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The Williams And Walker Company present The Cakewalk Carnival, with Louise Thrndyke Boucicault, Horace Goldin, Hamilton Hill and Rogert And O'Brien, at Keith's Theatre, New York City, USA.
Irene Franklin, Claire Canfield, Maud Still, Deming And Carroll,Ouhama, Nellie Bruce, Billy Fleming, Little Jenny Metzlor and Hinrich's Orchestra ate appearing at Fischer's Concert House, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Ten Nelsons, The Troubadors Toulousians, The Three Dancing Dawsons, The Auers, Eva Mudge, The Six Blackbirds, and Paul Cinquevalli are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Weber And Fields' burlesque show Fiddle-Dee-Dee continues its lengthy run at Fischer's Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Musical group The Mallory Brothers And Brooks, contralto Phyllis Allen, singers The Montmartrois Trio, xylophone soloist Esmeralda and others play at The Metropolitan Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Cuban tenor Alcides Briceno and Colombian baritone Jorge Anez, record Morena Maa, considered by genre scholars to be the first bolero ever written by a Mexican, Armando Villareal Lozano.
Jack Hylton and his Orchestra, record Through, Let Me Dream In Your Arms Again, Mucking About In The Garden, My Dream Memory, I'm Pefectly Satisfied, You Wouldn't Fool Me, Would You?, I Want To Be Bad and Pagan Love Song, HMV Records in The Queens Small Hall, London, UK.
The musical Woof, Woof is presented at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 46 performances.
Les Hite And His Orchestra play at The Chatterbox, Mountainside, New Jersey, USA, during an extended engagement . Hite's band are the first black musicians to have played at this venue.
Popular songwriter Cole Porter appears on the cover of the influential Time magazine in the USA.
Bandleader Benny Strong is playing during a run of gigs at The Palladium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Freddie Randall (aka Freddy Randall) And His Band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Mary Wells releases her third single, Strange Love, on Tamla Records in the USA.
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Moms Mabley And Her Revue plus Joey Dee And The Starliters play during a week of shows at The Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Mark Valentino is undertaking promotion work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) by Betty Everett with The Blossoms enters the Billboard pop singles chart in the USA.
Jan Garber And His Orchestra play at The Lady Luck Lounge in The Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Jimmy James And the Vagabonds play at The Birdcage, Portsmouth, England, UK, Europe.
Ike And Tina Turner play in California Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Bee Gees release a new single, Jumbo / The Singer Sang His Song, on Polydor Records in the UK.
Little Anthony And The Imperials record It's A Groovy World, Anthem, Hold On and Where There's More, There's Fire.
Bobby Womack releases a new single, More Than I Can Stand, on Minit Records in the USA.
David Bowie appears at City Court, Rochester, New York State, USA, on felony pot possession charges.
Vanessa Paradis has her first taste of showbiz when she appears on French tv talent show, L’Ecole Des Fans, singing Philippe Chatel's hit Emilie Jolie.
The Roy Ayers Group plays the last of six nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Duran Duran play at The Top Rank, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
Kid Creole begins a British tour at Dublin Stadium, Dublin, Eire.
On his his 97-date Purple Rain tour, Prince plays the second of five nights at the 16,800 seater Omni, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
When Dead Or Alive turn up to record UK tv show The Tube and admit they can't play their current No1 hit, You Spin Me Round, live, they are refused permission to appear.
The album Around The World In A Day by Prince is certified as having sold 2m copies in the USA by the RIAA.
On her Private Dancer tour, Tina Turner plays at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, Asia.
Vogue by Madonna reaches No1 in the UK pop singles chart.
On their Magic Summer tour, New Kids On The Block play the second of two nights at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA.
Michael Jackson reveals during an interview that he doesn't like pop music. The revelation comes in the wake of Jackson having purchased some classical music CDs during a shopping trip in Berlin, Germany, Europe.
Jury selection in the Michael Jackson child molestation case in California, USA, is delayed for a week because of a death in the family of the pop star's attorney, Thomas Mesereau Jr.
On their Destiny Fulfilled tour, Destiny's Child play at The Spektrum, Oslo, Norway, Europe.
The 58th Annual BMI Pop Awards are held in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. Among the award winners are Taylor Swift for Most Performed Pop Song and Song of the Year, plus RedOne for Pop Songwriter Of The Year because of his work on Sean Kingston's Fire Burning and Lady Gaga's trio of hits Just Dance, LoveGame and Poker Face. John Fogerty is among the artists performing live.
During his 20Ten Tour, Prince plays at The Super Bock Super Rock, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe.
On their Final Frontier World Tour, Iron Maiden play in the St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida, USA. Lady Gaga is in the audience.
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On the European leg of his Symphonica - The Orchestral Tour, George Michael plays the first of two nights at the Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Orbital play at The Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.
George Michael's imminent new single, Let Her Down Easy, gets its first radio airplay.
On her Prismatic Tour, Katy Perry plays the last of three nights at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Alexandra Stan releases the official video for her song Give Me Your Everything, which is released as a digital download on the same day in the UK, USA and Romania.
On the European leg of his All The Hits All Night Long tour, Lionel Richie plays at The TUI Arena, Hanover, Germany.
Yacht play at Oslo, London, England, UK.
Effective from this date, The Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.) introduces video and audio streaming equivalents into its Album Award methodology. In essence, 1,500 on-demand song plays will be deemed equal to ten track sales, and thus the equivalent of one album sale.
Camila Cabello plays at The Academy, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Vossi Bop by Stormzy enters the UK Singles Chart at No1, giving the grime star his first No1 Single. The track's lyric is fiercely political, including the line, "F**k the government and f**k Boris."
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