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U.S. Highway System Route 66 is established, running from Chicago, Illinois, USA, to Los Angeles, California - a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). The road will be immortalised in the song Route 66, written by Bobby Troup and first recorded by The Nat King Cole Trio. Later versions will be recorded by Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer and Depeche Mode to name but a few. The road will also become the subject of the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.
Singer and actress Juanita Hall appears on the Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA. She is remembered as the first African-American to win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Bloody Mary in the Rogers And Hammerstein musical South Pacific.The tv show Cavalcade of Bands in the USA features The Stan Kenton Orchestra with Teresa Brewer on vocals, plus band members including Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Art Pepper and Shelly Manne. The show also features the presentation of the Downbeat Magazine Awards.
Singing duo The Bell Sisters sing Bermuda in their audition for Peter Potter's Search For A Song tv show in Los Angeles, California, USA. They do not pass. Potter likes the melody but considers the lyric "too depressing."
Little Anthony And The Imperials and Jack Scott appear on tv's Dick Clark Show, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jamie Coe is today's guest on popular teen-oriented tv show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Fats Domino performs What A Price and Ain't That Just Like A Woman on tv show American Bandstand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Although she is currently on tour in Australia, Oceania, Connie Francis is able to appear on tv show American Bandstand in a videotaped performance.
Fok duo Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor perform live on BBC-tv's topical magazine show Tonight, in London, England, UK, Europe.The Platters are in London, UK, recording an appearance on the tv special Broadway Goes Latin.
Little
Eva performs The Loco-Motion on daily tv pop show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sandy Stewart appears on tv's Merv Griffin Show in the USA.
The Beatles release a new single, Can't Buy Me
Love, in the UK and make their second appearance on weekly pop
tv show Ready, Steady, Go!.
The irreverent attitude of The Rolling Stones angers many viewers when they appear as the panel on BBC tv's Juke Box Jury.
Folk-music duo Ian and Sylvia Tyson appear on The Steve Allen Playhouse on tv in the USA.
John Lennon of The Beatles appears on UK tv current affairs show Tonight to promote his upcoming book, A Spaniard In The Works.
Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs and P.J. Proby appear on syndicated tv pop show Shivaree, recorded for KABC in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In London, England, UK, Lulu records a filmed sequence for tv show Shindig! in the USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features The Byrds performing the Bob Dylan song All I Really Want To Do and Jewel Akens performing Only Way to Fly and Birds And The Bees.
The Searchers, Anita Harris and Jackie Lee appear on UK tv pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars.
Little Jimmy Dickens, George Jones and Gale Garnett are the musical guests on ABC-TV's The Jimmy Dean Show in the USA.David McWilliams appears on the BBC1-tv programme The Rolf Harris Show in London, England, UK, Europe.
The LP The Birds, The Bees And The Monkees by The Monkees is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Mary Hopkin, a young Welsh singer, appears on the tv talent show Opportunity Knocks in the UK. She is seen by top model Twiggy, who will recommend her to Paul McCartney of The Beatles.During an appearance on the BBC tv chat show Dee Time Jane Asher announces that her engagement to Paul McCartney of The Beatles has ended. What she does not mention is that she had found McCartney in bed with another woman, Francie Schwartz, when she returned to his house in Cavendish Avenue, London, England, UK, Europe, unexpectedly.
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John Lennon of The Beatles and Yoko Ono spend the last of five days being filmed for a BBC tv 24 Hours documentary, The World Of John And Yoko. On this day they are filmed at The Bull hotel in Long Melford.
On their first American tour, 
Psychic TV play 
Ozzy Osbourne donates $15,000 to AIDS research after a concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Michael Jackson's Black Or White video premieres on the Fox tv network in the USA.
Nirvana record their MTV Unplugged session at Sony Music Studios in New York City, USA. It will later be released as an acoustic live album.
Michael Jackson and wife Lisa Marie Presley tell US TV interviewer Diane Sawyer they are a normal couple who have sex and hope to have a child soon.
Now referring to himself simply as The Artist, Prince performs an outdoor concert at the window of NBC's Manhattan, New York City, USA, studio as part of the Today concert summer series. On his Down to Earth tour, Ozzy Osbourne plays at Nagoya-shi Koukaidou, Nagoya, Japan, Asia.BBC Radio 2 in the UK broadcasts an interview "When Jools Holland Met Eric Clapton", in which Clapton and Holland discuss their shared interest in the blues.
Britney Spears walks out of the judging panel on the set of US tv show The X Factor after reportedly being annoyed by one contestant's rendition of her song Hold It Against Me.
Jerrod Niemann and Journey keyboard player Jonathan Cain join The Oak Ridge Boys on tv with Elvira during a benefit concert at the Omni Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The event raises $200,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Miley Cyrus tapes the tv special Miley Cyrus: MTV Unplugged at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Madonna as a guest artist.
St Vincent performs Digital Witness and Birth In Reverse on tv show Saturday Night Live in the USA.1926 |
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