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Major Merriweather is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, He will grow up to find fame as blues vocalist and pianist Big Maceo.
Lee Morse And Her Bluegrass Boys [strangely enough, a jazz group] record Just For You and June Brought Roses, for Pathe Actuelle Records in New York City, USA.

The Swanee Swingers - a pseudonym for Isham Jones And His Orchestra - record Take It Easy for Decca Records in London, UK.
Ray McKinley's Jazz Band records Love In The First Degree, New Orleans Parade and other tracks for Decca Records in the USA.
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the thirty-second night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Roy Milton and Pee Wee Crayton play the second of three days at The Lincoln Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Jack Parnell And His Music Makers play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes, Jay Roberts And The Jaywalkers and Bill Bailey's Calypso Band play a Good Friday gig at The Iron Door Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Phil Leadbetter, one of the most highly respected dobro players in country music, is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
Musical comedy star Janet Blair sings I Am Woman, You Are Man (from the Broadway hit Funny Girl) and As You Desire Me, on the Red Skelton Show on tv in the USA.
Erik Turner, rhythm guitarist of heavy rock group Warrant is born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with the shooting of location scenes for his latest
movie, Roustabout, at locations in and around Los Angeles, California, USA.






Working on the song Pay Your Dues, The Rolling Stones come to the end of seventeen days of recording at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. The track will eventually become better known as Street Fighting Man.
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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys begins recording a demo of Break Away at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bob Dylan is in the middle of a period of two months of painting and philosophy lessons in New York City, USA, with Norman Raeben. His teachings have a great impact on Dylan, who says it helps him learn to write songs again.


Fifteen-year-old Katie Melua gets her first big break when she wins the Stars Up Their Nose talent show segment of UK children's tv show Mad For It, singing Without You.

Is This The Way To Amarillo by Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay reaches No1 in the Irish Singles Chart.
Concertgoer Holly Duncan files a damages lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago, Illinois, USA, claiming that she was injured when Akon performed a dive from the stage into the crowd during a show at Toyota Park, Bridgeview in June 2009.
Music streaming service Rhapsody hires Rob Harvilla, former Village Voice music editor, as managing editor of The Mix.
Gordon Lightfoot plays a sold-out show at the newly-opened Foothills Performing Arts And Civic Center, Oneonta, New York State, USA.


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