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The Union Club Annual Concert is held in the Town Hall, Alston, Cumberland, UK. Entertainment includes violin solos, recitations, and the following songs :The Dandy Coloured Coon, Down By The Sea and In The Pale Moonlight by Mr. D.R. Denard; Little Cotton Dolly and Ambolena Snow [an Afro-American military ballad] by Miss Dora Whaley; Tomorrow Will Be Friday and Father O'Flynn by Mr. Gibbs; All Souls' Day and Curly Headed Baby by Miss Logan; Bonnets Of Blue by Miss James. A report in the local newspaper, The Northern News, notes that, 'A new feature was the gramophone, which was manipulated by Mr. Cyril Millican of Newcastle.'
Reno And Richard, Macari's Dog And Monkey Circus, Smith And Fuller, Winona And Banks Winter, Press Eldridge, Silvern And Emelie, Atalie Claire and Manley And Rose are appearing in the "Exclusive Fashionable Vaudeville" show at The Grand, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Sheet music for the song My Magic Mandolin, composed by Fred Deekman, is given away in the Music Supplement of Hearst's Chicago American newspaper, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Burke's Musical Dogs and five other feature acts are appearing all week at The Marion Family Theatre, Marion, Ohio, USA. [According to one newspaper review of the act, ''They keep almost perfect time to music, they jingle bells and perform various other things.']
As heated debate continues over the impropriety of popular 'animal' dances including the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Trot and Bunny Hug, The United Press in New York City, USA, reports that "Dance hall proprietors who permit such dances will be arrested for disorderly conduct." Such dances, usually performed to ragtime or jazz music, are deemed inappropriate for "working girls on New York's East Side."
As a result of the popularity of the song It's A Long Way To Tipperary, an article about the town appears in The Nationalist newspaper in the UK under the heading 'Tipperary in the Limelight'.
Tiptoe Through The Tulips by The Don Voorhees Orchestra is released as the Durium Hit Of The Week on newspaper stands in New York City, USA at a cost of 15c, twenty percent of the price of an ordinary shellac record.
This month's edition Rhythm Magazine in the UK features a page of advertisements headed up as "Sensations For 1935". These include the portable RadioTone Gig Amplifier, Sioma clarinets, the Coronado accordion and La Grande saxophones.
In UK music weekly Melody Maker's Annual music poll, John Dankworth is 1953 Musician Of The Year, while Ted Heath and His Music are Big Band of the Year and Ronnie Scott's Band is Small Band Of The Year.In UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express], Geoffrey Everitt reviews Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel with the words '... if you appreciate good singing, I don't suppose you'll manage to hear this all the way through.'
The front page of UK music weekly newspaper Melody Maker reports that three trad jazz bands (Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball and The Temperance Seven) will appear at this years Royal Variety Show in London, England, UK, Europe.Three popular singers, Petula Clark, Francoise Hardy and Rosy Arme, are presented with chocolate discs which they eat at a specially-arranged photo session.
Daryl Quist is featured on the cover of today's edition of UK pop paper The New Musical Express (aka NME), in a paid-for advertisement for his single Goodbye To Love. Quist was part of a stable of artists promoted by entrepreneur Larry Parnes.
Capitol Records in the USA sends out thousands of copies of a fake tabloid newspaper, entitled The National Record News, which is in fact a promotional device to promote The Beatles. Every feature in the fake newspaper is about The Beatles.
Under the headline, The Rolling Stones Gather No Lunch, UK newspaper The Daily Express reveals that the group was recently refused service at the Strand Hotel, Bristol, England, UK, Europe, for not wearing ties. "But ties would get in the soup," observes vocalist Mick Jagger.
Cliff Richard admits in the UK press that he buys records by The Beatles, but not by The Rolling Stones.
The Rolling Stones are undertaking media interviews in New York City, USA, to promote their upcoming tour. During this day, for example, all five Stones are interviewed by Ed Rudy at Kennedy Airport, Queens, New York City.
The Rolling Stones play two shows in one day during their fourth American tour. First, in the afternoon, is at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York State, USA. That same evening, they play at War Memorial Hall, Syracuse, New York State, USA. They also squeeze in a press conference at the New York Hilton. During the day, Bob Dylan drops by to visit The Stones' member Brian Jones.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at a press reception in The Bag O'Nails, Kingly Street, London, England, UK, Europe.UK Sunday tabloid The News Of The World runs the headline Pop Stars And Drugs - Facts That Will Shock You. It reports that The Moody Blues have hosted parties at which Pete Townshend of The Who and Ginger Baker of Cream took LSD. It also claimed that Mick Jagger had participated when, in fact, the Rolling Stones member involved was Brian Jones.
Chris Welch of UK pop weekly
In today's edition of Rolling Stone magazine, reviewer Barry Gifford describes the album A Long Time Comin' by The Electric Flag with the sentence, 'This is the new soul music, the synthesis of white blues and heavy metal rock.' This is thought to be the earliest documented use of the term heavy metal in connection with rock music.
