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The musical comedy The Cadet Girl is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 48 performances.
The Schley Music Hall on Broadway in New York City, USA, changes its name to The Savoy Theatre, after just eight months in operation.
The musical extravaganza The Sleeping Beauty And The Beast is playing at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 241 performances. The show is billed as "The biggest indoor entertainment in the world! 500 people involved!"Lew Dockstader's Minstrels are playing at The Victoria Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Mary Phillips records Dat's What I Call Music for Victor Records in New York City, USA, but the track is not released.
The musical comedy Stop! Look! Listen!, with music by Irving Berlin, is presented at The Globe Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 105 performances.
Tuli Kupferberg, future member of anarchic folk-rock pioneers, The Fugs, is born in New York City, USA.
Jazz/dance group The Golden Gate Orchestra records Make My Cot Where The Cot-cot-cotton Grows, Tell Me Little Daisy and For My Baby for Edison Records in New York City, USA.
The All Star Orchestra, a jazz/dance band with male vocal solo, record I Must Be Dreaming, My Melancholy Baby and I Just Roll Along, for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will become known as
The Crash of '29 or Black Tuesday. This is generally taken as the beginning of The Great Depression that blighted America in the 1930s. The Depression will inspire many songs, including Blind Alfred Reed's 1929 composition How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?; EY Harburg and Jay Gorney's 1932 tune Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? and Do Re Mi by Woody Guthrie.
Ray Benson's Orchestra is providing the musical entertainment at The Montauk Island Club, Montauk Point, Long Island, New York State, USA.Dinah Washington With Teddy Stewart's Orchestra records Journey's End for Mercury Records in New York City, USA.
Johnny Ace becomes the first rock'n'roll fatality, when he kills
himself while playing Russian Roulette backstage at the City Auditorium, Houston, Texas, USA. He is eulogised in the Paul Simon song The Late Great Johnny Ace.
Pioneering jazz saxophonist Lester Young, nicknamed Prez, dies aged 49 in New York City, USA, having virtually drunk himself to death. His tragic passing will inspire Charles Mingus to compose the elegy Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (because Young was often seen wearing a broad-rimmed pork pie hat) later in the year. In 1979, Joni Mitchell will add lyrics to the melody, telling the story of Young's life.
The John Lewis - Gunther Schuller Orchestra plus The Contemporary Strings Quartet record Abstraction, in Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records.
Quincy Jones and his Orchestra record Q uintessence in Capitol Studios, New York City, USA. The track is written, arranged and conducted by Jones.
Jay And The Americans play the fourth night in a week of shows at Camelot, New York City, USA.Jerry Butler, The Four Seasons, Ike And Tina Turner, and Gladys Knight And The Pips play the fourth of seven nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The Drifters record In The Land Of Make Believe, at Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA. The song is written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. At the same session The Drifters record Didn't It.
The Fall 1963 Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in The War Memorial Auditorium, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA.
Save It For Me by The Four Seasons enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10.
Louis Armstrong and Pat Boone are the musical guests on tv's The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
The The Animals, Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, The Nashville Teens and Tommy Tucker play at the City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
Country music guitarist Doc Watson and The Danny Kalb Quartet [later known as The Blues Project] play the fifth of fifteen nights at The Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Barbra Streisand meets with French composer Michel Legrand in New York City, USA, and they discuss the possibility of collaborating on an album.
J.J. Johnson And His Orchestra record Once In A Liufetime, Sunrise, Sunset, Sew The Buttons On and More Than One Way for RCA Records in New York City, USA.
Fifty-five year old Billy Joel marries twenty-three year old Kate Lee, in a sunset ceremony at his Long Island, New York State, USA, waterfront mansion.
Song lyricist Frank
Loesser, whose compositions included Baby It's Cold Outside, Heart And Soul, and Two Sleepy People, dies of lung cancer in New
York City, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges records Disillusion Blues, Duke's Place and Welcome To New York, in New York City, USA, for RCA Records.
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA, for the first of two weeks.
Bob Dylan's former manager, Albert Grossman, files a lawsuit in New York City, USA, claiming back royalties and punitive damages. Dylan will counterclaim on eighteen different points, and the battle will drag on for several years.
Joni Mitchell plays at Shea's Performing Arts Center, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
On their Unmasked tour, when Kiss play their first live concert without make-up in Lisbon, Portugal, Europe, the event is transmitted live on Portuguese tv.
On his Serious Moonlight tour, David Bowie plays the second of two nights at The RAS Showgrounds, Sydney, Australia, Oceania, supported by The Models.
Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No6 during an eleven-week stay.
Bob Dylan and his band spend the last of four days rehearsing for their upcoming US tour at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Poughkeepsie, New York State, USA.
Steely Dan play the second of two nights at Ravinia Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with special guest Sam Yahel.
Mike Doughty, formerly of Soul Coughing, plays at The City Winery, New York City, USA.
On her ArtRave : The Artpop Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays at Yarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia, Asia, supported by Lady Starlight.1859 |
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