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The Washingtonians, led by Duke Ellington, record I'm Gonna Hang Around My Sugar and Trombone Blues for Pathe Actual Perfect Records in New York City, USA.
Isham Jones And His Orchestra and his Orchestra leave New York City, USA, aboard the S.S.Leviathan, bound for dates at the The Kit-Kat Club in London, UK.
Vocalist and guitarist Frank Stokes is recorded performing What's The Matter Blues in Memphis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Whistlin' Alex Moore records They May Not Be My Toes, West Texas Woman, Ice Pick Blues and Heart Wrecked Blues for Columbia Records in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Making use of the extra time available on the new long-playing record format, Duke Ellington records a fifteen-minute version of his classic Mood Indigo, for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Cowboy Copas records Tennesse Flat Guitar, Those Gone And Left Me Blues, I'm Glad I'm On The Inside Looking Out and Four Books In The Bible, at King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Smilin' Smokey Lynn, Duke Henderson, The Golden Keys, Big Jay McNeely and others play in Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA. Known as The Blues And Rhythm Midnight Matinee, the show is hosted by radio deejay Hunter Hancock. Some authorities have described this as the first rock'n'roll concert to have been recorded.T-Bone Walker [guitar and vocal] records I Got The Blues, Street Walking Woman, Cold Cold Feeling, Get These Blues Off Me, News For You Baby, I Got The Blues Again, Blues Is Woman and Through With Women for Blue Note Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. His band includes Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis and Maxwell Davis on tenor saxophones, Jim Wynn on tenor and baritone saxophone, Willard McDaniel on piano, Billy Hadnott on bass and Robert 'Snake' Sims on drums.
Julian Cope is born in Deri, Glamorgan, Wales. As well as leading The Teardrop Explodes, he will enjoy a long solo career as a beloved UK cult act.
Billie Holiday records I'm A Fool To Want You for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Jimmy Hendrix [later to become Jimi Hendrix] is given a two year suspended sentence for his part in a car theft, at Seattle Court House, Seattle, Washington, USA. The sentence is light because he has decided to enlist in the US Army.
The John Wright Quartet record Soul Search, Makin' Out and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
R'n'b singer/guitarist Lowell Fulson records So Many Tears, Why Don't You Write Me, Hung Down Head and Pay Day Blues in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The It is reported in music trade magazine Cashbox that Elektra Records has signed The Even Dozen Jug Band, Koerner Ray And Glover and Jean Carignan.
The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Mickie Most, Julie Grant, The Flintstones and The Rolling Stones play the final concert of their UK package tour at The Odeon, Hammersmith, London, England, UK, Europe.
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The The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Town Hall, Abergavenny, Wales.
When The Rolling Stones pre-record an appearance on Dean Martin's tv show, Hollywood Palace, in Los Angeles, California, USA, the ageing crooner cannot resist a string of jibes. After an appearance by a trampoline artist, Martin says "That's the father of The Rolling Stones. He's been trying to kill himself ever since."
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Lightnin' Hopkins plays at The Cabale (later to become The Questing Beast) in Berkeley, California, USA, with Barbara Dane.
The Rolling Stones appear live on UK tv show Ready Steady Go!, in London, UK, to promote their new single, It's All Over Now. Cilla Black, Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, Kenny Lynch and The Nashville Teens appear in the same edition.
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Big Brother And The Holding Company, Santana and Chicago Transit Authority play the first of three nights at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
Taste, featuring Rory Gallagher on guitar, play at the Locarno Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.The Rolling Stones play in The Assembly Hall, Champaign, Illinois, USA. Also on the bill are Chuck Berry and Terry Reid.
Janis Joplin attends the 10th Annual Reunion party at her former high school in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.Blues harp player and singer George Lightfoot dies in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. As Papa George Lightfoot he recorded for Sultan Records, Aladdin Records and Excello Records.
Pioneering female blues and country blues singer and songwriter Lillian Glinn dies in Richmond, California, USA.
The Grateful Dead play at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York State, USA.
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The On the first leg of their Unleashed tour, Fleetwood Mac play at the Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
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Folk singer-songwriter Jake Holmes begins a legal action against Led Zeppelin, suing the group because he wrote 'their' 1969 song Dazed And Confused in 1967.
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