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The musical Forty-five Minutes From Broadway, with music and lyrics by George M. Cohan, opens at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 90 performances.
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Phillips records Denomination Blues Parts 1 and 2 for Columbia
Records in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Emily Drinkard is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She will achieve success as soul and gospel vocalist Cissy Houston.
Jo And Alma (aka The Kentucky Girls) record Lorena, Little Moses, You Have Learned To Love Another, Trav'ling On The Glory Road, Plant Sweet Flowers On My Grave and When The Bees Are In The Hive for Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In response to popular demand, Paul Robeson gives a repeat performance of Ballad For Americans on CBS Radio and shortly afterwards records the cantata with The American People's Chorus for Victor Records.
Rhapsody In Black No6, a programme of 'Music in ebony from Harlem to Savannah', featuring Elisabeth Welch, Evelyn Dove, Frisco and The Georgia Crackers with The Dance Orchestra conducted by Billy Ternent is broadcast on the BBC Home Service radio station in the UK.Eddy Arnold records Jesus And The Atheist and Open Thy Merciful Arms for RCA Records at Brown Radio Productions, 240 1/2 4th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Original Gospel Harmonettes record Just To Behold His Face, Get Away Jordan and When I Reach My Heavenly Home, for Specialty Records in Hollywood, California, USA.
The Southern Jubilee Singers record a session for Chess Records at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Sam Cooke has his fourth recording session for Specialty Records with the Soul Stirrers at Universal Recording Studios, Hollywood, California, USA. They record five songs, including Nearer To Thee and One More River.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Empire Theatre, Nottingham, UK, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Town hall, Oxford, UK, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.The Paramount Pictures musical St. Louis Blues is released to cinemas in Denmark, Europe, 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.
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The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
The Corinthian Gospel Singers record Working On The Building, A Man Called Jesus and other tracks for their Sharp Records album A City Called Heaven in the USA.
Kitty Wells, with Owen Bradley as producer, records Paul's Mini stry and Do You Expect A Reward From God? in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features guitarists Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton, steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, bassist Joe Zinkan and Junior Huskey, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Owen Bradley.
Eddie Bond records the LP Eddie Bond Sings Greatest County Gospel Hits for Phillips International Records in Madison Avenue studio, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The first Lucie E. Campbell Appreciation Day is celebrated by The National Sunday School and the Baptist Training Union Congress of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. Gospel singer, songwriter Campbell is regarded as the "first lady of music" in church circles.
Kitty Wells, with producer Owen Bradley, records Jealousy, Three Ways (To Love You), I Heard The Jukebox Playing, A Wedding Ring Ago, Touch And Go Heart and Searching (For Someone Like You), in Columbia Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Angella Christie is born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She will find success as a gospel music saxophonist.Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, The Drifters, The Crystals, Solomon Burke, Dionne Warwick and The Upsetters play at Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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While his father, Sam Cooke, is on tour, Vincent Cooke falls into the family swimming pool in Los Angeles, California, USA, and drowns at the age of eighteen months.
The Louvin Brothers, despite already being officially split, record together for the last time. Their final collaboration is What Would You Take In Exchange For My Soul.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 New Victoria Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
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After an evening at PJ's club, Sam Cooke is shot dead by the manageress of The Hacienda Motel, Los Angeles, California, USA. It is claimed that he was killed in defense of Elisa Boyer, a Eurasian girl he had picked up earlier that evening, and is alleged to have tried to rape.
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TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Dickie Lee performing The Girl From Peyton Place and The Impressions performing Amen.
Love, The Staple Singers and Roland Kirk play at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francico, California, USA.
The Mighty Clouds Of Harmony record Our Precious Lord, Didn't It Rain, The Hoily Spirit and other songs in Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA.
Aretha Franklin, The Baja Marimba Band and Joanie Sommers appear on the musical comedy program, Operation: Entertainment, on ABC-tv in the USA. The show is hosted by Flip Wilson.
The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Festival 69, starring Albert King, Otis Spann, John Lee Hooker and Champion Jack Dupree plays at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Festival 69, starring Albert King, Otis Spann, John Lee Hooker and Champion Jack Dupree plays at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK.
The musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God opens at The Lyceum Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run on Broadway for 429 performances. The musical is based on the Biblical Book of Matthew.During his third gospel tour, performing mostly religious material, Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Palace Theater, Albany, New York State, USA.
Oleta Adams releases her third album, Circle Of One on Fontana Records in the UK. It is produced by Roland Orzabal (of Tears For Fears) and David Bascombe.
The Blind Boys of Alabama play at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England, UK. 
Bishop Walter Hawkins, considered one of the greatest gospel singers ever, dies aged 61 of pancreatic cancer in Ripon, Califoirnia, USA.
Aretha Franklin successfully undergoes surgery for an unspecified condition in hospital in Detroit, Michigan, USA.Bob Dylan plays at The Ancient Theatre of Fourviere, during Les Nuits de Fourviere, Lyon, France, Europe.
Mumford And Sons release their second album, Babel in The UK, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe and South America.
During an interview with The Detroit News, Aretha Franklin tells interviewer Susan Whitall that she is taking legal advice about whether or not to sue author David Ritz. She feels that his biography of her, Respect, consists of "lies, lies, lies and then more lies."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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