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Sigma Alpha Iota, an international music fraternity with the aim of encouraging, nurturing and supporting the art of music, is founded at the University School of Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Ostendorf's Fair Bank Concert Band is playing at Fair Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Guy Lombardo And His Orchestra are playing during a two-month stay at The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, USA.
Ray Pearl And His Musical Gems are playing during a season at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Singer and popular songwriter Hank Fort is playing at The Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Big Joe Turner reaches No1 in the Billboard R+B singles chart in the USA, with his original, uncensored version of Shake, Rattle and Roll.
Hank Ballard and The Midnighters release a new single, Sugaree, on King Records in the USA.
When Patsy Cline appears at the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, wearing a clinging blouse and gold lame trousers, her attire causes asensation, and she is firmly told to stick to dresses.
The Oranim Zabar Troupe plays during a four week run at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Tina Turner, The Olympics and Big Maybelle are playing during a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
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Perry Como hosts the final show of his tv series, The Chesterfield Supper Club, on NBC tv in the USA. In its fifteen year run, the show had featured such guests as The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee and Paul Anka.
Doris Day, with Thomas E. Oliver's orchestra, records Oo-Wee Baby (written by Barry Mann and CYnthia Weil) for Columbia Records in the USA.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
Bobby Vee is playing during a week of appearances at The Social Club, Greaseborough, England, UK, Europe.
Barbara McNair is playing during three weeks of shows at The Royal Box of The Americana Hotel, New York City, USA.
TV show It Must Be Dusty is broadcast in the UK, featuring Dusty Springfield with The Jimi Hendrix Experience as her guests.
The Second Montreux Jazz Festival, a five day event, begins in Montreux, Switzerland, Europe. On this first day, Jazz A Quatre, The New Jazz Quartet, Quartette Jean-Francois Boillat, Quintet Heinz Bigler, Sexter Olivier Berney and Young-Holt Unlimited play in The Casino Kursaal.
Syd Barrett, formerly of Pink
Floyd, is working on the songs Golden Hair and Octopus, in
EMI's Abbey
Road Studios, London, UK.
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Country and western star Johnny Bond dies of a heart attack, aged 63, in Burbank, California, USA.
On their British Steel tour, Judas Priest play at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
On the Shot Of Love tour Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan.
One million people see Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Gary 'US' Bonds, Linda Ronstadt, Rita Marley and more at a Rally For Nuclear Disarmament in Central Park, New York City, USA.
The Cure are undertaking nine days of rehearsals for their upcoming summer gigs, mostly European festival dates.
Pete Wishart MP, formerly a member of the bands Runrig and Big Country, tells the first House of Commons debate on music that illegal copying is the biggest threat to the industry and urges the British government to crack down on music piracy and bootlegging.
English electronic music producer Andy Hughes, best-known for his work with The Orb, dies at the Liver Intensive Care Unit at Kings College Hospital in London after a short illness.
Pink makes Queensland, Australia, Oceania, history when she plays the first of a record eleven concerts at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
The Arcade Fire play the second of two nights at Danforth Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
When Five Finger Death Punch play on the Maurice Jones Main Stage at the 2010 Download Festival, their set is cut because too many people are crowd-surfing up to the stage. The band is allowed to play just one final song, The Bleeding.
Crosby, Stills And Nash play at Constellation Brands - Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, New York State, USA.
Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Barbara Bach and Marjorie Bach attend the launch of the exhibition Ringo: Peace And Love at The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Revered jazz singer Little Jimmy Scott dies aged 88, of cardiac arrest at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
On her 1989 World Tour Taylor Swift plays the first of two nights at Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Vance Joy and Shawn Mendes.
On their A Head Full Of Dreams tour, Coldplay play the second of two nights at Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe.
Gloryhammer play at The Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, Oregon, USA, supported by Aether Realm.
Touring in support of their album, I Am Easy To Find, The National play at Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
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