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Albert Snaer is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as a jazz trumpeter, working on riverboats on the Mississippi River in the 1920s. In a long career he will appear with the bands of Fate Marable, Dewey Jackson and George Augustin. With Augustin, he will co-lead The Moonlight Serenaders. He will also play in the Excelsior Brass Band before moving to New York City in 1928.
Lillie Langtry (aka Lillie Langtree) records On The Margate Boat, Excursion Train, Hampstead Heath, Auntie Green, It's My Night Out and A Day At The Zoo for G&T/Zonophone Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Anita Rio records The Slumber Boat and Four-Leaf Clover for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Ten days after arriving in the UK, American bandleader Paul Specht and his band are granted work permits enabling them to perform in Britain. They had been refused work permits, but US Secretary of State, Charles Hughes, who had travelled on the same ship, used his influence with the British Government to have the permits granted.
Ben Selvin And His Orchestra record Suite 16 and In A Little Love Boat, in new York City, USA. The tracks will be released under various names including The Palm Beach Players and The Maryland Dance Orchestra on various labels including Vocalion, Duophone and Beltona.
Bluesman Richard 'Rabbit' Brown records The Sinking Of The Titanic, James Alley Blues, I'm Not Jealous, Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice, Mystery Of The Dunbar's Child and Great Northern Blues, supervised by Ralph Peer, for Victor Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The original London West End production of Show Boat opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Paul Robeson as Joe, Edith Day as Magnolia, Cedric Hardwicke as Capt. Andy and Alberta Hunter as Queenie.
Jessie Stafford And His Orchestra record I'm Following You, I'm Sailing On A Sunbeam, in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Brunswick Records.
Dave Fisher is born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He will become a founding member and lead singer of 1960s folk group The Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song Michael [Row the Boat Ashore] will become an unexpected international pop hit in 1962.
The USS Reuben James, a four-funnel Clemson-class destroyer, is torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-552, commanded by Kapitanleutnant Erich Topp, near Iceland, Europe. Of the 159-man crew, only 44 survive. Reuben James thus becomes the first United States Navy ship sunk by hostile action in World War II. Woody Guthrie will write his song The Sinking Of The Reuben James in memory of this incident. The song will also be recorded by The Kingston Trio.
After having run for 418 performances, a revival of the Jerome Kern-composed musical Show Boat closes at The Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City, USA.
Harbor Lights by The Sammy Kaye Orchestra on Columbia Records enters the Billboard Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1 during a run of 25 weeks on the chart.
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.
Perry Como records There's No Boat Like A Rowboat and There's A Big Blue Cloud, with Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra and The Fontane Sisters at The Manhattan Center, New York City, USA.
Jo Stafford, with The Norman Luboff Choir, records Shrimp Boats for Columbia Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Composer, conductor, orchestrator, and arranger, Will Vodery dies aged 67 in Farmingdale, New York State, USA. Vodery was one of the few black Americans of his time to make a name for himself as a composer on Broadway, but is best-known for the vocal and choral arrangements he created for the original Broadway stage production of the 1927 classic musical Show Boat.
MGM's movie remake of the Kern-Hammerstein musical play Show Boat, starring Howard Keel, Ava Gardner and Kathryn Grayson, is released to cinemas in Hong Kong, Asia.
MGM's movie remake of the Kern-Hammerstein musical play Show Boat, starring Howard Keel, Ava Gardner and Kathryn Grayson, is released to cinemas in The Philippines, Asia.
The Beatles support Johnny Kidd And The Pirates on another Riverboat Shuffle aboard the MV Royal Iris, sailing down The Mersey, Liverpool, UK.
Peggy Lee records Little Boat (O Barquinho) in Studio B, Capitol Records, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Gene Pitney enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with It Hurts To Be In Love, which will peak at No7.
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Following today's second performance of Another Beatles Christmas Show at Hammersmith Odeon, The Beatles visit the annual Boat Show, Earl's Court, London, England, UK, after the event has been closed to the general public.
