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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.
Blind Willie McTell records Talking To Myself and Razor Ball for Columbia Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The musical show The Wonder Bar is presented at The Nora Bayes Theatre on Breoadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 76 performances. Set in a Parisian nightclub in 1929, the show stars Al Jolson and features music by Robert Katscher with lyrics by Irving Ceasar.
Popular vocalist Mindy Carson plays at The Flame Room in the Radisson Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Four-year-old Priscilla Ann Wagner is formally adopted by Paul Beaulieu. Priscilla will grow up to be wife of Elvis Presley.
Lenny Herman And His Orchestra play during a six-week engagement at The Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Jerry Knight, singer, bass player and founding member of Raydio, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jimmy Swan And His Range Riders record Juke Joint Mama, Triflin' On Me, I Love You So Much and I Had A Dream for Trumpet Records at the studio of WFOR Radio in Hattiesburg, Mississipi, USA.
Dick Noel with The Lew Douglas Orchestra records There You'll Find My Love, Til I See You Again, This Is My Prayer and Rainy Weather for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
Jackie Brenston records eight tracks for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA, but none are considered worthy of release.Musician, producer and songwriter Michael Sembello is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the USA at No85 with his single, Flaming Star, from the 4-song EP Elvis By Request. This Sherman Edwards/Sid Wayne-penned song is his 47th chart entry.
Rebecca Luker, Tony-award winning stage musical vocalist, is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.Gary 'U.S.' Bonds flies into the UK to begin a tour. Later that day he meets up with his touring partners, Johnny Burnette and Gene McDaniels at EMI Records' offices in London, UK.
The Hullabaloos, The Detergents, Shirley Ellis, Little Richard (whose backing group includes Jimi Hendrix], The Vibrators, The Exciters, The Hollies, The Uniques, Dee Dee Warwick, Roddy Joy, Sandie Shaw and King Curtis play at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, supported by Jefferson Airplane, play at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Bobby Bare, with producer Felton Jarvis, records A Bird Named Yesterday, The Church In The Wildwood and You Are My Sunshine in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session includes guitarists Ray Edenton, Wayne Moss and Jerry Reed, bassist Junior Huskey, drummer Jerry Carrigan, pianist David Briggs, and harmonica player Charlie McCoy.
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Norma Jean, with Bob Ferguson as producer, records It's About Time, Jackson Ain't A very Big Town, Ride Ride Ride and Walk Through This World With Me at RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features George McCormick and Pete Wade [gtrs], Buck Trent [banjo], Pete D rake [steel],Junior Huskey, [bass], Jerry Carrigan [drums], Hargus "Pig" Robbins [piano] and Mack Magaha [fiddle].
The LP The Birds, The Bees And The Monkees by The Monkees is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Aretha Franklin records I Say A Little Prayer, The House That Jack Built, Night Time Is The Right Time, at Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA.
Yes play at Poperama in the Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.Over five hundred fans waiting to buy tickets for an upcoming Led Zeppelin gig in Miami, Florida, break ranks and storm the gates of the Orange Bowl Stadium, vandalising the property. Police use tear gas to quell the violence.
Millie Jackson plays during an extended run at The Dominion Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
James Al Hendrix, father of Jimi Hendrix, dies of congestive heart failure, in Seattle, Washington, aged 82.
Alexisonfire, Rise Against and The Fullblast play the second of two nights at the Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Popular actress, singer and spokeswoman for the arts Kitty Carlisle dies aged 96, in Manhattan, New York State, USA, from congestive heart failure resulting from a prolonged bout of pneumonia.
On their Long Road Out Of Eden tour, The Eagles play the second of three non-consecutive nights at The Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Raymond V. Raymond, the sixth album by Usher debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 Albums chart in the USA with first-week sales of 329,107 copies. This is Usher's third consecutive number-one album in the USA.
Mark Owen of Take That checks himself out of The Priory rehabilitation clinic in London, England, UK, where he has been undergoing treatment for alcoholism. He takes his family to Wandsworth Park for the day. Blur and Stone Roses headline the 2013 Coachella Valley Music
And Arts Festival in Indio, California, USA.
Robin Trower, supported by Joanne Shaw Taylor, plays at The Stables, Milton Keynes, UK.
Ela Orleans launches her new LP, Upper Hell, with a gig at Stereo, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
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