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Detroit

Birth of Ewart G. Abner, record company executive with Chance, Vee-Jay and Motown Records in the USA. As well as working with many essential soul acts, Abner will be the first man to release The Beatles' material in America. In the seventies he will manage Stevie Wonder.
Mahalia Jackson and Dinah Washington play at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
Barbra Streisand continues with a month-long residency at The Caucus Club in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Barbra Streisand plays the eighth of twenty-seven nights at The Caucus Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Miracles release a new single, Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues, on Tamla Records in the USA.
The Temptations are playing at The Howard Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Nina Simone opens for six nights at The Minor Key, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Top Ten records played on WABC Radio, New York City, USA, for this week, are as follows :

1. Be My Baby - The Ronettes (Philles)

2. My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels (Smash)

3. Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton (Epic)

4. The Monkey Time - Major Lance (Okeh)

5. Heat Wave - Martha And The Vandellas (Gordy)

6. Then He Kissed Me - The Crystals (Philles)

7. If I Had a Hammer - Trini Lopez (Reprise]

8. Sally, Go 'Round the Roses - The Jaynetts (Tuff)

9. Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms And the Enchanters (United Artists]

10. Mickey's Monkey - The Miracles (Tamla)

The Top Ten records played on WKNR Radio, Detroit, Michigan, USA, for the week ending on this date are as follows :
  1. Memphis Tennessee Johnny Rivers
  2. Love Me With All Your Heart Ray Charles Singers
  3. Any Old Time/Walk On By Dionne Warwick
  4. I Get Around The Beach Boys
  5. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying Gerry And The Pacemakers
  6. A World Without Love Peter And Gordon
  7. My Boy Lollipop Millie Small
  8. She's the One The Chartbusters
  9. No Particular Place to Go Chuck Berry
  10. Just Ain't Enough Love Eddie Holland
Kim Weston records What Have I Done To Myself for Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It will eventually be released with a lead vocal overdubbed by Kim Weston.
The Walker Brothers make their first UK television appearance, performing on ITV's weekly pop show Ready Steady Go! Also on the show are The Supremes, The Drifters, The Moody Blues, Chuck Jackson and Zoot Money.
The Funk Brothers record an instrumental track for the song Shake Me, Wake Me When It's Over in Hitsville Studios, Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Four Tops will add their vocals to the track in January 1966.
The Supremes play in Statesboro, Georgia, USA, supported by the Lovin' Spoonful.
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Marvin Gaye spends the third of five days recording I Heard It Through The Grapevine for Tamla Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Keith And Tex, backed by Lynn Taitt And The Crystallites, record Don't Look Back for Move And Groove Records in Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean. The song, first recorded by The Temptations, will enjoy wider success when it is covered in 1978 by Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger.
Bobby Lewis plays the second of two nights in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
The Temptations appear at the Valley Forge Music Fair in Pennsylvania, USA, without baritone David Ruffin . Ruffin has been fired by Motown Records because of his desire to change the Tempts' image from 'suits, ties and patent shoes' and go into 'a deep soul bag' - a direction that the group ends up following later when producer Norman Whitfield steps in. Ruffin's place in the quintet is taken by Dennis Edwards, formerly of The Contours, and Motown rehires Ruffin as a solo artist.
The Top Ten Singles being played on WABC Radio, New York City, USA, for the week starting on this date are as follows :



1. Love Child - Diana Ross And The Supremes (Motown).

2. For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder (Tamla)

3. Abraham, Martin and John - Dion (Laurie)

4. Stormy - Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost (Imperial)

5. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins (Elektra)

6. I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (Tamla)

7. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (Capitol)

8. Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkin (Apple)

9. Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor (Stax)

10. I Love How You Love Me - Bobby Vinton (Epic)

Overdubs are added to The Supremes' tracks The Weight, Uptight and Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing, at Hitsville Studios, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Kenny Cox And The Contemporary Jazz Quintet record Gravity Point, Spellbound and other tracks for Blue Note Records, at G.M. Recording Studios, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Top Ten Singles being played on WABC radio in New York City, USA, are :

1. Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - B.J. Thomas (Scepter)

2. Hey There Lonely Girl - Eddie Holman (ABC)

3. Venus - Shocking Blue (Colossus)

4. I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 (Motown)

5. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly And the Family Stone (Epic)

6. Without Love (There Is Nothing) - Tom Jones (Parrot)

7. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Dionne Warwick (Scepter)

8. No Time - The Guess Who (RCA)

9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon And Garfunkel (Columbia)

10. Travelin' Band - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)

Alice Cooper's sixth album, Billion Dollar Babies, enters the Billboard Top 40 albums chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1 during a 23-week run.
To demonstrate his disgust for the phenomenon of disco music, deejay Steve Dahl sparks a riot by blowing up a huge pile of disco records with dynamite during a White Sox vs Detroit Tigers game at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Fans bringing disco records for Dahl to destroy are given entrance to the game for just $1.
Bob Seger plays at Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Joe Perry Project plays at Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA.
The Isley Brothers, The Gap Band and Larry Graham play in Summer Jam II at Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Janet Jackson announces that she has married James DeBarge in Michigan Falls, Illinois, USA. The announcement comes as a surprise to her family.
This week’s edition of UK tv show Top Of The Pops, presented jointly by John Peel and Janice Long, features Shakin' Stevens, Madonna, Jermaine Jackson and Dead Or Alive.
The album Bad by Michael Jackson is certified as a four-times platinum disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
When Mrs Brenda Richie finds her Motown recording star spouse, Lionel, in the love nest of a Miss Diane Alexander, she becomes enraged and is soon after arrested on charges of assault, resisting arrest, trespass, battery, vandalism and disturbing the peace.
Iggy Pop performs a lounge-oriented version of The Stooges' classic Search And Destroy on tv series Shannon's Deal, in the USA.
On her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, Janet Jackson plays at The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Lauryn Hill opens a North American tour at The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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Madonna's album Ray Of Light, produced by William Orbit, is certified as 6x platinum in the UK. Also, her hits compilation, The Immaculate Collection, is certified as 12x platinum in the UK.
The White Stripes release their fifth album, Get Behind Me Satan, worldwide except for the USA, where it will appear one day later.
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Stevie Wonder releases A Time To Love, his first studio album in ten years, digitally on the iTunes Music Store.
It is revealed that a million people have registered for tickets for Michael Jackson's comeback concerts at O2 Arena in London, England, UK, Europe, later this year, enough to fill the arena fifty times over.
Appearing on CNN's Larry King Live, Joe Jackson states that he believes the doctor who attended his son, Michael Jackson, may be to blame for the singer's death. Joe Jackson tells King, "The doctor gave him something to make him rest, and then he don't wake up no more. Something is wrong there."
Katherine Jackson is officially named the permanent guardian of Michael Jackson's children at a hearing in which she also drops her appeal to gain control of her superstar son's estate.
Recovery, the seventh studio album by Eminem reaches No1 in the UK Albums Chart.
Newly-released legal documents reveal that the estate of Michael Jackson has earned over $300m since the singer's death in June 2009. This amount includes earnings from album sales, movies, licensing arrangements and licencing deals for Cirque du Soleil shows.
Kid Rock plays at The House Of Blues, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
It is announced in Los Angeles, California, USA, by insurance broker Lloyds Of London that their $17.5m breach of contract lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson has been settled.
It is reported that Michael Jackson's 2,700 acre Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos, California, USA, is about to be sold by Colony Capital, a company owned by billionaire Tom Barrack, which took over the property in 2007.
Gladys Knight appears as an astrologer suspected of murder during an episode of the tv series Hot In Cleveland in the USA.
Lukas Graham play at The Fillmore, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
In Twitter posting, singer Halsey criticises the lack of female performers at the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, USA, where acts appearing included Eminem, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys and Kendrick Lamar.
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On her Madame X tour, Madonna cancels a second consecutive show at The Wang Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, for medical reasons.
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