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Mathis James Reed is born in Dunleith, Mississippi, USA. He will
find fame as blues singer/songwriter/guitarist and harmonica player
Jimmy Reed.
Charles Isiah Ross is born in Tunica, Mississippi, USA. He will grow up to record for Sun Records and others as a harmonica player under the name Dr Ross.
Roy Banks Joseph of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is granted a US Patent for his invention, The Rolmonica, which is a harmonica played by means of a perforated paper music roll. Once manufactured, it will be advertised as a "veritable pocket-sized jazz band".Blues singer and harmonica player Jazz Gillum, with Big Maceo on piano, records Reckless Rider Blues, Look On Yonder Wall, Keep On Sailing and Fast Woman Blues, for RCA Victor Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Ink Spots, Borah Minevitch's Harmonica Rascals and Woolf Phillips And His Orchestra play the last of seventeen nights at The Palladium, London, UK.
Blues singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band Joe Hill Louis records a session for Modern Records at Sun Studio, 706 Union Avenue, memphis, Tennessee, USA.Folk quartet The
Weavers play the second night of a month-long residency at Cafe
Society, Greenwich
Village, New York City, USA. The group includes Pete Seeger.
The Hotcha Trio (a harmonica group) release a new 78rpm single, Chattanoogie Shoeshine Boy and Honeysuckle Rose, on Decca-Philips Records in Germany, Austria and Sweden, Europe.
Doctor Ross And His Jump And Jive Boys record Country Clown and Doctor Ross Boogie, Little Soldier Boy, Shake A My Hand and That's Alright, for Chess Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The session is produced by Sam Philips.
Howlin' Wolf records Decoration Day and Alright at Memphis Recording And Sound Services, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Crazy Man Crazy by Bill Haley And His Comets enters the Billboard Juke Box Chart in the USA where it will peak at No12. It is generally regarded as the first recognized rock'n'roll recording to register on the national American musical charts.
Blues harmonica star Little Walter Jacobs records I Had My Fun in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Chess Records.
Count Basie And His Orchestra plays at the CBS New Year's Eve Dancing Party in Birdland, New York City, USA.
Slim Harpo and Lightnin' Slim play at The High Hat Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Buster Brown plays at Jack's Place, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Brown's backing group is The Straightjackets, including harmonica player >Delbert McClinton, who will find greater success after a name change to The Rondels (aka The Ron-Dels).
Memphis Willie Borum records Brownsville Blues, Worried Man Blues, Every Day I Have The Blues and other tracks for Bluesville Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Brenda Lee, with producer Owen Bradley, records Organ Grinder's SwingLet The Four Winds Blow, Hold Me and I'll Always Be In Love With You for Decca Records in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session features guitarists Hank Garland and Grady Martin, bassists Harold Bradley and Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman, pianist Floyd Cramer, harmonica player Charlie McCoy, sexophonist Boots Randolph and the Anita Kerr Singers.
Country singer Jimmy Dean spends the second of two days at Columbia Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, recording tracks for his album Portrait Of Jimmy Dean. On this day, with producer Don Law, he records Cajun Joe and other tracks. Musicians playing on the session are Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton on guitars, Joe Zinkan on bass, Floyd Cramer on piano, Bill Pursell on organ, Charlie McCoy on harmonica and Buddy Harman on drums.
Eddy Arnold records Comin' Green, My Own True Love, My Darling Nellie Gray and Old Folks, with Chet Atkins as producer, RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Harmonica on the session is played by Charlie McCoy.
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Spann and Buddy Guy play at The Club Copa Cabana, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The event is recorded and will be released by Chess Records as a live LP.The Downliners Sect plus Jimmy Powell And The Five Dimensions play at Ken Colyer's Studio 51, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe. The Five Dimensions' harmonica player is a young lad called Rod Stewart.
Little Stevie Wonder continues with his Christmas season booking at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe.
Little Walter plays at the Broadside Club, Willesden Green, London, UK, backed by folk guitarist Bert Jansch.
Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Sleepy John Estes, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Sunnyland Slim, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Lightnin
Jackie Wilson, Little Stevie Wonder and Solomon Burke play in a touring show entitled The Spectacular Stars of '65 in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Hank Cochran records Jeannie's Waiting, Who's Gonna, You Kept Me Awake and I Ever Saw in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Session players include guitarists Jerry Reed, Fred Carter, Velma Smith and Harold Bradley, steel guitarist Lloyd Green, drummer Kenny Buttrey, pianist Floyd Cramer and harmonica player Charlie McCoy plus The Anita Kerr Singers.
Dean Martin records Houston, Little Lovely One and Love Love Love at United Recording Corporation Studios, 6050 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Manfred Mann play at St. George's Ballroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, UK, Europe.
Them release a new single, Mystic Eyes, in the UK on Decca Records. The song is written by their vocalist, Van Morrison.
Stevie Wonder plays at The Scotch Of St. James club, London, UK. At the show Wonder meets Paul McCartney of The Beatles for the first time.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band plays the first of three nights at The Ambassador Theatre, Washington DC, USA, supported byThe Paul Butterfield Blues Band plays the last of three nights at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by The Psychedelic Stooges and The MC5.
Ten Years After perform in the last of three nights at the new Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, along with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Truth.
The three-day long Sky River Rock Festival And Lighter Than Air Fair opens in fields near Sultan, Washington, USA. Tickets cost $6.00 for all three days, and the event is a fund-raiser for "American Indians and Black People". Acts playing over the next three days include Santana, Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Country Joe And The Fish, H.P. Lovecraft, Rambin' Jack Elliott, Allmen Joy, Buffy St. Marie, Flamin' Groovies, Richard Pryor, Dino Valenti, Byron Pope, It's a Beautiful Day, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Alice Stuart Thomas, The Youngbloods, New Lost City Ramblers, Sons Of Champlin, Kaleidoscope and local groups such as Juggernaut and Easy Chair. On the last day, The Grateful Dead arrive unscheduled.
Colwell-Winfield and The Corky Siegel Blues Band play at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.TV show Music Scene, which premiered on ABC in the USA in September 1969, transmits its final show, featuring Bo Diddley performing Hey Bo Diddley, Groucho Marx with Father's Day Song, John Sebastian singing She's a Lady and Rainbows All Over Your Blues, Lee Michaels doing Who Could Want More and Buffy Sainte-Marie singing Universal Soldier.
Blues harmonica player, singer and recording artist Big John Wrencher, aka One Arm John, collapses and dies, aged 54, while chatting with friends in Wade Walton's barber shop in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.
It is reported that Stevie Wonder was recently arrested outside the South African Embassy in Washington DC, USA, during a an anti-apartheid demonstration. He was released after questioning by police.
Beatlejazz, a group specialising in jazz interpretations of The Beatles songs, release the album, All You Need, featuring guest appearances by Toots Thielemans [harmonica], Richard Bona [bass and vocals] and Joe Lovano [saxophone].
Rihanna sets a new record when the success of her latest single, What's My Name?, (featuring Drake) makes her the first female solo artist in UK chart history to achieve number one singles in five consecutive years.
Otis Clay plays at The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. the show is a musical tribute to the Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson and the pioneer of soul, Sam Cooke.
Florence And The Machine launch their new album, Ceremonials, with a live gig at Hackney Empire, London, UK.
Award-winning blues band King King play at The Voodoo Lounge, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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