19th August

A free Vaudeville variety show is presented every day during this week at Columbia Pleasure Park, Washington DC, USA.

Trombone soloist Arthur Pryor records Stars Of A Summer Night, for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Bert Williams and George Walker are starring in the musical comedy In Dahomey at The Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.

The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, a large American jazz ensemble featuring young clarinettist Sidney Bechet, plays for the Prince Of Wales at Buckingham Palace, London, England, UK, Europe.

Dillwyn Owen Jones is born in Newcastle Emlyn, Wales, UK. He will find fame as jazz pianist Dill Jones.

Pioneering New Orleans jazz trumpeter Chris Kelly dies in Algiers Naval Base Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, the victim of a heart attack caused by years of heavy drinking.

Outspoken liberal poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca is shot dead by Fascist militia near Alfacar, Granada, Spain, Europe. Lorca will become a lifelong hero to Leonard Cohen, whose 1986 song Take This Waltz is a translation of the Lorca poem Pequeno vals vienes. The story of Lorca's death will provide inspiration for The Pogues' 1990 song Lorca's Novena, and in 2012 songwriter Joe Wilkes will release a song, Looking For The Grave Of Garcia Lorca, on an album of the same title.

Peter 'Ginger' Baker, future drummer for Cream, is born in Lewisham, UK.

Jay McShann And His Band play at Little Joe's, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Ink Spots, Borah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals and Woolf Phillips And His Orchestra play the first of seventeen nights at The Palladium, London, UK.

Benny Goodman And His Orchestra are playing at The Blue Note, Chicago, Illinos, USA.

New York City radio station WINS institutes a policy of playing original versions of singles rather than copy-cat or cover versions. The policy specifies, for example, that Fats Domino's Ain't That A Shame must be played rather than Pat Boone's.

UK pop hitmaker Anthony Newley is playing in a one-man show, Stop The World I Want To Get Off, at Queen's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, which runs for 485 performances.

Davie Jones and The Manish Boys play at Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, UK. Davie Jones will find greater fame after a name change to David Bowie.

The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on guitar, play at The Lugano Hotel, Lugano, Switzerland, Europe.

The Brothers Four, The Back Porch Majority, The Bitter End Singers and The Electioneers perform for President Lyndon B. Johnson on the south lawn of The White House, Washington DC, USA.

The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.

The Four Seasons play the second of two nights at The Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, during the Summer Of Stars concert season.

Mark McGuinn is born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, USA. His unconventional approach to country music will produce an unlikely hit, Mrs. Steven Rudy, in 2001.

The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.

One of the first electronic pop hits, Popcorn by Hot Butter, peaks at No5 in the UK pop singles chart at No41. The song is composed by Gershon Kingsley of electronic duo Perrey And Kingsley (1972)

David Bowie plays his first Ziggy Stardust concert at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London. Iggy Pop and Lou Reed both attend the show. Roxy Music is the support act. On the same day, Roxy Music release their debut single, Virginia Plain, a song based on a painting done by vocalist Bryan Ferry in 1964.

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the State Fair, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Mac Davis plays as part of The Summer Of Stars concert series in Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

At the Hit Factory recording studios in New York City, USA, director Jay Dubin films John Lennon and Yoko Ono with the intention of producing music videos to promote their upcoming release Double Fantasy. The film is, however, never edited and not released.

Harry Chapin plays at Hamilton Place, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The Breaks by Kurtis Blow becomes the first rap record to officially be certified gold by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.

Ultravox play in Torquay, England, UK, Europe.

George Harrison spends £108 to buy a Ralph Lauren shirt and eight pairs of socks at Browns, New Bond Street, London, England, UK, Europe.

Lani Hall spends the first of two days recording Never Say Never Again the theme song for the James Bond movie of that name, at A+M Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Brian Wilson, founder and leader of the Beach Boys is arrested for trespass at the Republican National Convention, in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is released on $200 bail, and the charge is eventually dropped.

Rick Astley plays at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Little Feat and The Jeff Healey Band play at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wisconsin, USA.

On their Suffer tour, Bad Religion play at Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany, Europe.

Jimmy Buffett comes to the end of his Jimmy's Jump Up! tour, with a gig at The Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, New York State, USA.

Green Day and Jimmy Eat World play at the Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

The Trashcan Sinatras play at T On The Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Kris Kristofferson plays at Derwent Entertainment Centre, Glenorchy, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania.

Kimbra releases her second LP, The Golden Echo, on Warner Bros Records in the USA.

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Hawthorne Heights play at The House Of Blues, Anaheim, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Miles Kane plays at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Blossoms, the debut album by Blossoms, spends its second week at No1 in the Official UK Albums Chart, but sells less than 8,000 copies, making it the lowest-selling UK No1 album ever.