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Marvin Dooley Wetter is born in Rinard, Iowa. He will find fame as country music pioneer and Texas music legend, Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, banjo player of The Light Crust Doughboys.
Blues singer Coley Jones, accompanying himself on guitar, records Frankie And Albert for Columbia Records, in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Milton Brown And His Brownies record Texas Hambone Blues, I've Got The Blues For Mammy, The Sheik Of Araby, Mamma Don't Allow It, and other tracks for Decca Records in The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Larry Gatlin is born in Seminole, Texas, USA. With his brothers Rudy and Steve in the Gatlin Brothers Band, he will write numerous 1970s and '80s hits including All The Gold In California, Broken Lady and Night Time Magic.
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper play on the Winter Dance Party tour at The Armory, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Teenager Bob Zimmerman, later to become Bob Dylan is in the audience.
Damita Jo performs Sweet Georgia Brown on tv show American Bandstand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Also on tonight's show are The Del Vikings.
Leon McAuliff And The Cimarron Boys are playing during five days of gigs at The Tulsa Horse Show, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Ferlin Husky is playing in Amarillo, Texas, USA.
The Los Angeles Sentinel runs the headline "Mathis to Raise $60,000" over a story about Johnny Mathis being one of a number of black entertainers who are "joining the civil rights battle lines".
Slim Whitman spends the first of two days recording tracks including You Belong To My Heart, In The Misty Moonlight, Silver Threads Among The Gold and My Heart Cries For You in Sunset Sound Studios, 5652 East Daniels Avenue, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Country and rockabilly singer-songwriter Bob Luman marries his girlfriend Barbara in Yuma, Colorado, USA.
A package tour headlined by Roy Orbison and featuring Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin Berries and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, plays at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK.
A package tour headlined by Roy Orbison and featuring Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin Berries and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, plays at the ABC, Stockton, UK.
The Beatles play at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with The King Curtis Band, Cannibal And The Headhunters, Brenda Holloway and Sounds Incorporated.
Jim Reeves' former backing group The Blue Boys record Nil Desperate (Never Despair), Am, I Losing You?, Is It Really Over and You'll Never Be Mine Again in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Vikki Carr is playing during two weeks of live shows at The Cave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Roy Orbison plays the twelfth night of a four-week residency at The Talk Of The Town, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Monkees play at Kaikan Hall, Kyoto, Japan, Asia.
The Steve Miller Band plays the first of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Roy Orbison plays at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Joe Tex, Edwin Starr, Marmalade, Vanity Fare and Nino Tempo And April Stevens appear on weekly tv show Top Of The Pops, at the BBC TV Centre, Shepherds Bush, London, England, UK, Europe. The programme is extended to 35 minutes from tonight, enabling a minimum of twelve songs per show.
Big Brother and the Holding Company play the last of three nights at The Family Dog, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Kaleidoscope and Devil’s Kitchen.
Appearing on the first day of The Bath Festival Of Blues and Progressive Music are Canned Heat, John Mayall, Steppenwolf, Pink Floyd, Johnny Winter, It’s A Beautiful Day, Fairport Convention, Colosseum, Keef Hartley Band, and the Maynard Ferguson Big Band. Tickets cost £2.10s. Attendance : 150,000.
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The Raspberries play at the Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, supported by Johnny Nash and Rainbow.
Roy Orbison plays at The ABC, Chester, England, UK, Europe.
The Top Ten Singles on WABC Music Radio in New York City, USA, for this day are as follows :



1. Sexy Eyes - Dr. Hook (Capitol)

2. Call Me - Blondie (Chrysalis)

3. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc. (Casablanca)

4. Lost in Love - Air Supply (Arista)

5. Ride Like the Wind - Christopher Cross (Warner Brothers)

6. Stomp! - The Brothers Johnson (A+M)

7. Another Brick In the Wall, Part II - Pink Floyd (Columbia)

8. Don't Fall In Love With a Dreamer - Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes (United Artists)

9. You May Be Right - Billy Joel (Columbia)

10. Hurt So Bad - Linda Ronstadt (Asylum)

The Joe Ely Band plays the first of two nights at The Soap Creek Saloon, Austin, Texas, USA.
The Go-Go's play at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Music producer and record company executive Don Law dies, aged 80, of lung cancer in La Marque, Texas, USA. In an acclaimed career he produced Robert Johnson's only recordings, and as head of Columbia Records' country music division he worked with many leading musicians including Bob Wills, Carl Smith, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Johnny Horton, Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash.
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble release their debut album, Texas Flood, in the USA.
When Twisted Sister play in San Antonio, Texas, USA, the city has recently passed an anti-rock music ordinance [in response to pressure from the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), to prevent the appearance of artists who sing about such topics as necrophilia, paedophilia or bestiality. A group of local dignitaries monitor the show but later, in the band's dressing room, they mingle happily with the group.
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Texas end a UK tour at Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK, Europe..
On her Blond Ambition World Tour, Madonna plays the first of two nights at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA.
On his In Step tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan plays at Riverfest, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Eddie Campbell, who had been half of the sixties soul duo Eddie And Ernie, dies in Los Angeles, California, USA, apparently of the effects of alcoholism.
When Ashlee Simpson plays at the Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida, USA, her song La La is almost drowned out by booing football fans – because she had been caught out for lip-synching during a recent Saturday Night Live tv appearance.
A grand jury, in Columbus, Ohio, USA, rules that the actions of police officer James Niggemeyer, who shot the killer of Damage Plan guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott, were justified. No charges are to be brought against Niggemeyer.
On their Whack Attack tour ZZ Top play at Feather Falls Casino, Oroville, California, USA.
Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child is ordered by a New York Supreme Court judge to pay damages to the Wilhelmina Modelling Agency because she had failed to honour her contract with the company by not paying a commission and service fee for setting up a deal with L'Oreal in 2001.
Fleetwood Mac and Squeeze play at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA.
During the televised Hurricane Katrina benefit show A Concert For Hurricane Relief, in New York City, USA, Kanye West takes the opportunity to attack US president George Bush, declaring, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." On the same day, teenage singer-actress Hilary Duff pledges $250,000 to help survivors of the hurricane.
The 2011 Billboard Music Awards are held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Eminem and Justin Bieber dominate the event, each taking home six trophies, while Taylor Swift and five others secure three each. Beyonce gets the Millennium Award. Also in attendance are U2 and Lil Wayne.
Conor Oberst plays at Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, Texas, USA.
Bob Montgomery, a singer, songwriter and longtime musical partner of Buddy Holly, dies aged 77 of Parkinson's disease in Lee's Summit, Missouri, USA.
The Dixie Chicks play at The Blossom Amphitheater, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
On her Revival tour, Selena Gomez plays at The Philips Arena, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, supported by DNCE and Bea Miller.
On the North American leg of their 100-date Global Spirit Tour, Depeche Mode play at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, Texas, USA.
Griffin House plays at The O4 Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
When producer Tyler Perry opens a new movie studio in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the event is attended by Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry, Tiffany Haddish and Will Smith. Beyonce, also in attendance, cries because she is overwhelmed by the significance of the opening of the studio for black entertainers.
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