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The Baltimore American runs a feature about the life and work of Silas Leachman, a Chicago man who makes a good living - around $50 a day - by recording songs on wax cylinders at home for the phonograph. The article reveals that, "He prepares three 'records', as the wax cylinders are called, at one time," by using three recording machines simultaneously. His repertoire includes ballads, negro melodies [aka coon songs], irish, Chinese and Dutch dialect songs.
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Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra records Bogloosa Blues and Jambled Blues for Vocalion Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Singing trio The Gumm Sisters play at The Empire Theatre, Yakima, Washington, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will find stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.


Dinah Shore and The Gene Krupa Band are playing at The Paramount Theatre, Times Square, New York City, USA.
Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra perform live on the The Radio Hall Of Fame on the Blue Network in the USA.
John Brim Jr is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The son of blues guitarist John brim and drummer Grace Brim, he will become a respected blues player in his own right.
The short animated film, Three Little Bops, is released in the USA, featuring a soundtrack performed by a jazz group headed by Shorty Rogers, and narration by Stan Freberg. The three little bops by PANZERDRAKO
Ray Charles and Betty Carter play the first of two nights at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
During a tour of the mid-West,
Louis Armstrong And The All Stars record Good Reviews, Nomad, Lonesome and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records. Piano player on the session is Dave Brubeck, and vocalist is Carmen McRae.
T-Bone Walker, The Sims Twins, The Falcons, Lonnie Sattin and Nichelle Nichols play at The Tivoli Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Nichols will find considerably greater fame as Lt. Uhura in the tv series Star Trek.
Popular German singer Ralf
Bendix releases a new single, Babysitter-Boogie, on ABC-Paramount
Records in the USA.
Brook Benton, Mary Wells, The
Vibrations and The
Impressions play the sixth night of a week at the Regal
Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Mickie Most, Julie Grant, The Flintstones and The Rolling Stones play at The Gaumont, Hanley, Staffordshire, England, UK, Europe.
The
Rosetta Hightower, lead singer of The Orlons, writes to music fan Diane McBride McLean of Champaign County, Illinois, USA.
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Blues slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk plays at Diz's Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Gary Puckett and the Union Gap finish recording their first hit single, Woman Woman, for CBS Records in Los Angeles, California.

Earth Opera play the first of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Sunshine Company.
Boston-based band
Trombonist Mike Barone And His Big Band play at Donte's, Los Angeles, California, USA. Recordings of music from this evening will eventually be released on the LP Live At Donte's, 1968.




Alexisonfire, Rise Against and The Fullblast play at The Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor by Arctic Monkeys enters the UK Singles Chart where it will peak at No1.
Black Cards, a new band formed by Pete Wentz, of Fall Out Boy fame, play at The Roadhouse, Manchester, UK.
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