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A production of the "musical extravaganza" The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with music by Paul Tietjens and A.B. Sloane, plays at The Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
Chico Hamilton, drummer for Count Basie, Lester Young, Slim Gaillard and many more, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jack Hylton's Kit-Kat Band records Precious, Dream A Dream and D'Ye Love Me?, for HMV Records in the Small Queen's Hall, London, UK.
The Ray Miller Orchestra records Anything You Say, for Brunswick Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Patti Page records Changing Partners for Mercury Records in the USA. It will peak at No3 in the Billboard popular Singles Chart in the USA during a 21-week stay.


Sam Cooke plays the sixth of seven nights at The Town Hill Club, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Fats Domino releases a new single, Did You Ever See A Dream Walking, on Imperial Records in the USA.


Bawdy US blues vocalist/guitarist Bo Carter dies aged 72, of a cerebral haemorrhage in at Shelby County Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. His 1920s and 30s recording successes included Please Warm My Weiner, Ramrod Daddy, Banana In Your Fruit Basket and My Pencil Don't Write.

Frankie Laine records Heartaches Can be Fun, and Seven Days Of Love for Capitol Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jody Miller records Magic Town (written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) and Yesterday with producer Steve Douglas in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
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The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is I Found A True Love by Wilson Pickett entering at No58.
Guru Guru undertake a live Radio Bremen radio broadcast from Gymnasium Leibniizplatz, Bremen, Germany, Europe.
Canadian rock combo Bachman-Turner Overdrive release a new single, You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, in the USA.
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Barry White reaches No1 in the Billboard US Top 40 singles with Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe. On the same day Carl Douglas reaches No1 in the UK singles chart with Kung Fu Fighting.
On the second leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, supported by Roadwork. 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.

The Rolling Stones have a second day of rehearsals at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for the imminent first night of their Bridges To Babylon tour.


The two-day long iHeartRadio Music Festival concludes at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with performances from Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Sir Paul McCartney, Avril Lavigne, Miley Cyrus, Drake, Tim McGraw, Ke$ha, Maroon 5, The Wanted. Ne-Yo and others. Miley Cyrus is observed to be in tears during her performance of Wrecking ball.
The National, Rise Against, Bob Mould, Violent Femmes, Manchester Orchestra, Dropkick Murphys, Sublime With Rome and others play on the third and last day of The Riot Fest, Sports Authority Field at Mile High, Denver, Colorado, USA.


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