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The Blondinette Melodists perform live for the last of three nights at St. George's Hall, Langham Place, London, England.Musical comedy The Casino Girl is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 105 performances.
Singer Maud Beall Price, "bizarre vocalists" Les Trois Dumonds and Piccolo's Royal Lilliputians are among the entertainments on offer at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Musical revue The Show Is On, starring Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, plays at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 236 performances.Popular vocalist Mindy Carson plays the seventh night of a two-week season at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires record songs including Music! Music! Music!, Candy And Cake, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes and Dear Old Girl at the Convention of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, in the Chicago Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The songs are transmitted as part of the radio programme Bing Crosby's All Star Chesterfield Show.
Billy May opens his first trans-continental tour with a show at The Rendezvous Ballroom,Balboa Beach, California, USA,Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the fifth night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
The teen-oriented movie Shake, Rattle And Rock!, featuring performances by Fats Domino, Joe Turner, Choker Campbell, Tommy Charles and Anita Ray, is released to cinemas in Denmark, Europe.Paul Anka plays the sixth night of two weeks at The Chase Hotel, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the second night in a week of shows at The Empire, Glasgow, Scotland.
Patsy Montana is playing during a four-week stretch at Harrah's Club, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.The Chordettes are playing during two-weeks of shows at Beverly Hills Country Club, Southgate, Kentucky, USA.
The Paris Sisters perform Be My Boy on tv show American Bandstand, broadcast by WFIL tv in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.Big Brother And The Holding Company play the second of two nights at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA.
The single Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
As riots spread in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's Assassination, James Brown plays a concert at the Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which is broadcast live on tv, a strategy reckoned to have reduced the amount of rioting in that city.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band play the fourth of six nights at the Ice House, Glendale, California, USA.
The James Cotton Band plays the second of three nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.Manfred Mann Chapter Thee play the last of four nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Lovin' You by Minnie Riperton reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA. In the sixties Riperton had sung with the ground-breaking Chicago-based psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection, and her extraordinarily pure five-octave vocal range made her one of the most admired singers of her era.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.
Country and blues musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist Cliff Carlisle dies aged 79 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
The Police win the Best Group Video award at the American Video Awards for their hit single Every Breath You Take.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd plays in Utrecht, Netherlands, Europe, during his About Face tour.
Haze release the LP Cellar Replay on Gabadon Records in the UK.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that recent Paul McCartney concerts generated so much noise and disruption that major rock shows will no longer be allowed in Memorial Stadium at the University of California in Berkeley, California, USA.
On her Live At Last Tour, Anastacia plays the first of two nights at The Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany, Europe.
On their Final Frontier World Tour, Iron Maiden play in the parking lot at Expotrade Arena, Curitiba, Brazil, South America.
On her Set The World On Fire Tour, Alicia Keys plays at The Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
On their In A World Like This tour, The Backstreet Boys play at The Phones4U Arena, Manchester, England, UK.
On his The Cowboy Rides Away tour, 
Exhibitionism, a collection of rare and unseen memorabilia spanning the 50-year career of The Rolling Stones, opens at The Saatchi Gallery, London, England, UK, Europe. A plan for The Stones to perform live outside the gallery has been abandoned because, according to Stones' guitarist Keith Richards, residents of the upmarket Chelsea neighbourhood vetoed the proposal.
On the North American leg of their Decades World Tour Nightwish play at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
On her Here Come The Aliens tour, Kim Wilde plays at The Princess Theatre, Torquay, England, UK, Europe.On the European leg of their WorldWired tour, Metallica play at The Sports Arena, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, supported by Kvelertak.
Popular British vocalist Alesha Dixon publishes her first children's book, Lightning Girl, through Scholastic Books in the UK.
Joep Beving releases a new LP, Neil Young is obliged to pull out of inducting Pearl Jam into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, because of an undisclosed illness.
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