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Bud And Joe Billings, a pseudonym for Frank Luther and Carson Robison, record Lonesome Melody and An Old Fashioned Sweetheart Of Mine, at Victor Studio, 44th Street, New York City, USA for Victor Records.
Legendary country music vocalist Jimmie Rodgers, aka The Singing Brakeman, dies from a tubercular haemorrhage in New York City, USA. His passing will inspire several tribute songs including When Jimmie Rodgers Said Goodbye by Hank Snow, The Passing Of Jimmie Rodgers by Ernest Tubb and The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home by Greg Brown.
Country music star George Jones becomes divorced from his first wife Dorothy Bonvillion. The couple were married for just one year.
Another edition of The Gene Autry Show, starring singing cowboy Gene Autry, is broadcast on CBS-tv in the USA. Today's edition is called Killer's Trail.
Elton Britt And The Beaver Valley Sweethearts record Merry Texas Christmas, The Rovin' Gambler and Just For You, at RCA Victor Studio 1, 155 East 24th St., Manhattan, New York City, USA.
Billboard magazine reports that Bernie Solomon has, in the past week, sold his interest in Challenge Records to his partners Johnny Thompson and Joe Johnson. Based in Los Angeles, California, USA, Challenge was founded by singing cowboy Gene Autry. The label's biggest hit was Tequila by The Champs.
Hawkshaw Hawkins and Jean Shepard play a live show in Meadeville, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Shower Of Stars package tour, featuring Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Don Gibson, George Jones, Mother Maybelle Carter and Leroy Van Dyke plays at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Roy Clark comes to the end of an engagement at The Matador Room in the Buena Vista Hotel, Safford, Arizona, USA.
Rusty 'Ko Ko' Adams opens for thirteen days at The Little Brown Jug, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA, with Jo Ann And Ray Cantrell.
Pedal steel guitarist Pete D rake records Danny Boy, Sleepwalk and Forever in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter makes a live appearance on ABC-TV's The Jimmy Dean Show with Patty Duke, in the USA.
Tv series Music Country Style is broadcast by KTEN, Channel 6, in Ada, Oklahoma, USA. Billy Gray is the show's star and host, while the show's regular 'Lady of Song' is Rozena Eads.
The Byrds, Glen Campbell, and James Darren appear on syndicated tv pop show Shivaree, recorded for KABC in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Marvin Rainwater records Sing The Girls A Song, Indian Burial Ground and The Black Sheep for United Artists Records in Columbia Recording Studio B, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Kitty Wells records Glory Land March and There's No Greater Time Than Now at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with Owen Bradley as producer.
The Warlocks, later to find fame as The Grateful Dead, play at Magoo's Pizza Parlour, Menlo Park, California, USA.
Johnny Cash, with The Carter Family and The Statler Brothers providing harmony vocals, records Happiness Is You and Guess Things Happen That Way in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Chet Atkins records Three Little Words, Cheek To Cheek, Gonna Get Along Without You Now and other tracks in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Conway Twitty, with Owen Bradley as producer, records Skip A Rope, Take Me As I Am, By The Time I Get To Pheonix and Sing Me Back Home in Bradley's Barn, Bender's Ferry Road, Mount Juliet, Tennessee, USA.
Hank Locklin, David Houston, Liz Anderson, Lynn Anderson, Conway Twitty And The Lonely Blue Boys, Charlie Walker, Archie Campbell, John L. Sullivan and Bill Laundy play at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, in the 43rd Anniversary show for KCKN Radio.
USA music trade bible Billboard reports that Liberty Records has sent letters to all its distributors and retailers calling for all mono albums to be returned and exchanged for stereo products.Taj Mahal and The Youngbloods play the second of seven nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
.38 Special, Studebaker Hawke, Ricochet, Burnt Ash, Badge and Madcap play on the second day of The WNC Mountain Rock and Roll Festival in Madison County Bluegrass Festival Grounds, Jupiter, North Carolina, USA.
Travis Tritt graduates from high school in the USA.
The Everly Brothers are presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Doyle Turner, a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, dies of emphysema in Panama City, Florida, USA.
Johnny Cash plays at The Wayne Newton Theatre, Branson, Missouri, USA, during a lengthy series of concerts at the venue.Having just completed his own European tour, Bob Dylan attends a Neil Young show in Bad Mergentheim, Germany, Europe. Despite prompting from Young and organist Booker T. Jones, Dylan does not play.
Author, music publisher and BBC DJ Charlie Gillett dies of a heart attack in hospital in London, UK, after a long illness, aged 68. Known as a champion of world music, Gillett is credited with discovering Dire Straits in 1976 after playing Sultans of Swing from their demo tape on his Radio London show Honky Tonk.
Anoushka Shankar performs at, and Shania Twain attends, the Swiss Red Cross Ball at The Arena, Geneva, Switzerland, Europe. The ball is held to raise funds for the 'Victims of Forgotten Disasters' programme representing countries in desperate need but not in the media spotlight.Jamey Johnson releases the double album The Guitar Song on Mercury Records in the USA.
The Suzan release their debut album, Golden Week For The Poco Poco Beat, in the UK.
Nanci Griffith plays at the Vilar Performing Arts Center (VPAC), in Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA.
Taylor Swift gives Ed Sheeran a gift of a pot of her home-made jam which she labels "the best jam of all time".
Depeche Mode cancel their upcoming (Feb 26) show at The International Exhibition Center in Kiev, Ukraine, Europe, because of political turmoil in the country resulting from anti-government protests.
Lady Antebellum play at The MTS Centre, Winnipeg, Canada, with Kip Moore and Kasey Musgraves.A warranty deed filed on this date with the Sumner County Register of Deeds office, shows that Lakehouse Holdings, a limited liability company, has purchased the property at 200 Caudill Drive, Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA, for $2m. The property was sold by Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees, and had previously been home to Johnny Cash for forty years.
Bob Dylan gives a speech at the MusiCares Person Of The Year event in his honour, during which he thanks Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The Byrds, Nina Simone, Johnny Cash and others for having covered his songs in the early years of his career.
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