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The Sonny Rollins Quartet records There's No Business Like Show Business, It's All Right With Me, and other material for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.
Nashville-based music business manager Eddie Crandall writes to Lubbock, Texas, USA, radio deejay Dave Stone : "I'm very confident I can do something as far as getting Buddy Holly a recording contract. It may not be a major, but even a small one would be beneficial to someone who is trying to get a break.. And he's got to start somewhere. Anyway, I'll see what I can do. Col Parker suggested I try and help Buddy as he's pretty well tied up. And with your friendship, I'll try my darndest to help him."
Jazz trombone virtuoso Albert Mangelsdorff plays at the Conference Centre, Heidelberg, Germany.
Chuck Berry plays the first of two nights at a private function in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Eartha Kitt records Just An Old-Fashioned Girl for RCA Victor in Hollywood, California, USA.
Eartha Kitt records Just An Old-Fashioned Girl for RCA Victor in Hollywood, California, USA.
Charlie "Cow Cow" Davenport, famed as a blues recording artist, pianist and vocalist, dies in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, aged 61.Charlie 'Cow Cow' Davenport, famed as a blues recording artist, pianist and vocalist, dies in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, aged 61.
Bill Haley and his Comets are offered a two-week engagment at Zardi's, Hollywood, California, USA, starting on January 6, 1956, at a rate of $5000 per week.
Nashville-based music business manager Eddie Crandall writes to Lubbock, Texas, USA, radio deejay Dave Stone : "I'm very confident I can do something as far as getting Buddy Holly a recording contract. It may not be a major, but even a small one would be beneficial to someone who is trying to get a break. And he's got to start somewhere. Anyway, I'll see what I can do. Col Parker suggested I try and help Buddy as he's pretty well tied up - And with your friendship, I'll try my darndest to help him."