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Musical extravaganza, The Defender, is playing at The Herald Square Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of sixty performances. The show is best remembered for introducing the song In The Good Old Summer Time, which will become a popular standard.
A "large section" of the US Marine Band is playing at Chevy Chase Lake, Washington DC, USA.
Having lately suffered a mental breakdown, comedian and music hall star Dan Leno, currently detained in Camberwell House Asylum, London, England, UK, Europe, is reported to be "improving".
The musical comedy The Maid Of The Mountains, with music by Harold Fraser-Simpson and J.W. Tate, is playing at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of 1352 performances.
An advertisement in The Herald Courier newspaper of Bristol, Tennessee, USA, invites local musicians to attend recording
sessions supervised by producer Ralph Peer in The
Taylor-Christian Hat Company warehouse on State Street in Bristol.
In the days that follow, Peer will record performances by Ernest V. Stoneman's Dixie Mountaineers, Blind Alfred
Reed, Henry Whitter, Albert Karnes, Ernest Phillips and His Holiness
Quartet, B.F. Shelton, El Watson, The Johnson Brothers, J.P. Nextor
and Norman Edmonds, Dad Blackard And The Shelors, The Alcoa
Quartet, Mr. And Mrs. J.W. Baker, Red Snodgrass and The West
Virginia Coonhunters. These historic recording dates will become
known as The
Bristol Sessions
Jazz saxophonist, composer and recording artist Kim Richmond is born in Champaign, Illinois, USA.
Arthur Prysock is playing during a two-week stand at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Little Things Mean A Lot reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Kitty Kallen and Alma Cogan.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
Bill Justis records The Stripper, Calcutta, Stranger On the Shore, Take Five, Sleep Walk and other tracks with producer Shelby Singleton in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers and The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] play the evening show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
The Merseybeats play a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Jet Harris and Tony Meehan, a UK instrumental duo formed by ex-members of The Shadows, record Applejack and The Tall Texan for Decca Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Hamilton Camp plays the second of two nights at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
We Five release a new single, You Were On My Mind, on A + M Records in the USA. The song is written by Sylvia Fricker of the folk duo Ian And Sylvia.
The musical comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
John Lee Hooker is playing during three nights at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Indian Puddin And Pipe play the first of three nights at the Family Dog, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Tripsichord and Phanangawang.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the first of two nights at the International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois.
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.
On their World Vacation tour, Van Halen play the first of two nights at The St. Paul Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald is playing during six nights at The Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, England, UK, Europe.
Altered Images, Roman Holliday and The Smiths play at Hammersmith Palais, London, England, UK, Europe.
It is announced that Michael Jackson is to star in a 3-D science-fiction musical film, Captain EO, to be shown exclusively at Disneyland and Disney World.
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On her Who's That Girl tour, Madonna plays at The Astrodome, Houston, Texas, USA, supported by Level 42.
Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Huey Lewis and the News and Al Green are among the acts appearing on the second day of The HullabaLou festival at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Dan Peek, a founding member of 70s soft-rock hitmakers America, dies in his sleep, aged 60, at his home in Farmington, Missouri, USA.
On their Maiden England World Tour, Iron Maiden play at The MTS Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, supported by Coheed And Cambria.
Michael Graves, former frontman of horror-punk pioneers The Misfits, is released from jail where he had spent the night, following his arrest the previous day for marijuana possession while passing through a Mexican border checkpoint in Kennedy County, Texas, USA.
When police in Los Angeles, California, USA, respond to a medical emergency call in The Hollywood Hills, they find popular singer Demi Lovato unconscious as a result of a drug overdose. She is taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for treatment.
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