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Frankie Carpenter, with a concert orchestra and excellent company headed by Jere Grady, plays during a week at The Academy Of Music, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. The show is billed as featuring not only "songs, dances and novelties" but also "a carload of scenery and electrical effects".
Sig Carlos Francisco records A La Luna, Cancion De Amor, La Sevillana, Teresita Mia and Linda Mia for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Skeeter Davis performs The End Of The World on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded at WFIL-tv studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Al Donahue And His Orchestra play at The Misler Theatre, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA.
Louis Prima plays the fifth night of two weeks at The Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Country music singer and fiddle player Shorty Long records No Wars In Heaven, Don't Tell Mommy, Blinding Tears and Mama for Syd Nathan's King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.Jazz-rock virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Billy Eckstine with The Count Basie Band is playing during a two-week stint at The Bandbox, New York City, USA.
Lugee And The Lions, led by future hitmaker Lou Christie, play at The Moose Lodge, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA.Chubby Checker is headlining a week of shows at The Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by The Isley Brothers, The Drifters and The Unforgettables.
Bobby Rydell plays the eighteenth night in a four week season at The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, as support to comedian George Burns.The Miracles, The Vibrations, The Blue Notes and Joe Tex continue a two week season at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The song Midnight Mary by Artie Wayne and Ben Raleigh is registered for copyright. Recorded by Joey Powers it will reach No10 in the Billboard Top 40 chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
The Fall 1963 Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in The Arena, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Already a millionaire at 22 years old, Chubby Checker proposes marriage to Catharina Lodders, a 21-year-old Dutch model and Miss World 1962, from Haarlem, the Netherlands, Europe. She accepts.
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Eddie Rambeau enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Concrete And Clay, which will peak at No35.
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Bobby Vee appears on weekly tv show American Bandstand in the USA singing Come Back When You Grow Up.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at The Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Hank Mobley arrives in England, UK, where he will appear at Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho, London, on several occasions.
Rod Stewart And The Faces play at Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Deep Purple.
Pat Benatar plays a brief live set to open a home game for the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Preparing for his first tour of the 90s, Bob Dylan plays a warm-up/rehearsal show at The Recreation Hall, Penn State, State College in Pennsylvania, USA.
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Kenny G and Michael Bolton play at The Frederic Mann Music Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 
On his Away From Home tour, Drake plays at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
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The War On Drugs release their third album, Lost In The Dream, on Secretly Canadian Records in the USA.
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On their 40th Anniversary tour, KISS play at The First Niagara Pavilion, Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, USA.
On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays at Minute Maid Park, Houston, Texas, USA, supported by Vance Joy and Shawn Mendes.
On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of two nights at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, supported by Vance Joy and HAIM.
United States District Court Judge Gail Standish in Los Angeles, throws out a lawsuit brought by R'n'B singer Jessie Braham (aka Jesse Graham) against Taylor Swift, which alleged that Swift's 2014 smash hit Shake it Off plagiarized his song Haters Gone Hate, released the previous year.
Acoustic Hot Tuna play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA, with The David Bromberg Quintet.
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