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Harry Bryant's Burlesquers are playing during a week at The Empire Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 425 performances.
The musical comedy stage show Paris opens the Music
Box Theater on Broadway, New York
City, USA, where it will run for 195 performances with songs by
Cole Porter and E. Ray
Goetz. It stars celebrated French music hall star Irene Bordoni and
introduces the song Let's
Do It, Let's Fall in Love.
Paul Robeson records Work All De Summer and Dere's A Man Goin' Round Takin' Names, for HMV Records in London, UK.
Reese Francis Clifford III is born in Berwyn, Illinois, USA. He will find success in 1961, under the name Buzz Clifford, with the novelty hit single Baby Sittin' Boogie.
Robert Bell is born in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. He will find fame as Kool of 1970s disco sensations Kool And The Gang.
Hank Snow records The Gold Rush Is Over, Music Makin' Mama From Memphis, The Highest Bidder and Love's Game Of Let's Pretend in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The musical Madame Sherry is presented on radio variety show The Railroad Hour on NBC in the USA.
Singing cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans are starring in the annual Madison Square Garden Rodeo, New York City, USA.
The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.
Female rock'n'roller Alis Lesley plays during two weeks at Chez Emile, Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
Louis Armstrong and the All Stars record I Love Jazz, The Mardi-Gras March, Basin Street Blues and Otchi-tchor-ni-ya for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Popular saxophonists Tom Archia and Neal Greene, backed by Eddie Buster And His Combo, take part in a Sax-Battle at McKie's, 6325 Cottage Grove, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Chantels, The Bobbettes, Gladys Knight And The Pips and Big Maybelle play the first of six nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
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.
Judy Henske is playing during three weeks of gigs at The Gate Of Horn, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz singer Sylvia Syms is playing during two weeks at The Living Room, New York City, USA.
The Dillards are playing during three weeks at The Shadows, Washington DC, USA.
British pop idol Cliff Richard announces from Tel Aviv, Israel, where he is touring, that Bruce Welch (of backing group The Shadows] will choose his own replacement when he leaves the group.
Billy Fury, Joe Brown, The Karl Denver Trio, The Tornados, Marty Wilde, Daryl Quist, Dickie Pride, Larry Burns and The Ramblers play at The ABC, Southampton, England, UK, Europe.
Chubby Checker, Dee Dee Sharp, The Shirelles, The Checkerboard Band and others plays in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
A package tour featuring
Ketty Lester and Theodore Bikel are the musical guests on tonight's edition of The Steve Allen Playhouse on tv in the USA.
Elvis Presley continues with pre-production work for his eighteenth film, Tickle Me, at Allied Artists studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sons Of Adam are playing during a six-night residency at Gazzari's, 319 North La Cienega Boulevard, West Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA.
The
Matt Monro releases his latest single, Yesterday, in the UK on Parlophone Records. The song is written by Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
The Turtles play the second of two nights at The Third I, Redondo Beach, California, USA, supported by Buffalo Springfield.
Ramsey Lewis enters the Billboard US Top 40 Albums Chart with Wade In The Water, which will peak at No16 during a
thirteen-week run on the chart.
When Cream play at King's College, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Ginger Baker collapses after a twenty minute drum solo.
At the end of a Japanese tour, The Monkees play the second of two nights at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, Asia. This is also the last Monkees gig to feature all four original members of the band.
The Allman Brothers Band and Cowboy play the first of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, california, USA.
John Lennon, music publisher Morris Levy and Lennon's attorney Harold Seider meet for lunch at Club Cavaliero, 58th Street, New York City, USA, to discuss why Lennon had failed to record three songs owned by Levy on his recently released LP Walls And Bridges. Lennon explains to Levy that he had indeed recorded three Big Seven songs for what he thought would be his "next" LP, Rock'n'Roll, but that producer Phil Spector had disappeared with the tapes.
Grateful Dead leader Gerry Garcia's bluegrass band Old And In The Way is recorded live at The Boarding House in San Francisco, California, USA. Members include Peter Rowan and David Grisman, formerly of Boston band Earth Opera.
Jazz, blues and pop guitarist Oscar Moore, dies in Los Angeles, California, USA. In his career he had worked with Nat King Cole, The Three Blazers, Lionel Hampton, Art Tatum and others.
Uriah Heep are working on their sixteenth LP, Equator, at Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England, UK, Europe.
Peter Gene Hernandez is born in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He will find fame as Bruno Mars of songwriting and production trio The Smeezingtons, responsible for hits by Sugababes, Travie McCoy, B.o.B, Justin Bieber, Brandy, K'naan, Flo Rida, Kid Cudi and Cee Lo Green among others.
Reg King, singer and songwriter with British 60s mod band The Action, dies of cancer, aged 65.
On their Come Around Sundown tour, Kings Of Leon play at The John Labatt Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.
Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Smokey Robinson, Leona Lewis, Cee Lo Green, Alien Ant Farm, Ne-Yo, Craig David, Pixie Lott, Gladys Knight, JLS and others take part in Michael Forever, a Tribute Concert in memory of Michael Jackson at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales.
Panic! At The Disco release their fourth album, Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die, in the USA.
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