The highest new entry in the UK pop singles chart for this week is Trains And Boats And Planes by Burt Bacharach, entering at No27.
New releases reviewed in today's edition of UK pop weekly the NME [New Musical Express] include Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out by The Beatles, Take Me For What I'm Worth by The Searchers, Till The End Of The Day by The Kinks, Fever by The McCoys, My Ship Is Coming In by The Walker Brothers and Thunderball by Tom Jones.
Ringo Starr of The Beatles records a farewell message for UK pirate radio station Radio London, at their premises in Curzon Street, London, England, UK, Europe. Like all pirates, the station is shortly to be forced to cease broadcasting.
Dutch-financed offshore ship-based pirate Radio Atlantis South begins making test transmisions from a location off The Netherlands. The station will not officially go on the air until 1973.
The Marmalade play on a 'beat cruise', setting sail from Portsmouth, England, UK, Europe.
Tony Hatch and singer Jackie Trent leave the UK on board the Queen Elizabeth, heading for New York City, USA. Hatch is to have business meetings which may lead to him working with Frank Sinatra.
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The Yachts and Clive Langer And The Boxes play on a boat cruising down the River Mersey in Liverpool, UK.
The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship play at a benefit for the boat people of Kampuchea, in California, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Art Porter Jr drowns when a boat in which he is sailing on the Kratha Taek reservoir in Sai Yok, Thailand, Asia, sinks.
Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez is found floating in an inner tube off the coast of Florida, USA. A small boat in which he had been fleeing Cuba for asylum in the USA had sunk, killing his mother, Elizabeth Broton, and five others. Elian's story will inspire Manic Street Preachers to write their song Baby Elian.
Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of 1960s folk group The Highwaymen, dies of the rare blood disease myelofibrosis at his home in Rye, New York State, USA. His group's recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song Michael [Row the Boat Ashore] became an unexpected international pop hit in 1962.
Phil Rudd, drummer of AC/DC is arrested after police raid his boat, anchored at Tauranga Beach Marina in North Island, New Zealand, and find 25 grams (.88 ounces) of pot.
Gil Robbins, singer, guitarist and songwriter of 1960s folk group The Highwaymen, dies aged 80 of prostate cancer, at his home in Esteban Cantu, Mexico. His group's recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song Michael [Row the Boat Ashore] became an unexpected international pop hit in 1962.
Weezer, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Gene Ween and Dave Dreiwitz, Wavves, The Antlers, Yuck, Free Energy, Boom Bip, J Mascis [solo acoustic], Lou Barlow, Keepaway, Ozma, The Nervous Wreckords, The Knocks, Sleeper Agent and Yacht Rock Revue set off on The Weezer Cruise, a five-day event on the ship Carnival Destiny, sailing from Miami, Florida, USA, to the island of Cozumel off the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
The heavy metal cruise known as the 70,000 Tons Of Metal Festival, comes to an end in Miami, Florida, USA. Artists appearing aboard the ship, The Majesty Of The Seas, over the past five days have included Amorphis, Exciter, Cannibal Corpse, Atheist, Stratovarius, Venom, Children Of Bodom, Crowbar, Nightwish and Hammerfall.
It is revealed, via an interview in Us magazine, that Lady Gaga plans to become the first professional musician to sing in space, a goal she hopes to achieve in early 2015 during a commercial flight on a Virgin Galactic ship travelling into sub-orbital space.
Happyness play at The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, England, UK, during the Liverpool Sound City Festival.
Cloud Boat release their second album, Model Of You, on Apollo / R&S Records in the USA.
Jimmy Bain, best-known as the bassist for Rainbow and Dio, dies aged 68 of lung cancer, while aboard Def Leppard's Hysteria On The High Seas cruise.
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Thirty-six people die in a fire during a do-it-yourself party at the Ghost Ship Warehouse, Oakland, California, USA. The warehouse is hosting a concert featuring artists from the house music record label 100% Silk. Among the dead is musician Joey Casio.
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