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Pianoforte and music dealer W.J. Garcia of Singapore announces in the Straits Times that a small quantity of 'pianoforte music, song albums, dance albums and violin and banjo strings' have just arrived in stock.
Female vocal soloist Medina de Souza records Fado Do Bairro Alto and Fado Que Cantava O Severa for Victor Records in Lisbon, Portugal, Europe.
Wiley B. Allan And Co, a music store in Oakland, California, USA, is currently advertising A Young Man's Fancy and Yellow Dog Blues
by J.C. Smith And His Orchestra and The Japanese Sandman by
Paul
Whiteman And His Orchestra as the best current releases for
dancing.
Actress and singer Alice Faye performs Weep No More My Baby as a guest on NBC radio show The Fleischmann Hour, with Rudy Vallee, in the USA.
After a run of 182 performances, the musical revue Ziegfield Follies Of 1934 closes at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, USA.
The musical revue Continental Varieties opens at The Theatre Masque, New York City, USA, where it will run for just nine performances.
Blues singer, guitarist and recording artist Jimmy Burns is born in Dublin, Mississippi, USA. he will find success on Chicago's West Side circuit.
Barry Andrews is born in West Norwood, London, England, UK, Europe. Among other achievements in the music business, Andrews will play keyboards for Swindon band XTC between 1976 and 1978.
Gene Vincent plays at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, with Jerry Keller, Colin Green And The Beat Boys, Nero And The Gladiators, Lance Fortune, Peter Wynne and Billy Raymond.
The Strangers Rock Group plays at The Locarno Ballroom, in the Town Hall, Old Town Square, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.B.B. King, The Drifters, Maxine Brown, Gene Chandler and others play the first of seven nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Marlene And her Boyfriends and The Strangers play at The Locarno Ballroom, Old Town Square, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Frankie Vaughan And The V Group, Dorothy Baker, Gordon Peters and The Jeridale Three play at The Odeon, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
The Searchers play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Crescendos featuring Joe E. Martin.
Millie, Jess Conrad, Jimmy Wheeler and Des Lane play in the Christmas Pantomime at The Odeon, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Freddie and the Dreamers, Herman's Hermits and Warminster band The Skylons play an open-air event at Longleat Estate, Wiltshire, England, UK.Calne-based band The Pack play a two-hour set at Lyneham Village Hall, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. The show is attended by their booking manager 'Big' Pete Grant, who will go on to manage Led Zeppelin.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich release a new single, Hold Tight, in the UK. It will peak at No4.
The Troggs play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.XTC go into EMI's Abbey Road studios, London, England, UK, Europe, with producer John Leckie, at the start of three days of sessions to record their first tracks under a recently signed deal with Virgin Records. Among the songs recorded will be their debut single, Science Friction.
Elvis Costello and The Attractions play at The O asis Leisure Centre, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.XTC enter the UK pop singles chart with Towers Of London, which will peak at No31.
The Thompson Twins play at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Madness begin their Mad Not Mad tour with a show at Goldiggers' Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Sting plays at The Palais des Sports, Lyon, France, Europe.
Sting marries Trudie Styler at
Lake
House, Great Durnford, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. The Troggs play live, and The Police re-convene for a couple of songs.
Midge Ure plays at The Link Centre, 
The first Terrastock Festival, promoted and organised by music journalist/entrepreneur Phil McMullen, continues at the Rogue Lounge in Providence, New Jersey, USA. Artists appearing today, the second of the festival's three nights, include The Bevis Frond, Flying Saucer Attack, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mary Lou Lord and Tadpoles.
Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick is interviewed by Johnny Black on the BBC radio show The Fabulous Fandango Lounge, in Swindon, Wiltshire, Englsand, UK.Curtis Knight, the blues-rock vocalist and band leader sometimes credited with discovering Jimi Hendrix, dies of prostate cancer in Lelystad-Haven, Flevoland, Netherlands, Europe.
Daphne Oram, composer, electronic music pioneer and founder of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, dies, aged 77, in Maidstone, Kent, England, UK, Europe.
Calne-based rock star Julian Cope (formerly of The Teardrop Explodes) publishes his book The Megalithic European, about ancient stoneworks across Europe. 
Wilko Johnson plays at the The Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by John Otway and The Hamsters.
The Sugarhill Festival continues at Warren Farm, Liddington Warren, near Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK. Acts appearing over the three days of the event include Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Connie Lush And Bluesshouter, The Hamsters, Matt Schofield, Papa George, Paul Williams And Blue Thunder, The Robin Bibi Band, Sam Kelly's Station House and Nicky Moore's Blues Corporation.Blues singer Big Pete Pearson releases his second album, I'm Here Baby, on Blue Witch records in the USA.
Former Blur bassist Alex James is a panel member on BBC1-tv's Question Time recorded live at the City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
It is announced that Madonna has applied for planning permission to build a swimming pool at Ashcombe House in Berwick-St-John, her £9m, eight-bedroomed, South Wiltshire, England, UK, home.The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents a special evening celebrating the music of jazz composer Andrew Hill in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York City.
McFly make a personal appearance at the Sound Knowledge record shop in Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK, to sign copies of their new album, Above The Noise which is released on this day.
Jon Amor and Joel Fisk with Nordlund And Baron and Jack Moore play at The Lamb, Devizes, Wiltshire, UK.
On her Here Come The Aliens tour, Kim Wilde plays at The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
On her Madame X tour, Madonna plays the tenth of fourteen shows at Le Grand Rex, Paris, France, Europe.1909 |
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