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The Bijou Musical Comedy Co. presents A Trip To Chinatown at The Bijou Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
George Chisholm, popular jazz trombonist and comedian, is born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.Little-known bluesman Big Road Webster Taylor [The Mississippi Mule Skinner] records World In A Jug Blues and Sunny Southern Blues for Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA, but neither track will be released.
Beggar's Holiday, with music by Duke Ellington, closes at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 111 performances.
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.Swiss jazz trumpeter Hazy Osterwald's Progressive Sextet records It Couldn't Happen Here, Boppin' At The Doge, Father And Sons and C'est Si Bon.
Gene Krupa plays the second of three nights at The Silhouette, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The highest new entry in the Billboard Best-Selling Pop Singles chart in the USA is A Guy Is A Guy by Doris Day on Columbia Records.
Cootie Williams And His Orchestra, with Larry Dale on guitar, records Block Rock and Rangoon, for RCA Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the second of six nights at The Hippodrome, Manchester, UK.
At Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, Elvis Presley records We'll Be Together for the soundtrack to his next movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!
At Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA, Elvis Presley records We'll Be Together for the soundtrack to his next movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!
Jan And Dean perform Linda on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Controversial stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce is injured when he falls, stark naked, forty feet from a window in the Swiss American Hotel, 534 Broadway, San Francisco, California, USA. Ambulance attendants tape his mouth shut after he shouts obscenities at them. The Great Society (with vocalist Grace Slick) will record the song Father Bruce about this incident, and other aspects of Bruce's outrageous life and acreer.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
Buffalo Springfield play at the Cal Poly Gym, Pomona, California, USA, supported by October County.
The Magnificent Men play at St. Francis College, Loretto, Pennsylvania, USA.
Traffic play the first of two nights at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
On their second Tour of North America, The Cream play at Hunter College, New York State, USA.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston."After dogged resistance to our authoritarian licensing laws, Middle Earth has finally closed," reports UK music magazine Top Pops.
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Mongo Santamaria plays during a week of shows at Red Foxx's Club, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA, with The Les McCann Trio.
The Allman Brothers Band play at Jacksonville Beach Coliseum, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, Florida.
Prince plays at The Keystone, Berkeley, California, USA.
The Grateful Dead play the third of four nights at The Rainbow Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Albion Band plays at Cricklade Theatre, Cricklade, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Branda Lee plays at The Hexagon, Reading, England, UK, Europe.Chelsea play at The Greyhound, Fulham, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Fields Of The Nephelim.
Cliff Richard and the cast of tv comedy show The Young Ones reach No1 in the UK singles chart with a charity-fundraising parody of Cliff's hit Living Doll.
As the prize in a competition, Crowded House play live in the basement of film student Grant Harvey's home in Calgary, Canada.
Don Helms, a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, attends/performs Smokey Mountain Steel Guitar Jamboree at Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Former Toad The Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips releases his third solo album, Winter Pays For Summer, on Lost Highway records in the USA.
On their On The Road Again tour, One Direction play the second of two nights at FNB Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa, supported by Johnny Apple.
On his Purpose tour, Justin Bieber plays at Praça da Apoteose , Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, South America.
The Tim O'Brien Band plays at Dakota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at The Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1902 |
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