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The musical comedy The Sultan Of Sulu is presented at Wallack's Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 192 performances.A production of the "musical extravaganza" The Wizard Of Oz by L. Frank Baum with music by Paul Tietjens and A.B. Sloane, plays at The Majestic Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The musical comedy The Prince Of Pilsen is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of four months.
Dix's Gaiety Company plays at The City Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, James Weaver is born in Covington, Newton County, Georgia, USA. He will find success as blues guitarist Curley Weaver [aka Slim Gordon]. A pioneering blues recording artist, he will be known for much of his life as "the Georgia Guitar Wizard".
Neil Jones, guitarist with 60s hitmakers Amen Corner, is born in Llanbradach, South Wales.
Ronald Dean McDowell is born in Fountain Head, Tennessee, USA. He will find success as country music singer Ronnie McDowell, scoring more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts, with two of them reaching No1.
Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band with singer Neva Raphaello play at the London Jazz Club in Mack's Restaurant, 100 Oxford Street, London, UK. Also on the bill is Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band with vocalist George Melly.
The Bell Sisters are heard in a live appearance on the Bob Hope Show on NBC Radio in the USA. The show was, in fact, recorded a week earlier in San Diego, California, 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.
The Ice Capades Of 1953 present their version of the Lerner and Loewe musical Brigadoon at Chicago Arena, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Joni James is featured on the cover of jazz magazine Downbeat in the USA. The same edition also includes stories on Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Jimmy Dorsey, Maynard Ferguson and others.Dickie Valentine plays at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, with Tommy Whittle and his Orchestra with Stevie Wise, Keith Christie and Johnny Francis.
Wee Willie Harris, The Most Brothers, Tony Crombie And His Rockets and Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group play the second of six nights at the Alhambra, Bradford, UK.
The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.The Fifth Eurovision Song Contest is held in London, UK. The winner is French vocalist Jacqueline Boyer, with the song Tom Piilibi.
Belle Barth is playing at The Roundtable, New York City, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes and Bill Bailey's Calypso Band play a late night session at The Iron Door Club, Liverpool, UK.
The Beatles are filming sequences for their first movie, A Hard Day's Night, in The Scala Theatre, London, UK.
The Rolling Stones have a day of media interviews, including Danish tv, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.A busy night for Pink Floyd as they cram in three gigs. First is an early evening show at the Ricky Tick Club in the Thames Hotel, Windsor, UK. This is followed by a performance at the New Yorker Discotheque, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, and finally (in the early hours of the next morning) The Shoreline Club in The Caribbean Hotel, Bognor Regis.
Happy Together by The Turtles knocks The Beatles' Penny Lane from the top of the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA.
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The Move play at The Pavilion, Bath, England, UK, Europe.
The musical 42nd Street is presented at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will subsequently move to the Majestic Theatre and then to The St. James Theatre, before finally closing in 1989, having racked up a total of 3,486 performances.
The 60s Golden Greats nostalgia tour, featuring Bobby Vee, The Searchers and Chris Montez, comes to an end at The Wimbledon Theatre, London, UK.Testament, Savatage and Nuclear Assault play at The Vic Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Appetite For Destruction by Guns N' Roses is certified as a ten-times platinum album by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
On the first leg of their Unleashed tour, Fleetwood Mac play at the Bell Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Mark Feltham and Dennis Greaves, best known as founder members of Nine Below Zero, play at The Prince Albert, Stroud, England, UK, Europe.
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