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The Four Musical Colbys, Fred Niblo, The Holloway Trio, The Nichols Sisters, Rose Coghlan and others play at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
A production of the "musical extravaganza" The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with music by Paul Tietjens and A.B. Sloane, plays at The Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 205 performances.
Little Sammy Hopkins is born in Plaquemine Parish, Louisiana, USA. He will become a well-regarded jazz-blues pianist, often recorded with Kid Howard, and associated with Fats Domino.
The musical show Evergreen, starring
Jessie
Matthews, with songs by Rodgers And Hart, opens at The Adelphi
Theatre, London, UK, where it will run for 254 performances.
Buddy Featherstonhaugh And The Radio Rhythm Club Sextet, with Vic Lewis on vocals, record Jamboree Jive and Low Down Empty Railway Station Blues, for HMV Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Mickey Thomas, who will one day replace Grace Slick as vocalist in San Francisco band Jefferson Starship, is born in Cairo, Georgia, USA.
Orrin Tucker And His Orchestra play during a month at The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical comedy movie Rich, Young And Pretty, starring Jane Powell, Vic Damone and Wendell Corey, opens at cinemas in Sweden, Europe.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
Roy Brown And His Mighty Mighty Men play at The Community Center, Gadsden, Alabama, USA.
Ernest Kador releases a new single, Eternity, on Specialty Records in the USA. He will find success after a name change to Ernie K-Doe.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Town Hall, Middlesbrough, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The musical
Do-Re-Mi, starring Max Bygraves, with music by Jule Styne, is playing at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, England, Europe, during a run of 169 performances.
The stage musical
Barbra Streisand is playing during a one-month engagement at The Blue Angel, New York City, USA.
Claude Gray is playing at the recently-opened Loon Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter, with The Ralph Carmichael Orchestra augmented by a marimba band, records Border Affair for Capitol Records in Mexico City, Mexico. 1962)
When Bob Dylan visits his friend Izzy Young at The Folklore Center, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, they discuss Dylan's frustration with his recent attempts to record the song Mixed Up Confusion.
Billy Eckstine is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
The Fall 1963
Paul Simon plays at The Town Hall, High Wycombe, England, UK, Europe, supported by The 3 City 4, John Renbourn, Piers Hayman and Peter Cox. The show marks the first anniversary of The Trapdoor Folk Club.
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play at the opening of a new music club, Mr. McCoy's, in Middlesbrough, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Crawdaddies.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
Janis Joplin And The Kozmic Blues Band are awarded a gold disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. for the album I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again, Mama.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
The musical Marilyn : An American Fable, closes at The Minskoff Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of just 17 performances.
Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Blancmange.
Paul Young is playing during six nights at
Steppenwolf play at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio, USA, with The Guess Who.
John Kay And
Brian May of Queen reveals on a UK tv breakfast show that Freddie Mercury knew he had AIDS for five years before his death.
Michael Jackson limps into a Santa Maria, California, USA, court with a bandaged and swollen foot - said to have been caused by a spider bite - to testify in an ongoing lawsuit claiming that he failed to carry out two millennium concerts for which he had been contracted, one in Sydney, Australia, Oceania, and one in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
On their Ending On A High Note Tour, A-ha play the second of three nights at The Spektrum, Oslo, Norway, Europe.
On their Closer To The Edge tour, 30 Seconds To Mars play at Plania Stadion, Schladming, Austria, Europe.
On their Made In Germany tour, Rammstein play the first of three nights at The ISS Dome, Dusseldorf, Germany, Europe.
Rosco Levee And The Southern Slide release the album Final Approach To Home in the UK.
To compensate for having missed a performance there the previous night, Mariah Carey does a live set at The Rockefeller Centre in New York City, USA. her performance is widely criticised for being very poor.
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