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Benny Goodman And His Orchestra begin the second month of a seven-month residency at The Joseph Urban Room of The Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Sander Nelson is born in Santa Monica, California, USA. As Sandy Nelson, he will
become rock's first successful solo drum performer scoring huge
hits with Teen
Beat and Let
There Be Drums.
Duke Ellington records I'm Beginning To See The Light, for RCA Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Louis Jordan plays the first of three nights at the Palace Theatre, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
The musical comedy, Call Me Madam, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman, is playing at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 644 performances.
Fred Rose, co-founder of the Acuff-Rose country music publishing empire, dies in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Ronnie Aldrich And The Squadronaires, featuring Cliff Townshend And His Swinging Saxophone, star in Music In The Air on Pan-European radio station Radio Luxembourg. Cliff Townshend's son will find fame as Pete Townshend, leader of rock band The Who.
After a show in El Paso, Texas, USA, Chuck Berry meets Janice Norine Escalanti - a fourteen year old Apache Indian girl who, apparently unknown to Berry, is working as a prostitute. That night they begin the drive to St Louis, Missouri, USA.

Two Lovers by Mary Wells is the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No71.

Jim Reeves is on a ten-day hunting trip in Texas and Mexico in search of wild boar, turkey, deer and bear.


Bill Anderson, with producer Owen Bradley, records Five Hundred Miles, You Don't Have To Be A Baby, Abilene, Green Green and I'm Leaving It All Up To You in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session includes guitarists Harold Bradley, Jerry Kennedy and Grady Martin, steel guitarist Weldon Myrick, bassist Joseph Zinkan, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Hargus Robbins [piano], with The Anita Kerr Singers.


Mississippi Fred McDowell records Some Day Baby, Milk Cow Blues, Train I Ride, Over the Hill, Goin' Down to the River, I Wished I Were In Heaven Sitting Down and Louise, in Como, Mississippi, USA. These recordings will be released as the album Mississippi Blues on Black Lion Records in 1992.

UK tv show Top Of The Pops refuses to show a promo film for The Kinks new single Dead End Street, in which the band play the part of undertakers collecting a body in a coffin. Appearing on the show on this night are Donovan, The Small Faces, Bobby Hebb, The Seekers and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich.

The controversial hippy musical,

Ringo Starr of The Beatles is filmed at several locations around London for a BB2 documentary to be shown as part of the arts series Late Night Line-Up.
Elvis Presley buys some silver goggles and gold spectacles at the Optique Boutique, Beverley Hills, California, USA.
In a notorious UK tv interview with chat show host Bill Grundy, The Sex Pistols unleash several four letter words. This infamous incident will inspire the band Television Personalities to release the single Where's Bill Grundy Now?
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Jim Diamond is at No1 in the UK singles chart with I Should Have Known Better. The song will be succeeded after one week by Band Aid's charity single Do They Know It's Christmas. Diamond will publicly request that people not buy his single, but instead buy Do They Know It's Christmas.
The Guest Stars with Dick Morrissey play the first of six nights at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Soho, London, UK.
The Rockstar Taste Of Chaos tour, featuring Disturbed, Papa Roach, Buckcherry and Halestorm plays at the Philipshalle, Dusseldorf, Germany.



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