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Harry Bryant's Burlesquers are playing during a week at The Empire Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
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.Ambrose And his Orchestra record Thou Swell, Loveable And Sweet and My Dream Memory in the Liverpool And Victoria Hall, London, UK, for Decca Records.
Blues harmonica player Jazz Gillum records Birmingham Blues and My Old Lizzie, with Big Bill Broonzy on guitar, in The Leland Hotel, Aurora, Illinois, USA, for Bluebird Records.
Danish jazz violinist and vocalist Svend Asmussen appears on the cover of SE magazine in Sweden, Europe.The Nat King Cole Trio records It's Better To Be By Yourself, the Frim Fram Sauce and Come To Baby, Do, in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Capitol Records.
The musical revue Pardon Our French is performed at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of one hundred performances.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
The popular musical Guys And Dolls is playing at The Shubert Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Eddie Heywood is playing during a week of shows at The Rossonian Lounge, Denver, Colorado, USA.R'n'b group The Coronets with The Sax Mallard Combo record It Would Be Heavenly, Should I and Baby's Coming Home, for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Elvis Presley begins a brief tour of Texas at the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, in front of a crowd of 26,500. On the same day, Barrington 'Blair' Cunningham, who will play drums for Paul McCartney, Haircut 100, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Pretenders, is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
Dean Martin is playing during three weeks at The Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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 Brian Auger Trinity play the evening session at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, with Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames doing the All-Nighter.
The Detours play at Glenlyn Ballroom, Forest Hill, London, England, UK, Europe. The band will achieve greater success after a name-change to The Who.
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, Bexleyheath, England, UK, Europe.The Downliners Sect plus Jimmy Powell And The Five Dimensions play at Ken Colyer's Studio 51, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe. The Five Dimensions' harmonica player is a young lad called Rod Stewart.
The Timers record No-Go Showboat in Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The song is co-written by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys with Roger Christian. Vocals are handled by Gary Usher, Brian Wilson, and Chuck Girard.
The Serendipity Singers play at Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Roger Miller sings You Don't Want My Love with the host on NBC-TV's The Andy Williams Show. Also appearing in this episode are Bob Hope and Mary Tyler Moore.
Joe McDonald Peter Krug, Paul Gilbert, Betty Reid, Carl Shrager and Bill Steele play a benefit show for DMB Publications - Rag Baby and Et Tu magazines - at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.
Elvis Presley is photographed in front of his home, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, with Priscilla Beaulieu and his paternal grandmother Minnie Mae Presley.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.Nico (backed by Jackson Browne on guitar) plays at Stanley's in the basement of The Dom, New York City, USA, supported by Tim Buckley.
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John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers play the first of three nights at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by The Stooges.
San Francisco heavy rock trio Blue Cheer release a new single, Feathers From Your Tree, in the UK on Phillips Records.
Muddy Waters sustains three broken ribs and a broken pelvis in a car crash near Champagne, Illinois, USA. Three other people are killed in the accident.
Pacific Gas And Electric, Lee Michaels, Lonnie Mack and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band play the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
On their European Tour 1973, The Rolling Stones play the last of three nights at The Grugahalle, Essen, Germany, Europe.Film director John Landis hires his director of photography Robert Paynter, choreographer Michael Peters, and his own wife, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, as costume designer, for the imminent filming of Michael Jackson's Thriller video in Los Angeles, California, USA. Auditions for dancers also begin on this day.
Buddy Curtess And The Grasshoppers play at City University, London, England, UK, Europe.
Sting plays at The Coliseum, Charlotte, USA.Bob Dylan's album Time Out Of Mind enters the UK albums chart where it will peak at No6 during an eighteen-week run.
Jailed pop star George Michael is released four weeks early from the Category C Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, England, UK, Europe.
Blues-rock guitarist Popa Chubby releases the album Back To New York City on Mascot/Provogue Records worldwide.On her Femme Fatale tour, Britney Spears plays at The Malmo Arena, Malmo, Sweden, Europe.
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