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Edison Records is founded in West Orange, New Jersey, USA. The company is owned by Thomas Edison, inventor of the Phonograph.
Songwriter Richard Rodgers is born in New York City, USA. He will become one of the leading songwriters of the 20th century, writing such Broadway musicals as Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, the television musical, Cinderella, and The Sound of Music, usually with Oscar Hammerstein II.
Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.Jack Hylton And His Orchestra record Couldn't You Care?, Only For You and I'm Taking That Baby Home, for HMV Records in Hayes, Middlesex, UK.
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra record Night Watch, Franceska and Prelude To A Kiss for Capitol Records in Capitol Studios, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Kenton's band for this session includes Maynard Ferguson, Bud Shank, Art Pepper and Shelley Manne to name just a few of its luminaries.
Leroy Anderson and His Pops Concert Orchestra record Fiddle-Faddle for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
Dizzy Gillespie And His Sextet play at The Capitol Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Frankie Masters Orchestra is playing for the Ice Show - Calendar Capers - in the Boulevard Room of The Conrad Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Nat Temple And His Radio Orchestra with vocalist Frankie Vaughan, play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.The Chet Baker Quartet, Anita O'Day and Johnnie 'Scat' Davis play the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The Ken McIntyre Quintet records They All Laughed, Curtsy and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for New Jazz Records.
The ATV show Calling Dickie Valentine features Petula Clark and Denis Lotis as guests.
When Beach Boys and The Raindrops play at The Azuza Teen Club, Azuza, California, USA, their performances are filmed for inclusion in the teen
documentary One
Man's Challenge.
The Soul Agents play in The Mecca Ballroom, Southampton Pier, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
Skeeter Davis records Cry Me A River, Dear Heart, I Wanna Be Loved By You, Secret Love and Sunglasses in RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Players on the session include guitarists Chet Atkins, Ray Edenton and Jerry Kennedy, with Norbert Putnam on electric bass, Henry Strzelecki on bass, Jerry Carrigan on drums, Floyd Cramer on celeste and tambourine, and Ray Stevens on piano. Chet Atkins also produces the session.
The John Coltrane Orchestra records Ascension Edition 1 Parts 1 and 2, and Ascension Edition 2 Parts 1 and 2, in Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Eric Clapton begins his 461 Tour, a 26-week coast-to-coast trek across the USA, with a show at Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Coliseum, Richfield, Ohio, USA, supported by Bob Seger And Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, is presented at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1208 performances.
Buddy Curtess And The Grasshoppers play at The Ravenswood Inn, East Grinstead, London, England, UK, Europe.The Style Council release a new single, Come To Milton Keynes, on Polydor Records in the UK.
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers, Roaring Boys and Skint Video play at Bedford College, Regent's Park, London, England, UK, Europe.
Big Daddy Kane releases his debut album Long Live The Kane on Cold Chillin' Records in the USA.
On their Paul McCartney's orchestral work, Liverpool Oratorio, is performed at Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool, UK.
Lela and Raymond Howard, an elderly couple in Salado, Texas, USA, leave home in their maroon Oldsmobile Delta 88, to attend the Pioneer Days Festival, fifteen miles away in Temple. They never
return. Two weeks later their bodies and the car are found at
the bottom of a 25-foot cliff. The 1998 hit song The Way by
Fastball will be inspired by their story.
The Dave Matthews Band plays at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.The four-day long Kavarna Rock Festival begins at Kaliakra Stadium, Kavarna, Bulgaria. Headline act on this day is Heaven And Hell.
Britney Spears' father files a legal document certifying that he has handed over a $1.5m bond to US legal authorities in order to remain Spears' legal guardian until at least the end of this year.
Glastonbury Festival continues at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, UK. The last day of the four-day event is headlined by Blur and other acts appearing include The Prodigy, Bon Iver, Bat For Lashes and Tom Jones.
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The Toronto Jazz Festival, a ten day event, continues at venues in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Artists appearing during the course of the festival include Ziggy Marley, Esperanza Spalding, Bill Frisell, George Benson, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Trombone Shorty, Natalie Cole, The Canadian Jazz Quartet and Benny Green.Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers are among the artists playing at The Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Styx, Foreigner and former Eagles' guitarist Don Felder play at Jones Beach Theatre, Jones Beach, Wantagh, New York State, USA.
On their Rock Or Bust tour, AC/DC play at Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe, supported by Vintage Trouble.
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