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Athens, Alabama-based country music brothers, The Anglin Twins record Just Inside The Pearly Gates for Vocalion Records in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Ole Rasmussen And His Nebraska Cornhuskers record Gonna See My
Sunday Baby Saturday Night, Which-a-way Will You Go?, Straighten
Out Your Troubles (With The Lord) and The Sandhills Of Nebraska, at
Capitol Recording Studio, 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los
Angeles, California, USA.
Eddy Arnold records Behind the Clouds, Precious Little Baby, Kentucky Waltz and other tracks for RCA Records at RCA Victor Studio 1, 155 East 24th Street, Manhattan, New York City, USA.
Ernest Tubb records Don't Stay Too Long, I'm Steppin' Out Of The Picture, and May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You, in Castle Studio at The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Julian Dash And His Orchestra record Hot Rod, For Squares Only, Cream'n Boogie and Open Up Them Pearly Gates in New York City, USA.
Twelve Apache Devil Dance songs by Medicine Man Macklin Palmer, Andrew Palmer, Sinew Riley, and Tribal Judge Stanley Paxson are recorded for the Library Of Congress American Folklife Center, in Whiteriver, Arizona, USA.
Benny Goodman records When Buddha Smiles and Sunrise Serenade in New York City, USA.
There are four versions of Stranger In Paradise in the UK singles chart - by Tony Bennett, Tony Martin, The Four Aces and Eddie Calvert.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Dome, Brighton, UK, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
Aretha Franklin plays at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This gig is said to have been used to showcase her switch from gospel to secular music.
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The Corinthian Gospel Singers record Working On The Building, A Man Called Jesus and other tracks for their Sharp Records album A City Called Heaven in the USA.
The Greater Philadelphia Citizens Committee holds an event, The Sound Of Freedom, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, with Dr. Martin Luther King as guest speaker, and special musical performances by artists including Mahalia Jackson.
Tennessee Ernie Ford records Little Gray Donkey, What Child Is This and The Virgin's Slumber Song, in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Georgie Fame, Cat Stevens, Julie Felix and Sounds Incorporated play the tenth night of a 14–day run in 'Fame In 67' at Brian Epstein's Saville Theatre, London, England, UK.
It is reported that 15,000 copies of the LP Mass In F Minor by The Electric Prunes (composed by David Axelrod) have been sold in the past month despite "an almost total lack of AM airplay exposure". The album has been promoted by Reprise Records through FM radio outlets and by marketing aimed at "underground" newspapers.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra begin rehearsing Ellington's Second Sacred Concert at The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine, New York City, USA.
A group of seventeen young demonstrators are ejected from the National City Christian church, frequented by US President Lyndon Johnson in Washington DC, USA, after they protest about the treatment of singer Eartha Kitt, who had spoken out during a recent function at The White House against the war in Vietnam.
In the wake of serious drug problems, 50's rock'n'roll and pop idol Dion DiMucci converts to Christianity.The Beach Boys begin a Tour of North America with pop guru the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Singer Bowl, New York City, USA.
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Cat Stevens enters the UK pop singles chart with Morning Has Broken which will peak at No9 during a thirteen-week run.
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Daniel Amos play at Sweet Water, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Reverend Richard Czachor, director of the Catholic Youth Center, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, cancels a planned show by Ozzy Osbourne, because of the artist’s recent behaviour, such as biting heads off bats and urinating on The Alamo.The movie Rhinestone starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone, premieres at The Roy Acuff Theater, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The Dolly Parton-composed soundtrack will produce two Top Ten country singles - Tennessee Homesick Blues and God Won't Get You.
U2 frontman Bono holds discussions in Brussels, Belgium, Europe, with European Commission leader Jose Manuel Barroso and other world leaders, asking them to support Africa and the momentum gained by the Live8 concerts. "Put down your national flags," he tells them. "Look up from the numbers and look to the future. People are dying for the most stupid reasons."
U2 play a 'secret' gig at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, as part of the promotion for their 12th album, No Line On The Horizon.
On their Pearl Jam play the second of two nights at The United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Bad Religion.
Sony announces that its karaoke-based console game SingStar has topped 20m unit sales.
Feminist punk band Pussy Riot, being held in jail in Moscow, Russia, Europe because of their recent protest gig against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at Moscow's Christ The Savior Cathedral are presented with formal charges on an indictment 2,800 pages long.
Adam Clayton, bassist of U2, reveals, 'I felt empty despite selling millions of records with U2 and living a privileged life'. the comments come during an interview in The Irish Independent newspaper when Clayton is helping to launch the Walk In My Shoes campaign to support mental health services at St Patrick's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, Europe.
Keith Urban visits children in the Monash Children's Hospital, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Oceania. While there, he and his actress wife Nicole Kidman sing Amazing Grace for the children.
On their Innocence And Experience tour, U2 play the first of four nights at Ericsson Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at O'Brian's Event Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.Between The Buried And Me, August Burns Red, The Faceless and Good Tiger play at The Concert Theatre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at FedEx Field, Landover, Maryland, USA, supported by The Lumineers.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play the second of two nights at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, supported by The Lumineers.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play the first of two nights at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy, Europe, supported by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play the second of two nights at Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy, Europe, supported by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
On their 51-date The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, U2 play at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, supported by Beck.
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