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The musical comedy The Wild Rose is presented at The Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances.
The 
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 425 performances.The musical comedy Texas, Li'L Darlin', is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The 
Singer and popular songwriter Hank Fort is playing at The Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Hank Williams records Jambalaya, I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive and two other songs in Castle Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Robert Walter Donaldson is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He will find success as leader of 70s hitmakers Bo Donaldson And The Heywoods.
Ricky Nelson records It's Up To You, Teenage Idol and I've Got My Eyes On You, with producer/arranger Jimmie Haskell for
Imperial
Records at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California, USA.
Musicians on the session include James Burton on lead guitar and Richie Frost on drums.
[The Man Who Shot] Liberty Valance, sung by Gene
Pitney and written by Burt
Bacharach and Hal
David, peaks at No4 in the Billboard pop singles chart in the USA.
Winifred Atwell, Lance Percival, Ronnie Carroll, Antonio Vargas And The Spanish Dancers, Gerard Sety, Des Lane, Toni Ros, The Mistins and The Don Robb Group are playing during the summer season at The Star Light Roof, The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
The Los Angeles Sentinel runs the headline "Mathis to Raise $60,000" over a story about Johnny Mathis being one of a number of black entertainers who are "joining the civil rights battle lines".
Fritz Arpagaus, drummer of popular Swiss rock'n'roll band
Can't
You See That She's Mine by The Dave Clark Five is the highest
new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering
at No64.
UK pop idol Tommy Steele continues with his starring role in the stage musical Half A Sixpence on Broadway in New York City, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.Joni Mitchell is playing at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Dave Van Ronk.
Psychedelic soul pioneers Rotary Connection are playing during four nights at The Electric Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The United States Of America play at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Herd play at The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. The Herd's lead singer and guitarist, Peter Frampton, will go on to massive international success as a member of Humble Pie and also as a solo artist.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson are recording You've Really Got A Hold On Me, for Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays at The Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
The album Rain Dogs by Billy Ray Cyrus reaches No1 in the Billboard US albums chart with Some Gave All, for the first of seventeen weeks.
Blues singer, songwriter and guitarist John Campbell dies of heart disease, aged 41, in New York City, USA.Reggae vocalist and recording artist Gene Rondo dies of cancer in Hackney, London, UK.
On the HIStory World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at the Nordmark Sportfeld, Kiel, Germany, to an audience of 55,000.
During a UK visit, Michael Jackson drops into the HMV megastore in Oxford Street, London, to buy CDs and DVDs.
I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton is proclaimed the No1 country ballad of all-time in the premiere of CMT 100 Greatest Love Songs.
Don Henley and 
The 
Aerosmith play on the last day of the Download Festival, Donington Park, Donington, UK. The three day long event also features AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Deftones, Bullet for My Valentine, Billy Idol, Megadeth, Them Crooked Vultures, and more.Country singer and sausage manufacturer Jimmy Dean, best-remembered for his 1961 hit single Big Bad John, dies aged 81 of natural causes in Varina, Virginia, USA.
Stevie Wonder performs at the 2011 Apollo Theater Spring Gala in The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, honouring his induction into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame.
Sting announces his support for a campaign to restore Amazing Radio - a station which champions unsigned and emerging artists - to digital radio.Crosby, Stills And Nash play at Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion, Gilford, New Hampshire, USA.
On their Mechanical Bull Tour, Kings Of Leon play at The Orange Warsaw Festival, Warsaw, Poland, Europe.
Singer-songwriter D.J. Fontana, longtime drummer for Elvis Presley, dies aged 87, in his sleep in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. At his time of death, he is suffering from complications of a broken hip.
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