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Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.Jazz violinist Joe Venuti's Blue Four with Eddie Lang on guitar, record Pardon Me Pretty Baby and I'll Never Be The Same, in New York City for OKeh Records.
W. Lee
O'Daniel And His Hillbilly Boys record There'll Be Some Changes
Made, in Dallas, Texas, USA, for OKeh Records.
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, play at the Astor Hotel, New York City, USA, during a fourteen-week engagement.
The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Bandleader Benny Strong is playing during a three-week stay at Elitch Gardens, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Judy Garland plays during a month at The Curran Theater, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical Hazel Flagg, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Hilliard, is playing at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 190 performances.Jimmy Witherspoon records Live So Easy, I Can Make It With You, When The Lights Go Out and Danger for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Willie Dixon plays bass on the session.
While in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, during two weeks of furlough, US Army Private Elvis Presley begins a two-day recording session in RCA Studios, during which he records I Need Your Love Tonight, A Big Hunk O' Love, Ain't That Loving You Baby, A Fool Such As I and I Got Stung.
Jazz trumpeter Jonah Jones is playing at The Embers, New York City, USA, during a six-week engagement.Ike And Tina Turner, The Olympics and Big Maybelle are playing during a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
The Popular vocalist Rosemary Clooney is the mystery guest on tv show What's My Line? in the USA.
Neil Sedaka plays the fifth night of a week of shows at The International Club, New York City, USA.
The Battle Of The Beat for The Salisbury Times Trophy is staged at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, featuring bands including The Castaways, The 007s, The Electrons, The Initials, The Satellites and The Ten Feet Five. Host for the event is popular BBC Radio deejay Alan 'Fluff' Freeman.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the fourth of five nights at Tin Pan Alley, Redwood City, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Actor Peter Lawford hosts a party for Judy Garland on the occasion of her 43rd birthday.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Byrds, Smokey Robinson, Country Joe And The Fish, Kaleidoscope, Canned Heat, The Fifth Dimension and The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, are the acts that draw 15,000 fans to the Sydney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre, Mount Tamalpais, California, USA, for The Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Fest.
The stage musical On his Natty Dread Tour, Bob Marley plays the second of two nights at The Quiet Knight Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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On My Mind by Willie Nelson reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the USA
Peter Gabriel is working on the soundtrack to the film The Last Temptation Of Christ in Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
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The Top 5 Singles in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA on this day are :1. Hold On - Wilson Phillips
2. Vogue - Madonna
3. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe
4. All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You - Heart
5. It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
Tracy Chapman plays at The Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffman Estates, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Johnny Clegg.
Johnny Cash plays at The Wayne Newton Theatre, Branson, Missouri, USA, during a lengthy series of concerts at the venue.Guitarist and singer Huey Long dies aged 105 in Houston, Texas, USA. In a long and acclaimed career, he worked with The Ink Spots, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, The Three Deuces and many others.
Louise Wener, formerly of Sleeper, publishes her 'first autobiography', Different For Girls, in the UK.
On their 
On their Final Frontier World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Bemowo Airport, Warsaw, Poland, Europe, as part of the Sonisphere Festival.
On her 
Vivian Campbell, guitarist for Def Leppard and Dio, reveals via his facebook page that he was diagnosed earlier in the year with the cancerous condition Hodgkin's Lymphoma.The five-day long The Echo Festival comes to an end in Kanegra, Istria, Croatia, Europe. Artists appearing over the course of the event have
included Andres, Aneuria, Anthea, Apes, Audio Werner (Live), BLM, Borut, Braiden, Brighton, CFSN DJs, Christopher Rau, Citizen, Cuisine Dub, Daniel Madlung, Davide Squillace, dBridge, Delano
Smith, DjRUM, Donga, DoubtingThomas (Live), Dubok, Evano, Examine, Fred P aka Black Jazz Consortium, Hodge, Ian F., Ion Ludwig (Live), James Fox, John Roberts (Live), Kasra, Kassem Mosse, Lakosa, Lamache, Lemon, Lenzman, Locked Groove, Lorca, Madteo, Magda, Mandy
Jordan, Marcus Intalex, Mark Ash, Nick Hoppner, October, Onirik, Outboxx, Pablo Tarno, Pedestrian, Petre Inspirescu, Redshape
(Live), Rico Casazza (Live), Roberto Amo, Seb Wildblood, South
London Ordnance, Space Dimension Controller (Live), SP:MC, Stray, Synkro, Thanksmate, Versa, Voigtmann, VRH, Xtrah, XXXY and
Youandewan.
On their 
On their 3-D Concerts tour, During the European leg of their Not In This Lieftime tour, Guns N'Roses play at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari Imola, Italy, Europe, supported by The Darkness and Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons. This tour features classic Guns N'Roses line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, playing together for the first time since 1993.
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