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Radio pioneer Fred Christian begins broadcasting records borrowed from music stores from a five-watt transmitter in his Hollywood, California, USA, home. His station has the call letters 6ADZ.
Harry Reser and his Orchestra record Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) in New York City, USA, for Okeh Records.
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra, record Loveable And Sweet, My Song Of The Nile, If I Had My Way, Dreamy Honolulu and You Wanted Someone To Play With, HMV Records in The Queens Small Hall, London, UK.
A radio broadcast on the NBC Red network in the USA, sponsored by Philip Morris, features Phil Duey, the Leo Reisman Orchestra and The Four Eton Boys performing songs including A Chapel In The Moonlight, Winter Wonderland, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, The Skater's Waltz, Jingle Bells and Silent Night.
On the CBS radio show Jack Oakie’s College, Judy Garland sings All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm, Shine On Harvest Moon and My Daddy Was A Minstrel Man.
Art Tatum plays Dark Eyes and other songs on the KHJ Radio show California Melodies, broadcast from Los Angeles, California, USA. 
Bing Crosby stars in the radio show, Bing Crosby Presents, broadcast live from the Crosby-owned Del Mar Turf Club, between Los Angeles and San Diego, California, USA, with John Scott Trotter and His Frying Pan Eight.
Harry Parry And His Radio Rhythm Club Sextet play at The Streatham Hill Theatre, Streatham Hill, London, UK.Popular Western Swing singer and bandleader Dude Martin hosts Dude Martin's Sunrise Roundup on KGO Radio in San Francisco, California, USA.
When The Miles Davis Sextet, including Stan Getz and Art Blakey play at Birdland, New York City, USA, the show is broadcast live by radio station WNYC. Also on the bill are The Charlie Parker Quintet and The Bud Powell Trio.
When The Charlie Parker Septet plays at Birdland, Broadway, New York City, USA, the show is broadcast live by WJZ Radio.
Cyril Ornadel and his Orchestra, with William Davies, performs a thirty minute concert as part of the Music While You Work series on BBC Home Service Radio in the UK. Also heard in concert on the Home Service on this day are Frederic Cooper And His Tipica Orchestra.A so-called rock'n'roll riot takes place during a concert featuring Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Also on the bill are The Valentines, The Cleftones, The G-Clefs, Art Poulsan's Martians, The Dappers, and Cindy And Lindy. Emcee for the show is radio deejay Bill Marlowe of WCOP.
Recently-fired Marty Robbins is reinstated to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was fired several days earlier after becoming involved in a heated argument with Opry exec Robert Cooper, during which Robbins asserted that he "didn't need The Opry".
Nat King Cole plays the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The Coasters play the second night of a week at the Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, with The Spaniels, The Danleers, The Olympics, Bobby Hendricks, The Quintones, and Sil Austin's Combo.
JohnLlee Hooker, Marv Johnson, The Miracles and Faye Adams play at the Club 20 Grand, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Elvis Presley, having completed his term of service with the US Army in Germany, Europe, touches down in the USA, at McGuire Air Force base, New Jersey.
Patsy Cline sings When Your House Is Not A Home on the radio show Country Style USA.
Elvis Presley records Blue Hawaii, Ito Eats, Hawaiian Wedding Song, Island Of Love, Steppin' Out Of Line and Almost Always True for the soundtrack to his upcoming movie Blue Hawaii at Radio Recorders Studio, Hollywood, California, USA.
British pop idol Rick Nelson sings Gypsy
Woman, I Will Follow You and That's All, in a special edition of US
tv series The
Adventures Of Ozzie and Harriet.
The Oscar Peterson Trio records I Got It Bad [And That Ain't Good] at Radio Recorders
Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Controversial American radio deejay and music business entrepreneur Alan Freed dies aged 43, penniless, in hospital in Palm Springs, California, USA, from uremia and cirrhosis brought on by alcoholism. Freed's career was ended after his involvement in the payola scandal of the early 1960s. He is mentioned in The Ramones' song Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? as one of the band's idols in rock'n'roll. Freed also crops up in Ballrooms Of Mars by Marc Bolan, They Used To Call It Dope by Public Enemy, Payola Blues by Neil Young, Done Too Soon by Neil Diamond, The Ballad of Dick Clark by Skip Battin, and The King Of Rock n' Roll by Cashman And West on their 1973 ABC album Moondog Serenade.
Influential British guitarist Bert Weedon is the featured guest on UK radio show Desert Island Discs.
Elvis Presley is in Radio Recorders Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, recording songs for his next movie, Frankie And Johnny.
The Tubby Hayes Commonwealth Big Band plays a live session for the BBC Jazz Club radio show in London, England, UK.
Roy Acuff Jr. makes his Grand Ole Opry debut, introduced by his legendary father in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. On an encore, Junior reprises his father's classic Wabash Cannonball.The Zombies record a live session for The David Symonds Show at BBC Studio 4, Maida Vale, London, UK.
Bridge Piece by Joseph Jarman of avant-garde jazz combo The Art Ensemble Of Chicago is performed at Ida Noyes Hall, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The multi-media performance includes the band casually dressed, strobe lights, video projections, a smoke machine, strolling performers and someone carrying a portable radio tuned to a Top 40 music station. Some audience members are told to wear sacks over their heads, while others are draped in tinfoil. If any audience members are not casually dressed, they are asked to leave.
Donovan appears on the BBC radio show Saturday Club, recorded in London, England, UK, Europe.The five-day long 1968 NATRA (National Association Of Television And Radio Announcers) Convention begins at The Four Ambassadors Hotel, Miami, Florida, USA. Participants include Harry Belafonte, Bill Cosby and Sen. Robert Kennedy. The event is marred by violence between Mafia elements and black music business executives.
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I Shot The Sheriff by Eric Clapton, a cover of a Bob Marley song, is released to radio stations in the USA.
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The Mayor of Nashville proclaims this to be Bill Monroe Day in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. WSM radio's Grant Turner presents the proclamation to Monroe at a surprise birthday party in Mason’s Restaurant, Goodlettsville, Tennessee.When Eric Clapton plays at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, Europe, he is joined onstage by Robert Cray.
Soprano country and gospel singer Dixie Mason dies. She featured in a variety of programs on radio station WLS out of Chicago, Illinois, USA, including Morning Devotions and the National Barn Dance.
On rock radio call-in show Rockline in the USA, Roger Waters denies recent rumours that he has invited his former Pink Floyd colleague, guitarist David Gilmour, to perform with him during his upcoming live presentation of The Wall in Berlin, Germany, Europe.
In a survey carried out in the UK by BBC Radio 1 and The Times Magazine, Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen is declared the greatest song of all time.The film Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, starring Andy Serkis as Ian Dury, is released to cinemas in the UK.
Robert Sandall, a highly-respected BBC Radio 3 presenter, music journalist and Virgin Records executive, dies of prostate cancer, aged 58.Lady Gaga performs her controversial song Judas live for the first time on the Ellen Degeneres Show in the USA.
Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy celebrates his birthday at the Y 100 radio station in Miami, Florida, USA.
Taylor Swift, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Sam Smith, Rixton, Ed Sheeran, Fuse ODG, Sigma and Jessie J play in the second night of Capital's Jingle Bell Ball at The O2 Arena, London, UK.1920 |
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