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The musical Somebody's Sweetheart is presented at The Central Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 224 performances.
Boogie Woogie piano pioneer Clarence 'Pine Top' Smith records I'm Sober Now and I Got More Sense Than That for Brunswick/Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Krzysztof Klenczon, singer, songwriter and bass player for Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars), widely regarded as The Polish Beatles, is born in Pultusk, Poland.

Ted Fio Rito And His Orchestra open at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Clarence Reid is born in Cochran, Georgia, USA. He will score a 1969 US hit single, Nobody But You Babe, but will also perform salacious material under the pseudonym Blowfly.
Max Miller, The Harmaniacs, blind singer Alfred Thripp and Jay And His Merry Lads, plays the fifth night of a week at The Metropolitan Theatre, Edgeware Road, London, UK.
Controversial deejay Alan Freed stages his first New York City, USA, show, the Rock'n'Roll Jubilee Ball, at St Nicholas Arena, Harlem, starring Fats Domino, The Drifters, The Harptones, Ruth Brown, Joe Turner and The Moonglows.
The Ballad Of Davy Crockett reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. This position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Bill Hayes and Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Soul vocalist Major Lance records Delilah, a Curtis Mayfield composition, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
B.B. King signs a new recording deal with ABC-Paramount Records in the USA. Nevertheless, his former label, Kent Records, will continue to release previously recorded material for many years.
Cliff Richard is in the Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, continuing with the filming of his next movie, Wonderful Life.
Peter, Paul and Mary are guests on tonight's edition of the Jack Benny Show on tv in the USA.


Moby Grape and The Sparrow (later to become Steppenwolf) play the second of two nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill are The Charlatans.




Madonna makes her first appearance on US tv show American Bandstand, miming to her first hit single, Holiday.
Duran Duran’s latest single, New Moon On Monday, peaks at No10 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA.

Steve Prestwich, Liverpool-born drummer of Australian band Cold Chisel, undergoes surgery two weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. He will die two days later.
Steve Prestwich, drummer of Australian band Cold Chisel, undergoes surgery two weeks after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.


Garth Brooks plays the first of three nights at The BB+T Center, Sunrise, Florida, USA, with Trisha Yearwood.
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