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A new musical comedy, The Girl From Up There, is presented at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 96 performances.
The musical When Johnny Comes Marching Home is presented at The New York Theatre, on Broadway and 45th Street, New York City, USA, during a run of 71 performances.The Bohemian Burlesquers are appearing at The Lyceum Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Hanlon's Superba is presented at The Auditorium Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Jazz trumpeter Wendell Culley is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He will enjoy a successful career, playing and recording with Noble Sissle, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and others.
Piron's New Orleans Orchestra records Da Doodle Oom and West Indies Blues in New York City, USA, for Victor Records.
Art Landry and His Orchestra record Just Around The Corner [May Be Sunshine For You] for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
The Girl That I Marry, written by Irving Berlin, enters the British Sheet Music Chart, with notable versions recorded by Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes and Howard Keel. It will peak at No9.
Sonny Thompson And His Orchestra are playing during a string of dates in Denver, Colorado, USA.Patsy Cline records I'm Moving Along, I'm Blue Again and Love, Love, Love Me Honey Do, for Four Star Records at Bradley Film and Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Gene Vincent, supported by Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, plays at the Granada, Dartford, UK.
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.
The Horace Silver Quintet is playing during a two-week engagement at The Jazz Gallery, New York City, USA.
Sonny
James records No Lana Cas, The Day's Not Over Yet and Time's
Running Backwards For Me at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The session is produced by Chet Atkins, with notable players
including Floyd Cramer on piano and Grady Martin on guitar.
Brenda Lee signs a new five-year contract with MGM Records which guarantees her minimum earnings of $100,000 per year.
Elvis Presley spends his 28th birthday with his girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu, in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She wil return to her home in Germany, Europe, three days later, despite Elvis trying to convince her parents to extend her visit.
The Beatles appear live on the Scottish Television tv show Roundup, in the Theatre Royal, Hope Street, Glasgow, Scotland.
Jazz and r'n'b organist Brother Jack McDuff records Somethin' Slick for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell records Kenny's Sound, Saturday Night Blues, Wavy Gravy and other tracks for his Blue Note Records album Midnight Blue at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Guitar player, singer, songwriter and arranger Leonid Fiodorov is born in Leningrad, Russia, Europe.
The Group Scene 64 tour continues at The Granada, Maidstone, UK, with The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, Swinging Blue Jeans, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates and Marty Wilde.
Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, The Rockin' Berries, Julie Grant and Duffy Power play at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK.
The Dave Clark Five release a new single, Everybody Knows, in the UK on EMI Records. The song has already been a hit in the USA.
Kathy Keegan is playing during four weeks at The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
We Can Work It Out becomes The Beatles first Billboard No1 single in the USA of their most astonishing year -1966.
Elvis Presley celebrates his 31st birthday with a private screening of the film It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at The Memphian Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
At The Mojo Club, Sheffield, England, UK, The Jimi Hendrix Experience play, billed as The New Weirdo Trio Jimi Hendrick's Experience.
Jazz vocalist Bobbe Norris is playing during two weeks at The Living Room, New York City, USA.
Jerry Reed, with Chet Atkins as producer, records his version of the Ray Charles song Hallelujah I Love Her So in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue, South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session includes Wayne Moss [gtr], Junior Huskey [bass] and Jerry Carrigan [drums].
Pink Floyd are rehearsing at The Rolling Stones' rehearsal facility, a disused Victorian warehouse at 47, Bermondsey Street, South London, England, UK. They are working on tracks which will, in due course, evolve into their classic album Dark Side Of The Moon.
B.B. King plays at The Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Fort Myers, Florida, USA.
When Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers arrives to watch the Lakers vs Memphis Grizzlies game at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, he is seen to be on crutches, with his right foot braced in a walking boot. It transpires he has had surgery on his right foot to remove a crushed sesamoid bone and correct a detached flexor tendon.
Samong "Avaejee" Traisattha, vocalist for the black metal band Surrender of Divinity, is stabbed to death in his home in Bagkok, Thailand, Asia. Subsequently, a Facebook user takes credit for the slaying, posting a photo of Samong
Singer-songwriter Ben Bedford spends the last of five days recording his fourth album, The Pilot And The Flying Machine, in Douglas Avenue United Methodist Church, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
On their No Cross No Crown tour, Corrosion of Conformity play at Les Foufounes Électriques, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
On their European Tour 2018, 
On his World Tour 2018, Eric Clapton plays at G Live, Guildford, England, UK, Europe.1901 |
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