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The musical comedy Pretty Baby, starring Jimmie Hodges, opens at The Crescent Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Harold Miller And His Orchestra Of Eight Colored Musical Rascals play for a dance at Davis Academy, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
Russ Columbo and Frances Faye play the last of seven nights at The Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra begin a week at The Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, USA.
The musical Something For The Boys, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, opens at The Alvin Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for one year, notching up 422 performances. The show includes the song Hey, Good Lookin' which will 'inspire' Hank Williams to write his song Hey Good Lookin' in 1951, with remarkably similar words and melody.
The Three Peppers play the third night of two weeks of shows at Marty Bohn's Nut Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Country singer Elton Britt comes to the end of an engagement at The Roosevelt Hotel, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the 100 best-selling singles in the USA is I Gotta Have My Baby Back by Ella Fitzgerald, entering at No35.
Exotica vocalist Yma Sumac is appearing during a four-week engagement at The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Muddy Waters' and Willie Dixon record their composition Hoochie Coochie Man for Chess Records, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hoochie Coochie Man will directly inspire Bo Diddley to write and record I'm A Man (1955), which will in its turn, inspire Waters to compose and record Manish Boy (aka Mannish Boy) (1955).
The Three Flames are playing during a five year engagement at The Bon Soir, New York City, USA.BBC TV rock show The Six Five Special expands into a live touring show, and plays its very first concert in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Tonight's cast includes Wee Willie Harris; Don Lang and The Frantic Five; Rosemary Squires; Jimmy Jackson; Carl Barriteau; Kenny Baker and his Half Dozen; The Blue Star Skiffle Group; Joe 'Mr Piano' Henderson.
Gene Vincent, supported by Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, plays at The Granada, Harrow, UK.
Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, later to become The Bee Gees, come to the end of two weeks of appearances in a pantomime, Jack And The Beanstalk, at the Rialto Theatre, Sydney,Australia.The Beatles play at The Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool, UK, and also at Lathom Hall, Seaforth, Liverpool.
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Cannonball Adderley is playing during a two-week engagement at The Village Vanguard, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.The Jimmy Heath Sextet records The More I See You and Make Someone Happy for Riverside Records in New York City, USA.
Paul Anka records Diana, It Doesn't Matter Any More and other tracks for RCA Records in New York City, USA.
Ethel Ennis is playing during two weeks at The Stater Brothers, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Gary Farr And The T-Bones and Davie Bowie And The Lower Third play at The Marquee Club, London, England, UK, Europe. Davie will in due course change his name to David Bowie.
The live album Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds is released in the UK by Fontana Records. It had been recorded over two years earlier at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK, Europe, on December 8, 1963.
The first episode of the Elvis Costello And The Attractions play at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Jerry Dammers, leader of Special AKA, is fined £30 at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in London, England, UK, Europe, for possession of cannabis.
Prince's album Purple Rain is confirmed as America's biggest seller since Thriller by Michael
Jackson.
The John Dankworth Big Band is playing during six nights at Ronnie SCott's Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.Queens Of The Stone Age play at Les Eurockéenes Festival Grounds, Belfort, France, Europe.
Music legend Quincy Jones urges U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to create a ministry of culture, insisting that it is embarrassing that the government has no ambassador for the arts.It is announced that the number of rock songs in the top 100 UK singles of 2010 was just 3, rock's lowest tally in 50 years. Journey's Don't Stop Believin' held the highest position for a rock track at No25. Rock's miserable 3% share was significantly less than hip hop / R'n'B with 47%, pop with 40% and dance with 10%.
A new tv commercial for price comparison site Moneysupermarket.com, featuring Irish pop duo Jedward, is first shown on ITV1 in the UK.
Beyonce gives birth to a baby girl, Blue Ivy Carter, in an executive suite at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, USA. Beyonce's husband Jay-Z is present at the birth.
The NYJO [National Youth Jazz Orchestra] plays at The Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire, UK.
Justin Bieber is expelled from the ancient Mayan ruins at Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, North America, after he ignores security guards who warn him not to climb on the ruins, because it is forbidden. Police are called to the scene, but things have calmed down by the time they arrive.
Billy Club Sandwich, Blistered, Faze, Gag, Gatecreeper, Indecision, King Nine, Merauder, SPiNE and Sect play on the first day of the FYA Fest, The Orpheum, Ybor City, Florida, USA.
At the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, California, USA, Mariah Carey accidentally sits down in the seat reserved for Meryl Streep. Fortunately, the faux pas is quickly resolved.
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