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King Oliver and His Orchestra record Freakish Light Blues, West End Blues and I've Got That Thing for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
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Marx Brothers movie A
Night At The Opera, including the songs Alone, Santa Lucia, All
I Do Is Dream of You, Cosi-Cosa and Take Me Out To The Ballgame, opens at cinemas in the USA.
Blues vocalist and guitarist Johnnie Temple, with The Harlem Hamfats, records Snapping Cat and Pimple Blues for Decca Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Ray Charles And His Orchestra record The Ego Song and Someday for Swing Time Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, with The Sam Price Trio, records Sin Is To Blame for Decca Records in New York City, USA.R'n'b pioneer Big Joe Turner records Honey Hush and Crawdad Hole in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for Atlantic Records.
The first-ever Grammy Awards ceremony is held in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA. Tequila by The Champs wins Best R'n'B Performance, Perry Como is Best Male Vocalist, Ella Fitzgerald is Best Female Vocalist. The Chipmunks, however, win two Grammys - for Best Comedy, Best Engineering and Best Children’s Recording.R'n'B quintet The 5 Keys are in King Records Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, recording Girl You Better Stop It, Stop Your Crying, Wrapped Up In A Dream, Will You and I'll Never Stop Loving You.
Mississippi John Hurt records several songs in Coolidge Auditorium, Library Of Congress, Washington DC, USA.Rod Stewart makes his debut with Long John Baldry's Hoochie Coochie Men at The Marquee, London, UK. (The Hoochie Coochie Men are, effectively, The Cyril Davies All-Stars, re-named in the wake of Davies' recent death).
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The Soul Agents play at Bure Homage Country Club, Bure Lane, Mudeford, Dorset, UK.The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Fender Club in Churchill Hall, Harrow, London, UK.
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The Rolling Stones pre-record an appearance for The Clay Cole Show in New York City, USA.
Appearing at the fifth annual National Jazz and Blues Festival at Richmond Athletic Ground, Richmond, England, UK, are The Who, Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart and The Yardbirds. The Who's drummer Keith Moon fuels his performance by taking twenty amphetamine pills beforehand.
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At Olympic Studos in London, England, UK, Europe, the Jimi Hendrix Experience records a version of Bob Dylan's song All Along The Watchtower. Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones is in attendance.
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The Rolling Stones spend the eighth of seventeen days of recording at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Kinks begin a UK tour at the Granada Theatre, Mansfield, England, also featuring The Tremeloes, The Herd, Ola And The Janglers, and Gary Walker, formerly of The Walker Brothers, with his new band The Rain.
Ike And Tina Turner play at The Mistrale Club (formerly Beckenham Ballroom, Beckenham, Kent, England, UK, Europe.
Canned Heat play the second of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Litter.
The Savage Resurrection play the last of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The New Yardbirds, later to re-name themselves Led Zeppelin, play two gigs in one day. First is at Raventlow Park, Falster, Denmark, Europe, and second is at Fjordvilla Roskilde, Denmark, Europe.Jethro Tull head a multi-act bill at The Pavilion, Bath, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are Aynsley Dunbar.
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Janis Joplin And The Kozmic Blues Band are awarded a gold disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. for the album I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again, Mama.
Albert Collins releases a new album, Trash Talking, in the UK on Liberty Records.
Grand Funk Railroad, Mott The Hoople and The Kinks play the first of two nights at The Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, New York State, USA.
Popular jazz and blues singer Viola Wells, nicknamed "The Ebony Stick Of Dynamite" and "Miss Rhapsody", dies aged 82 in New York City, USA.
R'n'b and jazz saxophonist Rosa King plays at The Forum, Kentish Town, London, England, UK, Europe.
At Tuileries, New York City, USA, Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones attends a dinner for the Crown Prince of Belgium.
Aerosmith play at Lee County Civic Center, Fort Myers, Florida, USA, supported by Joan Jett.
The Fabulous Thunderbirds play at South Street Seaport, Pier 16, New York City, USA.
Featuring Long John Baldry, Zoot Money and Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry, The Great British Legends of Rhythm And Blues tour plays in the Playhouse, Weston-Super-Mare, UK.
Devizes-based singer-songwriter Jon Amor plays at the Sailor's Return, Weymouth, UK.
A painting by Gerhard Richter owned by guitarist Eric Clapton is sold for £21.3m [$34.2m, 26.4m euros], a record for the work of a living artist, at Sotheby's Auction House, London, UK. An anonymous bidder bought the oil painting on canvas, Abstraktes Bild (809-4), for more than ten times the price Clapton paid eleven years earlier.Award-winning blues band King King play at Lehenbachalle, Winterbach, Germany, Europe.
The Isle of Wight Festival, a four-day event, begins at
Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK, Europe. Artists appearing over the coming days include The Stone Roses, Bon Jovi, Jake Bugg, Ellie Goulding, Bonnie Raitt, Imperial Teen, The Script, Paloma Faith and Bloc Party.
Damon Albarn, Songhoy Blues and Nahawa Doumbia play at Festival Acoustik in the Institut Francais, Bamako, Mali, Africa. The event has gone ahead despite recent ISIS bombings in Mali, and is seen as a celebration of the country's rich musical heritage in defiance of extremist groups and a state of emergency.
On their America Latina Ole Tour, The Rolling Stones play the second of three nights at Estadio Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, South America.1929 |
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