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A Chinese Honeymoon, billed as 'The English Musical Sensation' is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 364 performances.The Quaker Girl, is playing at The Park Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 240 performances.
The Okeh Medicine Show including Frank Luther and Carson Robison, record The Medicine Show Acts 1 and 2, in New York City, USA for OKeh Records.
Popular 70's Chicago blues guitarist Jimmy Dawkins is born in Chychula, Mississippi, USA.
The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.Charlie Parker plays the sixth of seven nights at Soldier Meyer's, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
The revue An Evening With Beatrice Lillie is presented at The Booth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 276 performances. As well as its actress-singer star, the show features piano duettists Eddie And Rack. David Wright is born in Kent, UK. He will become well-known as as a keyboard player, composer and co-founder of the New Age electronic rock band Code Indigo and the New Age music duo Callisto. Wright will also found the New Age music label AD Music in 1989.
Entering at No23 Love Walked In by The Hilltoppers is the highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the Best-Selling Singles in the USA.
The Sammy Kaye Orchestra plays at the annual Ak-Sar-Ben Coronation Ball in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Baby Washington, Bobby Freeman, The Miracles and Gene And Eunice play the second night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
Package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars For '60, featuring Brenda Lee, Duane Eddy, Fabian, Chubby Checker, Freddy Cannon and Bill Black's Combo, plays in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars For '60, featuring Brenda Lee, Duane Eddy, Fabian, Chubby Checker, Freddy Cannon and Bill Black's Combo, plays in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The stage musical Do-Re-Mi, starring Max Bygraves, with music by Jule Styne, is playing at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, England, Europe, during a run of 169 performances.
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.
Hawkshaw Hawkins is playing during six nights at The Flame Theatre-Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Dominican nun Sister Luc-Gabriel records Dominique at Philips Studio in Brussels, Belgium, Europe. Under the name The Singing Nun, she will take the song to the top of the pop charts around the world.
Jazz pianist Jimmy Rushing is recorded live in a concert for the Jazz Casual tv series in at KQED Television Studios, San Francisco, California, USA.
Toni Carroll is playing during three weeks at The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Benny Goodman and Abbe Lane are the musical guests on today's edition of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson on NBC-tv in New York City, USA.
The Merseybeats play a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The Alan Price Rhythm'n'Blues Combo plays at The Jazz Lounge, Club A' Gogo, Percy Street, Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK, Europe. The group will find greater success after it evolves to become The Animals.
Sonny Rollins plays at 
Heinz And The Wild Ones, including guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, later to find fame in Deep Purple, play as part of a pckage tour at The Theatre Royal, Norwich, UK. The tour also features The Dixie Cups, Jess Conrad, The Tornados and Wayne Gibson.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio scenes for his eighteenth film, Tickle Me, at Allied Artists studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pioneering San Francisco hippy band The Grateful Dead play the second of two nights at the Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Linda Ronstadt begins recording her tenth album, Mad Love at Record One studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Luther Vandross reaches No1 in the Billboard US R'n'B singles chart with Never Too Much. On the same day, The Jam enter the UK singles chart with Absolute Beginners, which will peak at No4.
BBC tv journalist Michael Buerk reports on the terrible famine that has hit Ethiopia, Africa. The dispatch subsequently airs on 425 stations around the world, and will lead Bob Geldof to organise the Live Aid event and the Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas?
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On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of three nights at The Palace of Auburn Hills, Rochester, Minnesota, to an audience of 16,670.
The biographical film 'Listen: Gerry Mulligan' is premiered at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, USA, where it is presented by Wynton Marsalis.
The historic Dylan in-concert album Live At The Royal Albert Hall enters the UK pop albums chart where it will peak at No19 during a two-week run.
Linkin Park release their debut album Hybrid Theory, on Warner Bros Records in the USA. By the end of 2009 it will have sold 29m copies worldwide.
Nanci Griffith plays at The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, supported by The Crickets.
Squeeze, with their 'very special guest' Dr John Cooper Clarke, come to the end of their From The Cradle To The Grave tour, with a gig at The International Centre, Harrogate, England, UK,.
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On his 'final' tour, entitled Farewell Yellow Brick Road, Elton John plays at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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