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Aladdin Jr. is presented at The Grand Opera House, San Francisco, California, USA.
Primrose And Dockstader's Big American Minstrels are playing at The Grand Opera House, New York City, USA.
The Colby Family, billed as "Vaudeville's most entertaining Musical Speciality" are playing at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.


Vocal duo Collins And Harlan record Bake Dat Chicken Pie for Victor Records in New York City, USA. The first line, "If you wanna make a nigger feel good, I'll tell you what to do" is indicative of the racist tone of the song.

Edith Giovanna Gassion is born in the Hospital Tenon in the Rue de Chine, Paris, France, Europe. She will grow up to become legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf, known as the 'little sparrow'.
The highest new entry in this week's Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA is Blue Moon by The Marcels entering at No49.

New albums reviewed in this week's edition of UK pop weekly the NME
[New
Musical Express] include Instant Party by The Everly
Brothers, Let
There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson and
Stranger
On The Shore by Acker Bilk.
Producer Norman Petty overdubs contributions by The Fireballs onto Buddy Holly's original recording of the song Gone, in order to release the track in a more complete form.

Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds release a new single, Buzz With The Fuzz, in the UK.
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When Jane Fonda throws an Independence Day party in Malibu, California, USA, musical entertainment is provided by


During sessions at Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA, for their album Forever Changes, Love record Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale which features a distinctive trumpet solo. Many years later, in 1983, Scottish band Aztec Camera will release a single called Oblivious which includes a guitar solo all but identical to the trumpet solo on Maybe The People.
The Giant Jellybean Copout record Awake In A Dream and Look At The Girls for Poppy Records in New York City, USA.
The Monkees are working on the songs Shake 'Em Up and Don't Say Nothing Bad at RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Demos by aspiring songwriter D.P.Costello are played on influential deejay Charlie Gillett
Belgian 'punk' Plastic Bertrand enters the UK singles chart with Ca Plane Pour Moi, which will peak at No8.
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Tony Peluso dies aged 60 from heart disease in Los Angeles, California, USA. Although best-remembered as the man who played the fuzz guitar solo in Goodbye To Love by The Carpenters, Peluso also played with Paul Revere And The Raiders, and carried on to an acclaimed career as a record producer at Motown and elsewhere, winning four Grammy Awards during his career.





Alec Benjamin plays at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe, supported by Boy In Space.
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