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Aaron Thibeaux Walker is born in Linden, Texas, USA. He will find fame as T-Bone Walker.
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Papa John Creach, fiddler with Jefferson Starship and their rootsier offshoot Hot Tuna, is born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

A new radio series Crazy People, begins on the BBC Home Srevice in the UK, featuring the comedy talents of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe plus The Ray Ellington Quartet, Max Geldray and The Stargazers. The show will later be re-named The Goon Show, and many of the songs specially written for the show (The Ying Tong Song, I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas etc) will become comedy classics.





James Brown plays the fourth night in a week at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by Pigmeat Markham, The Sensations and Yvonne Fair.


Julie London, with The Bobby Troup Quartet is recorded in a live concert at NHK Studio G in Tokyo, Japan, Asia.

The Dexter Gordon Quintet records Flick Of A Trick, Everybody's Somebody's Fool and other tracks for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

Percy Sledge reaches No1 in the USA with When A Man Loves A Woman on both the Billboard and the Cashbox singles charts.



Etta James, The Coasters, The Vibrations, Freddie Scott, The Jive Five and Jimmy Pelham are playing at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.


The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Allman Brothers Band calls it a day because the other members feel they can no longer share a stage with Greg Allman who recently testified in a drug case against the band's roadie Scooter Herring.


Minimalist composer, pianist, vocalist and dancer Julius Eastman dies aged 49 of cardiac arrest in Millard Fillmore Hospital in Buffalo, New York State, USA. An African-American, he was one of the first musicians to combine minimalist processes with elements of pop music, and would give his pieces provocatively socio-political titles, such as Evil Nigger and Gay Guerrilla.




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