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Musical comedy The Little Duchess, starring Anna Held, with music and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and Reginald De Koven, is playing at The Casino Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances.Billed as "A Glorious Galaxy Of Stars", Kara The Great, The Three Faust Sisters, Arthur Buckner, Jacques Inaudi, Girard And Gardner, The Three Westons, Alf Holt, Mr And Mrs Gardner Grane and The Biograph are providing the entertainment at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical extravaganza Whoop-dee-doo is presented at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York City, USA, during a run of 165 performances.
Vocal duet S. H. Dudley and Harry Macdonough record Red Wing for
Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Reed Miller records Love Will Find The Way for Victor Records in
Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Daddy Stovepipe, accompanied by Whistlin' Pete, records Black Snake Blues for Gennett Records in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The track will remain unreleased.
Max Miller, The Harmaniacs, blind singer Alfred Thripp and Jay And His Merry Lads, plays the sixth night of a week at The Metropolitan Theatre, Edgeware Road, London, UK.
Jazz vocalist Billie Holiday is questioned by Treasury Agents in Customs House in New York City, USA, because her former drug convictions have put her in violation of the 1956 Narcotics Control Act.
Gene Vincent, supported by Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, plays at The Granada, Grantham, England, UK, Europe.
Etta Jones is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Counterpoint Club, Chicago, Illinos, USA.James Brown, The Crests, Bobby Marchan, Arthur Prysock, The Starlites and Bobby Lewis play at the The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of Wild In The Country at the 20th Century Movie Ranch, near Santa Monica, California, USA.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Bert Weedon, The Kaye Sisters, Chas McDevitt, Robin Hall And Jimmie MacGregor, Dave Sampson And The Hunters, Malcolm Vaughan, The Vernon Girls, Cherry Wainer and others play a charity benefit show in aid of Jack Conway's dependents, at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
Using the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt, Bob Dylan spends the second of two days of recording with Eric von Schmidt and Richard Farina in Dobell's record shop basement, Charing Cross, London, UK.
Jazz organist Jackie Davis records Round Midnight, Sleepy Time Gal and Lonely Wine for the Warner Bros LP Easy Does It, in the USA.
The Group Scene 64 tour continues at The Granada, Bedford, UK, with The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, Swinging Blue Jeans, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates and Marty Wilde.
The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Paul And Paula, The Surfaris and The Joy Boys play in Festival Hall, Brisbane, Australia.
My World Is Empty Without You by The Supremes is the highest new entry in the Cash Box chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No 62.
Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers play in Shaftsbury Hall, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK, Europe.
The Opposition play at The Co-operative Hall, Enderby, England, UK, Europe. One member of the band, bassist John Deacon, will go on to global fame as a member of Queen.
The Treniers are playing during a lengthy engagement at The Sahara Lounge, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Gail Martin (the daughter of Dean Martin) is playing at The Club Caribe, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribbean.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.Elvis Presley records Don't Cry Daddy, Inherit The Wind and Mama Liked The Roses, at American Sound Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Azucena Maizani dies aged 67 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. She had found success as a tango singer, composer and actress. For many years she performed dressed in men's suits or criollo cowboy attire, thus earning the nickname "Funny-face Cowgirl".
The Allman Brothers Band plays the first of four nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.Pink Floyd come to the end of two weeks of rehearsals of a new suite of music which will become their album Dark Side Of The Moon, in Bermondsey, South London, UK.
Bob Dylan and The Band play the first of two nights at the Capitol Center, Washington DC., USA
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Bob Marley, suffering from terminal cancer, is undergoing treatment at the Issels Clinic in the Bavarian Alps, Germany, Europe. He will remain at the clinic until May 1981.
No Fences and Ropin' The Wind by Garth Brooks become the first country albums certified for shipments of 6m units in the USA. Simultaneously his self-titled LP is awarded triple-platinum status by the R.I.A.A.
Rap mogul Suge Knight's Death Row Records is sold at auction to entertainment development company WIDEawake Entertainment Group, Inc. for $18m (
When Chris Brown attends a progress report hearing with Judge James R. Brandlin of Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, USA, his probation is revoked by the magistrate, because of his recent appearance at The Fiesta nightclub in San Jose, California, where five people were shot and injured. The decision means that Brown could potentially return to jail.
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones attends the New York premiere of the tv series Vinyl at The Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City, USA.
Panic! at the Disco release their fifth studio album, Death of a Bachelor. It is their first album entirely written and recorded by Brendon Urie, the last remaining original member of the band. It will also be their first album to debut at No1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart.
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