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The musical extravaganza The Sleeping Beauty And The Beast is playing at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 241 performances.
The musical play A Country Girl, or Town and Country, with music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens, is performed at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 729 performances.Lew Dockstader's Minstrels are playing at The Victoria Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Bee Palmer records After You've Gone and I'm The Jazz Baby for Victor Records in New York City, USA.Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record Sweet Dreams in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records. the track is not released.
Marius B. Winter And His Dance Orchestra record Okay Baby for Broadcast Records in London, UK. Vocals are handled by Al Bowlly and Marius B. Winter.
The musical comedy Music Hath Charms is presented at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 25 performances.
The Three Peppers play the ninth night of two weeks of shows at Marty Bohn's Nut Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Songwriter Eddie Kilfeather dies in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is best-remembered as a composer and arranger who worked on Columbia Pictures' animated features.
Electric guitar innovator Leo Fender applies for a patent for a 'combination pickup and bridge assembly' - a new improvement to his range of guitars.
Jinx Dawson is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She will achieve a measure of success after forming the influential occult-rock band Coven in Chicago during the late 1960s. Coven is said to have been the band which introduced the hand gesture known as the Sign Of The Horns to heavy rock.
A production of the Cole Porter stage musical Kiss Me Kate, starring Frances McCann, plays the second of two days at The Capitol Theatre, Salt Lake City, USA.
The revue An Evening With Beatrice Lillie is presented at The Booth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 276 performances. As well as its actress-singer star, the show features piano duettists Eddie And Rack.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Connie Francis comes to the end of a season of gigs at The Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
The Sam Jones Tentet records Blues On Down, The Chant and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Riverside Records.
UK pop paper Disc runs a review of the single My Bonnie by Tony Sheridan and "the British instrumental group The Beatles".
Break It To Me Gently by Brenda Lee is the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No65.
The Swinging Blue Genes [later to find success as The Swinging Blue Jeans]play in The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK.
Blues harmonica virtuoso Walter 'Shakey' Horton records the album The Soul Of Blues Harmonica, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Chess Records. Musicians on the album include Buddy Guy and Willie Dixon.
The Grateful Dead, Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band, and The Doors play the first of three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Herman's Hermits and Allan Sherman are the musical guests on tonight's edition of The Simon Dee Show on BBC-1 tv in the UK.
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra are rehearsing for an imminent appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is Sunday Mornin' by Spanky And Our Gang entering at No69.
When Aretha Franklin plays the first of two days at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California, USA, the concert is recorded and tracks will be released on her third live album, Amazing Grace.
Too Much Heaven by The Bee Gees spends its second of two weeks at No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship play at a benefit for the boat people of Kampuchea, in California, USA.
Ricky Scaggs releases the LP Live In London, on Epic Records in the UK. The album features a duet with Elvis Costello on Don't Get Above Your Raisin'.
Bettie Serveert play at Patronaat, Haarlem, Netherlands, Europe.
Legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page delivers a speech during a press conference in Beijing, China, Asia, to announce the Show Of Peace Concert celebrating the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.On their Up All Night Tour, One Direction play the first of two nights at The Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, Scotland.
As part of the New York Guitar Festival, the Alternative Guitar Summit in Rockwood Music Hall features alt-guitar music curated by the guitarist/composer/arranger/bandleader Joel Harrison. Tonight's event features guitarists including Mark Stewart, Gyan Riley, Ben Monder, Nels Cline and Thurston Moore.
Overnight, an internet video clip of Walk Off The Earth and Sarah Blackwood performing Somebody That I Used
To Know [originally by Gotye and Kimbra] generates
another 4m-plus views bringing it to a total of 15,339,711 views in
just 6 days. (2012)
Playback.fm publishes a list of the world's richest living musicians, showing Andrew Lloyd Webber at No1 ($1.2bn), Paul McCartney at No2 ($1.2bn) and Herb Alpert at No3 ($850m). Others on the list are Madonna, Dr. Dre, P. Diddy, Celine Dion, Bono of U2, Jay-Z and Mariah Carey.
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Recently-formed blues band Little Geneva record a live EP at Factory Studios, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.1902 |
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