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Edward Harry Kelly is born above the family-owned saloon in the Mechanic's Hotel at 1300 West 9th Street near Union Depot in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He will find success as ragtime composer Harry Kelly. His best-remembered composition is perhaps the slow drag Peaceful Henry.
The Raffles Orchestra, directed by Dan Hopkins, performs at a Special Dinner And Ball in The Raffles Hotel, Singapore, Asia. Fancy dress is optional.Jack Fina And His Orchestra play in The Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, California, USA.
Carl Sauceman And The Green Valley Boys record Down The Road To Love, God's Secret Weapon, You're Gone and I'm Not Worth Your Tears, in Castle Studio, The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Grady Martin and The Slewfoot Five record You Belong To Me, I Went To Your Wedding and Pennsylvania Polka in Castle Studio At The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Singer, actress and dancer Doretta Morrow is playing at The Aladdin Room, Algiers Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Susan Hayward wins the award for Best Performance By An Actress In A Musical Film for her leading role in With A Song In My Heart at The 10th Golden Globe Awards in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard US Best-Selling Singles chart, where it will peak at No1 during a 22-week run.
Bobby Rydell plays the eleventh night in a four week season at The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, as support to comedian George Burns.
Bobby Rydell plays the eighteenth night in a four week season at The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, as support to comedian George Burns.
The Si Zentner Orchestra is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, USA.Brenda Lee plays the first night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The show is advertised as Lee's headlining debut in Vegas, ignoring the fact that she headlined the city's Frontier Hotel when she was eleven. During this season, she will be presented with a plaque in recognition of her membership to the ranks of Decca Records million-sellers.
The Everly Brothers play the last of eight nights at The Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Beatles have a photographic session with photographer Cyrus Andrews in the lobby of The Royal Court Hotel, and other locations around Sloane Square, London, England, UK, Europe.
Recently reconciled couple Judy Garland and Sid Luft travel to San Francisco, California, USA, where Judy is to 'rest'. They stay at the Fairmont Hotel, rooms 210 - 212, and 214 – the Bridal Suite.
The Rolling Stones play at Studio 51, Soho, London, and also at the Station Hotel, Richmond, England, UK, EuropePaul Anka and songwriter Sammy Cahn fly from Berlin, Germany, Europe, to Hamburg, where Anka records a tv show before flying back to Berlin. In Berlin, Cahn and Anka start work on a humourous song, All I Want Is A Seat (To See The Beatles), which Anka will introduce during an upcoming live show at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, USA.
The Cumberland Trio (actually a quartet) continue their summer season at The Hotel Greystone, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play the fourth of five nights at the Lugano Hotel, Lugano, Switzerland, Europe.
The Beatles check in to The Antrobus Arms hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire, UK, where they are shortly to re-commence location filming on Salisbury Plain for their movie Help!
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Decca Records present Brenda Lee with a red Mustang convertible during a 21st birthday party at The Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. In attendance are future Country Music Hall of Famers Red Foley, Owen Bradley and Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
Frank Sinatra celebrates his fiftieth birthday with a party at the Beverly Wiltshire Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dionne Warwick is presented with a gold disc marking one million sales of her single Valley Of The Dolls/I Say A Little Prayer, by Scepter Records' President Florence Greenberg at a dinner dance in the Hotel Pierre, New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley has a second day of rehearsals in Conference Room C of the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in preparation for a four week season of concerts at the hotel.
Elvis Presley continues with his four-week second season at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with his four-week second season at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Kris Kristofferson, Lieber And Stoller, Charles Strouse, and others are formally inducted to The Songwriters Hall Of Fame at their Annual Awards Dinner in the Waldorf-Astroria Hotel, New York City, USA.
Drummer Larry Jackson forms hardcore punk band The Rickets in Bainbridge Island, near Seattle, Washington, USA, the morning after seeing Aspirin Feast at The OK Hotel.
Eddie Rabbitt, Kent Robbins and Merle Kilgore are inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame during an award ceremony at Loews Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Britney Spears files suit in New York State Supreme Court against eight insurance companies which are contesting her $9.8m reimbursement claim over last year's cancelled Onyx Hotel Tour, on the grounds that she had never informed them of the knee injury which caused cancellation of the tour.
Sean Combs, aka P. Diddy, aka Puff Daddy, hosts a luncheon at the UJA Federation of New York at The Pierre Hotel, New York City, USA, in honour of Warner Music Group Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Boney M's frontman Bobby Farrell is found dead in his hotel room in St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe. By a curious coincidence, Farrell's death falls on same date and in the same town as mad Russian monk Rasputin - who was the subject of the band's 1978 top three single.Gary Brooker, lead singer of Procol Harum, sustains a fractured skull when he falls in his South African hotel room while on tour.
Camile Baudoin, formerly of The Radiators, David Doucet of BeauSoleil and acoustic guitarist John Rankin team up to present a show called Guitarganza at The Columns Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Tokio Hotel release their fifth album, Kings of Suburbia, on Island Records worldwide, except Germany, Europe.
Romeo Stodart and Ren Harvieu play at The Spa Hotel, Saltburn-By-The-Sea, England, UK.
Lil Wayne is admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA, after being found unconscious in his Westin Hotel room following multiple seizures. He is obliged to cancel his gig later that night at Drai's Beachclub in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.1879 |
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