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Railway engineer George Stephenson's steam-powered engine The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials in Liverpool, UK. In 2008, Stephenson's achievement will inspire UK band O Titus! to write Stephenson's Rocket, and a year later singer-songwriter John Standring will release his tribute song Rocket.
The Illinois Central Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, USA, and New Orleans, Louisiana, re-names its premier train from The Chicago And New Orleans Limited to The Panama Limited. Inspired by the train, bluesman Bukka White will write and record his song, The Panama Limited in 1930.
Fred Hamm and His Orchestra record Flag That Train [To Alabam'] for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
The Jimson Brothers, a pseudonym for Frank Luther and Carson Robison, record Waiting For A Train and I Wish I Had Died In My Cradle, at Edison Recording Studio, New York City, USA.
Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton record Freight Train Ramble, Little Bessie, Lonesome Frisco Line, Down Among The Sugar Cane and other tracks in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, for Columbia Records.
Eddie Kirk records Drifting Texas Sand, Alone In A Tavern, Freight Train Breakdown and I'll Save My Heart For You in Capitol Recording Studio, 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Vaughn Monroe performs The Chocolate Choo Choo on the Vaughn Monroe Show in a radio broadcast from New York City, USA.
The Sons Of The Pioneers perform Night Train To Memphis, Soldier's Joy and other songs, on their radio series The Lucky-U Ranch, in the USA.Papa George Lightfoot records Wine, Women, Whiskey, When The Saints Go Marching In, Jump The Boogie and Mean Ol' Train in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for Imperial Records.
R'n'b pioneer Big Joe Turner records Midnight Special Train, Red Sails In The Sunset and Feeling Happy for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
BBC Radio in the UK broadcasts the first of an ambitious series of musical documentaries known as The Radio Ballads. The first of these is The Ballad Of John Axon by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Charles Parker.Vocalist Al Smith records I've Been Mistreated, Ride On The Midnight
Special and other tracks for Prestige
Records, at Van Gelder
Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA. King Curtis plays saxophone on the session.
Scrapper Blackwell records Goin' Where The Monon Crosses The Yellow Dog, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out and other tracks in Indianapolis, Indiana, 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.
Jesse Fuller records Red River Blues, Midnight Special and other tracks for Prestige Records in San Francisco, California, USA.
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.
New Orleans vocalist-songwriter Chris Kenner records Get On This Train, I'm The Greatest, They Took My Money and The Life Of My Little Baby, all co-written with Fats Domino.
George Jones records Talk Back Trembling Lips, King Of The Road, If You Believe and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Backing vocals on this track are provided by The Jordanaires.
Jimi Hendrix and his band collect visas from the Swedish Embassy in London, England, UK, Europe. On the same day, Hendrix writes a deposition decrying Capitol Records' recent release of tracks recorded before he was famous, on the album Get That Feeling. Later, Hendrix jams with John Mayall at Klook's Kleek, Railway Hotel, Hampstead.
Jimmy McGriff records Blue Juice (aka Hi-Heel Sneakers) and Take The A Train in New York City, USA.
Kaleidoscope and Sea Train play the second of six nights at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.Kaleidoscope and Sea Train play the fourth of six nights at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.The Festival Express tour, featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, The Band and others, plays in Winnipeg, Canada. The tour is unusual in that the artists all travel together on a train.
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Bob Dylan's album Slow Train Coming enters the UK albums chart at No2, its peak position during a thirteen-week run.Bob Dylan begins his Slow Train Coming tour at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco. Audiences on this tour boo because his conversion to Born Again Christianity has affected his music.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the fourth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
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 eighth of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, California, USA.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the first of four nights at the Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the last of four nights at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at Golden Hall, San Diego, California.
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.The Second Annual Soul Train Music Awards take place at the Civic Center, Santa Monica, California. Whitney Houston wins Album Of The Year (female). Michael Jackson gets Best Single (male) and Album Of The Year (male). Janet Jackson has to content herself with Best New Video.
The Fools, Big Train, Trace Of Red and The Many play at The Channel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A Class 47 railway locomotive, No 47828, is named after Joe Strummer, frontman of The Clash, at a ceremony in Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
At the 19th Annual Soul Train Awards in Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, the big winners are Usher with five awards including best R’n’B/Soul Single for Confessions Part 2, and Alicia Keys with three awards including best R’n’B/Soul Single for If I Ain’t Got You.Blur play their first comeback gig at the East Anglian Railway Museum, Colchester, UK. The venue was chosen because it was also the site of their first public performance in 1988.
On his All The Hits All Night Long tour, Lionel Richie and CeeLo Green play at The Sleep Train Amphitheater, Chula Vista, California, USA.
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