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The semi-final of a Jitterbug dancing contest takes place at The Defiance, Wimington, Delaware, USA ... with a "separate contest for colored dancers who may also compete in the finals."The Joe Morris Orchestra play the fourth night of a week at The Spodoree Club, Youngstown, Ohio USA. For many years, The Joe Morris Orchestra was the house band at Atlantic Records.
A survey of American ballroom operators shows that business in the first half of 1954 was down by 54% compared to the first half of 1953. Blame is placed on the increasing popularity of record hops where teenagers dance to records rather than live performers.
Chuck Berry plays the fifth night of a week-long engagement at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, as part of deejay/promoter Alan Freed's First Anniversary Rock'n'Roll Show.
Hoagy Carmichael has the second day of a two-day recording session during which he records Georgia On My Mind, Two Sleepy People and other tracks with the Johnny Mandel Orchestra, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
LaVern Baker plays the third of five nights at The Spatz Show Bar, Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The Alan Price Rhythm And Blues Combo plays a midnight set at The Downbeat Club, Newcastle, UK. With two new members, guitarist Hilton Valentine and drummer John Steel, this is the first appearance together of the quintet that will later become The Animals.
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House band, The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo is playing in The Jazz Lounge, Club A-Gogo, Percy Street, Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK, Europe. The group will find greater success when it evolves to become The Animals.The Zombies, Big Dee Irwin and The Lorne Gibson Trio appear on Scottish tv show Dig This!
The 16-year-old winner of a Mick Jagger impersonation contest at The Town Hall, Greenwich, England, UK, reveals himself to be... Mick's younger brother, Chris.
Lou Johnson, Sonny Childe And The TNT, The Loose Ends and Duke Lee play at El Partido, Lewisham, England, UK.
UK pop weekly Disc, runs a feature about millionaire fashion outfitter John Stephen of Carnaby Street, London, England, UK, Europe, who states that his best customers include Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark, Cliff Richard and The Who.
Marlene Dietrich plays the last of six nights at the The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, England, UK.Grant Rogers, Jackie Washington, Judy Collins, Obray Ramsey, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Skip James, The Chad Mitchell Trio and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band play on the second day of the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Wilson Farm, Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Walker Brothers play at the California Ballroom, Dunstable, England, UK, Europe, with John Mayall.
British pop weekly Melody Maker runs a front page article headlined 'Pop Protest Songs Soar'. Universal Soldier by Donovan is cited as one significant example.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And the Holding Company, including Janis Joplin, play the twentieth night in a month of dates at Mother Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And the Holding Company, including Janis Joplin, play the eighteenth night in a month of dates at Mother Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Nazz play the second of six nights at The Café Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. The band includes Todd Rundgren who will go on to carve out a considerable career as a solo artist.One of the first widely-available bootleg recordings, a double LP set called The Great White Wonder by Bob Dylan, goes on sale in Los Angeles, California, USA, and is soon being played on radio stations up and down the West Coast.
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John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles have a meeting with Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktiven-danta Swami Prabhupada, at Tittenhurst Park, Berkshire, UK.
Led Zeppelin play in the Memorial Auditorium, Rochester, New York State, USA, supported by Black Sabbath.
The Grateful Dead play the last of three nights at Alexandra Palace, London, UK, on their Europe 74 tour.
Swing Auditorium, Orange County Fair Grounds, San Bernardino, California, USA, is irreparably damaged when it is struck by a small plane. The auditorium had been a much-loved live music venue since 1949, hosting concerts by Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, The Doors, The Jackson Five, Jimi Hendrix and many others. Following the plane crash, however, the auditorium is demolished.
On his Midnight At The Lost And Found Tour, Meat Loaf plays in Hamburg, Germany, Europe.
France Gall plays at Le Zenith, Paris, France, Europe.
Touring in support of his current LP, Vive Le Rock, Adam Ant plays at The Hippodrome, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
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Johnny Cash plays the second of two nights at Foxwoods High Stakes Bingo And Casino, Ledyard, Connecticut, USA.
Tommy Chong of hippy comedy duo Cheech and Chong is sentenced in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, to nine months in jail and fined $20,000 for distributing thousands of bongs and marijuana pipes online through his California-based company, Nice Dreams Enterprises.
Swing jazz and r'n'b guitarist Al Casey dies of colon cancer, four days before his ninetieth birthday, at The Dewitt Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in New York City, USA.
On their Thavius Beck releases the album The Most Beautiful Ugly, on Plug Research in the USA.
A funeral service is held in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, USA, for Rollin Sullivan best-known as the Oscar half of country music duo Lonzo And Oscar.
According to media reports, a 'bottle-throwing' brawl breaks out at the VIP Room of New York Fashion Week, New York City, USA. Police are, reportedly called to the venue at around 3:20am. Chris Brown, who was performing at The VIP Room, later issues a Twitter statement denying any involvement in the altercation.1940 |
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