Nostalgia

Finchley and Hendon station is opened by the Great Northern Railway in the Church End area of Finchley, North London, UK. It will be renamed several times before becoming Finchley Central on April 1 1940, under which name it will inspire the 1966 hit single, Finchley Central by The New Vaudeville Band.

Jazz clarinettist Buddy DeFranco And His Orchestra record King Philip Stomp, Rumpus Room, I'm Stepping Out With A Memory and Polka Dots And Moonbeams, for MGM Records in New York City, USA.

The Ray River Jazz Band play at the Trad Jazz Club, Walcot Common Room, Walcot, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.

The Ray River Jazz Band play at the Trad Jazz Club, Walcot Common Room, Walcot, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.

The Ray River Jazz Band, led by trumpeter John Cole, play for 400 fans during an all-night traditional jazz session at the Locarno Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.

The Vintage Jazz Band plays at the Trad Jazz Club, Walcot Common Room, Walcot, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.

The Temperance Seven play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.

UK music weekly Melody Maker carries a front page story that trombonist Ian Menzies has quit top trad jazz band The Clyde Valley Stompers.

The Temperance Seven play at The Civic Hall, Croydon, England, UK, Europe.

The Temperance Seven play at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.

Granada tv broadcasts a (pre-recorded) show called Trad With A Twist, featuring Chubby Checker plus the jazz bands of Ronnie Scott, Terry Lightfoot, Chris Barber, The Back O'Town Syncopators and The Original Downtown Syncopators. The show attempt to fuse trad jazz with the current vogue for dancing The Twist.

Shirley Bassey and The Temperance Seven play at The London Palladium, London, UK.

Mark Wynter and The Temperance Seven appear on UK tv show Thank Your Lucky Stars.

Ian Whitcomb records N-N-Nervous at RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. His session band includes James Burton on guitar, Jim Horn on Sax, Delaney Bramlett on bass and Mickey Conway on drums. Despite the success of Whitcomb's previous disc, You Turn Me On, this one will bomb.

Peter And Gordon, Tom Jones, Ian Whitcomb, The Shirelles, Them and others play the second of two nights in the Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars at The Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

David Perry records seventeen tracks including Crisis Of Joe Louis, Crisis At Munich and Crisis Over Poland, in New York City, USA, for the Decca Records spoken word album Crisis! (Voices And Sounds Of Events That Created History / 1936 To The Present).

TV show Thank Your Lucky Stars in the UK, features The Animals, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Danny Williams and Ian Whitcomb.

US tv rock show Where The Action Is features Ian Whitcomb performing You Turn Me On plus The Grassroots performing Bad Times and Where Were You When I Needed You?

Moby Grape record Just Like Gene Autry : A Foxtrot, in New York City, USA, for their Columbia Records album Wow! When the track, a 1930s jazz pastiche, appears on the album, it is recorded at 78rpm, and thus requires listeners to change the speed setting on their record players from 33.3rpm to 78rpm in order to hear it at the correct speed.

Eric Burdon And War play the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by the Aum and Sha Na Na.

Tiny Tim plays the second of five nights at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Tiny Tim plays the third of five nights at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Tiny Tim plays the fourth of five nights at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Tiny Tim plays during six nights at The Hook And Ladder Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

A busy day in New York City, USA. The big event of the day is at Madison Square Garden, where John Lennon and Yoko Ono play at the One On One Benefit for Willowbank Hospital, supported by Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Sha Na Na and Elephant's Memory. One the same day, however, The Kinks play in Central Park and Fleetwood Mac play in Gaelic Park. At club level, Jackson Browne and David Blue play the first of six nights at The Bitter End, while Bruce Springsteen takes the stage at Max's Kansas City.

Vinnie Taylor, guitarist with Sha Na Na, dies of a heroin overdose, aged 25, in a hotel room in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

The Four Seasons reach No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA with December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night).

Showaddywaddy play at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK.

Showaddywaddy play the first of three nights at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.

A Doors Convention is held at The ICA, London, England, UK, Europe, attended by the three surviving members of the band.

Tiny Tim attends The Limelight Entertainment Complex, New York City, USA.

The 60s Golden Greats nostalgia tour, featuring Bobby Vee, The Searchers and Chris Montez, plays at King George’s Hall, Blackburn, UK.

The 60s Golden Greats nostalgia tour, featuring Bobby Vee, The Searchers and Chris Montez, plays at the Afan Lido, Port Talbot, Wales.

Actor Gary Busey, who had starred in the 1978 biopic The Buddy Holly Story, purchases one of Buddy Holly’s guitars at an auction for $240,000. The guitar comes complete with a tooled leather case made by Holly.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame is inaugurated at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York City, USA. The first inductees into the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame are Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bix Beiderbecke, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and Lester Young.

The 60s Golden Greats nostalgia tour, featuring Bobby Vee, The Searchers and Chris Montez, plays at The Dome, Doncaster, UK.

Frank Ocean releases his debut EP Nostalgia Ultra as a mixtape via Ocean's personal blog.

The famous black-and-red leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson in the classic Thriller video sells for $1.8m at Julien's Auctions, Beverly Hills, California, USA. The jacket is bought by gold trader Milton Verret of Austin, Texas, who says he plans to use it to raise money for children's hospitals.

The Jive Aces release a new LP, Diggin' The Roots on Golden Age Recordings in the UK.

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd auctions 127 guitars from his collection at Christie's, New York City, USA, raising a total of $21,490,750, which the guitarist donates to ClientEarth, a global climate crisis organization. The auction sets several world records for sales of guitars. His famed Black Strat alone realised $3.975 m, said to be the highest price paid for a guitar at an auction. The Black Strat was played by Gilmour on every Pink Floyd album from The Dark Side of the Moon until The Final Cut.

In a video shared on Cody Simpson's Instagram Stories, he is shown in bed this morning with Miley Cyrus watching old clips of Elvis Presley.

Francis Rossi of Status Quo undertakes a photo-call at Bonhams Auction House, New Bond Street, London, England, UK, Europe. The event is designed to promote an upcoming auction in the Entertainment Memorabilia Sale (Dec 17, 2019) at Bonhams Knightsbridge, during which a green Fender Telecaster purchased by Rossi in Glasgow in 1968 for £75, will be offered with an estimate of £100,000 - 150,000.