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T.W. Dinkin's Vagabonds play the last of three nights at The New Gaiety Theatre, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. The show includes The Four Mignanis, The Three Nudos, Lillian Washburn, Topack And Steele, Flo Jansen, Barrett And Learned together with 20 Pretty Girls.
Frankie Carpenter, with a concert orchestra and excellent company headed by Jere Grady, plays during a week at The Academy Of Music, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. The show is billed as featuring not only "songs, dances and novelties" but also "a carload of scenery and electrical effects".
Burlesque entertainer May Fiske, with Her Own Solo Orchestra, opens for a week of performances at The Academy Of Music, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. The show also features vaudeville acts including Major General Tom Thumb and Count And Baron Magri, billed as "the smallest people in the world".
Jack Cressy is born in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. He will find some acclaim as a jazz saxophonist, working with Paul Whiteman, Billie Holiday, Paul Specht and others.
On their first national tour, country music stars The Sons Of The Pioneers play the second of two nights in Strand, Altoon, Pennsylvania, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Band play the fourth night of a one-week engagement at The Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Hank Williams And The Drifting Cowboys play in Sunset Park, West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA.Al Martino and Les Paul And Mary Ford play the second of four nights at Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Lloyd Price is playing at Reynold's Hall And Tropical Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Cathy Carroll performs Jimmy Love on popular tv series American Bandstand in W-Fil Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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.
Connie Francis plays the fifth night in a week of shows at The Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.The Miracles, The Vibrations, The Blue Notes and Joe Tex begin two weeks at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Miracles, The Vibrations, The Blue Notes and Joe Tex come to the end of two weeks at The Uptown Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Gary U.S. Bonds performs Dear Lady Twist on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Chubby Checker teen movie Twist Around The Clock opens at the New Victoria in London, England, UK, Europe, with Lionel Blair's dance troupe hired to demonstrate The Twist on stage each day.Bobby Rydell continues with his three-week engagement at Sciolla's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Serendipity Singers play at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, USA.
When The Jimmy Smith Trio plays at Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, Europe, the concert is recorded and will be released as the album Paris Jazz Concert Live.
Eddie Rambeau enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Concrete And Clay, which will peak at No35.
The Dave Clark Five play at The Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chubby Checker and Kim Weston play at the UJA Dinner-Dance, in the Hilton Hotel, New York City, USA.
The Nazz play the third of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA. The group includes future solo star Todd Rundgren.
A special meeting of the stockholders of Philadelphia-based Cameo-Parkway Records approves the acquisition by Cameo-Parkway of the assets and liabilities of Allen Klein And Co.,Inc.
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Look What The Cat Dragged In by Poison is certified as a triple-platinum album by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Rapper Cassidy is charged with murder in court in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The charge relates to an April, 2005 incident in which three men, including Cassidy, armed with .45, .40 and 9mm caliber pistols, and an AK-47 variant rifle, fired on three unarmed men during an argument in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia.
Elvis Costello plays in The Chevrolet Amphitheater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Drake opens his Would You Like A Tour? tour, with a show at The Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. 
When Harry Syles of One Direction notices bad grammar on a fan's banner at the group's gig in Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, he has the banner brought to him and he corrects the mistake ("Hi, Harry, your so nice") by changing "your" to "you're". Then he returns the sign to the fan.
Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at Summit Music Hall, Denver, Colorado, USA.Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at Brooklyn Bowl, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at The Roxy, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Ronald 'Bingo' Mundy, tenor vocalist of The Marcels dies of pneumonia, aged 76, at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Mundy was a founder-member of the hit-making group with his high school friends in 1959.
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