19th March

Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances.

The City Club Burlesquers are appearing at The Standard Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Popular singer Sara Martin records Everybody's Got The Blues, Pleading Blues, Every Woman Needs A Man and My Man Blues with guitarist Sylvester Weaver for Okeh Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

'Spasm' band The State Street Ramblers record Gut Bucket Trombone at Gennett Records Studios in Richmond, Indiana, USA. [Spasm bands, like jug bands, were generally low-budget operations whose members would play on jugs, spoons, kazoos, washboards and anything else that might be pressed into becoming a musical instrument.]

'Spasm' band The State Street Ramblers record Gut Bucket Trombone at Gennett Records Studios in Richmond, Indiana, USA. [Spasm bands, like jug bands, were generally low-budget operations whose members would play on jugs, spoons, kazoos, washboards and anything else that might be pressed into becoming a musical instrument.]

Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra play at Picatinny Arsenal, Lake Denmark, New Jersey, USA.

Charlie Spivak And His Orchestra play at The Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.

Stanley Dale's Skiffle Show Of 1958 plays the third of five nights at the Gaumont, Bradford, UK, featuring Jim Dale, Wally Whyton And The Vipers, Susan And Valerie Pardoe, Stan Van, Campbell And Rogerson and Betty Fox's Eight Dancing Teenagers.

Link Wray's influential guitar instrumental, Rumble, is released in the USA on Cadence Records. The innovative dirty and distorted sound of the guitar is allegedly the result of Wray punching a hole in his loudspeaker.

Duane Eddy, Bobby Darin and Clyde McPhatter play at The Royal Theatre, Edmonton, London, UK.

The Top Ten Singles being played on KDWB Radio in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, for the week ending on this date are as follows : 1. WHY DO I LOVE YOU SO - Johnny Tillotson (Cadence) 2. HE'LL HAVE TO GO - Jim Reeves (R.C.A. Victor) 3. PUPPY LOVE - Paul Anka (ABC) 4. WILD ONE/LITTLE BITTY GIRL Bobby Rydell (Cameo) 5. MONEY - Barrett Strong (Anna) 6. THEME FROM A SUMMER PLACE - Percy Faith (Columbia) 7. TEDDY - Connie Francis (MGM) 8. SIXTEEN REASONS - Connie Stevens (Warner Bros.) 9. HARLEM NOCTURNE - The Viscounts (Madison) 10. WHAT IN THE WORLD'S COME OVER YOU - Jack Scott (Top Rank)

Buck Owens and Rose Maddox record We're The Talk of the Town and Sweethearts In Heaven for Capitol Records. Both will be Top 20 Hits on the BillboardCountry Music chart.

The Kenny Dorham Sextet records Spadesville, Blues Lament and other tracks for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

Barbra Streisand continues with a month-long residency at The Caucus Club, Dallas, Michigan, USA.

Hard bop jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan copyrights his composition, Tellin' The Truth, in the USA but it will not be recorded.

Johnny Cash records A Little At A Time at Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Brenda Lee, Mike Berry and Sounds Incorporated play at The Odeon, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.

Timi Yuro performs Insult To Injury on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.

The LP John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

The Small Faces, Simon Dupree And The Big Sound and The Symbols play at The City Hall, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe.

Manfred Mann play at Exeter University, Exeter, UK, Europe.

Fleetwood Mac play at The Fishmonger's Arms, Wood Green, London, England, UK, Europe.

Hugh Masekela plays during a week of shows at Red Foxx's Club, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA, with The Les McCann Trio.

Led Zeppelin play at The Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, Europe.

Paul Kossoff, formerly of Free but latterly with Back Street Crawler, dies aged 25 on a flight from Los Angeles, California, USA, to New York City. Kossoff's heart stopped because of his ongoing drug-related problems.

On the third leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Mississippi Coliseum, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.

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.

The Style Council play at The City Hall, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe, supported by Billy Bragg.

Metallica complete their Ride The Lightning tour, with a gig at The Starry Night, Portland, Oregon, USA, supported by W.A.S.P. and Armored Saint.

Ex-Pink Floyd member Roger Waters begins the second leg of his Pros And Cons North American tour, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Michael Jackson begins construction of his 2,800-acre ranch and private amusement park in Santa Barbara, California, USA, which he will name 'Neverland' after a fantasy location in his favorite book, Peter Pan. The fictional Neverland is, of course, a place where children never grow up.

Mudhoney play at The Central Tavern, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Alice Cooper plays the second of four sell-out shows at the Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Eric Clapton takes his son, Conor, to the circus in New York City, USA, where the boy is delighted by his first sight of elephants. Clapton drops Conor off at his mother, Lory Del Santo's 53rd floor apartment on the East Side of Manhattan, and arranges to call again the next day, and take the boy to the zoo.

Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin are found guilty on three counts of murder relating to the deaths of three eight-year-old boys the previous year in The Robin Hood Hills, West Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The court sentences Echols to death and Baldwin to life in prison. They, along with an associate, Jessie Misskelley, Jr, [convicted at an earlier date] will become known as The West Memphis Three. Several rock musicians, convinced that the trio are innocent, will work to have them released and will write songs inspired by the case. Black Flag will release the 2002 album Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three. Also in 2002, metalcore band Zao will record Free The Three, and in 2011 Disturbed will release a song entitled "3" as a download on their website, with 100% of the proceeds going to their benefit foundation for their release. Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines [of The Dixie Chicks], Tom Waits and Metallica will also work for the release of the trio, which will finally take place on August 19, 2011 - after 18 years in jail.

The stage musical Cliff, based on the life of Cliff Richard, opens in London, UK.

Big Head Todd And The Monsters play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.

Solomon Burke plays at Amoeba Music, San Francisco, California, USA.

Funeral For A Friend play at The Hippodrome, Kingston Upon Thames, UK, with Vales and Employed To Serve.

On their The Book Of Souls World Tour, Iron Maiden play at The Esplanada Do Mineirao, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, South America.

Lukas Graham play at BSA, Budapest, Hungary, Europe.

On their Revolution Radio tour, Green Day play at Budweiser Gardens, London, Ontario, Canada.

Dustbowl Revival play at The Pyramid Scheme, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, with Smooth Hound Smith.