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Frank Christian is born in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA. He will find success as a jazz trumpeter, working with Papa Jack Laine, Tom Brown and The Original New Orleans Jazz Band
Police Superintendent David Hennessey is shotgunned to death on Basin Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Hennessey's death will be related in an early blues song, The Downfall Of The Lion, written by Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, but never recorded. All that remains is a verse recalled by guitarist Lemon Nash, who played with Brown in the 1920's: "I'm gonna tell you racketeers, Something you can understand, Don't let your tongues say nothin', That your head can't stand." Hennessey's killing will also provide the basis of another song, The Hennessey Murder.
Piron's New Orleans Orchestra records Da Doodle Oom and West Indies Blues in New York City, USA, for Victor Records.
Candy And Coco record Kingfish Blues, China Boy, New Orleans and Bugle Call Rag for Vocalion Records in the USA.
Swamp pop R'n'B teenage idol Jimmy Clanton is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter plays the fifth night of a week at the St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Musician and songwriter Michael Doucet, best known as a founder-member of popular cajun band BeauSoleil, is born in Scott, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
Billy Ward And His Dominoes play at The Palace Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Singing cowboy Gene Autry ends a string of twenty one-nighter shows with a gig at The Municipal Auditorium, New orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Felix Hanemann is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success is as a singer and musician with successful 80s band Zebra.
In Cosimo Matassa's J + M Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Little Richard finishes his first two-day recording session for Specialty Records. One of the songs recorded at this session is Tutti Frutti.
Fats Domino begins a week of dates at Club Bolero, Wildwood-by-the- Sea, New Jersey, USA.
Mother-In-Law by Ernie K-Doe reaches No1 in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling pop singles in the USA.
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, vocalist-songwriter Chris Kenner records his original version of Something You Got, co-written with Fats Domino. The track will become a much-covered r'n'b classic.
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.
Eden Kane, The Karl Denver Trio, Bert Weedon And The Easy Beats, Valerie Masters and Terry Lightfoot's New Orleans Jazzmen with Clinton Ford perform live on the BBC Light Programme show Easy Beat, introduced by Brian Matthew live from London, England, UK, Europe.
Steel guitar virtuoso Walter Haynes records John Henry, Jambalaya, Raunchy, Billy In the Low Ground, Columbus Stockade Blues, Battle Of New Orleans and other tracks and in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Motor Town Revue, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays in The State Fairgrounds, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Blues singer, pianist and recording artist Lizzie Miles dies of a heart attack in 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 releases a new single, When I'm Walking / I've Got A Right To Cry, on ABC-Paramount Records in the Netherlands, Europe.
Blanche Thomas with the Albert "Papa" French Band records Won't
You Come Home, Bill Bailey?, for Nobility Records in the USA.
Louis Armstrong makes his first of six appearances on the popular, long-running Saturday night variety show The Hollywood Palace, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Irma Thomas performs Anyone Who Knows What Love Is on tv show American Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Country music singer Faron Young is arrested for assault after throwing his drink in the face of a policeman at The Music City Club, 16th Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Fats Domino is playing the third of five nights at Club Laurel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Blues harmonica maestro Slim Harpo dies following a heart attack at the age of 46 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
On their Synchronicity tour, The Police play at State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood play at the Saenger Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play at Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.Gracie Katherine McGraw is born, the first child of country music stars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.
Faith Hill wins in four categories - Single Record and Video of the Year for This Kiss; Top Female Vocalist and Vocal Event (shared with Tim McGraw) for Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me - at the 34th annual Academy of Country Music awards in Los Angeles, California, USA.
A badly decomposed body recovered recently from the Chartres Street Wharf in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, is identified as Barry Cowsill of family-oriented pop band The Cowsills. The coroner rules that he died of drowning during Hurricane Katrina.
Mayor Melvin Mack declares this to be Mundell Lowe Day in Laurel, Mississippi, USA. A famed jazz and country guitarist, Lowe had run away from Laurel in 1938 in search of fame, but had recently returned to his birthplace.
Singer-songwriter Bobby Charles dies aged 71 in Abbeville, Louisiana, USA. His compositions included See You Later, Alligator, for Bill Haley And His Comets, Walking to New Orleans and It Keeps Rainin' for Fats Domino, and (I Don't Know Why) But I Do for Clarence 'Frogman' Henry. Charles is also remembered for helping to pioneer the south Louisiana musical genre known as swamp pop.
When Arcade Fire play at the 2011 Jazz Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, they are joined onstage by Cyndi Lauper.
The Foo Fighters are recording material for their next album at Preservation Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.The Foo Fighters are recording material for their next album at Preservation Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Blues-rock supergroup The Royal Southern Brotherhood release a new album, heartsoulblood, on Ruf Records in the UK.Rapper 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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