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Raul de Ramon is born in Santiago, Chile, South America. He will find fame as a musician and folklorist and songwriter. His best-known songs are perhaps The Curanto, Nostalgia Colchaguina, Camino de Soledad, Rosa Colorada, Cancion de la Caballeria and El Amor del Arriero.
Class photographs are taken at Wentworth Primary School, Dartford, UK, among which is a shot showing youngsters Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, who would grow up to become founders of The Rolling Stones.
Jazz clarinettist Buddy DeFranco And His Orchestra record King Philip Stomp, Rumpus Room, I'm Stepping Out With A Memory and Polka Dots And Moonbeams, for MGM Records in New York City, USA.
The new Billboard No1 single in the USA is Get A Job by The Silhouettes. The song will have a couple of far-reaching influences. Not only will Smokey Robinson And The Miracles be inspired to make their debut recording with an answer song, Got A Job, but the successful rock'n'roll revival band Sha Na Na will take their name from the catchy backing vocals on Get A Job.
You're Driving Me Crazy by The Temperance Seven on Parlophone Records is the new No1 single in the UK.
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Trad Tavern, a new BBC Light Programme radio show cashing in on the UK's Trad Jazz craze, begins. Acker Bilk will become one of its most featured artists. During this first edition, young presenter Alan Freeman introduces a short segment called 'Pick Of The Pops', which will become so popular that it will be given its own Sunday teatime spot in 1962.
While The Beatles are rehearsing for the BBC-organised Swinging Sound 63, a trad jazz/beat music package at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Paul McCartney meets actress Jane
Asher, soon to become his girlfriend. She will inspire songs including All My Loving, And I Love Her, I'm Looking Through You, You Won't See Me, We Can Work It Out, Here, There and Everywhere, and For No One. For the record, the Royal Albert Hall show also features Del Shannon, The Springfields, Rolf Harris, Shane Fenton, Kenny Lynch, The Vernons Girls and Lance Percival, and is compered by jazz veteran George Melly. The Rolling Stones also go along to hang out with The Beatles.
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The Beach Boys, The Shangri-Las, Cilla Black, Ian Whitcomb and Dick And Dee Dee tape their performances for an edition on tv show Shindig in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ian Whitcomb records N-N-Nervous at RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. His session band includes James Burton on guitar, Jim Horn on Sax, Delaney Bramlett on bass and Mickey Conway on drums. Despite the success of Whitcomb's previous disc, You Turn Me On, this one will bomb.
David Perry records seventeen tracks including Crisis Of Joe Louis, Crisis At Munich and Crisis Over Poland, in New York City, USA, for the Decca Records spoken word album Crisis! (Voices And Sounds Of Events That Created History / 1936 To The Present).
Moby Grape record Just Like Gene Autry : A Foxtrot, in New York City, USA, for their Columbia Records album Wow! When the track, a 1930s jazz pastiche, appears on the album, it is recorded at 78rpm, and thus requires listeners to change the speed setting on their record players from 33.3rpm to 78rpm in order to hear it at the correct speed.
Eccentric ukulele-strummer Tiny Tim releases a new single, Tiptoe Through The Tulips, which will become the surprise hit of the year. It was originally a No1 hit for Nick Lucas in 1929.The Newport Pop Festival - a two-day event - begins at Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa, California, USA, featuring Tiny Tim, Sonny And Cher, The Chambers Brothers, Country Joe And The Fish, Canned Heat, Electric Flag, The Butterfield Blues Band, Blue Cheer and Steppenwolf.
Peter Yarrow [of Peter, Paul And Mary], Tiny Tim, Barbara Acklin, Paul Peterson, The New York Rock And Roll Ensemble [and The Beatles on film] are seen in the local New York tv special Pickle Palace hosted by The Pickle Brothers.
Tiny Tim plays at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, to an audience including members of The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Eric Burdon And War play the first of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Aum and Sha Na Na.
