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Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 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.Mae Boren Axton is born in Bardwell, Texas, USA. She will find her greatest fame as co-author of the Elvis Presley hit, Heartbreak Hotel, with her son Hoyt Axton.
Musical comedy The Only Girl, with music by Victor Herbert, is playing at The Belasco Theatre, Washington DC, USA.Vocalist George Metaxa with orchestra conducted by Ray Noble and Hawaiian guitar by Len Fillis, records Pagan Love Song in London, UK, for HMV Records.
Harry Reser and His Orchestra, record Collegiate Sam and Piccolo Pete [as Harry Reser's Syncopaters]; She Knows Her Onions and That's My Girl [as The Jazz Pilots]; The Prune Song [as Si Higgins and His Sodbusters]; and When Sweet Susie Goes Steppin' By and Etiquette Blues [as Jerome Conrad and His Orchestra], in New York City, USA, for various labels within the Columbia Records umbrella.
Bennie Moten and his Orchestra play the fifth night of a week of shows in The Graystone Ballroom, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Live music broadcasts on the BBC Radio Forces Programme Network in the UK include Teddy Foster And His Band (on the show Music While You Work), The St. Regis Quartet (on The Radio Rhythm Club show), A.H.Morgan And His Rhythmic Players (on the Swing Song show) and The Western Brothers and The Sandier Sisters (on the show Variety).
The musical Hold On To Your Hats, starring Al Jolson, is prresented at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 158 performances.Hank Williams and his wife Audrey travel to Nashville, Tennessee, USA, to meet Fred Rose of music publishers Acuff-Rose, with whom Williams signs a publishing contract.
Ray Pearl And His Musical Gems are playing during a month at The Texas Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Frankie Laine plays during a one-week engagement at The Empire Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.The Joe Morris Orchestra play the final night of a week at The Spodoree Club, Youngstown, Ohio USA. For many years, The Joe Morris Orchestra was the house band at Atlantic Records.
The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.Bill Haley And His Comets play the last of three nights at the North Carolina State Fair, Castonia, North Carolina, USA.
Country singer John Berry is born in Aiken, South Carolina, USA. He will first find success in 1994 with his Grammy-nominated Your Love Amazes Me, which he will follow with further hits including You And Only You, She's Taken A Shine and What's In It For Me.
Jazz pianist 
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (aka Flatt and Scruggs) play a live show in Bristol, Tennessee, USA.The Everly Brothers record Foolish Doubts at United Western Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA, for Warner Brothers Records.
The Coasters, The Contours and Aretha Franklin play at the recently opened Zanzibar Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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 musical Hot September opens at The Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where it will run until October 9.
Johnny Tillotson is undertaking a tour of American Military bases in Germany, Europe.
Ars Nova are playing during a two-week stand at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Hedge And Donna.
Shirley Bassey is playing during a week of shows at The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, USA.
A new animated childrens' tv series about the adventures of bubblegum pop group The Archies, begins on CBS-tv in the USA. Their No1 hit single Sugar Sugar will sell over six million copies.Takamasa Lee Ishihara is born in Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan. He will find success as Miyavi, guitarist with the visual kei band Due le Quartz, before going on to a successful solo career.
Sidney Torin, better known as the radio presenter "Symphony Sid", dies of heart and lung failure, aged 72, at the Miami Heart Institute, Miami, Florida, USA. He introduced jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie on nationwide radio in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Mari Wilson plays at The Tunnel, Greenwich, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Dutch Kitchen Bounce.
On his Dream Of The Blue Turtles tour, Sting plays at Kingswood Music Theater, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
King Kurt play at Granny's, Portsmouth, England, UK, Europe.Famed Latin bandleader and legendary 'King Of The Mambo', Perez Prado dies of a heart attack in Mexico City, Mexico, North America, aged 72.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays at Alvalade Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, with special guest Kim Wilde.
The website run by political activist rock band Rage Against the Machine is closed, allegedly by the Secret Service in the USA, who are angered that the group has voiced opinions which are not in line with the US government's views of the World Trade Center attack.
Actress Renee Zellweger files for annulment of her marriage to country star Kenny Chesney in Los Angeles, California, USA, barely four months after their wedding.
On her 
Barbra Streisand takes part in a Town Hall special in New York City, USA, hosted by Sirius/XM Radio executive Jay Landers.
Sir Elton John speaks on the telephone to a man he believes to be President Putin of Russia. Sir Elton hopes to arrange a meeting with the President to discuss gay rights. However, it becomes apparent within a day that the pop star had been duped by Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Krasnov, a pair of well-known Moscow-based pranksters
To celebrate the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, Gloria Estefan reunites The Miami Sound Machine for one night only at the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway in New York City, USA.
On their The Shadow Tour, Kamelot play at Poppodium, Tilburg, Netherlands, Europe.1901 |
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