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The Three Flames are playing during a five year engagement at The Bon Soir, New York City, USA.
Multi-instrumentalist and record producer Maartin Alcock is born in Middleton, Greater Manchester, UK. He is best-known as a member of the folk group Fairport Convention.
Poor Boy, from Elvis Presley's EP Love Me Tender, enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No24 during a three-week run.
Ted Heath And His Music play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
The short animated film, Three Little Bops, is released in the USA, featuring a soundtrack performed by a jazz group headed by Shorty Rogers, and narration by Stan Freberg. The three little bops by PANZERDRAKO
Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell reaches No1 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a run of 22 weeks on the chart.
Poor Boy, from Elvis Presley's EP Love Me Tender, enters the Billboard US Best-Selling Singles chart, where it will peak at No24 during a three-week run.
The Frank Wess Quintet records Baubles Bangles And Beads, Blues For Playmates, Woolafun's Lament, Monday Stroll and Pin Up, for Savoy Records in New York City, USA.
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Jackson Sextet records Ignunt Oil, Blues At Twilight, Sermonette and The Spirit-Feel for Atlantic
Records in Coastal Studios, New York City, USA.
The Hedley Ward Trio begins a ten-week series of live radio appearances on the BBC Light Programme Show, Calling All Stars, in London, UK.
Clyde McPhatter, Mickey And Sylvia, The Channels, The Heartbeats, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Jesse Belvin, The Teenchords and Sil Austin play the second night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell reaches No1 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a run of 22 weeks on the chart.
Jazz pianist, composer and recording artist Myra Melford is born in Glencoe, Illinois, USA. (1957)yrong>
Vincent Calloway of the r'n'b band Calloway, best-remembered for their 1990 hit single, I Wanna Be Rich, is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Singing The Blues reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. This position is achieved by amalgamating sales of two versions of the song, one by Guy Mitchell and the other by Tommy Steele.
The musical comedy Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday with music by Jule Styne, plays at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. The show will run on Broadway for a total of 924 performances.