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Paul Clayton Worthington is born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. He will become prominent as folksinger and folklorist Paul Clayton during the 1950s and 1960s. It is said that Clayton inspired both the Bob Dylan song It's All Over Now Baby Blue and the Joni Mitchell song Blue.
Cab Calloway records the first million-selling jazz single - Minnie The Moocher - for Brunswick Records in New York City, USA. Minnie The Moocher is based on a 1927 song, Willie The Weeper by female impersonator Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, and will followed two years later by blues pioneer Lonnie Johnson's Winnie The Wailer.
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