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The Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is founded in Golden Green, Kent, UK. It will manufacture records for labels including Imperial Victory, Crown and Rex.
Having bought the 'rights' to the song You Are My Sunshine for $35 in late 1939 from its composer, Paul Rice, country music star and former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis, along with one Charlie Mitchell, publishes it through the Southern Music Publishing Company of New York City, USA, listing it as having "words and music by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell."
Billie Holiday plays the eighteenth night of four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the first night of two weeks at The Cave, Vancouver, Washington, USA.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, A Foggy Day, At Sundown and Home On The Range, backed by the Jeff Alexander Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
The Betty McGuire group is playing during six weeks at The Prince George, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Johnnie Gray's Band plays at The Gaiety Ballroom, Batley, England, UK, Europe.Chicago-born Joni James enters the UK Popular Singles Chart Singles Chart at No24 with There Must Be A Way. It will go no higher.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The Biggest Show Of Stars 1960 Winter Edition package tour plays at North Side Gym, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. Acts on the bill include Freddy Cannon, Clyde McPhatter, The Clovers, Bobby Rydell, Johnny And The Hurricanes, The Isley Brothers, The Crests, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Sammy Turner and Linda Laurie.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.Top songwriting and production team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller overhear Ellie Greenwich singing in the next room at The Brill Building, New York City, USA, and offer her a job as a staff writer with Red Bird Records.
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Jazz vibraharpist Dave Pike records tracks for his Riverside Records album It's Time For Dave Pike, in New York City, USA.
The US Patent and Trademark Office issues Patent No. 3,018,680, for an improved pickup device for
electric guitars to famed guitarist Les Paul.
Ella
Fitzgerald records After
You've Gone, Hallelujah
I Love Him So and other tracks for Verve Records in
Webster
Hall, New York City, USA.
Jimmy Jones And The Sensationals record I Can't Begin To Tell You, Lead Me On and other tracks for Savoy Records in the USA.
Sam Cooke, Phil Spector, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Don Kirshner and other music biz movers and shakers attend the BMI Dinner in the Pierre Hotel, New York City, USA.
Music trade magazine Billboard introduces an R'n'B Albums chart, reflecting the increasing sales of long-playing records in the USA.
Johnny Cash's version of Bob Dylan's song It Ain't Me Babe peaks at No4 in the Billboard Country singles chart in the USA.
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The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The Treniers are playing during a lengthy engagement at The Sahara Lounge, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band play at The Palais, Ilford, Kent, England, UK, Europe.The Who and The Small Faces perform at Wellington Town Hall, Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania. Following the show, a birthday party is thrown for Small Faces' singer Steve Marriott. During the party, Marriott's new record player is thrown out of the hotel room window by The Who's drummer Keith Moon.
Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band play at The Palais, Ilford, Kent, England, UK, Europe. The first edition of Cilla Black's very own BBC tv show, Cilla, is broadcast in the UK, with Tom Jones as her guest.
The Supremes record Up The Ladder To The Roof and Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye for Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
UK pop weekly the NME publishes its annual readers' poll, showing The Jam as Best Group of 1981.
Other NME Poll Winners : Altered Images - Best New Act
Siouxsie Sioux - Best Female Singer
David Bowie - Best Male Singer
Paul Weller (The Jam) - Best Songwriter
The Specials' Ghost Town - Best Single
Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here - Best Album.
Other NME Poll Winners : Altered Images - Best New Act
Siouxsie Sioux - Best Female Singer
David Bowie - Best Male Singer
Paul Weller (The Jam) - Best Songwriter
The Specials' Ghost Town - Best Single
Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here - Best Album.
On the Who Am I tour, Nick Jonas and The Administration play at Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, California, USA.
On the JLCO Winter Tour 2011, Wynton Marsalis plays the first of two nights at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC , USA.
During the Earth Is On Hell tour, Anthrax, Death Angel and Testament play at The Orange Peel, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
Acclaimed folk guitarist Nic Jones is named Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in London, England, UK, Europe. Jones had been out of action for almost thirty years, having been seriously injured in a car crash in 1982.
On her 
On their Dimension 4 - Docking Station tour, F(x) play the second of three nights at Olympic Hall, Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea, Asia.
Black Sabbath cancel their show in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, because singer Ozzy Osbourne is suffering from extreme sinusitis.
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