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Hughey Emmett, Leonard And Leonard, Howard Chambers, The Rosseaus, Olivio and Avery And Hart are providing the entertainment every afternoon and evening at The Chutes, Fulton Street And Tenth Avenue, San Francisco, California, USA.
Edwin Arden And Company are presenting the popular opera Carmen at The Columbia Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Jack Del Rio is born in Agentina, South America. He will find success as a bandleader and Latin percussionist, working with Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, lalo Schifrin and others. He will also become the fourth husband of Peggy Lee.
William H. Donaldson, the man who founded America's music trade bible Billboard, dies.
The short musical film Caldonia, starring
Louis Jordan, Cab
Calloway, Doc
Cheatham, Milt Hinton and others opens in cinemas in the USA.
The Wynton Kelly Trio record Moonlight In Vermont for Blue Note Records at WOR Studios, New York City, USA. The track will appear on the album New Faces-New Sounds.
The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.
Ray Pearl And His Musical Gems are playing during a month at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The movie musical Strictly Dishonorable, starring Ezio Pinza and Janet Leigh, is released to cinemas in Finland, Europe.
The musical Love From Judy is playing at The Saville Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 594 performances. The cast includes Jean Carson (Judy), Linda Gray (Grace), Bill O'Connor (Jervis) and Adelaide Hall (Butterfly) and songs including I Never Dream When I'm Asleep, Dear Daddy Long-Legs, Here We Are and A Touch of Voodoo.Aretha Franklin makes her first recordings for Columbia Records in New York City, USA. Columbia's highly respected A and R head, John Hammond, says of her, "She is an untutored genius, the best voice I've heard since Billie Holiday".
Pat Boone plays during nine nights at Araneta Coliseum, The Philippines, Asia.
Warren Smith releases a new LP, The First Country Collection, on Liberty Records in the USA.
The Crickets record Right Or Wrong and You Can't Be In-Between, in Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, for Liberty Records.
The Top Five singles in the Lever Hit Parade in New Zealand, Oceania, on this date are as follows :1. Sukiyaki - Kyu Sakamoto
2. Easier Said Than Done - The Essex
3. (You're The) Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley
4. Atlantis - The Shadows
5. Surf City - Jan And Dean
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Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio-based scenes at MGM Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for his latest movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
As part of the Forest Hills Music Festival, Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba play the second of three nights at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York City, USA.
The Having crashed his motorcycle at the end of July, Bob Dylan is recuperating at the home of his doctor, Ed Thaler, in Middletown, New York State.
R'n'b and jazz guitarist George Benson begins recording his album The George Benson Cookbook with producer John Hammond.
Taste, with 
The Serendipity Singers are playing at The Embers, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
The Beatles are in Trident Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, overdubbing bass, vocals and orchestral parts for Hey Jude.
The Who play at The Electric Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA. On the same day, Pete Townshend writes the song Go To The Mirror, in the Holiday Inn, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA.
The Concert For Bangladesh takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, featuring George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Badfinger, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and others.
Ten Years After, supported by Mylon LeFevre and Holy Smoke, play an afternoon show at the Merriweather Post Pavillion, Columbia, Maryland, USA. Fans without tickets tear down the fences and set fire to the security shed.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.
Jean-Luc Ponty releases a new album, 
Fine Young Cannibals are awarded a double platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA for sales of the hit album The Raw And The Cooked.
Step By Step by New Kids On The Block is certified as a triple-platinum album by the R.I.A.A. in the USA. 
On their Hot In The Shade tour, Kiss play at Jacksonville Coliseum, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
A public memorial service for recently deceased singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley is held at St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn Heights, New York City, USA.
Richard Ogden, former manager of Paul McCartney, relocates his European artist management and live music business, Richard Ogden Management Ltd, from London, UK, to Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America.
Steven Tyler of 
On his Planningtrock and Light Asylum play during the Meltdown Festival at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK.
Real Estate play a brief set at Amoeba Records, San Francisco, California, USA, and later play a full set at The Fillmore.
DuelJewel play at Kraps Hall, Sapporo, Japan, Asia.
Duran Duran play the first of two nights at The Capitol theatre, Port Chester, New York State, USA.Eighteen months after beginning her legal suit, singer Kesha drops a Los Angeles, California, lawsuit alleging that her producer and label boos Dr Luke sexually and emotionally abused her. However, a similar case continues in New York City, USA.
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