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Sammy Timberg is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as a musician and composer, perhaps most famous for the music he wrote for the cartoons of Fleischer Studios, including Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman.
Thurl Ravenscroft is born in Norfolk, Nebraska, USA. He will find success as an actor and basso profundo singer. He will work extensively for Disney movies and Disneyworld attractions. He will be the (uncredited) voice in the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, but is perhaps best-known as the voice of Kellog's Frosted Flakes character Tony The Tiger, whose catchphrase "They'rrre grrreat!" will be delivered by Ravenscroft.
Attila Cornelius Zoller is born in Visegrad, Hungary, Europe. He will find international acclaim as jazz guitarist and filmscore composer Attila Zoller. In a long career, Zoller will work with Benny Goodman, Stan getz, Herbie Hancock and many others.The Gumm Sisters play the last of three nights at the Manchester Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will go on to achieve stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.
The musical Guys And Dolls is presented at The 46th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1200 performances.
Barbra Streisand plays the second night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.Barbra Streisand plays the seventh night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.
Barbra Streisand plays the ninth night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.Barbra Streisand plays the twenty-third night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.
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Barbra Streisand plays the third night of two weeks at The Town'n'Country, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Barbra Streisand plays the sixteenth of twenty-seven nights at The Caucus Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Barbra Streisand auditions to sing at the upmarket Blue Angel club in New York City, USA. She gets the gig.
Having completed a tour of the USA, The new No1 album in the UK is the soundtrack to the film West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein.
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Elvis Presley's manager, Col. Tom Parker, advises RCA Records that they will not be allowed to release an album of soundtrack material from Presley's current movie, Fun In Acapulco.
Barbra Streisand records the Cole Porter song Who Would Have Dreamed in Columbia Studio A, New York City, USA, but this version will not be released. Barbra Streisand is the musical guest on tv's Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the USA.
Judy Garland attends a press conference at the Savoy Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe, to promote I Could Go On Singing, her new film with Dirk Bogarde.
Frank Sinatra records Some Enchanted Evening (duet with Rosemary Clooney] and Luck Be A Lady for Reprise Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. Barbra Streisand plays the third night in three-weeks of shows at Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Barbra Streisand and Liberace play in The South Shore Room, Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
Bob Dylan has his fifth recording session for his album The Times They Are A-Changin', in Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA. On this day he records the album's title song and One Too Many Mornings.
Peter, Paul And Mary and The Henry Mancini Orchestra play the last of six nights at McCormick Pace, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Having completed a series of shows at The Circle Star Theatre in San Carlos, Judy Garland flies from San Francisco, California, USA, to Los Angeles. 
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Samuel J. Hoffman dies aged 63 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He had been a pioneer of electronic music, a notable player of the early electronic musical instrument the theremin. He featured prominently on several science fiction movie soundtracks, and recorded three studio albums with bandleader Les Baxter, regarded as forerunners of the exotica genre. As late as 1967, he was working with Captain Beefheart.
George Harrison of The Beatles flies to Bombay, India, Asia, to work on the soundtrack for the film Wonderwall.
Rosemary Clooney walks off stage during her show at Harold's Club, Reno, Nevada, USA. The official reason given is "acute influenza" but she has in fact suffered a nervous breakdown, and will shortly be admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA, to be treated for "drug-induced psychosis".Hair by The Cowsills reaches No1 in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by Johnny Farnham reaches No1 in the Australian pop singles chart. The song is composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Alfred Newman, one of the most important and influential composers in the history of the movies, dies aged 69, from complications of emphysema, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. His scores include The King And I, South Pacific, How The West Was Won and many more.
A new tv series, The Dukes Of Hazzard, makes its debut on CBS in the USA, starring John Schneider and Tom Wopat as Bo and Luke Duke, but prominently featuring Waylon Jennings, as The Balladeer. Jennings also sings the show's theme song, Good Ol' Boys.
Bette Midler plays 
Judy Garland's rendition of Over The Rainbow is chosen by The US National Endowment for the Arts, in conjunction with the RIAA, as No1 in the Top Ten songs of the 20th century. Over the Rainbow first appeared in the movie The Wizard Of Oz in 1939, but it was almost dropped from the film because MGM chief executive Louis B. Mayer and producer Mervyn LeRoy felt that it slowed down the action too much.
Michael Jackson, Diana Ross and Liz Taylor are guests at the wedding of Liza Minnelli and David Gest in Marble Collegiate Church, New York City, USA.Circa Survive, Motion City Soundtrack and Copeland play at The Zodiac, Oxford, England, UK.
Brian Eno wins his first Bafta for his soundtrack to Channel 4's gang thriller Top Boy in the British Academy Television Craft Awards, held at The Brewery, East London, England, UK, Europe.
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