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Blackface minstrel entertainer Lew Sully is appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill is Mlle. Chester with her "$10,000 Statue Dog".
The Royal Italian Band, conducted by Giuseppe Creatore, plays at The Odeon Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Helen May Butler's Famous Ladies Military Band plays at the Academy Of Music, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.James Bracken is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. As Jimmy Bracken, he will found Vee-Jay Records in Chicago in 1953. With acts like The Spaniels, Jimmy Reed, The Impressions and Gene Chandler, his company will become a major competitor with Chess Records. In the early 60s, Vee-Jay was the first label to issue The Beatles material in America.
British jazz trumpet star and radio personality Humphrey Lyttelton is born in Eton, Berkshire, England, UK, Europe.
The All Black musical show Chocolate Kiddies, featuring the singer Evelyn Dove, dancers Rufus Greenlee and Thadeus Drayton, with music written by Duke Ellington and performed by The Band, aka The Chocolate Kiddies Orchestra, comes to the end of its European tour with a show in Leningrad, Russia.Sam Lanin's University Orchestra, records I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling, written by Fats Waller, Harry Link and Billy Rose for Supertone Records in the USA.
The musical show The Wonder Bar is presented at The Nora Bayes Theatre on Breoadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 76 performances. Set in a Parisian nightclub in 1929, the show stars Al Jolson and features music by Robert Katscher with lyrics by Irving Ceasar.
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra come to the end of a seven-month residency in The Joseph Urban Room of The Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In the course of the residency, Goodman has established a popular new style of big-band music - swing.
Leo Reisman And His Orchestra perform songs including They All Laughed, Tango Caminito and The Piccolino radio programme The Schaefer Beer Nine O'clock Revue in the USA.
New Orleans piano virtuoso Jelly Roll Morton begins a two-week recording session with music archivist Alan Lomax that results in his influential Library Of Congress Recordings set, in which he not only plays classic jazz and ragtime pieces, but tells the story of the evolution of the music.
The King And I is performed at The St. James Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1246 performances.It is announced that Clyde McPhatter, former vocalist with The Dominoes, has signed a solo recording contract with Atlantic Records.
Dave 'Baby' Cortez, Bo Diddley, The Heartbeats, The Fiestas, The Cadillacs and Bobby Day play the second night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA. (1959)ong>
Cathy's
Clown by The Everly
Brothers hits the No1 spot in the USA in Billboard magazine for the first of five weeks.
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.
James Brown begins a tour of one-nighters in the USA, taking in venues across Texas, Mississippi and Florida.The Roy Haynes Quartet, featuring Roland Kirk, record Long Wharf, Moon Ray and Some Other Spring
at Van Gelder
Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Chet Atkins records Amazing Grace, Farther Along, Lonesome Valley, In The Garden, When They Ring The Golden Bells and Just A Closer Walk With Thee at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) by Solomon Burke enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak
at No33.
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.The Kingston Trio play the first of six nights at The Melodyland Theatre, Anaheim, California, USA.
Ron Eliran, known as "Israel's Ambassador of Song," is playing during a month of shows at The Hungry i, San Francisco, California, USA.
Paul Revere And The Raiders complete a three week tour of one-nighters with a show in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Country-blues guitarist and songwriter Lane Hardin dies in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God is presented at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.Tito Puente plays the last of thirteen nights at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Monochrome Set, supported by James King And The Lone Wolves and Del Amitri, play at The Electric Ballroom, Camden Town, London, England, UK, Europe, bringing their current British tour to an end.
Revered jazz guitarist Joe Pass dies aged 65 from liver cancer in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Devon Sproule And The Unmarked Animals release the album I Love You, Go Easy, on Tin Angel Records in the UK.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, plus special guest Muntu Valdo, play at The Barbican, London, England, UK, Europe.
Stevie B., Cynthia, Trinere, Shannon, Exposé, Lisa Lisa, Debbie Deb, Johnny O, Nu Shooz and Stacey Q play in the Super Freestyle Explosion Concert, in Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
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