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Popular vocalist Evelyn Ormsby is appearing in the "modern vaudeville" show at The Orpheum, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also on the bill are The Three Nevarros, Genaro And Bailey, The Great Rapoli, Sparrow, George H. Wood and Carver And Pollard.On the second day of the The Third Annual Chicago Radio Show of 1924, a week-long trade fair at The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, USA, ten thousand people are turned away. The show features over 250 exhibits of radio receivers, parts, and receiver accessories, including exhibits from Italy, Japan, Germany, and France. 25,000 visitors attend each day.
Memphis Mose, a pseudonym for Georgia Tom, records Blue Moanin' Blues and Tomorrow Blues for Brunswick Records at the Merchandise Mart studio in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.Fourteen-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis makes his live debut at the opening of a Ford dealership in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA. He plays Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee.
Eddy Howard And His Orchestra are playing at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Carmen Cavallaro And His Quartet are playing during two weeks at The Night And Day Club, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, South America, with a wage packet of $4,000 per week.Cliff Richard records Fall In Love With You, Don't Be Mad At Me and Willie And The Hand Jive in EMI's Abbey Road studios, London, UK.
A package tour featuring Johnny Horton, Carl Perkins and The Collins Kids plays in Topeka, Kansas, USA.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.
Rory Storm And The Hurricanes are playing during a two-month season at The Kaiserkeller, Hamburg, Germany, Europe.Fabian is playing during a ten-day engagement at The Three Rivers Inn near Syracuse, New York State, USA.
Ernest Tubb And His Texas Troubadours, Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, Martha Carson, Kathy Perry, Johnny Johnson, Tommy Duncan, Autry Inman and Dick Flood are playing in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Chiquieta, the celebrated girl drummer, plays the last of three nights at Hines Farm Blues Club, Swanton, Ohio, USA.Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, Junior Lewis, aka C.L. Blast, The Dovells, The Isley Brothers and Solomon Burke play the sixth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Buddy Bair And His Orchestra with vocalist Elaine Powell are playing during a three-week booking at The Skyway, Hotel Peabody, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Dan Pred is born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA. He will find success as drummer for the Dan Reed Network.
Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders play at The Starlight Room, Gliderdrome, Boston, Lincolnshire, UK.
TV special The Big TNT Show, is filmed before a live audience at the Moulin Rouge club, 6230 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA. The show is produced by Phil Spector and features Ray Charles, The Byrds, The Lovin' Spoonful, Ike And Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Donovan, The Ronettes, Roger Miller, Joan Baez, Petula Clark and The Modern Folk Quartet. David McCallum acts as host/presenter.
Roy Orbison records Twin kle Toes in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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.
At Shepperton Studios near London, England, UK, Europe, Eric Clapton begins two days of rehearsals for his upcoming Japanese tour.
Obscure American band R.E.M. make their British live debut at the tiny club, Dingwalls, in North London, England, UK, Europe.
Tom Evans, former bass player with 
The Stompers play at The Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, supported by Digny Fignus and Bruce Marshall And The Clue.
UB40 release a new single, Riddle Me, in the UK on Dep International Records. The same label also releases Reggae Hitshot by Mikey Dread, Baby Love by Winston Reedy and Out Of My Reach by Echo Base.
The On the first of four nights at The Relentless Garage, Islington, London, UK, Inme play their album Overgrown Eden in full.
Yoko
Ono and Run-D.M.C.'s Darryl McDaniels are joined by Hurricane
Sandy victims at the Hard Rock Cafe, Midtown Manhattan, New York
City, USA, to celebrate the fifth annual Imagine There's No Hunger
campaign.
On their Bula Quo tour, Status Quo play at The Haus Auensee, Leipzig, Germany, Europe.
As part of the London Jazz Festival, Christine Tobin performs The Songs Of Leonard Cohen at The Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, UK.
The Jesus And Mary Chain perform their landmark debut album, Psychocandy, in its entirety at The Troxy, London, England, UK.Welsh mezzo soprano singer Katherine Jenkins visits HMV, Oxford Street, London, UK, to sign copies of her newly released album Home Sweet Home.
On their The End World Tour, Black Sabbath play at Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile, South America, supported by Rival Sons.
During his Saint Pablo tour show at The Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, USA, Kanye West launches into an onstage rant criticising Facebook, Jay Z, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. Soon after, he cancels the remaining dates on the tour.
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Influential music business executive John Preston dies after a brief illness. During his acclaimed career he was Managing Director of Polydor Records UK (1984 – 1985), Managing Director of RCA Records UK (1985 – 1989) and then Chairman of BMG Entertainment (1989 – 1998)1902 |
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