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Isham's Famous Octoroons - a combination minstrel, burlesque and variety troupe - play at The Grand Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The musical comedy The Billionaire, with music by Gustav Kerker and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, closes at Daly's Theatre, New York City, USA.Columbia Records field recording unit is in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for the fourth of fifteen days of recording local black artists including Robert Hicks, known as Barbecue Bob.
Texan singer Jules Verne Allen records Cowboy's Love Song for Victor Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. The song will achieve greater popularity when it is re-named Red River Valley.
Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra record Serenade To Nobody In Particular for Decca Records in the USA.
Horace Heidt And His Orchestra are playing at The Biltmore Hotel, New York City, USA.
Popular singer Jan Peerce sings You're Precious To Me and other songs on radio show The Chevrolet Hour in the USA.
Charlie McCoy is born in Oak Hill, West Virginia. He will become a revered country music harmonica virtuoso, and will contribute his talents on several instruments to Bob Dylan albums including Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde.
The Oscar Rabin Band is reported to have left Rex Records and signed a new contract with Decca Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Chuck Portz is born in Santa Monica, California, USA. He will find fame as the original bass guitarist with The Turtles.
The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the twenty-ninth night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Hank Williams And The Drifting Cowboys play at The Community Center in Centralia, Illinois, USA.
Gene McDaniels plays the final night in a two week season at The Arctic Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Highly-respected cornettist and recording artist Richard Brunies dies in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, on The Swinging Blue Genes' Guest Night. (The Swinging Blue Genes will find international success after changing their name to The Swinging Blue Jeans.)
Bobby Vee with The
Johnny Mann Singers records the Gerry
Goffin-Carole
King composition Go Away Little
Girl in the USA.
Marty Robbins headlines KRAK's third country music spectacular inMemorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, USA.
The Rolling Stones spend the fourteenth of seventeen days of recording at Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK.
Sonny Bono of Sonny And Cher writes in his diary, "Cher gets scared unless she understands my thinking completely. I know she was constantly disappointed most of her youth, and it's hard for her to understand that I'm not the way she's been brought up all her life. We have the fame and the greatness now. I must build a foundation so what we have will be strong."
The Youngbloods play the second of three nights at The Family Dog, 660 The Great Highway, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen and Jeffery Cain.
The Steve Miller Band, Country Joe And The Fish and Hamilton Face play the second of two nights at The Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York State, USA.
The day after they are married, Eric Clapton brings Pattie Boyd on stage during his show in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and sings Wonderful Tonight to her.
When Motorhead play at Queen's Hall, Leeds, England, UK, Europe, the show is recorded and parts of it will appear on the live album No Sleep Until Hammersmith.
Elton John completes recording of his next single, Little Jeannie, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes and drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine and carrying a concealed weapon, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Culture Club is greeted at Montreal Airport by 2,500 fans when they arrive in Quebec, Canada, for the North American leg of their A Kiss Across the Ocean tour.
The Morriss ey Mullen Band plays at The Half Moon, Putney, London, England, UK, Europe.
Martina McBride, Trace Adkins and Sarah Buxton perform at the NIU Convocation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The 6th Annual Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala is held in the George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada. Rush and Robert Charlebois are among those honoured.
Rapper Flesh-N-Bone [real name Stanley Howse] of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is arrested during a gig at The House of Blues, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, because of outstanding warrants.
On their Final Frontier World Tour, Iron Maiden play at the HSBC Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America. The show had been scheduled for the night before but when a crowd surge destroyed a safety barrier, the show had to be postponed.
Legendary bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs dies in hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, aged 88, of natural causes.
On her Red Tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of three nights at The Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA. Her support acts are Ed Sheeran and Florida Georgia Line.
Funeral For A Friend play at The New Roadmender, Northampton, UK, with Vales and Employed To Serve.
Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at Union Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.On his 44-show Boy Meets World tour Drake plays the first of two nights at Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, supported by dvsn and Giggs.
On their The M A N I A tour, Fall Out Boy play at Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe, supported by Against The Current and MAX.1900 |
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