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Barry And Helvers, Decker, Caludio And Abramov, Emmet And Mortland, Katherine Bloodgood and Clara Ballerini are providing the entertainment at The Orpheum Theater, San Francisco, California, USA, as part of Marcel's Living Art Studies.
Cohan And Harris' Minstrels play at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Musical The Blue Paradise is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. A review in The Evening Journal hails it as "Replete with good music and excellent songs." The show will run on Broadway for 356 performances.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League creates The Red, Black And Green flag as a response to the song Every Race Has A Flag But The Coon by Heelan and Helf. That song, along with Coon Coon Coon and All Coons Look Alike To Me were later identified by H.L. Mencken as being the songs which firmly established the derogatory term "coon" in the American vocabulary.
Vernon Dalhart records The Prisoner's Song for Victor Records in the USA. The melody of this song will inspire three later songs, I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (1929) by The Carter Family, Great Speckle Bird (1937) by Roy Acuff and Wild Side Of Life (1951) by Jimmy Heap.
Joseph J. Puma is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as jazz guitarist Joe Puma, pursuing a successful solo career but also working with Sammy Kaye, Artie Shaw, Peggy Lee and others. With Chuck Wayne he formed an outstanding duo in New York City during the early 1970s.
Enigmatic blues singer, guitarist and recording artist King Solomon Hill dies in Sibley, Louisiana, USA. His birth name is thought to have been Joe Holmes, but there is no conclusive evidence to support this idea.
Webb Pierce records New Silver Bells for Decca Records in Castle Studio, Tulane Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Irving Berlin musical and political satire Call Me Madam is playing at The Coliseum, London, England, UK, during a run of 485 performances. Main cast members are Billie Worth (Sally Adams), Anton Walbrook (Cosmo), Jeff Warren (Ken Gibson) and Shani Wallis (Princess Maria). Songs include The Hostess with the Mostes', It's a Lovely Day Today, The Ocarina, They Like Ike and You're Just in Love.
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.
Bandleader Benny Strong is playing during three months at The Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Joe Turner is playing during three weeks at The Dew Drop Inn, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Big Mama Thornton records the original version of Hound Dog, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, for Peacock Records, in Los Angeles, California, USA. Elvis Presley will score a huge hit with his cover version.
Maxine Brown is playing during a week of shows at The Hurricane Room, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.
The
Berlin Wall is erected overnight, closing off the Western part
of Berlin, Germany, Europe, from the Eastern part. This action will
inspire the song West Of The Wall, by Toni Fisher which will reach No1 in the Australian Top Twenty singles chart in 1962.
Patsy Cline performs Just A Closer Walk With Thee and Side By Side on the radio show Country Music Time, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Tommy
Roe performs Sheila on daily
tv pop show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Beatles are playing during six nights of shows at The Odeon Cinema, Llandudno, Wales, UK, Europe, supported by Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Tommy Quickly, The Lana Sisters, The Sons Of The Piltdown Men, Gary And Lee and Tommy Wallis And Beryl. Compere is comedian Billy Baxter.
The Summer Shower Of Stars featuring Lou Christie, Brian Hyland, The Kasuals and Ronnie Cochrane plays at Club Ponytail, Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA.
The Righteous Brothers are playing during a month-long engagement at The Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Lovin' Spoonful reach No1 in the Billboard and Cash Box Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Summer In The City, but the song brings problems in live performances. "While Steve is playing organ," explains guitarist Zal Yanovsky, "poor John has to play piano, which he can only do by concentrating. So Joe sings lead when we do it live."
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The Lovin' Spoonful reach No1 in both the Billboard and Cashbox US Top 40 singles charts with Summer In The City, but the song brings problems in live performances. 'While Steve is playing organ,' explains guitarist Zal Yanovsky, 'poor John has to play piano, which he can only do by concentrating. So Joe sings lead when we do it live.'
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
Buddy Rich releases a new album, Time Being - The Amazing Buddy Rich, on RCA Records in the USA.
On their Hysteria tour, Def Leppard play at The SFX Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Europe.
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On their One For All World Tour, The Bee Gees play at the Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA.
Shirley Horn records You Won't Forget Me for Verve Records in the USA, with a band including Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis.
On her Farewell Tour, Tina Turner plays at Stadio Dei Pini, Viareggio, Italy, Europe.
20,000 mourners turn out for Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia’s memorial service at the Polo Field, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA.
Allen Shellenberger, drummer of Lit, dies aged 39 after a fight with brain cancer, at his mother's home in Artesia, California.
On his Crazy Love tour Michael Buble plays at The MTS Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Seasick Steve headlines the first day of the three-day long Summer Sundae Weekender, De Montfort Hall and Gardens, Leicester, England, UK.
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Sam Llanas doesn't turn up for a concert by The Bodeans in Winter Park, Colorado, USA. It is revealed soon after that he has quit the band.
29-year-old Chicago woman Christina Santiago, who worked at the Howard Brown Health Center, is among the five people who die after a stage collapse at the Indiana State
Fair, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, while an estimated 12,000
people waited to see country outfit Sugarland play.
When Anaconda by Nicki Minaj debuts at No19 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, she overtakes Michael Jackson on the official tally of artists with the most Hot 100 hits. Anaconda is her 51st Hot 100 hit, while Jackson has scored only 50.
During the second North American leg of their Not In This Lieftime tour, Guns N'Roses play at Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Live. This tour features classic Guns N'Roses line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, playing together for the first time since 1993.
On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at The Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.
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