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Doo-wop combo The Penguins have their first recording session for their new label, Mercury Records. They re-record four songs, Earth Angel, Ookey Ook, Love Will Make Your Mind Go Wild and Hey Senorita, previously recorded for Dootone Records.
A new $5m facility, The Veterans Memorial Auditorium, opens in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The first event held is the city's annual Policeman's Ball, attended by 7,000 people. In years to come, the Auditorium will become a major rock venue, notorious as the venue in which Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a dead bat.
Doo-wop combo The Penguins have their first recording session for their new label, Mercury Records. They re-record four songs, Earth Angel, Ookey Ook, Love Will Make Your Mind Go Wild and Hey Senorita, previously recorded for Dootone Records.
A new $5m facility, the Veterans Memorial Auditorium, opens in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The first event held is the city's annual Policeman's Ball, attended by 7,000 people. In years to come, the Auditorium will become a major rock venue, notorious as the venue in which Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a dead bat.
Ulysses Hicks of The Five Keys suffers a heart attack and dies immediately after tonight's performance as part of the The Top 10 R'n'B Show, with The Clovers, Faye Adams, The Charms, Joe Turner, The Moonglows, Lowell Fulson, The Paul Williams Orchestra, The Bill Doggett Trio, and The Spence Twins, at The Court Theater, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.