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The Musical Comedy Two Little Lambs is playing at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The musical comedy Two Little Lambs is playing at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The musical comedy The Cadet Girl is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 48 performances.
The musical comedy Florodora plays at The Casino Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 505 performances.The Giddy Throng is playing at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 164 performances. The show consists of a a vaudeville program followed by one-act burlesque revue.
The Giddy Throng is playing at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 164 performances. The show consists of a a vaudeville program followed by one-act burlesque revue.
The musical extravaganza The Sleeping Beauty And The Beast is playing at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 241 performances.
The romantic musical comedy Maid Marian is playing at The Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 64 performances.
The musical comedy Foxy Grandpa, based on a popular newspaper cartoon strip, is playing at Haverley's 14th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 125 performances.
The musical comedy Miss Simplicity, featuring Helen Lord, is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 56 performances.
A new musical extravaganza, The Defender, opens at The Herald Square Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for sixty performances. The show introduces a new song, In The Good Old Summer Time, which will become a popular standard.
The musical comedy The Prince Of Pilsen opens at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for four months.
The stage musical The Blue Paradise is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 356 performances. The show's best-known song is perhaps Auf Wiedersehn.
Musical The Blue Paradise is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. A review in The Evening Journal hails it as "Replete with good music and excellent songs." The show will run on Broadway for 356 performances.
The musical revue Frivolities of 1920 is presented at The 44th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 61 performances. Mitzi is starring in the musical comedy hit Lady Billy at The
Liberty Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 188
performances.
Mitzi is starring in the musical comedy hit Lady Billy at The
Liberty Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 188
performances.
A front page headline in the New York Times declares "Innocent Girls Arrested", making public a developing scandal in which New York police have been arresting young women on false charges of immorality and prostitution, then demanding bribes to buy their freedom and save their reputations. Irving Berlin will be inspired by this scandal to write Torch Song for his 1932 Broadway show Face The Music.
The musical comedy Hold On To Your Hats, starring Al Jolson, is playing at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, during a run of 158 performances.
The musical Guys And Dolls is presented at The 46th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1200 performances.
The King And I is performed at The St. James Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1246 performances.
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.Playwright, composer, actor and singer Noel Coward returns from the West Indies to the UK where he faces criticism that he has been living abroad to avoid paying income tax.
Little Junior Parker releases a new single, Sweet Home Chicago, on Duke Records, in the USA.
Connie Francis plays the first of nine nights at The Eden Roc Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Funny Way of Laughin' by Burl Ives on Decca Records enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Pete Best of The Beatles arrive in Hamburg, Germany, Europe, where they are shortly to begin a residency at The Star Club.
Freddie Hart records Ugly Duckling, Ask A Foolish Question, Stand Up and Mary Anne at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bob Dylan plays the third of seven nights at Gerde's Folk City, New York City, USA.
Johnny
Tillotson records the popular country songs Send Me The Pillow You Dream On and Funny How Time Slips Away, with producer Archie
Bleyer, for Cadence
Records in RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
(1962)
Rock drummer Michael Cartellone is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. In a long career, he will work with with acts including John Fogerty, Cher, Freddie Mercury, Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The Oscar Peterson Trio with The Ernie Wilkins Big Band record Blues For Big Scotia in New York City, USA, for Verve Records.
The BBC in the UK bans the US hit single Monster Mash by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett for being 'offensive'.
Jimmie Rodgers plays the last of six nights at The Centennial Fair, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Rockabilly vocalist Wanda Jackson plays the sixth night in a week of shows at The Chestnut Inn, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Frank Sinatra records Pennies From Heaven, I Only Have Eyes For You and other tracks in Los Angeles for Reprise Records.
Folk musician Pete Seeger releases the live album The Bitter And The Sweet on Columbia Records in the USA.
Ashley Beedle, a house music DJ who records under such names as The Ballistic Brothers, the Black Science Orchestra, X-Press 2, and The Black Jazz Chronicles, is born in Hemel Hempstead, UK.
Electronic composer/musician Christian Fennesz is born in Austria, Europe. As well as pursuing a solo career, he will work with David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jim O'Rourke and others.
Louis Armstrong And The All Stars spend the first of thee days recording tracks in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, for his Kapp Records album of songs from the Broadway show Hello Dolly.
The musical Hallelujah Baby! wins a Tony Award as Best Musical of the year at The Shubert Theatre, New York City, USA.
Jackie Trent, Tony Hatch and Karl Denver play the third night of a week at The Broadway, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
After thirteen previews, the musical Cats, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, begins its eighteen year run on Broadway, New York City, USA. The musical is based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
David 'Fathead' Newman, a jazz/r'n'b saxophonist who worked with Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, Stanley Turrentine and others, dies aged 75 from compilcations of pancreatic cancer, in Kingston, New York State, USA.
The Flaming Lips headline at The Eden Sessions, The Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall, UK. Also on the bill are Dark Moon, Louise And Pins, Hiss Golden Messenger, Thomas J. Speight, Exelby and Louis Elliot And The Embers.
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