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The musical comedy Florodora plays at The Casino Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 505 performances.
Musical comedy The Toreador is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 675 performances. 
The Majestic Burlesquers are appearing at The Dewey Theatre, New York City, USA.The Carolina Twins, aka David O. Fletcher and Gwin Stanley Foster, record Charlotte Hot Step and Red Rose Rag, for Victor Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Aspiring young vocalist Frank Sinatra sings with the Harold Arden Band at The Rustic Cabin, Englewood, New Jersey, USA. The venue is a regular gig for Sinatra who also doubles as headwaiter.Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys record Liza Pull Down The Shades in Dallas, Texas, for Okeh Records.
A feature in Jet magazine in the USA presents contrasting opinions about racist policies in American venues from bandleader Duke Ellington and music entrepreneur Norman Granz. Ellington seems resigned to the idea that blacks must accept prejudice, while Granz says his Jazz At The Philharmonic band would refuse to perform for a segregated audience.
Carmen Cavallaro And His Quartet are playing during two weeks at The Night And Day Club, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, South America, with a wage packet of $4,000 per week.
After preliminary engagements in New Haven, Boston and Philadelphia, the stage musical Bells Are Ringing opens at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will notch up a total of 924 performances during its runs at The Shubert and The Alvin Theatres.Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Victoria Hall, Hanley, UK, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
At Jazz saxophonist Al Sears records The Thrill Is Gone, Record Hop, Ain't No Use and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Swingville Records.
Barbra Streisand is playing during a one-month engagement at The Blue Angel, New York City, USA.
In Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Elvis Presley begins a month with no working commitments.
Dale Rivers And The Ramrods play at The Locarno Ballroom, Old Town Square, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.Duane Eddy, The Shirelles, Gene Vincent, Gary 'US' Bonds, Carter-Lewis And The Southerners, Mickie Most, The Flintstones and The Roof-Raisers play at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
The Beatles play at The ABC, Huddersfield, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Vernons Girls, The Brook Brothers, Peter Jay and The Jaywalkers, and others.
Internationally popular Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona dies of a heart attack while travelling in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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Marlene Dietrich is playing at The Queen's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of three weeks.
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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The Big TNT Show, produced by Phil Spector, is filmed at The Moulin Rouge Club, Los Angeles, Caliufornia, USA. The show features Ray Charles, The Byrds, The Lovin' Spoonful, Ike And Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Donovan, The Ronettes, Roger Miller , Joan Baez, Petula Clark, The Modern Folk Quartet. In the audience are Frank Zappa, Sky Saxon, singer and frontman for The Seeds, and Ron Mael and Russell Mael, who will later form the band Sparks. The show, effectively a sequel to The T.A.M.I. Show, will be released as a movie in 1966.
The Marquee Show, featuring Manfred Mann, The Yardbirds, Inez And Charlie Foxx, Paul And Barry Ryan, Gary Farr And The T-Bones, the Mark Leeman Five and The Scaffold, plays at The ABC, Northampton, England, UK, Europe.Nico (backed by Jackson Browne on guitar) plays at Stanley's in the basement of The Dom, New York City, USA, supported by Tim Buckley.
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The Platters are playing during a two-week engagement at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Diana Ross And The
Supremes release a new single, Someday We'll Be Together, on
Tamla
Motown Records in the UK.
The Rolling Stones release a new single, Shattered, on Rolling Stones Records in the USA.
Donny And Marie Osmond are undertaking a two-week live engagement in Hamilton, New Zealand, Oceania.
On their The Present tour, The Moody Blues play at The Thomas And Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Jerry Garcia Band plays at The Veterans Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Beyoncé, Johnny Clegg, Jimmy Cliff, The Corrs, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Eurythmics, Queen, Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Anastacia, Bob Geldof, Paul Oakenfold with Shifty Shellshock and TC, the Soweto Gospel Choir, the Amampondo Drummers, Baaba Maal, Youssou N'Dour, Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens), The Who, Angelique Kidjo, Bono and The Edge of U2, Abdel Wright, Chris Thompson, Zoe Nicholas, Treana Morris, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Bongo Maffin, Danny K, Watershed, Zucchero, Ms. Dynamite and Andrew Bonsu play in the 46664 AIDS benefit concert in honour of Nelson Mandela, in Green Point Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa. The event is hosted by Mandela.
Band Aid 20 release a new single, Do They Know It’s Christmas, in the UK on Mercury Records.
48-year-old Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle's first album, I Dreamed A Dream, becomes the best-selling debut in UK chart history when it goes to No.1 on the UK chart.The Rockstar Taste Of Chaos tour, featuring Disturbed, Papa Roach, Buckcherry and Halestorm plays at the Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
Amy MacDonald plays at Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe, supported by Andy Burrows.
Coldplay and their Mylo Xyloto artwork collaborator, Paris, host an exhibition of original Mylo Xyloto artwork to raise funds for Kids Company at Proud Galleries in Camden, London, UK.
Touring in support of his latest LP, Road Songs For Lovers, 1900 |
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