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Paul Whiteman's Orchestra records Washboard Blues, composed by Hoagy Carmichael, for Victor Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Country washboard band Herschel Brown and his Happy Five record the instrumental Liberty for Columbia Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
John Martyn Booker is born in London, UK. He will find fame as Johnny Martyn, founder-member and guitarist with influential UK skiffle group The Vipers.
Anne Wilson is born in Glasgow, Scotland. She will find fame in 1957 as Britains 'Queen of Skiffle', Nancy Whiskey, her biggest hit being Freight Train.
Washboard Sam records Down At The Old Village Store for Bluebird Records at The Leland Hotel, Aurora, Illinois, USA. Guitar on this session is played by Big Bill Broonzy.
Under the name Bill McKinley, harmonica virtuoso Bill 'Jazz' Gillum records Poor Boy Blues for Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The track also features Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam.
During a US tour, UK skiffle king Lonnie Donegan is backed by the Johnny Burnette Trio for a show in Detroit, Michigan.
Purist British skiffle fans are horrified to discover that Skiffle King Lonnie Donegan has dropped the washboard from his new group line-up. "We haven't incorporated a washboard in the new group," he explains, "for the very simple reason that I don't like them."
The Platters and Lonnie Donegan play the seventh night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
The Platters and Lonnie Donegan play the tenth night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK, supported by The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey, The Terry Lightfoot Jazzmen and Billie Anthony.
Lonnie Donegan plays at The Empire, Liverpool, UK. After the show, Donegan repairs to The Cavern Club for a jam session.
A National Skiffle Contest is held in Bury St Edmunds, UK, featuring such acts as The Sunrisers, The Vampires, The Black
Zombies, 2.19, The Skiffle Cats, the Five Sided Squares and others.
Winners are the 2.19 Skiffle Group.
Puttin' On The Style / Gamblin' Man by Lonnie Donegan spends the last day of two weeks at No1 in the UK pop music singles chart.
When Lonnie Donegan - The King Of Skliffle - appears on the BBC Radio series Skiffle Session he is paid 40 guineas rather than the standard flat fee of £30.10.0d given to other performers.Wee Willie Harris, The Southlanders, The Vagabonds, Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group, Tony Crombie and The Most Brothers play at The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. The Most Brothers include Mickie Most, who will go on to become one of the UK's top record producers in the 60s, working with The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Lulu, Duncan Browne and many others.
Stanley Dale's Skiffle Show Of 1958 plays the last of five nights at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK, featuring Jim Dale, Wally Whyton And The Vipers, Susan And Valerie Pardoe, Stan Van, Campbell And Rogerson and Betty Fox's Eight Dancing Teenagers.
Wee Willie Harris, The Most Brothers, Tony Crombie And His Rockets and Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group play the last of six nights at the Alhambra, Bradford, UK.
Lonnie Donegan, plays at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, with Betty Smith, Phil Fernando, The Red Peppers and The Four Jacks.
The Treniers, The Chas McDevitt Group, The Hedley Ward Trio and Terry Wayne play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK.
The Treniers, play at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, with The Hedley Ward Trio, The Chas McDevitt Group and Terry Wayne. (Jerry Lee Lewis was billed to headline but had to pull out when a scandal erupted over his under-age wife.)
Micky Ashman And His Ragtime Jazz band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashton, England, UK, Europe.
The Quarrymen, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison play at the wedding reception of Harrison's older brother, Harry, in the Harrison family home at 25 Upton Green, Speke, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison will all go on to form The Beatles.Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan, Max Bygraves, Shirley Bassey, Alma Cogan, Humphrey Lyttleton and others appear in the Record Star Show, the first live music concert to take place at Wembley Empire Pool [later re-named Wembley Arena], London. The event, sponsored by Vera Lynn's Stars Organisation for Spastics and the Daily Express newspaper, attracts an audience of 8,000 people.
The top four places in UK rock paper the NME's annual popularity points table are taken by Cliff Richard, Lonnie Donegan, Marty Wilde and Russ Conway.
Skiffle king Lonnie Donegan releases a new single, I Wanna Go Home (aka Sloop John B), in the UK.
UK music weekly the Melody Maker reports that a copyright dispute about Lonnie Donegan's hit My Old Man's A Dustman has been resolved with Donegan's publishing company Tyler Music [a subsidiary of Essex Music] agreeing to pay fees to Lawrence Wright.
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Avon Cities Jazz Band play at the Swindon Jubilee Carnival
Dance in McIlroy's Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Daryl Grand & The Descants and Don Jones & His
Music.
The Avon Cities Jazz Band play at the Swindon Jubilee Carnival Dance in McIlroy's Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Daryl Grand And The Descants and Don Jones And His Music.
Cliff Jackson's Washboard Wanderers record The Sheik Of Araby, Wolverine Blues and other tracks for Swingville Records in Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Weekly UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] reports that skiffle king Lonnie Donegan has signed a new recording contract with Pye Records.
When Cliff Richard and The Shadows play the thirteenth night in a six-week season at The Opera House, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe, guitarist Bruce Welch is stricken with enteritis. He is briefly replaced by Les Bennetts, guitarist for Lonnie Donegan.
The Swinging Blue Genes play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. They will find success after changing their name to The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Gerry and the Pacemakers plus The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] play at The Cavern, Liverpool, UK.Gene Vincent, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Johnny Duncan And The Bluegrass Boys, Jess Conrad and Sounds Incorporated play at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England, UK, Europe. The show is promoted by Don Arden.
Gene Vincent, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Johnny Duncan And The Bluegrass Boys, Jess Conrad and Sounds Incorporated play at The Oasis Ballroom, Manchester, England, UK, Europe. The show is promoted by Don Arden.
Billy Fury, Eden Kane, Karl Denver, Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, The Allisons, Tommy Bruce, Chas McDevitt And Nancy Whiskey, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Dave Sampson, The Viscounts, Gordon Peters and Terry Hale play at The Gaumont Cinema, Princess Way, Bradford, England, UK, Europe.
Billy Fury, Eden Kane, Karl Denver, Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, The Allisons, Tommy Bruce, Chas McDevitt And Nancy Whiskey, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Dave Sampson, The Viscounts, Gordon Peters and Terry Hale play at The Empire Theatre, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Henry 'Red' Allen plays at Central Hall, Westminster, London, UK, with His All-Stars - Diz Disley, Sandy Brown, Mac Parker, Johnny Duncan, Jim Bray and Terry Cox.
The second day of the three-day-long Monterey Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, features Duke Ellington, The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Horace Silver Quintet, Joe Williams, The Junior Mance Trio, Big Joe Turner, Lou Rawls, Big Mama Thornton, Washboard Willie and Hank Crawford.Lonnie Donegan appears in a Stars Organisation For Spastics show at The Palladium, London, UK.
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Cliff Richard is seen on the UK tv show Cinema, being interviewed about his acting career.
Lonnie Donegan, Herbie's People and Vince Hill appear on UK tv show The Five O'Clock Club.
Mad River play in a Resistance Benefit at the Pauley Ballroom, Berkeley, California, USA, supported by The Cleanliness And Godliness Skiffle Group.
'Atomic skiffle' performer Floyd plays at Crackers, Lord St., Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.Ken Brown, guitarist with The Quarrymen, dies aged 70 of emphysema, at his home in Essex, UK. The Quarrymen's membership also included Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, later to form The Beatles.1927 |
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