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Ray Humphreys And His Orchestra with "Singing Star" Mavis Jones play at Bootle Town Hall, Liverpool, UK.
Frank Sinatra is the first artist to use the new Studio A in Capitol Recording Studios, Hollywood, California, USA, when he conducts an orchestra playing material composed specially by Leonard Bernstein, Nelson Riddle, Andre Previn, Billy May and others for his instrumental album Tone Poems of Color.
Please, Please, Please, the US debut single by James Brown, is reviewed in US trade magazine Billboard with the words, "a dynamic religious fervour runs through the pleading solo here. Brown and the Famous Flames group let off plenty of steam."
Elvis Presley plays in the City Auditorium, Waycross, Georgia, USA. In the audience is nine-year-old Ingram Cecil Connor III, who is deeply moved by the show and, soon after, begins to dress like Elvis. In later years, Ingram Cecil Connor will re-name himself Gram Parsons and become a pioneer of the country-rock genre.
On a European tour, impresario Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic troupe, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and others, plays in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Please, Please, Please, the debut single by James Brown, is reviewed in trade magazine Billboard in the USA with the words, "a dynamic religious fervour runs through the pleading solo here. Brown and The Famous Flames group let off plenty of steam."
Ray Humphreys And His Orchestra with "Singing Star" Mavis Jones play at Bootle Town Hall, Bootle, Liverpool, UK.
On a European tour, Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic troupe, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and others, plays in Gothenburg, Sweden.