Washington

Ward And Vokes present their new musical "cut-up" The Head Waiters at The Academy theatre, Washington DC, USA. The show features 55 people and a chorus of 40.

The Victoria Burlesquers play at The New Bijou Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The Victoria Burlesquers play at The New Bijou Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The musical comedy Miss Bob White, written by Willard Spenser, is playing at The Columbia Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

Singer Maud Beall Price, "bizarre vocalists" Les Trois Dumonds and Piccolo's Royal Lilliputians are among the entertainments on offer at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

Miss Mignonette Kokin, described as a "dainty Parisian chanteuse" is appearing at Chase's Polite Vaudeville Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The Famous Almondbury Hand Bell Ringers appear at The Masonic Temple Hall, Washington CD, USA.

Sorrentino's Banda Rossa is playing at The Columbia Theater, Washington DC, USA.

The Singing Girl, starring Edna Bronson, is playing at Chase's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

Sousa's Band records Funeral March of a Marionette for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The Bostonian Burlesquers are appearing at The Gayety, Washington DC, USA.

The "wordless play" with music, Sumurun, starring Gertrude Hoffman is presented at B.F. Keith's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The Old Soldier Musicians, comedy vocal trio Tommy Van And The Ward Girls, and The Girls From The North And The South are appearing at The Casino Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

The Washington Times reports that champion old-time fiddler Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman of the popular Hill Billies of Tennessee, is to volunteer his expert advice and management to an old-time fiddler's contest being staged the following Tuesday by radio station WRC in Washington DC, USA.

Having recently been denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR (Daughters Of The American Revolution) because of her colour, popular singer Marion Anderson performs live at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, USA. The concert was arranged at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, who convinced Harold Ickes to put the show on.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the fifth night of a week at the Surf Beach Club, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play in the Panther Room at The Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The show is broadcast live on radio.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play in The Panther Room at The Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The show is broadcast live on radio.

Fifties hitmaker Frankie Lymon, leader of Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, is born in Washington Heights, New York, USA.

Bardu Ali's Band plays at The Lincoln Theatre, Washington DC, USA.

Hot Lips Page plays the fourth night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.

Hot Lips Page plays the final night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Chuck Berry, Shirley And Lee, The G-Clefs and Buddy And Ella Johnson, play the second night of a week at the Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.

Jimmy Charles, Jimmy Jones, The Vibrations, The Clovers, The Bobbettes and Marie Knight play the first night in a week at the The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.

Bobby Rydell plays the sixth night of a week at The New Lotus Club, Washington DC, USA.

Duane Eddy plays at The Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Granada, Walthamstow, England, UK, Europe

The Top Five singles in the Lever Hit Parade in New Zealand, Oceania, on this date, are as follows :

1. SUGAR SHACK - JIMMY GILMER AND THE FIREBALLS

2. Do You Love Me - Brian Poole And The Tremeloes

3. Washington Square - The Village Stompers

4. You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry And The Pacemakers

5. Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at an Omega Fraternity Mardi Gras Dance in Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The Kingston Trio and Roger Miller play the second of seven nights at The Carter Barron Amphitheater, Rock Creek Park, Washington DC, USA

Incorrectly believing that his girlfriend Mary Guibert is pregnant, singer-songwriter Tim Buckley marries her. The relationship will not last and the couple will divorce in October 1966.

Strawberry Alarm Clock play the first of four nights at The Ambassador Theatre, Washington DC, USA, supported by Mosaic Virus.

Rockin' Robin Roberts, leader of Tacoma, Washington, USA, band The Wailers, dies in a car crash.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Vagabond Inn, Rochelle, Illinois, USA.

Tony Bennett, Duke Ellington and Jack E. Leonard play at Westchester County Center, White Plains, New York State, USA,

John Fahey plays at The Record Plant, Sausalito, California, USA.

Midnight Oil play in Center Arena, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Former Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth is arrested for buying marijuana in Washington Square Park, New York City, USA.

It is reported that popular folk singer and recording artist Burl Ives has been released from hospital in Anacortes, Washington, USA, after treatment for a high fever that resulted from a foot infection. According to his wife, the 84-year-old singer-actor will continue receiving antibiotics and nursing care at home.

Jorma Kaukonen plays the last of four nights at Double Dose Specialty, Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, Ohio, USA.

Waxahatchee and Girlpool play at The Crocodile, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Katy Perry headlines the Starkey Hearing Foundation gala, and hob-nobs with George Bush and Bill Clinton, at the Starkey Hearing Foundation in The RiverCentre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

On her Live 2016 Tour, Adele plays the first of two nights at The Verizon Centre, Washington DC, USA.

During an interview on the podcast WTF With Marc Maron, Bruce Springsteen criticises US President Elect Donald Trump, stating, "I've felt disgust before, but never the kind of fear that you feel now." He goes on to add, "When you let that genie out of the bottle - racism, bigotry, intolerance - when you let those things out of the bottle, they don’t go back in the bottle that easily. If they go back in at all."