA.
Filming begins on the Columbia Pictures movie musical Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! starring Perez Prado, Stephen Dunne, The Mary Kaye Trio, Helen Grayco, Luis Arcaraz And His Orchestra, Lucerto Bárcenas and Manny López And His Orchestra.
The Coasters begin one week at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA., with The Hollywood Flames, Chicago and the Ernie Freeman Combo.
The movie musical Bop Girl (aka Bop Girl Goes Calypso) is released to cinemas in Sweden, Europe. The movie stars Judy Tytler, but also features appearances by Bobby Troup, The Mary Kaye Trio, The Goofers, Lord Flea and Nino Tempo.
Louis Jordan plays the fifth night in a week of shows at the Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Count Basie and His Orchestra with Joe Williams on vocals, is working on music for the film Cinderfella, in Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, USA.
G.I. Blues, Elvis Presley's first film since leaving the army, is released in the USA.
Elvis Presley's seventh movie, Wild In The Country, is premiered in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Elvis does not attend.
Louise Groody, a musical comedy star of several movies including Hit The Deck, dies aged 64, at her summer home in Canadensis, Pennsylvania, USA, after a long battle with cancer.
A new teen-oriented movie, State Fair, starring
Bobby Darin, Pat Boone, and
Ann-Margret, opens in cinemas in the USA.
Baz Luhrmann, film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and pop hitmaker, is born in Sydney, Australia.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio scenes for his next movie, It Happened At The World's Fair, in MGM Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues filming scenes for his next movie, Fun In
Acapulco, at Paramount
Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Muppets Theme, written by Billy Goldenberg is copyrighted. This theme will be used until 1976, at which point a new one will be composed by Sam Pottle and Jim Henson.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming for his next film, Kissin' Cousins, at Big Bear, near San Bernardino, California, USA.
Elvis Presley begins pre-production work for his eighteenth film, Tickle Me, at Allied Artists studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Dave Clark Five begin filming Catch Us If You Can, their first movie, in London, UK.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Czech producer, composer, songwriter, keyboard player Michal Dvorak is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Europe.
The teen beach movie musical Bikini Beach, starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Little Stevie Wonder and The Pyramids, is released in Turkey, Europe.
Teen movie Muscle Beach
Party opens at cinemas in Mexico, Central America. The movie
stars Frankie
Avalon and Annette
Funicello, and features music by Dick Dale And His
Del-Tones, Frankie Avalon and Little Stevie
Wonder.
The movie Wonderwall, with a soundtrack by George Harrison of The Beatles, premieres at The Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, Europe. George Harrison and Ringo Starr are present at the premiere.
Filming of The Rolling Stones for French avant-garde director Jean-Luc Godard's documentary film One By One continues at Olympic Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. On this day, a fire breaks out and the studio has to be evacuated in the early hours of the morning.
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones begins work on the film Performance in London, England, UK, Europe.
Read More
Humble
Pie and King
Crimson play the first of four nights at The
Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ben, by Michael Jackson, the theme from a movie about a beloved pet rat, enters the Billboard Black Singles Chart, where it will peak at No4 during a fourteen-week run.
The film Honeysuckle Rose, starring Willie Nelson, opens at cinemas across the USA.
The film The Jazz Singer, starring Neil Diamond as a young Jewish cantor with a secret life as a jazz singer, is premiered in Century City, California, USA. The film is a re-make of an Al Jolson movie, originally released in 1927.
A Kentucky school teacher who had been sacked for showing Pink Floyd's film The Wall to her class, loses her appeal for unfair dismissal in the US Supreme Court when the court rules that bad language and sexual content in the film is unsuitable for minors.
Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player Robert Farnon dies aged 87 at a hospice near his home in Guernsey, UK. As well as composing original works (often in the light music genre, but also for film and television), Farnon was recognised as one of the finest arrangers of his generation, in which capacity he worked with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and many others.
Bob Dylan announces, via a press release, that his next album will be called Together Through Life and will be released on April 28. As rumoured, the album was recorded under Dylan's studio pseudonym Jack Frost.
The Paul Simon documentary, Under African Skies, chronicling the creation and lasting influence of Simon's groundbreaking album Graceland, premieres at The Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA.
Amelia Lily films a video to accompany her second single, Shut Up [And Give Me Whatever You Got] in East London, UK.
Parts of the video shoot take place at the same location where a
scene in the 2008 Batman film The Dark Knight was filmed.
Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio are spotted kissing during designer Nikki Erwin’s 30th birthday party at The Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, California, USA.
A new BBC tv channel, BBC Scotland, is launched in the UK, with a specially-commissioned short film featuring Scottish band Chvrches and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, performing the band's song Miracle.
Rocketman, a biographical musical film based on the life of musician Elton John, is released to cinemas in the UK, Europe.
1927 |
2019 |