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The musical comedy A Runaway Girl is playing at Daly's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 40 performances.
Billed as "Vaudeville's Most Accomplished Instrumentalist", Musical Dale is among the acts playing at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Fiddle Dee Dee, starring Kolb And Dill, plays at Fischer's Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical comedy The Sultan Of Sulu is presented at Wallack's Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 192 performances.Carmichael's Collegians record Walkin' The Dog, Smile, Marach of The Hoodlums and Shimme-sha-wobble in Richmond, Indiana. The band is led by legendary songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.
Gordon William Mills is born in Madras, India, Asia. After moving to the UK, Gordon Mills will become a successful London-based music industry manager and songwriter, best-remembered for guiding the careers of Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra are playing during a six-week residency at The Raymor Ballroom, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Dinah Washington and Muggsy Spanier are playing during a two-week engagement at The Blue Note, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra are playing during a five-week engagement at The Palladium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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.The first commercially-available Fender Stratocaster guitars are shipped into stores in the USA by Leo Fender of Fender Sales in Fullerton, Orange County, California, USA.
Dave Shand And His Modern Music play at the Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.Chuck Berry (backed by The Nashville Teens) plays at The Gaumont, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK., supported by Carl Perkins (also backed by The Nashville Teens) and The Animals, Kingsize Taylor and The Dominoes, and The Swinging Blue Jeans.
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It Keeps Rainin' by Fats Domino enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No23.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers play a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.Joey Dee And The Starliters play the first of ten nights at The Town And Country Club, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Adam Faith plays the third night of a week of shows at The Princess Theatre, Torquay, Devon, England, UK, Europe
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra record Bad Woman, Serenade To Sweden and other tracks in A + R Studio, New York City, USA.
I'll Be Doggone gives Marvin Gaye his first No1 in the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA. On the same day, it peaks at No8 in the US pop chart.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
Boeing Duveen And The Beautiful Soup release a new single, Jabberwock / Which Dreamed It on Parlophone Records in the UK. Boeing Duveen is in fact Sam Hutt, who will move into country music, adopting the pseudonym Hank Wangford.
At a meeting in the London, UK, offices of controversial music biz manager/entrepreneur Don Arden, the members of Black Sabbath first encounter his daughter Sharon Arden. A decade later, she will begin managing Ozzy Osbourne and will marry him, thus becoming Sharon Osbourne.Spirit play the second of four nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Poco and Gypsy.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the Gatesville State School For Boys, Gatesville, Texas, USA.
On their Bomber tour, 
Queen's lengthy Far East tour ends at Jo Hall, Osaka, Japan, Asia.
Forbidden, Vicious Rumours and Death Angel play at at Kuusisaaren Paviljonki, Oulu, Finland, Europe.
Whitney Houston signs a development deal with 20th-Century Fox to produce and star in several projects.
During recording sessions at SIR Studios, New York City, USA, Cassandra Wilson records Vietnam Blues and Slow Down, and Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid and James "Blood" Ulmer record Down In Mississippi.
On his Sound And Vision tour, Joanna MacGregor and Andy Sheppard release a new album, Deep River, which includes their cover version of Bob Dylan's song
Make
You Feel My Love.
During their Fundamental Tour, The Pet Shop Boys play at The Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland, Europe.
The funeral of late 70s and early 80s disco hitmaker Viola Wills takes place at the Macedonia Abbey Baptist Church, Los Angeles, California, USA. She had died of cancer earlier in the month, aged 69, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Elvis Costello announces via his website that he has cancelled two upcoming concerts in Israel, citing as his reason the "grave and complex" sensitivities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On their first tour together in over twenty years, the surviving members of The Beach Boys play at Westchester County Center, White Plains, New York State, USA.
Phosphorescent and Landshapes [formerly Lulu And The Lampshades] play at The Village Underground, London, UK.
Bombay Bicycle Club, Bonobo, Wolfmother, Ingrid Michaelson, and others play at The Hangour Music Festival, Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA.
Jorma Kaukonen plays during The Bull Run Concert Series, Shirley, Massachusetts, USA.
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