Eric Burdon And War play the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Aum and Sha Na Na.
Tiny Tim comes to the end of a week of cabaret at The Cavendish Club, Sheffield, UK.
Tiny Tim plays the third of five nights at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sha Na Na, Elvin Bishop and Tower Of Power play the third of four nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Guess Who and Sha Na Na play as part of The Summer Of Stars concert series in Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A Doors Convention is held at The ICA, London, England, UK, Europe, attended by the three surviving members of the band.
At Lime Street Station, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, British Rail unveils a new Mk3 Pullman car which has been named John Lennon.
The 60s Golden Greats nostalgia tour, featuring Bobby Vee, The Searchers and Chris Montez, plays at the International Centre, Bournemouth, UK, with special guests Marmalade.The 60s Golden Greats nostalgia tour, featuring Bobby Vee, The Searchers and Chris Montez, plays at The Empire Theatre, Sunderland, UK.Actor Gary Busey, who had starred in the 1978 biopic The Buddy Holly Story, purchases one of Buddy Holly’s guitars at an auction for $240,000. The guitar comes complete with a tooled leather case made by Holly.
Cranes hoist Elvis Presley's gold Cadillac, Webb Pierce's gaudy Pontiac and Nudie's business sign onto the third floor of the new 130,000-square-foot Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, before the last wall is sealed.
The Solid Silver 60s Show, featuring The Searchers, Wayne Fontana, The Merseybeats and John Walker, formerly of The Walker Brothers, plays at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.Heritage Toronto unveils its first commemorative plaque celebrating the Yorkville, Toronto, Canada, music scene. The first plaque is placed at "the birthplace of Canadian song", the Riverboat Coffeehouse at 134 Yorkville Avenue. Opened in 1964, The Riverboat was the best-known coffeehouse in Canada, hosting gigs by Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn and countless others.
eBay bids for tickets to Michael Jackson's upcoming Memorial Event in the Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, reach as high as US$3,000. Most offers, however, are in the $100 to $200 range.
A printed menu from the Angel Hotel, Northampton, England, UK, Europe, Wednesday 27th March, signed and annoted on the back in blue ballpoint pen Love from The Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr xx George Harrison xxx and in pencil John Lennon xxx, on March 27, 1963, sells for $3,366 at Christie's Auction House in London. The group played at the ABC Cinema in Northampton on that day.Frank Ocean releases his debut EP Nostalgia Ultra as a mixtape via Ocean's personal blog.
The famous black-and-red leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson in the classic Thriller video sells for $1.8m at Julien's Auctions, Beverly Hills, California, USA. The jacket is bought by gold trader Milton Verret of Austin, Texas, who says he plans to use it to raise money for children's hospitals.
Suzanne Vega plays the first of four 25th Anniversary concerts in which she performs her second LP, Solitude Standing, in its entirety. This concert is held at Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Annie Lennox releases her new album, Nostalgia, as a CD, vinyl LP, DVD and digital download on Universal Records in Germany, Europe. The album consists of cover versions of classic songs.Annie Lennox releases her new album, Nostalgia, as a CD, vinyl LP, DVD and digital download in the UK and France, Europe. The album consists of cover versions of classic songs.
Their Mortal Remains, an exhibition of Pink Floyd-related memorabilia and artefacts opens at The Victoria And Albert Museum, London, England, UK, Europe. The exhibition is scheduled to run until October 1.
A tape believed to have been the first demo recording of David Bowie's song Starman sells for £50,430 at Omega Auctions in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England, UK, Europe.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd auctions 127 guitars from his collection at Christie's, New York City, USA, raising a total of $21,490,750, which the guitarist donates to ClientEarth, a global climate crisis organization. The auction sets several world records for sales of guitars. His famed Black Strat alone realised $3.975 m, said to be the highest price paid for a guitar at an auction. The Black Strat was played by Gilmour on every Pink Floyd album from The Dark Side of the Moon until The Final Cut. 1929 |
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