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Put Me Off At Buffalo, billed as a "hilarious musical comedy success", is playing at The Bijou Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, USA. The play is based on a popular song of the same name, in which a passenger is mistakenly ejected from a train at Buffalo by an inebriated negro porter, described in the song as a 'coon' and a 'nigger'.
During two weeks of field recordings supervised by producer
Ralph Peer in the warehouse of The Taylor-Christian Hat Company on State Street, Bristol, Tennessee, USA, J.P.
Nestor, vocal and banjo, records Train On The Island, for Victor Records. The two weeks of recording will become enshrined in the annals of country music as The Bristol Sessions.
Pioneering country-blues guitarist Sylvester Weaver records Devil Blues, Railroad Porter Blues, Polecat Blues and Rockpile Blues for Okeh Records in New York City, USA.
Palmer
McAbee records the harmonica solos Lost Boy Blues and McAbee's
Railroad Piece for Victor
Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Frank Luther [aka Bud Billings] and Carson Robison, record Woman Down In Memphis, The Railroad Boomer, Beneath Montana Skies and You Made Me Want To Forget, at Victor Studio, New York City, USA for Victor Records.
Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell record Expressman Blues in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, for Victor Records.
The Blankenship Family, a mixed vocal trio with instrumental ensemble, record Working On The Railroad and Jack And Mae, for Victor Records in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The record will be reported by Victor to have sold 997 copies.
Buddy Featherstonhaugh And The Radio Rhythm Club Sextet, with Vic Lewis on vocals, record Jamboree Jive and Low Down Empty Railway Station Blues, for HMV Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Mel Schacher, bass player in Grand Funk Railroad, is born in Owosso, Michigan, USA.
Mary DeLoatch records The Lord's Gospel Train, It's Safe To Trust Him, Rumors Of War, Life Was A Burden, Shine Like A Rainbow and Listen To The Gossip for Savoy Records in New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley records Mystery Train, When It Rains It Really Pours and I Forgot To Remember To Forget, at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The Ken Colyer Skiffle Group records Stack-O-Lee Blues, Muleskinner Blues, Old Riley and Down Bound Train for Decca Records in London, UK.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra record the Peer Gynt Suites, Take The 'A' Train and other tracks for Columbia Records in Radio Recorders Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Joe
Maphis And Rose
Lee Maphis record Lonesome Train Boogie, There'll Come A Time, Speak To Me Little Darlin' and Picture On The Wall at Capitol
Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, USA.
Jerry Lee Lewis records Sweet Little Sixteen, Hello Josephine, Waiting For A Train and Set My Mind At Ease, at the Sun Records Studio, 639 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session include Jerry Lee Lewis on vocals and piano, Scotty Moore and Roland Janes on guitars, J.W. Brown on bass, Shirley Sisk on organ and Al Jackson on drums.
Mississippi John Hurt records 39 songs including new versions of Trouble I've Had It All My Days, Talking Casey Jones and Pera-Lee in The Coolidge Auditorium at The Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.
A train guards' van sequence for the movie A Hard
Day's Night, is filmed at Twickenham Film Studios, in which
The Beatles perform I Should Have Known
Better.
Judy Garland takes a twelve-hour trip by train from Sydney, Australia, to Melbourne, where she will play her next concert.
Chris McDaniel is born in Rock Springs, Georgia, USA. He will find success as the keyboard player for Southern-country-rock band Confederate Railroad, whose 1990s hits included Trashy Women, Queen Of Memphis and Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind.
Liverpool singer
Billy J.
Kramer releases a new album, Trains And Boats And Planes, in Canada on Capitol Records.
The Graham Bond Organisation plays at Klooks Kleek Club, Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe.
The administration for The Roundhouse and Centre 42, in Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, moves into the building and begins the work of conversion from a former railway building to an arts venue.
Merle Haggard records Money Tree, Picture From Two Sides Of Life and The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band on the session includes Glen Campbell, Billy Mize and Lewis Talley [gtrs], Roy Nichols [steel], Howard Lowe [bass], Eddie Burris [drums], George French [piano] and Bonnie Owens [harmony vocal].
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll And The Trinity play at Klook's Kleek, Railway Hotel, Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe.Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, The Steve Miller Band, The Youngbloods, People, The Sons of Champlin, Crome Syrcus, Transatlantic Railroad, the Indian Head Band and Mourning Reign play in the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, Santa Clara, California, USA.
Deep Purple, Mighty Baby, Andromeda, Spencer Davis Train and Arthur Brown play at Worthing Workshop's Bonanza Benefit Ball, in the Pier Pavilion, Worthing, England, UK, Europe.
Gene Harris And The Three Sounds record Put On Train and You Got To Play The Game for Blue Note Records at United Artists Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. The rhythm track of Put On Train will 'inspire' the rhythm track of What Comes Around (1989) by The Beastie Boys.
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue is taped for the tv show Midnight Special in the Starlight Room at the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, Florida, USA. The show also features Joan Baez and Roger McGuinn.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the seventh of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the eleventh of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the thirteenth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the last of four nights at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Steve Taylor of The Face magazine shares a compartment with Joe Strummer and his girlfriend Gaby Salter. on a boat train to Paris, France, Europe.
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Double-Grammy-winning Chicago-born singer-songwriter Steve Goodman dies of leukemia at University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. Goodman's best-known composition is perhaps The City Of New Orleans.
Following their arrest the previous night in Tokyo, Japan, Asia, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue and manager Doc McGhee are freed at 5am after their Japanese promoter Mr Udo convinces the miscreants to sign an apology. The pair had been arrested for violent and abusive behaviour aboard the Osaka to Tokyo Bullet Train.
Michael Jackson wins the Silver Award as Artist of The Decade (80s), at the 4th Annual Soul Train Music Awards in the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA. James Ingram performs live.
The Fools, Big Train, Trace Of Red and The Many play at The Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The three day long Endorse-it In Dorset festival begins at Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, England, UK. Headline act is Desmond Dekker And The Aces, other acts on the bill include Zion Train, Pronghorn, Sub-Giant and The Ukrainians.
On their Mechanical Bull tour, Kings Of Leon play at The Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, San Diego, California, USA.
On her Revival tour Selena Gomez plays at The Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento, California, USA, supported by DNCE and Bea Miller.1902 |
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