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Musical comedy The Pan-American Girl is playing at Bergen Beach Casino, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Cushman, Holcombe and Curtis, Howard Chambers and Barton And Ashley are the vaudeville acts appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Tommy De Vito, singer/guitarist with The Four Seasons, is born in Montcvlair, New Jersey, USA.
The San Francisco Chronicle runs a feature entitled The Black Side of Swing, written by George D. Lottman. The article reveals, "This Vicious Part that Potent Marihuana Plays in Stimulating Certain Melody Makers to fantastic heights of inspirations, and the efforts made in eliminating the evil."Nick
Drake, future UK singer-songwriter, is born in Dufferin Hospital, Rangoon, India. He will be educated at
Marlborough
College.
Johnny Cash begins a West Coast tour at the Rolling Hills Ballroom, Riverside, California, USA, supported by Sonny Burgess.
Bobby Vinton plays the third night in a week of shows at The Marine Ballroom on The Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
The Paul Desmond-Jim Hall Quartet records Body And Soul and Out Of Nowhere, in Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for Mosaic Records.
Shelley
Fabares performs Johnny
Angel on daily tv pop show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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.Winifred Atwell, Lance Percival, Ronnie Carroll, Antonio Vargas And The Spanish Dancers, Gerard Sety, Des Lane, Toni Ros, The Mistins and The Don Robb Group are playing during the summer season at The Star Light Roof, The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.
Marty Robbins records The Master's Call and Little Spot In Heaven at Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie has its North American premiere in Los Angeles, California, USA. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
When Paul Anka, opens a live e engagement at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, the show is recorded and some tracks will appear on his live album Excitement On Park Avenue. One new song premiered during this show is the novelty number All I Want Is A Seat (To See The Beatles).
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra fly from the USA to Japan, Asia, to begin a three-week tour.
Johnny Cash overdubs German language vocals on the songs In Virginia and Wer Kennt Den Weg in Columbia Recording Studio A, 799 7th Avenue, New York City, 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.
Lothar And The Hand People play the last of twelve nights at the Exodus Club, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
It's Too Late by Carole King begins five weeks at No1 on Billboard's best-selling US singles chart. On the same day, King's album Tapestry reaches No1 in the Billboard albums chart in the USA for the first of fifteen weeks.
The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights in the International Amphitheater, Chicago, Illinois, supported by Stevie Wonder and Martha Reeves. During their stay in Chicago, the Stones spend some time at Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion.
Flesh For Lulu play at The Underground, Croydon, England, UK, Europe, supported by 20 Flight Rockers.On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at The Reichstag, The Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, to an audience of 50,000.
A private funeral service is held for Bob Bogle, guitarist with legendary instrumental rock band The Ventures, who died recently in Vancouver, Washington, aged 75 after battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma for several years.
It is announced that one of the most hotly-tipped unsigned bands of 2012, the all-girl trio Haim from Los Angeles, California, USA, has signed to Polydor Records in the UK.
Acclaimed and successful novelist, playwright and singer-songwriter Charlotte Greig (aka Charlotte Williams) dies aged sixty, by committing suicide, nine months after being diagnosed with cancer.
On his 
On his Not Dead Yet tour Phil Collins plays the second of five nights at AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France, Europe.
Bob Dylan releases his 39th album, Rough And Rowdy Ways, his first LP of original songs since 2012, on Columbia Records.1901 |
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