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Singer Benjamin 'Bullmoose' Jackson, noted for his double-entendre hits including I Want A Bow-Legged Woman and Big Ten Inch Record, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.Garth Green And His Orchestra provide the music for a German Dance, starting at midnight in The Cooper Club, Henderson, Texas, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the forty-fifth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that country artist Shorty Long has left RCA Victor Records and moved to King Records.
Jesse Willard Carr is born in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA. He will find success as guitarist Pete Carr, first as a member of The Hour Glass but later as a studio session player with the world-famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
The Irving Berlin musical and political satire Call Me Madam is playing at The Coliseum, London, England, UK, during a run of 485 performances. Main cast members are Billie Worth (Sally Adams), Anton Walbrook (Cosmo), Jeff Warren (Ken Gibson) and Shani Wallis (Princess Maria). Songs include The Hostess with the Mostes', It's a Lovely Day Today, The Ocarina, They Like Ike and You're Just in Love.
Singer and popular songwriter Hank Fort is playing at The Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
The musical Hazel Flagg, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Hilliard, is playing at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 190 performances.
Jazz guitar virtuoso Wes Montgomery records
Olive Tree, Not Since Nineveh, Baubles
Bangles And Beads, Fate, And This Is My Beloved and Stranger in
Paradise in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Country-gospel quartet The Blackwood Brothers play in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA.Gary 'U.S.' Bonds, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels, Mark Wynter and The Fleerekkers play at The Hippodrome, Birmingham, UK.
Jay And The Americans play the fifth night in a week of shows at Camelot, New York City, USA.
Gene Vincent plays at The Vista Cinema, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by The
Echoes.
The Rolling Stones' fourth UK tour continues at The Carlton, Slough, supported by Peter And Gordon, The Overlanders, The Barron Knights, David John And The Mood, Julie Grant and Tony Marsh.
Bobby 'Blue' Bland records Ain't Doin' Too Bad, I Won't Forget, Loneliness Hurts, When You Put Me Down, I'm Gonna Cry, Reconsider Baby and Ain't No Telling in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for Duke Records.
The Beatles film a live black and white tv performance sequence at Twickenham Film Studios, St Margaret's, Twickenham, UK, for the opening of their second film, Help!
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.
Marilyn Michaels plays during a four-week engagement at The Latin Quarter, New York City, USA.
Pioneering Swedish Big band leader Theodor Pinet dies aged 78 in John Township, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe.
Ernest 'Pop' Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has two-third of his stomach, plus his gall bladder, removed at Vanderbilt Medical Center in 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.
On their first European tour, Creedence Clearwater Revival play at The Sportpalast, Berlin, Germany, Europe.
On their Get Me A Ladder Tour, Emerson, Lake And Palmer play in The Grosse Westfalen Halle, Dortmund, Germany, Europe.The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the fourteenth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Having sold over two million copies, Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor is declared the first platinum single.
Black Sabbath come to the end of their Technical Ecstasy European tour with a show at The Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden, with AC/DC in support.During his third gospel tour, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays the first of four nights at the Le Theatre Saint-Denis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
It is reported that Annie Lennox [Eurythmics] has split from her husband, film producer Uri Fruchtmann, after twelve years together. 
The sixth Terrastock
Festival, promoted and organised by Melksham-based music
journalist/entrepreneur Phil
McMullen, continues in Providence, Rhode
Island. Artists appearing today, the second of the festival's
three nights, include Tom Rapp, Thought Forms, Damon & Naomi, Windy &
Carl and The Spacious Mind.
John Weller, father and manager of 
Federal judge Madeline Cox in Newark, New Jersey, USA, postpones Lauryn Hill's sentencing on tax evasion charges but not before scolding the singer for reneging on a promise to make restitution on her $1.8m debt by now.
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