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Boston-born popular singer Andrew Mack is appearing in "His Greatest Success" Tom Moore, at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA. The newspaper ad for the show urges "Hear Mack's sweet songs".
A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.
Swing jazz guitarist Al Casey is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He will find success as a longtime collaborator with Fats Waller. (He should not be confused with the rock'n'roll guitarist of the same name)Alberta Hunter records Don't Forget To Mess Around and Heebie Jeebies, for Okeh Records in New York City, USA.
While making folk music recordings for the Library Of Congress, Alan Lomax records sixteen year old miner's daughter Georgia Turner singing House Of The Rising Sun, in Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA. This is one of the earliest recordings of the song which will become a folk standard with versions recorded by Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Bob Dylan and others, before providing an international hit for The Animals in 1964.
Curley Williams records When You're Tired of Breaking Others' Hearts [co-written with Hank Williams], for Columbia Records.
Jazz trumpeters Clifford Brown and Art Farmer with the Swedish All Stars, record the Quincy Jones' track Stockholm Sweetnin' at Europa Film, Stockholm, Sweden. The track is also arranged, conducted and supervised by Quincy Jones.
Annie Had A Baby by Hank Ballard And The Midniters, reaches No1 on the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA. On the same day, That's All Right by Elvis Presley enters the local singles chart in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, at No7, giving him his first chart success outside of his home town of Memphis.
Blues pianist/vocalist Sunnyland Slim records Brownskin Woman, Baby How Long and other tracks at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. King Curtis plays sax on the session.
Blues pianist/vocalist Sunnyland Slim records Brownskin Woman, Baby How Long and other tracks at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. King Curtis plays sax on the session.
The Limeliters are playing during a one-week engagement at The Racquet Club, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
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.Lloyd Price plays the third of ten nights at Sciolla's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
On the ATV tv show Cliff And The Shadows Part 1, in the UK, Cliff Richard performs The Time In Between and The Shadows perform My Grandfather's Clock. This is the first of three Cliff Richard specials.
John D. Loudermilk records The Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian, Ma Baker's Little Acre, I'm Looking For A World and Where Have They Gone, at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The Lament will later become better known as the hit single Indian Reservation.
When The Rolling Stones play at the Waldbuhne Halle, Berlin, Germany, Europe, police are called in to quell a fan riot. Thirty fans and six police officers are taken to hospital and fifty rows of seats are damaged.
Columbia Records deliver a second version of the new Bob Dylan single, Positively Fourth Street to radio stations in California, USA. 17,000 copies of the first version had accidentally been pressed up with a demo of Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? instead of Positively Fourth Street. Radio stations had been playing the single for several days without realising it was not the right song.
The Lovin' Spoonful are recording tracks for their second album Daydream at Bell Sound in New York City, USA.The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band plays the eleventh of thirteen nights at Doug Weston's Troubadour Club, Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also on the bill is The Sunshine Company.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
Tyrannosaurus Rex play at Mothers, Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. The band will find greater success after a name-change to T.Rex.
Kaleidoscope and Sea Train play the last of six nights at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Joy Division appear on BBC-tv show Something Else in the UK, playing Transmission and She's Lost Control. During this show, presenter Tony Wilson describes Joy Division’s music as 'gothic'. This is said to be the first recorded use of the word in relation to rock music.
On their The Warning tour, Queensryche play at Cornwall Coliseum, St. Austell, Cornwall, England, UK, Europe.UK music paper Melody Maker reveals that the lyric of The Smiths' song Suffer Little Children, which refers to the grisly Moors Murders case, has resulted in a ban on their recordings in some UK shops.
On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play during five nights at The Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia, Oceania.The Grateful Dead earn their first platinum disc, for sales of the album In The Dark in the USA.
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Release Me by Wilson Phillips reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA for the first of two weeks.
"Papa's got a brand new bridge!" declares the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, at the opening ceremony of the newly constructed James Brown Soul Centre Of The Universe Bridge in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers play at The World Theater [later re-named The Tweeter Center, and then the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre], Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Luis Miguel plays the second of three sold-out nights at The Colosseum at Ceasar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Dylan LeBlanc plays at The 100 Club London, UK. The show is part of the promotion for LeBlanc's debut album Pauper's Field.
The launch of a new 800 capacity music venue, XOYO, on Cowper Street in East London, UK is cancelled at the last minute because of "unforeseen technical issues at the venue". The venue had been purpose-designed for club nights, live gigs and events.
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