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Burlesque musical The Regatta Girl is playing at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 22 performances.
Maurice Winnick is born in Manchester, UK. He will find success as a big band leader and recording artist of the 1930s and 1940s.
The musical comedy The Billionaire, with music by Gustav Kerker and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, closes at Daly's Theatre, New York City, USA.
Today's edition of the British weekly publication Popular Music And Dancing includes five complete song and dance hits, I'm Nobody's Gal, Your Own Pierrot, Shiela, Hawaiian Maid and What Would We Do Without Wimmin'?Jazz violinist Joe Venuti's Blue Four with Eddie Lang on guitar record The Wild Dog and Dinah for Okeh Records in New York City, USA.
A new Mickey Mouse cartoon by Walt Disney, The Opry House, is released to cinemas in the USA, featuring music by Carl Stalling.
Polish tenor Jan Zalski plays his final date with Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the twenty-first night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Canadian-born country singer Hank Snow records his hit single I'm Movin' On at Brown Radio Productions, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It will reach No1 on the Billboard country chart in the USA and remain at the top for 29 consecutive weeks.
The musical revue New Faces Of 1952, closes at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 365 performances. The revue is perhaps best remembered because it features Eartha Kitt making her Broadway debut with the spectacular song, Monotonous, based on real events in her life.
Early rock'n'roller Jerry Reed, known as the Alabama Wildman, records I've Had Enough in Nashville, Tennessee, USA,
Bo Diddley and Screamin' Jay Hawkins play the last night in a week of dates at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
A rock'n'roll package tour, The Super Show, featuring Tommy Sands, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion And The Belmonts, Neil Sedaka, Johnny And The Hurricanes, Freddy Cannon, Jimmy Clanton, Marv Johnson, comes to the end of a week of dates in Australia.
The Max Roach Quintet, Abbey Lincoln and Mal Waldron play during a two-week residency at The Jazz Gallery, New York City, USA. The gigs provide a showcase for Roach's Freedom Now Suite, which powerfully advocates civil rights.
Johnnie And Jack record Waterloo, A Little Bitty Tear and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenie South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Illinois Jacquet records Banned In Boston, Ydeen-o, Back Home Again In Indiana and Reverie, in New York City, USA.
Hank Snow records I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late, With This Ring I Thee Wed, Paving The Highway With Tears and I'm Movin' On at Brown Radio Productions, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Lonely Ones play the second of two nights at The Gateway Club, Northampton, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, UK. They will find greater success after changing their name to The Soul Agents.
Blanche Thomas with the Albert "Papa" French Band records Won't
You Come Home, Bill Bailey?, for Nobility Records in the USA.
The John Coltrane Quartet plays at The Half Note, New York City, USA. On the same day, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler play in a benefit concert for the Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School, at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Rolling Stones reach No1 in the UK singles chart - with one of their own compositions for the first time - The Last Time.
Country Joe And The Fish and Steppenwolf play the first of three nights at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
Joe Cocker Mad Dogs And Englishmen, Ronnie Hawkins and Stone The Crows play the second of two nights at The Fillmore East, New York City, USA. Recordings from this show will be used in Cocker's Mad Dogs And Englishmen album.
The Steve Miller Band, Country Joe And The Fish and Hamilton Face play the second of two nights at The Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York State, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Memorial Auditorium, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays at Docklands Arena (aka London Arena), London, UK.
Following pressure from Sony Records, today’s edition of music trade magazine Billboard in the USA does not include a planned anti-fur advertisement which directly attacked Sony artist Jennifer Lopez for wearing fur clothing, and for marketing fur in her Sweetface fashion line.
Popular singer Laura Canales, known as the Queen Of The Tejano Wave, undergoes gall bladder surgery at Christus Spohn Hospital, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. She will, however, contract pneumonia and other complications from which she will die a few weeks later.
An announcement is posted on the Static-X website declaring that the band has parted company with guitarist Tripp Eisen, who was recently arrested on charges of under-age sex.
The Jazz In The Gardens Music Festival 2009 begins in the Miami Dolphin Stadium, Miami Gardens, Miami, Florida. Artists appearing over the two days of the event include Common, Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton, Kenny G, Will Downing, Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly and Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds.
Walter Schreifels plays at The O2 Academy 2, Bristol, UK, supported by Nic Dawson Kelly.
The 6th Annual Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala is held in the George Weston Recital Hall at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada. Rush and Robert Charlebois are among those honoured.
On his 80-concert Sailing To Philadelphia Tour, Mark Knopfler plays the second of two nights at The National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays at The Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, Texas, USA.
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Funeral For A Friend play at The New Roadmender, Northampton, UK, with Vales and Employed To Serve.
Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at Union Hall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Son Little plays at Oslo, London, England, UK, Europe.1900 |
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