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Male vocal duo Harry Macdonough and Addison Dashiell Madeira, record Little Black Me, While The Leaves Came Drifting Down, In The Shadow Of The Pines, Where The Sweet Magnolias Bloom and other songs for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Clarence E. Snow is born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada. In a long career as country music star Hank Snow, he will place more than seventy singles on the Billboard country charts.

Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike, records Singin' in the Rain, Sophomore Prom and Orange Blossom Time for Columbia Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. His version of Singin' In The Rain will go on to become a US No1 hit.

It Looks Like Rain [On Cherry Blossom Lane], by Guy Lombardo reaches No1 in the Billboard popular music chart in the USA.

Hank Snow records My Mother, I'm Movin' On To Glory, These Things Shall Pass and Pray, at Brown Radio Productions, 240 1/2 4th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Ames Brothers record You Are My Sunshine, Tumbling Tumbleweeds, Wagon Wheels and The Last Round-up, in Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th Street, New York City, USA.

Canadian fourteen year old Priscilla Wright joins the ranks of one hit wonders when Man In A Raincoat peaks at No16 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA.

Ringo Starr, drummer with Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, deputises for Pete Best when The Beatles back Lou Walters of The Hurricanes during a recording session in Akustik Studio, Hamburg, Germany.

Jane Morgan is playing during a three-week engagement at Elmwood Casino, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Milt Jackson With The Enrico Intra Group are recorded performing That Old Devil Moon, The More I See You, Time After Time, Autumn Leaves and other tracks for Mercury Records in Milan, Italy, Europe. None of these tracks will be released.

Fats Domino releases a new single, It Keeps Rainin', on Imperial Records in the USA.

Chubby Checker plays the second night of a week-long engagement at The Rainbow Room, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.

Johnnie And Jack, Kitty Wells and Jimmy Newman play a concert in St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA.

At The Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey, England, UK, Europe, The Beatles top the bill of Operation Big Beat, a Merseybeat spectacular also featuring Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, Gerry And The Pacemakers, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes, and The Remo Four.

Danny Kaye performs live at Camp Red Cloud gymnasium for US military personnel in Korea, Asia.

Newly released singles reviewed in today's edition of UK pop weekly NME [New Musical Express] include You Don't Know Me by Ray Charles, Devil Woman by Marty Robbins, It Might As Well Rain Until September, by Carole King, It Started All Over Again by Brenda Lee and Venus In Blue Jeans by Mark Wynter.

Operation Big Beat 6th at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, UK, features Johnny Sandon And The Remo Four, The Undertakers, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes, Billy Kramer with The Coasters, The Strangers and The Merseybeats. The evening also features the grand finals of the all-Merseyside Jive and Twist Championship, with

The Kingston Trio release a new single, If You Don't Look Around / Seasons In The Sun, on Capitol Records in the USA. (Seasons In The Sun will, in due course, provide a major hit for Canadian singer-songwriter Terry Jacks.)

Jimmy Martin And The Sunny Mountain Boys record Sunny Side Of The Mountain, for Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Ronettes release a new single, Walking In The Rain, on London Records in the UK.

The Top Ten Singles on CHUM Radio in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on this day is as follows :

1. Last Kiss J. Frank Wilson And The Cavaliers

2. The Wedding Julie Rogers

3. Hawaii Tattoo The Waikikis

4. I'm Into Something Good Herman's Hermits

5. I Feel Fine The Beatles

5. She's A Woman The Beatles

6. Hold Me P.J. Proby

7. Have I The Right? The Honeycombs

8. Baby Love The Supremes

9. Come A Little Bit Closer Jay And The Americans

10. Four Strong Winds Bobby Bare

Popular singer John Gary plays the first of seven nights at Elmwood Casino, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Bobby Bare records In The Same Old Way, We Helped Each Other Out, Talk Me Some Sense and You Can't Stop The Wild Wind From Blowing, in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Dion And The Wanderers record Tomorrow Won't Bring The Rain, Knowing I Won't Go Back There and other tracks in Columbia Studio A, New York City, USA. Producer on the session is Tom Wilson.

The Top Ten Singles on WMCA Radio in New York City, USA on this day are as follows :

1. YESTERDAY - The Beatles (Capitol)

2. HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys (Bang)

3. 1-2-3 - Len Barry (Decca)

4. A LOVER'S CONCERTO - The Toys (DynoVoice)

5. THE 'IN' CROWD - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)

6. EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Barry McGuire (Dunhill)

7. GET OFF OF MY CLOUD - The Rolling Stones (London)

8. YOU WERE ON MY MIND - We Five (A+M)

9. LET’S HANG ON! - The 4 Seasons (Philips)

10. POSITIVELY 4TH STREET - Bob Dylan (Columbia)

The Lovin' Spoonful reach No1 in the Billboard and Cash Box Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Summer In The City, but the song brings problems in live performances. "While Steve is playing organ," explains guitarist Zal Yanovsky, "poor John has to play piano, which he can only do by concentrating. So Joe sings lead when we do it live."

The highest new entry in the Top Ten Singles chart in Switzerland, Europe, is She's A Rainbow by The Rolling Stones, entering at No8.

Having consumed some seconals and alcohol, Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady, an associate of The Grateful Dead, sets off from San Miguel de Allende in Mexico to walk fifteen miles to Celaya, along the railroad tracks in driving rain. He will be found in a coma the next morning, and will die the following day. His life and death will inspire several songs including Jack And Neal (1977) by Tom Waits, Styrofoam Plates (2001) by Death Cab For Cutie, Neal Cassady Drops Dead (2014) by Morrissey, Neal Cassady (1989) by The Washington Squares.

Another in the series of Sound-Out Mini-festivals begins in Woodstock, New York State, USA. Artists appearing at the two-day event include the Colwell-Winfield Blues Band, Cat Mother And the All Night Newsboys, Fear Itself, Don McLean, Rebecca And Sunny Brook Farmers and Tim Hardin.

Ella Fitzgerald releases a new single Sunshine Of Your Love/Hey Jude, in the UK on Polydor Records. (Hey Jude is written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles]

The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, plays at the Houston Astrodrome, Houston, Texas. This is the celebrated Night Of The Hurricane gig to raise funds for Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, and features guest appearances by Stevie Wonder, Isaac Hayes and Ringo Starr.

Bob Dylan's live album Hard Rain enters the UK albums chart, where it will peak at No3 during a 7-week run.

On their Ride The Lightning tour, Metallica play at The Culture House, Helsinki, Finland, Europe, supported by Tank.

The Johnny Thunders Group plays at Klub Foot, Clarewndon Hotel, Hammersmith, London, England, UK, Europe, with Fur Bible and Dogs D'Amour.

The Rainforest Band, including Jerry Garcia and Merle Saunders, plays at The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, California, USA. The show is recorded and parts of it will be released as the LP Blues From The Rainforest.

The RIAA certifies 13m sales of Purple Rain by Prince in the USA.

Neil Young releases his 27th solo album, Prairie Wind, in the USA.

Gloryhammer play at SWX, Bristol, England, UK, Europe, supported by Beast In Black and Wind Rose.

Gloryhammer play at Hirsch, Nuremberg, Germany, Europe, supported by Nekrogoblikon and Wind Rose.

Gloryhammer play at Razzmatazz 2, Barcelona, Spain, Europe, supported by Nekrogoblikon and Wind Rose.

Lucy And The Rats release a new 7" single, Dark Clouds/Get Down on Stardumb Records.

Bill Withers, best known for his hits Lean On Me, Lovely Day and Ain't No Sunshine, dies aged 81 from "heart complications" in Los Angeles, California, USA.