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The Williams And Walker Company's musical comedy In Dahomey opens at The New York Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA. This ground-breaking production was described by theatre historian Gerald Bordman as "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house."
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Clarence Hall is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as a saxophone and clarinet player working with Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis and others.
Billy Murray records Up In A Cocoanut Tree, My Little 'Rang Outang, I Never Could Love Like That and Under A Panama for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It should be noted that the song Under A Panama includes a lyric which would now be considered extremely racist.The song On The Sunny Side Of The Street is performed live for the first time by Harry Richman in Lew Leslie's International Revue at The Majestic Theater, New York City, USA.
Ray Noble And His Band are playing at The Empire Room, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with The Merriel Abbott Dude Ranch Revue.The Henry Busse Orchestra plays the first night of a week at The Palace Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Russ Morgan And His Orchestra are playing at The Biltmore Hotel, New York City, USA.
The Ralph Flanagan Orchestra plays at The Chase Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
The Everly Brothers begin a
tour of the USA at The Coliseum, Charlotteville, North Carolina.
Other acts on the tour include Paul Anka, Buddy Holly And
The Crickets, Eddie
Cochran, The Rays, The
Royal Teens, Danny And The
Juniors, The Hollywood Flames, The
Mello-Kings, The Shepherd
Sisters, Margie
Rayburn, and The
Tuneweavers.
The Squires, a group including guitarist Neil Young, play at Glenwood Community Club, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada.
Buck Owens And His Buckaroos come to the end of an engegement in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Bing Crosby record
Style, Mr. Booze, Don't Be A Do-Badder and Any Man Who Loves His
Mother in United Recording Corporation Studios, 6050 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The songs are part of the soundtrack for the musical film Robin And The
Seven Hoods.
Music trade magazine Billboard introduces an R'n'B Albums chart, reflecting the increasing sales of long-playing records in the USA.
Jose Feliciano performs live on the Mike Douglas Show, a nationally syndicated tv show in the USA.US tv rock show Where The Action Is features Bob Lind performing San Francisco Woman. The Left Banke appear in the same show.
In Rolling Stone magazine, Pete Townshend of The Who reveals that he is working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who sure plays a mean pinball.The Jeff Beck Group (including Rod Stewart) plays at the MPLS Labor Temple, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. One reviewer notes that "when the sound system kept cutting out Stewart threw the mike stand through an amp and walked off the stage, never to return." Also on the bill are Spider John Koerner And Willy Murphy and Zarathustra.
A plagiarism suit is launched against Creedence Clearwater Revival by Arco Industries, claiming that the group's hit Travelin' Band had partly plagiarised Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly.
It's Only Rock'n'Roll (But I Like It) by the Rolling Stones enters the Billboard Top 30 singles chart in the USA at No28. It will peak at No18.
Judge Richard Owen, in the US District Court in New York City, USA, rules that, "Three-fourths of the success of My Sweet Lord is due to the plagiarized tune and one-fourth to other factors, such as the words and the popularity and stature of George Harrison." Harrison is ordered to pay $587,000 to his former manager Allen Klein's company ABCKO, for "subconscious plagiarism" of The Shirelles’ hit He's So Fine in Harrison's song My Sweet Lord.
Prince and Apollonia record Take Me With U at Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The definitive line-up of Guns N'Roses plays together for the first time, in The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA.Paul Simon performs his 'Graceland' concert in Rutfaro Stadium, Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa. The event is filmed and will be released as a video called Graceland – The African Concert.
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Eden Ahbez, the eccentric hermit beatnik songwriter who composed Nature Boy for Nat King Cole, dies from injuries sustained in a car accident, aged 86, in Los Angeles, California, USA
Singing cowgirl Patsy Montana, who was the first female country performer to have a million-selling single with her signature song I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart, dies aged 87 in San Jacinto, California, USA.
Diana Ross goes shopping for new pillowcases at the Bed, Bath And Beyond shop in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Carrie Underwood's debut album, Some Hearts, is awarded triple-platinum status by the R.I.A.A. in the USA.
Close harmony jazz vocal group The Four Freshmen headlines a show at The Players Theatre, Sarasota, Florida, USA, during the Sarasota Jazz Festival.
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On her Born This Way Ball Tour, Lady Gaga plays at The Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This will prove to be the last date of this current leg of the tour, because Gaga has been diagnosed with a hip injury which requires surgery.
Spotify release their annual Year in Music list, showing Ed Sheeran as 2015's most streamed artist, with 3bn streams and 59m listeners. In second place, Drake notched up 1.8bn streams in 2015 and 46m listeners. With over 1bn streams and 57m listeners, Rihanna is the year's most streamed female artist.
On her Rebel Heart tour, Madonna plays the second of two nights at the American Airlines Arena, Miami, Florida, USA.
On their 50 Year Anniversary Tour, The Sweet play at BLK Live, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
Taylor Swift uses her acceptance speech for Artist Of The Year at the American Music Awards to encourage her fans to vote in the upcoming midterm elections. She had announced two days earlier that she would be voting for Democratic candidates in her home state of Tennessee.
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