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The University Instrumental Clubs at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, hold their mid-winter trials at the Music Building. Musicians are tested for four clubs - the Banjo Club, Mandolin Club, Vocal Club and Specialty Division. Instruments eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Club the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol. For the Specialty Division, unusual instruments including xylophone, accordion, Hawaian guitar and musical saw are considered.
Neal Cassady is born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He will become an influential figure in the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, often associated with The Merry Pranksters and The Grateful Dead.
Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record Marianne in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Ambrose And his Orchestra, record A Little Kiss Each Morning and Body And Soul, in Chelsea, London, UK, for Decca Records.
Chick Webb And His Orchestra, with Ella Fitzgerald on vocals, play the second night of a lengthy engagement at the Flamingo Room in Levaggi's Restaurant, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Playing in the restaurant's basement are The Ink Spots.
Edward Ray Sharpe is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He will find success as Ray Sharpe, an R'n'B and rockabilly singer, guitarist and songwriter. Many of his recordings, including his best-known, Linda Lu, are sometimes classed as rockabilly. One record producer described Sharpe as "the greatest white-sounding black dude ever".
Bessie White is born in New Bern, North Carolina, USA. She will find success as soul vocalist Bessie Banks, best known for her original 1964 recording of Go Now, which will be successfully covered in the same year by UK band The Moody Blues.
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.
Having been forced out of The Copley Square Hotel some months earlier, jazz pianist and music entrepreneur George Wein re-opens his Storyville Club in The Hotel Buckminster, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Blues and jazz pianist Amos Milburn plays the first of eight nights at The Celebrity Club, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
The Betty McGuire group is playing during six weeks at The Prince George, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Sonny Boy Williamson II records Fattening Frogs For Snakes, Hurts Me So Much, Like Wolf, This Is My Apartment and I Don't Know for Checker Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Teen Angel by Mark Dinning hits No1 in the Top 40 singles chart in the USA as compiled by Billboard magazine.
Luisillo And His Spanish Dance Theatre, a 28-piece troupe, provide music and dance billed as "The Greatest Show Ever Brought To Town" during a week of shows at Sky, Singapore, Asia.
Mel Torme records Cast Your Fate To The Wind, The Gift, My Gal’s Back In Town and Gravy Waltz for Atlantic Records at United Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is playing during four weeks at The Hungry i, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill is Vicki Frazer.The Squires, featuring lead guitarist Neil Young, play at the Fourth Dimension, Winnipeg, Canada.
Don Ellis (trumpet) Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone) Benny Golson (tenor saxophone) Richard Davis (bass) Joe Cocuzzo (drums) Gunther Schuller (composer, conductor) Leonard Bernstein (director, narrator) Nat Hentoff (author) and The New York Philharmonic Orchestra take part in the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concert at Philharmonic Hall, The Lincoln Center, New York City, USA.
Because of his on-stage trouser-splitting antics, singer P.J. Proby is banned from ABC-tv show Shindig! in the USA. 
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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.The Jazz Communicators (saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Herbie Lewis, and drummer Louis Hayes) are playing during a fifteen night booking at The Both/And Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
John Cale (viola) and Tony Conrad (violin) record A Midnight Rain Of Green Wrens At The World's Tallest Building, in New York City, USA. Cale is a member of The Velvet Underground.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Municipal Auditorium, Zanesville, Ohio, USA.
Tjinder Singh is born in New Cross, Wolverhampton, England, UK, Europe. He will find success as the founder of Cornershop.
The single Woman, Woman, by Gary Puckett And The Union Gap is awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA
The 
Phluph have a recording session for Verve Records in New York City, USA, during which they record Girl In Tears, Elliptical Machine, Lovely Lady, Death Of A Nation, Love Eyes and the Bob Dylan composition, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry.The Bob Dylan documentary Eat The Document, based largely around his 1966 UK tour, is shown at the Academy of Music, New York City.
During their first US tour, The Clash play an unscheduled benefit at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, to raise funds for the Geary Temple.
Duran Duran's Sing Blue Silver tour plays at the Activity Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
The Spice Girls appear in the High Court, London, UK, where they are being sued by Italian motor scooter manufacturers Aprilia. The company had signed a £500,000 marketing deal with the band to make scooters bearing their five-girl silhouette logo, before Geri Halliwell left. The logos were now rendered obsolete, damaging sales prospects.
After a month in hospital, Keith Knudsen, drummer of the Doobie Brothers, dies aged 56 of pneumonia at Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital, California, USA.
Legendary jazz-soul organist Jimmy Smith dies of natural causes at home in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, aged 79.
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On their Singing For Strangers tour, folk-pop duo Hudson Taylor play at The Library At The Institute, Birmingham, UK.
Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding reaches No1 in the Official UK Singles Chart. the track was streamed over 1.46m times in this week, and sold over 172,000 copies.
Agarrate Catalina, Andando Descalzo, Arsénica, Babasónicos, Bersuit Vergarabat, Catupecu Machu, Cielo Razzo, Científicos del Palo, El Bordo, Jóvenes Pordioseros, La Condena de Caín, La Mocosa, La Que Faltaba, La Triple Nelson, Las Pelotas, Los Caligaris, Los Gardelitos, Massacre, Nagual, No Te Va Gustar, Villanos and Zero Kill play on the last day of the three-day long Cosquin Rock Festival 2016, in Aeródromo Santa María de Punilla, Santa María, Argentina, South America.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the ninth of fifteen shows at The London Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe.1926 |
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