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Vocalists Banks And Winona Winter, Novelty Musical Artists The Perching Brothers and comic vocalists The Clipper Quartette are among the entertainments on offer at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
A Barn-Yard Dance is held at The Masonic Temple Ballroom in Richmond, Virginia, USA, for the benefit of the South Carolina Table Of The Confederate Bazaar, featuring Banjo and Figures by Polk Miller.Operatic soprano Jeanette Vreeland sings the first radio concert from an aeroplane, while flying over New York City, USA.
Tenor sax player Gene 'Jug' Ammons, son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Tenor sax player Gene 'Jug' Ammons, son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Milton Brown, leader of popular Western Swing group Milton Brown And His Brownies, suffers a punctured lung in a car crash. Inadequate treatment of his injuries will result in his untimely and unnecessary death.
Reggie Childs And His Orchestra record Just To Remind You, Maybe, No More Tears, Sweet Heartache and other tracks for Decca Records in the USA.
Pee Wee King is playing during a week of shows at The Orpheum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Ray Pearl And His Musical Gems are playing during four weeks at The Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA.
The musical comedy Wish You Were Here, is presented at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 598 performances.The euphemistically-titled Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard And The Midniters enters the Billboard R + B Singles chart in the USA.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the last night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
Sonny Boy Williamson 2 records Checking Up On My Baby, Open Road, Santa Claus and I Can't Do Without You, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Chess Records. His band includes Otis Spann on piano.
Neil Sedaka enters the UK pop singles chart with Stairway To Heaven, which will peak at No8 during a fifteen-week run.
Jackie Wilson plays the third night in a week of shows at The Fontainebleu in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Jazz vocalist Bill Henderson records Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive and Yes Indeed for Vee-Jay Records in Universal Recording Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Blues Project play the last of three nights at the Family Dogg, The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Blood, Sweat And Tears are playing during four nights at The Garrick Theatre, upstairs at the Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.Blues-rock guitarist, singer and recording artist Anthony Gomes is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.
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On their Deadwing tour, Porcupine Tree play at Filharmonia Pomorska, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Europe.
In the absence of a 2006 Glastonbury Festival, Julien Temple's documentary film Glastonbury is released in the UK.
On her Play On Tour, Carrie Underwood plays at Breslin Student Events Center, Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Tuskegee, the tenth studio album by Lionel Richie, reaches No1 in the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart in the USA.On their Fallen Empires tour, Snow Patrol play the second of two nights at Terminal 5, New York City, USA, supported by Ed Sheeran.
On her Set The World On Fire Tour, Alicia Keys plays at The Verizon Center, Washington D.C,, USA.
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Dong The Witch Is Dead, a song from the soundtrack of the 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz, enters the Official Singles Chart in the UK at No2. The song's revived fortunes are the result of a campaign to make it a No1 hit in the wake of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
George Jackson, who wrote or co-wrote hundreds of rock, soul and r'n'b songs, including the Bob Seger hit Old Time Rock And Roll, dies aged 68 at his home in Ridgeland, a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He had suffered with cancer for a year.
Award-winning blues band King King play at Rother Blues Stage, Roth, Germany, Europe.
Circa Zero release their debut album Circus Hero on 429 Records in the UK. The band includes guitarist Andy Summers (fromerly of The Police) and singer-songwriter Rob Giles of The Rescues.
Rachel Dadd self-releases a split 7" vinyl single, Make A Sentence/Go Gagambo, with her husband ICHI, in the UK.
Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
On their Drones World Tour, Muse play the third of four nights at The O2 Arena, London, England, UK.On their DCX MMXVI World Tour, The Dixie Chicks play at Richcraft Live at Canadian Tire Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, supported by Smooth Hound Smith.
On his 214-date 24k Magic World Tour, Bruno Mars plays the third of four non-consecutive nights at Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan, Asia.1902 |
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