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Little Egypt causes a sensation when she dances at The World's Columbian Exposition for Chicago Day, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Billed as "The Bewitching Bellyrina", her real name was Fahreda Mahzar Spyropoulos and she became "a pioneer of burlesque", doing a dance which came to be known as the hoochie-kootchie. She also provided the inspiration for The Coasters 1961 hit Little Egypt.
The musical comedy The Maid Of The Mountains, with music by Harold Fraser-Simpson and J.W. Tate, is playing at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 1352 performances.Blues-jazz vocalist Margaret Webster records You've Got To Give Me Some, for Okeh Records in New York City, USA, with Charlie Green on trumpet, Clarence Williams on piano and Floyd Casey on washboard.
Jimmie Long and Gene Autry, with two Hawaiian guitars, record My Dreaming of You and My Alabama for Victor Records. This is Autry's first recording, but he will go on to become America's most famous singing cowboy.
Louisiana cajun band Les Breaux Freres record La Valse Des Yeux Bleu and Home Sweet
Home for Vocalion
Records in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Generators at Boulder Dam, later re-named The Hoover Dam, on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada in the USA, begin generating electricity from the Colorado River and transmitting it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Bob Mould of Sugar will be inspired to write his song Hoover Dam, and in 2008 Hugh Cornwell will release an album entitled Hooverdam.
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall is born in Paris, France, Europe. She will enjoy huge success as a 'Ye-ye' style pop singer and will win the Eurovision Song Contest, representing Luxembourg, in 1965..
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.
The "Fabulous all-girl revue" Paris In Chicago is playing at Silver Frolics, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Gigi Gryce And His Orchestra record Bum's Rush and Quickstep for Disques Vogue in Paris, France.
RCA recording duo The Bell Sisters are in Bakersfield, California, USA, making two television appearances and one radio promotion for the film Those Redheads from Seattle, in which they appear. The film is said to be the first 3-D musical.
With Oop Shoop, Shirley Gunter and The Queens become the first black all-female R'n'B group to enter the Billboard US r'n'b singles chart. On the same day, George A. Miller, president of America's Music Operators of America, publicly denounces the sexual innuendoes contained in some R&B records, such as Annie Had A Baby by Hank Ballard And The Midniters.
Rockabilly vocalist Wanda
Jackson plays the fourth night of two weeks at The Golden
Nugget Casino, Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Carol Channing with The Bennetts and Ben Arden And His Orchestra are playing at The Empire Room of The Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
George Shearing spends the first of two days recording with Wes Montgomery at United Recording studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, for the album George Shearing With The Montgomery Brothers.
The Wilburn Brothers record an overdub session in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The new No1 single in the USA, according to Billboard magazine, is Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles.
Buddy Britain and the Regents, The Big Three, The Undertakers and The Strangers play an evening session at The Cavern, Liverpool, UK.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Tony Martin is playing during ten days at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
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, Hastings, England, UK, Europe.
Having completed a tour of Israel, The Hollies, Shane Fenton And The Fentones, Frank Kelly And The Hunters and The Marauders play at The Majestic Ballroom, Bradford, England, UK, Europe.
The Supremes and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers appear on tv pop show Ready, Steady, Go!, in London, UK.
The Searchers, Anita Harris and Jackie Lee appear on UK tv pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars.
The Cowsills are playing during five days on the Mobil Stage at The State Fair Of Texas, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA.The Incredible String Band begin a British tour at The Town Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
David Bowie appears on BBC-tv music chart show Top Of The Pops, performing Space Oddity at Lime Grove Studios, West London, England, UK, Europe. Other acts on the show include Lou Christie, Esther Ofarim and The Temptations.A bomb scare delays the start of a concert by The Clash, in Club 700, Stora Hotellet, Oreboro, Sweden.
Jacques Brel, whose songs were covered by David Bowie, Scott Walker and Marc Almond, dies of lung cancer. Brel was known as 'the Belgian Bob Dylan'.
To wish John Lennon a happy 40th birthday, his wife Yoko Ono hires an aeroplane to write Happy Birthday in the sky above their home in The Dakota Building, New York City, USA.
The Bangles play the first of two nights at Scorgies, Rochester, New York State, USA, supported by Swingset.
The film North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The movie features several Bob Dylan songs, including the newly-recorded Tell 'Ol Bill.
On their Little Lion Man by Mumford And Sons reaches No1 in the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the USA.
Suzanne Vega plays the second and third of four 25th Anniversary concerts in which she performs her second LP, Solitude Standing, in its entirety. These two concerts are held at The City Winery, Hudson Square, New York City, USA.
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