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The Four Cohans, The Quaker City Quartette and Clayton White And Marie Stuart are playing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Millie Lindon records Smiles, The Rocking Chair and Say Goodbye Maisey for Zonophone Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Lloyd Grimes is born in Newport News, Virginia, USA. He will find success as jazz and r'n'b guitarist Tiny Grimes who, as well as pursuing a successful solo career, will play with Art Tatum, Jay McShann and Milt Buckner.
Music hall star George
Formby records With My Little
Ukelele In My Hand, for Decca Records in
London, UK.
Count Basie records one of his most celebrated tracks, One O'Clock Jump, in New York City, USA, for Decca Records. At the same session he also records John's Idea, Smarty and Listen My Children And You Shall Hear.
A flying bomb hits EMI's record manufacturing plant in Hayes, Middlesex, UK, Europe. Thirty-seven employees are killed and fifty-six injured when the bomb explodes.
Louis Armstrong plays during a record-breaking three weeks of shows at The Blue Note, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Sam Cooke's Wonderful World enters the UK singles chart, with a writer's credit shown as Barbara Campbell. Miss Campbell however, does not exist, and is the nom de plume of Cooke plus producer Lou Adler and trumpeter Herb Alpert working as a trio.
The Platters release a new single, I'll Never Smile Again, in the USA on Mercury Records. On the same day, the same song is released by The Wanderers on Cub Records.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
Bill Haley And His Comets play the third night of a three week season at the El Cortez Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Muriel Desclee de Maredsous is born in Belgium, Europe. Under the name Muriel
Dacqhe will enjoy a major hit single in France in 1986 with
Tropique.
Rick Nelson and Timi Yuro play the second of two nights at The Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
West Of The
Wall, a song about the Berlin Wall, by Toni
Fisher reaches No1 in the Australian Top Twenty singles chart.
Breaking
Up Is Hard To Do, by Neil Sedaka, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak
at No1 during a twelve-week run.
The George Lewis Band Of New Orleans records Careless Love, St. Louis Blues, Willie The Weeper, Burgundy Street Blues, Climax Rag and other songs for Atlantic Records in Preservation Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Elvis Presley records Viva Las Vegas, at MGM Sound Studios in Culver City, California, USA. Glen Campbell plays guitar on the session. The song, which will become the title track for Presley's next movie, is written by Doc Pomus and Mort Schuman.
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The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein gives the band's drummer Ringo Starr a pair of diamond cuff links for his birthday.
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane play at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
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.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play at the Circle Theater, San Carlos, California, USA. Later, they also play at The Fillmore in San Francisco).
Rosemary Clooney is playing during an engagement at Harold's Club, Reno, Nevada, USA. However, she is seriously dependent on pills and will walk out of the club before many days have passed. At some point in this residency, she will also drive her white Cadillac Eldorado up the wrong side of a winding, two-lane mountain road, hoping in her deteriorating mental state, to test God's love. If He lets her survive after courting death from Reno to Lake Tahoe, it will mean that He loves her. She survives.
In East Grinstead, Sussex, UK, coroner Dr. Angus Sommerville records a verdict of death by misadventure on The Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones. Although Jones' body contained significant quantities of drugs and alcohol, Dr Somerville concludes that the cause of death was drowning, but notes that, "For a man of his age, his heart was a bit larger than it should have been. It was fatty and flabby. His liver was twice the normal weight. It was in a state of fatty degeneration".
Led Zeppelin play the second of two nights at Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Doobie Brothers, New Riders Of The Purple Sage and Joe Walsh and Barnstorm play at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
Dead Or Alive play the second of two nights at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Pogues, Billy Bragg, Aztec Camera, Frank Chickens, Red Guitars, Poison Girls, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Boot-Hill Foot Tappers, Hank Wangford, Thomas Mapfumo, Terry And Gerry, The Beat Farmers and others play in the Jobs For A Change Festival, Battersea Park, London, England, UK, Europe.
Rapper Cam'ron is arrested in Harlem, New York City, USA, because of outstanding traffic tickets.
Eric Clapton plays in the Town Square, Lucca, Italy, Europe, during the Lucca Festival.
Prima Donna, is presented during an 18-day run at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, England, UK, Europe, during the Manchester International Festival.
Rufus Wainwright's first opera,
The last day of the four-day-long The Rock Werchter Festival in Werchter, Rotselaar, Belgium, Europe, features Depeche Mode, Bastille, HAIM, Jake Bugg and others.
Cloud Nothings play at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
On the European leg of their This House Is Not For Sale tour, Bon Jovi play at Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain, Europe.
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