Today's edition of UK music paper Record Mirror includes a round-up of recently-released cover-versions of Bob Dylan songs, including You Ain't Goin' Nowhere by The Byrds and This Wheel's On Fire by Julie Driscoll with the Brian Auger Trinity. The feature also mentions two further versions of You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, one by Unit 4 + 2 and another by Paul McNeill And Linda Peters. Others in the list include Too Much Of Nothing by Peter, Paul And Mary, Down In The Flood by Earl Scruggs, I Shall be Released by both Marc Ellington and Boz, and an instrumental treatment of The Mighty Quinn by Fuzz Face.Big Brother And The Holding Company, and Sly And The Family Stone play the second of six nights at Bill Graham's new Fillmore West, formerly known as The Carousel Ballroom, in San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill are Richie Havens, Illinois Speed Press and Siegel-Schwall.
British pop weekly New Musical Express (NME) reports that Fleetwood Mac has now become a three-guitar band with the addition of Danny Kirwan to the two existing guitarists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer.
Rolling Stone magazine in the USA votes Jimi Hendrix Performer Of The Year for 1968.
Former President of the USA Dwight D. Eisenhauer, having recently died, appears on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Janis Joplin, who had been scheduled to be on the cover for that week is not amused. "Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week! In my week!" she tells UK music paper Melody Maker.
UK pop music weekly Disc votes Cliff Richard as the Best-Dressed Male Star in Britain.
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Van Morrison and Brinsley Schwarz play at The Fillmore East, New York City, USA. 
Splodgenessabounds appear on the cover of Bo Diddley and The Associates are both interviewed by Johnny Black in London, England, UK, Europe.
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Rick James is featured on the cover of today's edition of Jet magazine, with the headliune "Rick James Talks About Life With Fast Women And Hot Cars".
Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran is featured on the cover of today's edition of Smash Hits magazine in the UK.
Newsweek magazine declares Bruce Springsteen to be 'an icon of America', claiming that his most recent world tour has transformed him 'from pop star to cultural symbol.'
Prince plays the fifth of seven non-consecutive nights at Wembley Arena, London, England, UK, Europe, on his Lovesexy tour. UK pop paper Record Mirror hails it as "the greatest show on Earth."It is reported that the UK's Press Council has told tabloid newspaper The Daily Star to remedy an inaccurate story about Elton John spending £4.5m on a house in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
The Rolling Stones hold a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, Asia, to announce their upcoming tour. They also continue rehearsing in Tokyo.
Prince attends a press conference announcing an October benefit show to promote international harmony and tolerance, with Muhammad Ali also in attendance.
In an interview in The Times, Robert Smith of The Cure expresses his disagreement with Radiohead's strategy of allowing fans to decide how much to pay for their album In Rainbows. "The Radiohead experiment of paying what you want - I disagreed violently with that," he says. "You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value at all, and that's nonsense. If I put a value on my music and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan. It can't work."
Sir Paul McCartney reveals in an interview with The Independent newspaper that he refused to vote in the recent European Elections because he was outraged by revelations about how UK MPs squandered taxpayers' money via unreasonable expenses claims.
It is announced that Lou Reed, founder of The Velvet Underground and acclaimed solo artist, is recuperating from a liver transplant carried out recently in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The news is revealed by his wife, Laurie Anderson, in a feature interview in The Times.
The Guardian newspaper reports that the family of deceased reggae star Bob Marley has teamed up with a private equity firm to launch Marley Natural, a cannabis product offering "heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains" inspired by the ones Marley enjoyed.
Photographer, journalist, researcher and political activist, Hoppy Hopkins, dies aged 77. One of the best-known underground figures of the Swinging London era, he photographed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and many others. He also recorded the seedier side of London, with photographs of tattoo parlours, cafes, prostitutes and fetishists.
A feature in The Independent newspaper suggests that the recent closure of the popular and influential nightclub, Fabric in Islington, London, England, UK, was a "long pre-planned event" orchestrated by the local council. The official reason given had been that it was closed because of two drug-related deaths in the club.
At a press conference in Milan, Italy, Europe, Depeche Mode announce the upcoming release of their 14th album, Spirit, to be accompanied by a major world tour entitled Global Spirit.
A 1963 copy of newspaper Alkali News with autographs of all four of The Beatles, three of which were actually forged by John Lennon, sells at auction in the UK for £2,000.
It is reported that Sir Cliff Richard has accepted a payout from South Yorkshire Police after demanding "substantial damages" over the force disclosing his private information to the BBC. The payout related to a police raid at Sir Cliff's apartment in Sunningdale, Berkshire, after he was accused of a sex offence against a boy under 16 dating back to 1985.1900 |
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