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The comic opera Merrie England is playing at The Savoy Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 120 performances.Billed as "Vaudeville's Most Accomplished Instrumentalist", Musical Dale is among the acts playing at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Blackface minstrel entertainer Lew Sully is appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill is Mlle. Chester with her "$10,000 Statue Dog".The Trio Musicale (aka The Gumm Sisters) play the first of three nights in the 'Movie Star Frolics' at the Gilmore Stadium, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will find stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.
The Mayfair Music Of Roy Richards and Leonard Leslie's Band play at The Embassy, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
Ray Anthony and his Orchestra play at Canobie Lake Park Ballroom, Salem, New Hampshire, USA.
Oscar Rabin And His Band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Pee Wee King is playing during a week of shows at The Orpheum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Eddie Cantor sings Ain't She Sweet, My Best Girl, Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?, S'Wonderful and Singing In The Rain on The Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC-tv in the USA.Mary Ann McCall, vocalist with the Woody Herman Band, goes on trial in Hollywood, California on drugs charges. Mary Ann McCall : I once had a $7,000 home but now it's gone because I had to spend between $140 and $180 each week on the stuff.
Warney Ruhl And His Orchestra play in The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA.Lonnie Donegan, plays at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, with Betty Smith, Phil Fernando, The Red Peppers and The Four Jacks.
The Battle Of New Orleans by Johnny Horton reaches No1 on the Billboard country singles chart in the USA.
Tom Morgan records six tracks for Folkways Records at Ben Adleman's Studio, Takoma Park, Maryland, USA. The tracks will not be released until 1983, when they will appear on the album Bluegrass With Family And Friends.
Marvin Rainwater records Sing The Girls A Song, Indian Burial Ground and The Black Sheep for United Artists Records in Columbia Recording Studio B, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Dean Martin hosts The Best On Record, an NBC-tv special in the USA featuring Grammy-award winning artists performing live. During the show Sammy Davis Jr. performs a musical tribute to Nat 'King' Cole.
Paul McCartney of The Beatles and his girlfriend Jane Asher attend a Gene Barry concert at The Talk Of The Town in London, England, UK.
Sixteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen and his Freehold, New Jersey, USA, band The Castiles, enter the Mr. Music recording studio in Bricktown, New Jersey, USA, and tape That's What You Get, which is intended as their first single. Unfortunately, it does not get released.
The Beatles sign a contract to represent the BBC and Britain, on Our World, the world's first live television satellite link-up, which will be be seen by approximately 400 million people across five continents.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The musical variety revue New Faces Of 1968 is presented during a run of 52 performances at The Booth Theatre, New York City, USA, featuring performers including Madeline Kahn, Robert Klein, Suzanne Astor and Gloria Bleezarde.
It is announced that songwriter, keyboardist and arranger Al Kooper has joined the pop A+R department of Columbia Records in New York City, USA, as a producer.
It's A Beautiful Day and Three Dog Night play the second of three nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead jams with Elvis Costello and James Burton at the Sweetwater Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
Azucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz, a year-long exhibition about the career of the Cuban-born singer known as The Queen Of Salsa, opens at The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA.
The Cure, now slimmed down to a trio, record a new version of Seventeen Seconds at producer Mike Hedges' West Side Studio, London, for i-Tunes.
Mike And The Mechanics play at the Regent Theatre, Ipwich, UK. The group has recently added Andrew Roachford as a featured vocalist.
Leading Russian music critic Art Troitsky, goes on trial in criminal proceedings brought by rock star Vadim Samoylov, arising out of a Ren-TV production in which Troitsky referred to Samoylov as a "trained poodle for Surkov" - implying that the singer/guitarist was working hand-in-glove with Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin
Blues-rock combo The Matt O'Ree Band plays at Schmitt's Saloon, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
John Otway plays a live gig at The Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, Europe, to celebrate the imminent screening of Rock And Roll's Greatest failure : Otway The Movie - a documentary about his career.
Brownbird Rudy Relic plays at The Shore Road Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
On his Purpose World Tour Justin Bieber plays the first of two nights at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays the first of two nights at The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
Five Finger Death Punch release their seventh studio album, And Justice For None, on Prospect Park / Even Seven Records.
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