10th March

A "continuous Vaudeville" show at The Columbia Theater, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, features The Four Musical Colbys, Gracie Emmett And Co, Hughes And Anger, Rossley And Lee, Jefferson Caspers, Radford And Winchester, Hayes And Healy and others.

Robies' Knickerbockers are appearing during a week of shows at The Empire Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Leon Bismark Beiderbecke is born in Davenport, Iowa, USA. He will find success as pioneering white jazz cornet virtuoso Bix Biederbecke.

Guitarist Leon Rhodes is born in Dallas, Texas, USA. He will achieve success as the longtime lead guitarist with Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, but will also play on hits by Waylon Jennings, Moe Bandy and George Strait.

Singing trio The Gumm Sisters play the second of seven nights at the Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will find stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.

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.

Smooth balladeer Jerry Wayne plays at Ciro's, Hollywood, California, USA, with Nappy Lamare's Dixieland band and The Dick Stabile Orchestra.

I Said My Pajamas [And Put On My Pray'rs] by Margaret Whiting enters the Billboard Best-selling Singles chart in the USA, at No24. It will rise no higher.

The District Court in New York City, USA, dismisses two copyright cases about ownership of the massively successful Lord Invader song Rum And Coca Cola. This is because all parties involved in the dispute have recently signed legal papers indicating that a settlement has been reached between them. The song had been falsely copyrighted by comedian Morey Amsterdam who heard it while working in Trinidad some years earlier. The precise amount awarded to Lord Invader has never been revealed but figures published at the time suggested $150,000.

Pee Wee King is playing during a week of shows at The Orpheum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

Elvis Presley records I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone, at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee.

Paul Anka plays at the Colston Hall, Bristol, UK. Also on the bill are Lorrae Desmond, The Ken-Tones, the Peter Groves Trio and Roy Stevens.

Bill Henderson is playing during a 22-day engagement at The Playboy Key Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The Miracles release a new single, Ain't It Baby, on Tamla Records in the USA.

Sam Cooke begins a week of shows at the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA, supported by Rochell And The Candles.

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.

Jackie Washington plays at Club 47, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, UK.

A package tour headlined by Roy Orbison and featuring Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin' Berries and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, plays at The Granada, Bedford, UK.

Davy Jones And the Manish Boys play at The Bromel Club, Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, UK. Davy Jones will find greater success after changing his name to David Bowie.

The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.

Singer-songwriter and blues guitarist Blind Joe Reynolds dies in hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, USA, of pneumonia following a stroke.

Status Quo play at The Golden Torch, Stoke, England, UK, Europe.

Traffic play at The Speakeasy, London, England, UK, Europe.

Plastic Penny play at The Perry Bar, Crown And Cushion, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.

The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.

The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.

Led Zeppelin play at Canterbury University, Canterbury, Kent, UK.

Jean Harris, headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, USA, shoots and kills Dr. Herman Tarnower, creator of The Scarsdale Diet at his home in Purchase, New York State, USA, with her Harrington And Richardson .32-caliber revolver. This celebrated murder will inspire the song Cold Pizza For Breakfast by Christine Lavin.

XTC play at The Metropol, Berlin, Germany, Europe.

Whitesnake, supported by Great White, play the first of two nights at The City Hall, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe.

The Clash play at Brixton Academy, London, England, UK, Europe.

The Art Of Noise, featuring Duane Eddy, release a new single, Peter Gunn, in the UK.

Dock Green (aka Doc Green), baritone vocalist of The Drifters dies of cancer, aged 54, at his home in New York City, USA.

Biffy Clyro release their debut album Blackened Sky on Beggars Banquet Records in the UK

The Allman Brothers Band plays the first of eight non-consecutive nights at The Beacon Theater, New York City, USA.

Marc Almond plays at Teatro Calderon, Madrid, Spain, Europe.

Babe release their debut album Volery Flighty on Moshi Moshi Records in the UK.

On her Happy Birthday Tour, 80-year-old Nana Mouskouri plays in Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, France, Europe.

On his 44-show Boy Meets World tour Drake plays at Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany, Europe, supported by dvsn.

Katelyn Tarver releases her second EP, Tired Eyes, on Duly Noted Records.