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Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino enters the Billboard US Top 40 pop singles chart where it will peak at No4.

I'm Walkin' by Fats Domino on Imperial Records peaks at No4 on the Billboard popular singles chart in the USA.
The George Lewis New Orleans Jazz Band, featuring Joe Robichaux, Kid Howard, Alcide 'Slow Drag' Pavageau, Joe Watkins and Jim Robinson, plays at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK.

Tommy Ridgley records In The Same Old Way, The Girl From Kooka Monga, My Ordinary Girl and She's Got What It Takes for Ric Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Dizzy Gillespie reveals that his upcoming concert at Tulane University (Oct 19), in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, has been cancelled. Gillespie is certain that the cancellation has been caused by the presence of a white pianist, Lalo Schifrin, in his otherwise black band.
Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Faron Young and The Jordanaires, Bill Monroe, Grandpa Jones, Minnie Pearl and The Stony Mountain Cloggers appear at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA, in a Grand Ole Opry Package show.
I Know [You Don't Love Me No More] by Barbara George enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No3 during an eleven-week run on the chart.
Fats Domino enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA with You Win Again, which will peak at No22 during a ten week stay.
Jim Robinson's New Orleans Band records Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue, Bucket's Got A Hole In It, You Tell Me Your Dream, I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate and Gettysburg March, for Atlantic Records in Preservation Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Tossi Aaron and Biff Rose play during a five night stand at The Blue Dog Cellar, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Fats Domino performs Red Sails In The Sunset on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.


Blanche Thomas with the Albert "Papa" French Band records Won't
You Come Home, Bill Bailey?, for Nobility Records in the USA.
Irma Thomas performs Anyone Who Knows What Love Is on weekly tv pop show American Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Standells appear in the same edition.
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Percy Sledge suffers a heart attack while on stage in Pensacola, Florida, USA. The audience, however, thinks it is part of his melodramatic performance and cheers enthusiastically as he is carried off to hospital.



Christopher Breaux is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as r'n'b singer-songwriter Frank Ocean.


On his first All Starr Band tour, Ringo Starr plays the first of two nights at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, Long Island, New York State, USA. The band includes Billy Preston, Dr. John, Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Jim Keltner, Nils Lofgren, Clarence Clemons and Rick Danko.
Gracie Katherine McGraw is born, the first child of country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

Gal Holiday And The Honky Tonk Revue play at Dmac’s, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Lil Wayne begins legal proceedings to end his contract with Cash Money Records, on the grounds that the label violated his contract by withholding the money he's owed for the album Tha Carter V. He is also reported to be suing the label for $51m.
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Humble And Kind by Tim McGraw reaches No1 on the Billboard country singles chart in the USA.

D.J. Fontana, longtime drummer for Elvis Presley, dies aged 87, in his sleep in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. At his time of death, he is suffering from complications of a broken hip.

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