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The Moonlight Maids Burlesquers are playing during a week of shows at The Empire Theater, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.Jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader Charlie Barnet is born in New York City, USA.
Jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader Charlie Barnet is born in New York City, USA.
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.Nightclub owner Ed Small opens a new 1500 capacity club, Small's Paradise, in Harlem, New York City, USA, presenting big bands and floor shows. On this first night, music is supplied by Charlie Johnson's jazz band. It will earn a reputation as one of the top three clubs in New York.
Hal Swain And His Band record Come On, Baby, Riding On A Camel, There Ain't Many Babies About, Melancholy Pierrot, Ain't
Misbehavin' and Ev'ry Day Away From You, in London, UK, for
Regal
Records.
Cootie Williams And His Rug Cutters record I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Jubilesta, Watchin' and Pigeons And Peppers for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA.
The musical comedy Hellzapoppin', starring Olsen and Johnson is performed at The 46th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a total run of 1404 performances at three different theatres.
During a three-year-long residency, calypsonian Lord Caresser (aka The Caresser) is playing nightly in the downstairs bar of Rockhead's club, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Arthur Prysock, Varetta Dillard, Peppermint Harris, Joan Shaw and The Bill Hitchens Orchestra are playing a tour of one-nighters in the southern states of the USA.
Miles Davis has his first recording session for Columbia Records - while he is still under contract to Prestige Records.
26. Four policemen are injured when 500 German youths riot during a Bill Haley and His Comets concert at the Sports Palace, Berlin.
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 at The Municipal Auditorium, Charleston, West Virginia, USA.
Lightnin' Hopkins records the album Last Night
Blues at Van Gelder
Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for Bluesville Records.
Sonny
Terry plays harmonica on this album.
Tommy Steele, Teddy Johnson And Pearl Carr, Jimmy James, The Raindrops, Joe Baker And Jack Douglas, Desmond Walter-Ellis, The KIms and Regine And Andre Berny play during a seven-week season at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, England, UK, Europe.
Hawkshaw Hawkins is playing during six nights at The Flame Theatre-Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Chadwick Gaylord Smith, better known as Chad Smith, drummer with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, is born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.The very first Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye and Little Stevie
Wonder, plays its first date in the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
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The Squires, including guitarist Neil Young, play at Our Lady Of Victory Church, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada.Rolling Stones, supported by The Shangri-Las, play at Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, USA.
Manfred Mann play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Mark Leeman Five.
Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Marie
Likens dies, having been tortured to death by her carers in a
basement in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Her tragic story will
inspire the 1990 song The Basement by The Pain Teens.
The Kinks spend the fourth of eight days recording tracks for their album The Kink Kontroversy in Pye Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
The stage musical Chuck Berry plays the sixth of eight nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Five-Man Electrical Theatre.
A wake for Janis Joplin is held at The Lion's Share, 60 Redhill Avenue, San Anselmo, California, USA, with the Grateful Dead playing live. The wake is paid for with $1500 specified in Joplin's will.
It is reported in Rolling Stone magazine that Sly Stone has signed a lucrative new recording contract with Columbia Records.
Madness release a new single, One Step Beyond, in the UK on Stiff Records. On the same day, The first 2-Tone Tour, featuring The Specials, Madness and The Selecter, plays at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Curiousity Killed The Cat, Dante and The Friday Club play at The ICA, London, England, UK, Europe, during the venue's annual Rock Week. How To Be A … Zillionaire! by ABC enters the Billboard Top 40 albums chart in the USA where it will peak at No30 during a fifteen-week run.
David Byrne of Talking Heads begins his Rei Momo solo tour with the first of three solo shows at The Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Coldplay begin their Mylo Xyloto tour with a show for American Express Unstaged, at the Plaza De Toros De Las Ventas, Madrid, Spain, Europe. The show is streamed globally on YouTube. At the show, the band hand out flashing wristbands to every members of the audience, but this idea will misfire later in the tour, proving extremely costly to the band.
The load-in for production rehearsals on the North American leg of Muse's Drones tour begins in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Joe Fox plays at Les Bains Douches, Paris, France, Europe, with Vallis Alps and Starcrawler.
Penelope Trappes releases her second LP, Penelope Two, on Houndstooth Records.
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