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The George Edwardes Company, under Musical Director Frank E. Tours, opens at Daly's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. The show will run until Christmas 1903. This is part of a 65-week world tour through New York, Washington D. C., Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Perth, and Paris.Kitty Cheatham records Dixie Land, I'se Gwine Back To Dixie, Christmas, A Legend, Love's Lullaby and the Sleep Of The Child
Jesus for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Lowell Fulson releases a new single, Lonesome Christmas [Parts 1 and 2], on Swing Time Records in the USA.
Mario Lanza appears on the half-hour radio program The Music Room in the USA, to promote his new RCA Victor album, Mario Lanza Sings Christmas Songs. On the show he performs Silent Night, Adeste Fideles, Away In A Manger and other Christmas songs.Perry Como records I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, for RCA Victor Records in The Manhattan Center, New York City, USA.
Singing cowboy Gene Autry records Sleigh Bells and I Wish My Mom Would Marry Santa Claus, for Columbia Records in Hollywood, California, USA.
The first record pressed in Columbia Records new 36,000 sq. ft. pressing plant on North Fruitridge Avenue in Terre Haute, Indiana, is Christmas With Arthur Godfrey. (N.B. the album had been released several months earlier)
Billie Holiday ends a two-week Christmas season at the Rodeo Stage Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Ninth day of deejay Alan Freed's ten-day-long Christmas Rock'n'Roll Spectacular, at Lowe's Theater, New York City, USA. starring Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Dion, Jackie Wilson, The Everly Brothers, Johnnie Ray, Frankie Avalon and The Moonglows.
Ella Fitzgerald records White Christmas, Sleigh Ride and other tracks, at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA, for Verve Records.
Brenda Lee plays the tenth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Johnny Cash records I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day and Gifts They Gave at Columbia Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Beach Boys are in Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, working on the songs Little Saint Nick and Drive-In.
Little Stevie Wonder continues with his Christmas season booking at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe.The Dillards make an appearance on The Judy Garland Show on CBS-tv in the USA. During this episode, Gardland performs Over The Rainbow, and she also performs The Christmas Song as a duet with Mel Torme.
Elvis Presley spends Christmas at home in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, with his girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu.Alma Cogan plays at The Talk Of The Town, London, UK. The Beatles, having rushed from their own Christmas Show at Finsbury Park, arrive too late to catch her set.
Doris Day records The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), Toyland, Winter Wonderland, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, for her Columbia Records album The Doris Day Christmas Album, in the USA
The Andy Williams Christmas Album is certified as a gold disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
Rehearsals for Another Beatles Christmas Show begin at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK. The Show features The Beatles, Freddie And The Dreamers, Sounds Incorporated, Elkie Brooks, The Yardbirds and The Mike Cotton Sound.The Hollies and Gerry And The Pacemakers play a special Christmas Show in Liverpool, UK.
Another Beatles Christmas Show continues its run at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, starring The Beatles, with support acts including Freddie And The Dreamers, The Yardbirds, Elkie Brooks, Sounds Incorporated , Mike Cotton Sound and Jimmy Savile as compere.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo Four and Danny Williams appear in the fifth of six nights of Gerry's Christmas Cracker at The Odeon, Leeds, England, UK.
Millie, Jess Conrad, Jimmy Wheeler and Des Lane play in the Christmas Pantomime at The Odeon, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
The Premiers, The Epics Band, The Salas Bros, The Jaguars and The Midnight Hours Band play 
Quicksilver Messenger Service play for a private Christmas party at The Committee's house, Muir Beach, Marin County, California, USA.
The Beatles record their 1966 Fan Club Christmas Record - Pantomime : Everywhere It's Christmas – at the home of music publisher Dick James, New Oxford Street, London, England, UK, Europe.
Folk star Burl Ives begins recording his Christmas Album in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for Columbia Records.Hawkwind, The Pink Fairies, The Pretty Things, Peter Green, Steve Took and others play in the Christmas Spaced event at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, UK.
Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones is spending Christmas with Jerry Hall at the Savoy Hotel in London, England, UK. The Stones' guitarist, Keith Richards, back on heroin again, is spending Christmas in his new upstate New York home with Anita Pallenberg and their son Marlon. He takes them to see Close Encounters of the Third Kind.Tom Waits records Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis and Red Shoes By The Drugstore for his fifth album, Blue Valentine, at Filmways/Heider Recording in San Francisco, California, USA.
Midge Ure of Band Aid (and Ultravox) travels to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa, with the first shipment of relief supplies funded by sales of Do They Know It's Christmas.
The Denny Laine Band plays a Christmas Special show at The Half Moon, Putney, London, England, UK, Europe.A Soulful Christmas, a concept concert featuring r'n'b/jazz multi-instrumentalist Brian Culbertson, plus Gerald Albright, Howard Hewett, Nick Colionne and Sheldon Reynolds, plays at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rapper Jim Jones pleads not guilty in Manhattan's Criminal Court to assault charges stemming from his alleged brawl with members of R'n'B hitmaker Ne-Yo's entourage in New York City, USA, on Christmas Eve past.
LCD Soundsystem play at Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, California, USA, with guests Hot Chip and Sleigh Bells.
Miranda Cosgrove, Matthew Morrison, Mariah Carey, Annie Lennox and Andrea Bocelli join President Obama and his family at the 2010 Christmas in Washington concert in Washington, DC, USA.
Rihanna spends Christmas Day at a house party thrown by her brother in Barbados, Caribbean.
Having announced their break-up earlier in the year, Christmas In Chicago, a show starring Donny And Marie Osmond, plays the last of nineteen nights at The Oriental Theatre, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
R'n'B singer Etta James, spends Christmas in hospital in Riverside, California, USA, after being admitted because of breathing problems.
It is announced that police have re-opened the investigation into the death of AC/DC manager Crispin Dye, and are offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of Dye’s murderer or murderers. Dye passed away at Christmas 1993, in hospital in Sydney, Australia, Oceania, having been been brutally beaten the day before, while on his way to visit his mother.
An all-star line-up of contemporary singers under the name of Band Aid 30 records a new version of Do They Know It's Christmas? at SARM West Studios, London, UK. Artists taking part include One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande, Rita Ora, Bastille, Bono of U2, Clean Bandit, Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, Guy Garvie (Elbow), Chris Martin (Coldplay), Angelique Kidjo, Olly Murs, Sinead O'Connor, Seal, Underworld and Sam Smith.
Darius Rucker releases a new single, Homegrown Honey / What God Wants For Christmas, on HumpHead Records in the UK.
Ed Sheeran headlines Metro Radio Christmas Live 2014, in The Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England, UK. Also on the bill are Clean Bandit, Labrinth, Ella Eyre, Ella Henderson, Becky Hill, Nicole Scherzinger, Jess Glynne, Sigma and Neon Jungle.1903 |
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