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Robert Timothy Wilkins is born in Hernando, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as blues and gospel singer Robert Wilkins. In 1928 he will record the song Rolling Stone Blues for Victor Records, and his 1964 song Prodigal Son will be covered by The Rolling Stones in 1968 on their album Beggar's Banquet.
Blues, jazz and gospel singer Ethel Waters (also a noted actress) is born in Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.
Sheet music for the song Cupid, appears as a supplement to the New York Herald in New Yoirk City, USA. The song was composed by L. M. French and published by Sol Bloom of New York City. (N.B. This is an entirely different song from the one of the same name made famous by Sam Cooke)
A new line-up of gospel group The Fisk Jubilee Singers is unveiled with a concert at Fisk Memorial Chapel, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.The Savoy Orpheans record Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue and London And Daventry Calling - Parts 1 and 2, for HMV Records in Hayes, Middlesex, UK.
Richard Penniman is born in Macon, Georgia, USA, to Bud and Leva Mae Penniman. He will find fame as Little Richard.
Mahalia Jackson records What Could I Do and Move On Up A Little Higher, for Apollo Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.The Mary Johnson Davis Gospel Singers record God Is Able, Do You Know Him?, I Need Thee, He Has A Way That's Mighty Sweet and Satisfied With Jesus, in New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records.
Popular gospel group The Johnson Family Singers appear on the show Hymn Time on WBT Radio, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Jeoffrey Benward is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. He will find success as a Contemporary Christian Music singer and songwriter.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight record Old Landmark, Pressing On, Never Let Go His Hand and All Alone With Christ The Lord for Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.Alton Carson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as blues and jazz singer Big Al Carson.
Frank Sinatra stars as the footloose and frequently unemployed private eye Rocky Fortune in another episode of his radio series of that name in the USA. This episode is entitled Too Many Husbands.
The Hank Snow All-Star Jamboree, featuring Hank Snow, Mother Maybelle And The Carter Sisters, The Rainbow Ranch Boys, Martha Carson And Her Country Gentlemen, The Davis Sisters (including Skeeter Davis) and The Jimmie Rodgers Show plays in The Fairgrounds, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.Gospel group The Silver Quintette records Father Don't Leave, for Vee Jay Records. The track is notable for being one of the first gospel tracks to make use of a rock'n'roll rhythm section.
US trade magazine Billboard reviews The Clovers' new single Down In The Alley with the words, 'Group has a strong effect here with a soul-satisfying blues with a touch of the gospel sound. Has a definite kick to it, and could bounce them back. Watch it for pop action also.'
The Paramount Pictures musical St. Louis Blues is released to cinemas in the USA with a cast featuring such jazz, blues and gospel greats as Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Eartha Kit, Pearl Bailey, Mahalia Jackson and Barney Bigard.
Music mogul Dick Clark appears in an edition of US tv show The Jack Benny Program, entitled The Dick Clark Show.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Campbellsville, Kentucky, USA.
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The Supremes record (He's) Seventeen, Save Me A Star and Heavenly Father for Tamla Records in
Detroit, Michigan, USA.
It is reported that Little Richard, who quit music in 1959 to become a preacher, has returned to recording with an album of gospel songs, King Of The Gospel Singers, arranged by Quincy Jones.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
The Famous Davis Sisters record Here's My Heart, Earnestly Praying, Jesus Loves Me and other tracks for Savoy Records in the USA.
Paul Reynolds, guitarist of Liverpool band A Flock of Seagulls is born in Wanstead, Essex, UK.
Sam Cooke records Fool's Paradise, Lost And Lookin' and Please Don't Drive Me Away for his album Night Beat, in RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Caravan, featuring Muddy Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee, Reverend Gary Davis and Cousin Joe Pleasants, plays at The Odeon, Hammersmith, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Tennessee Ernie Ford records Oh God Our Help In Ages Past, Let Me Walk With Thee and other songs at Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Stree, Hollywood, California, USA.
Joe And Eddie release a cover of the Bob Dylan composition It Ain't Me, Babe, in the UK on Vocalion Records.
The Band record In A Station in the USA. It will appear on their debut album, Music From Big Pink.
When Aretha Franklin releases her new single, Think, in the UK, her record company, Atlantic, hosts a press reception at The Revolution Club in London.Mahalia Jackson speaks of her concern for contemporary youth during an appearance on WBBM-tv's The Lee Phillip Show in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Buddy Guy, Eric
Clapton, Stephen Stills, Jon
Hiseman's Colosseum and Roland Kirk are recorded and filmed in an
abandoned factory in Staines, Middlesex, UK, for a music film
entitled Supershow.
The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Festival 69, starring Albert King, Otis Spann, John Lee Hooker and Champion Jack Dupree, plays at City Hall, Newcastle, UK.
The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at The Capitol Center, Largo, Washington DC, USA, supported by the Mighty Clouds Of Joy.In this day's edition of popular US tv series Ellen, the lead character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, reveals that she is a lesbian [as is DeGeneres in real life]. Disturbed by the revelation, Gospel duo Angie and Debbie Winans write and release the controversial openly anti-gay song Not Natural.
The second day of the Cambridge Folk Festival at Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, England, UK., features Mavis Staples, The Proclaimers, K T Tunstall, Kathryn Tickell, Hayseed Dixie and others.
The Levon Helm Band plays one its regular Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3, in Helm's barn in Woodstock, New York State, USA.
The Levon Helm Band plays one its regular Midnight Ramble Sessions Vol 3, in Helm's barn in Woodstock, New York State, USA. Guest musicians taking part in the session include Teresa Williams.
Towards the end of her Aphrodite World Tour, on her arrival at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kylie Minogue performs with the Soweto Gospel Choir".
Harold Battiste dies, aged 83, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He found success for several decades as a composer, arranger, performer and teacher, working with Sam Cooke, Joe Jones, Lee Dorsey, Sonny and Cher, Dr. John and others.
Edwin Hawkins, the four-time Grammy-winning leader of The Edwin Hawkins Singers, dies aged 74 at his home in the Bay area of San Francisco, California, USA. He had been suffering with pancreatic cancer.
Sweet Honey in the Rock play at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA.Country singer-songwriter Jimmy Work, who composed hits for Kitty Wells, Red Foley, Emmylou Harris and Moe Bandy, as well as recording for Decca and Dot Records, dies aged 94 in Dukedom, Tennessee, USA. The cause of his death is not disclosed.
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