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A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.
Actress and singer Miss Fay Templeton is starring in musical comedy The Runaways at The Casino Theatre, New York City, USA.
Sweet blues/r'n'b vocalist/pianist 
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1915, aka The Blue Follies, is playing at The New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 104 performances. Jake Porter is born in Oakland, California, USA. In a long, varied and venerable career, he will play cornet and trumpet for Lionel Hampton, Slim Gaillard and Big Joe Turner. He will also run his own record label, Combo, and discover Johnny 'Guitar' Watson.
The musical comedy The Maid Of The Mountains, with music by Harold Fraser-Simpson and J.W. Tate, is playing at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 1352 performances.
Monchito And His Orchestra are appearing nightly at The Colony Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with Dick Cisne's Band and The La Bomba Dancers.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, continue their fourteen–week engagement at The Astor Hotel, New York City, USA.David Peel is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. He will become a mainstay of the New York City folk scene, gaining some notoriety as an outspoken proponent of the use of marijuana. He will also become a good friend of John Lennon of The Beatles.
The musical comedy Wish You Were Here, is presented at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 598 performances.
Joe Turner is playing during three weeks at The Dew Drop Inn, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Carl Story And His Rambling Mountaineers Quartet record their version of The Louvin Brothers' song Are You Afraid To Die for Mercury Records in Castle Studio, The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. At the same session they also record My Lord's Gonna Lead Me Out and Are You Walking And Talking With The Lord.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter's spectacular Wild West Rodeo show at Harringay Arena, London, England, UK, is broadcast on BBC-tv. The show also features The Rio Grande Singers, jack Fallon And His Sons Of The Saddle Band and Bobby Howell and his Orchestra.
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra are playing at The Beach Walk, Edgewater Beach, Chicago, Illinois, USA, as the star attraction in a revue featuring Frances Irvin, Sam Donahue, The Beachcombers, Charlie Shavers, Lewis And Van and Marv Hudson.Time magazine runs a
feature about the success of a small jazz club, The
Blackhawk, on the corner of Turk and Hyde Streets in San Francisco, California, USA. The article
declares it to be "the club musicians like best" and a launch pad
for jazz stars including Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan.
Judy Garland records I Happen To Like New York, Swanee, Why Was I Born? and You'll Never Walk Alone, for Capitol Records, in London, UK.
The teen-oriented movie, Teen-Age Millionaire, featuring Chubby Checker, Dion, Marv Johnson, Bill Black's Combo, Jimmy Clanton, Vicki Spencer and Jack Larson, has its premiere in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, prior to opening in 18,000 theatres worldwide.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming for his latest movie, Follow That Dream, in Crystal River, Florida, USA.
Elvis Presley comes to the end of filming studio-based scenes for his seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
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The Righteous Brothers are playing during a month-long engagement at The Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Two pioneering San Francisco hippy bands, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead, play the fourth of six nights at the O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Perishers and Gordon Smith play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, with DJ Kazoon.
The Nazz play the last of three nights at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachsuetts, USA, supported by Kaleidoscope.Rub It In by Billy Crash Craddock is at No1 in the Billboard Country Singles Chart in the USA.
Born With A Smile On My Face by Stephanie De Sykes peaks at No2 in the UK singles chart. The song is written by Devizes-born Simon May.
On their Hide Your Sheep Tour [aka the K.A.T.N. (Kicking Ass and Taking Names tour) Tour], Van Halen play at Rockford Metro Centre, Rockford, Illinois, USA, supported by After The Fire.
Positive Noise, Sunset Gun, H2o, One O'Clock Gang, Sideway Look and M74 play a Live Aid benefit show at Castle Milk Community Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers release a live double-LP, Live In Hyde Park, recorded during their three shows at Hyde Park, London, England, UK, during June 2004.
On her 
Buckingham Palace is included in a list of the most significant locations in the history of British jazz. The palace qualifies because it hosted the first jazz performance before a head of state - a show by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band during their British visit after the first world war. Also on the list are Ronnie Scott's Club, Hammersmith Palais and Club Eleven.Joan As Policewoman plays during The Meltdown Festival at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK.
On her The Mrs Carter Show World Tour Beyonce plays the first of three nights at The Barclays Center, New York City, USA.
On their The John Butler Trio releases a new single, Home, which is the title track from their upcoming album.
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