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Benny Carter, jazz saxophonist, bandleader and arranger, is born in New York City, USA. He will work with Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman and others.
Samuel Ram is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Under the name Buck Ram, he will find success as a songwriter, producer and arranger, working with Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Ella Fitzgerald and many others, but is perhaps best-remembered for his long association with The Platters.
Jazz pianist Gene Rodgers is born in New York City. During a long and successful career, he will work with Coleman Hawkins, King Oliver, Chick Webb and many others.
John T. Brown is born in rural Mississippi, USA. He will work with The Rabbit Foot Minstrels before moving to Chicago, Illinois, USA, where he will become a popular session saxophonist under the names J.T.Brown and Nature Boy Brown, working with Roosevelt Sykes, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Elmore James and others.
Joe 'Bebop' Carroll, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He will become best-known for working with Dizzy Gillespie's band and helping to popularise the be-bop singing style.
Mitchell Herbert Ellis is born in Farmersville, Texas, USA. He will find success as jazz guitarist Herb Ellis, acclaimed for his work as a member of The Oscar Peterson Trio.
Today's edition of the British weekly publication Popular Music And Dancing includes six complete song and dance hits, Oh Sing a loo, Ive lost the best pal I had, O star of Eve, Only a working man, Dream Kiss and Silver Star Waltz.
Jimmy Wilbur Cobb is born in Washington D.C., USA. He will find success as an American jazz drummer, perhaps best-known for his work on the 1959 Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, but he has also provided propulsion for almost every great name in jazz from John Coltrane to Billie Holiday, Stan Getz and Wes Montgomery.
Hubert Sumlin is born in Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. As a blues guitarist he will work with Howlin' Wolf from 1955 to 1976. After Wolf's death, he will enjoy a solo career.
Umpeylia Marsema Balinton is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Under the marginally less outrageous monicker of Sugar Pie DeSanto, she will become one of the most memorable blues and soul voices of the 60s, working with Johnny Otis, James Brown and Etta James.
Carey Bell is born in Mason, Mississippi, USA. As a blues harmonica player, he will work with John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon and many others, as well as enjoying a solo career as a recording artist.
Blues bassist and vocalist Jerome Arnold is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. he is best-known for his work with Howlin' Wolf and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
James Spaulding is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. During the 1960s he will become a respected saxophonist and flute player, working with The Sun Ra Arkestra, Freddie Hubbard, Max Roach and others.
The American Musicians Union goes on strike, an action which cripples the manufacture of records for over a year.
Max Carl Gronenthal is born in Humphrey, Nebraska, USA. He will find success as a rock singer, keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter, working with Grand Funk Railroad and 38 Special.
The Walt Disney animated film Cinderella, including the songs A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, So This is Love, Sing Sweet Nightingale, The Work Song, and Cinderella, is released to cinemas in Argentina.
The Jerusalem Gospel Singers record What Manner Of Man Is This and Working On His Cross, for Savoy Records in the USA, but the tracks will not be released.
The Walt Disney animated film Cinderella, including the songs A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, So This is Love, Sing Sweet Nightingale, The Work Song, and Cinderella, is released to cinemas in The Netherlands and Belgium.
Revered bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger Fletcher Henderson suffers a stroke which partly paralyses him, limiting his ability to work for the remainder of his life.
Wheel Of Fortune by Kay Starr remains at No1 in the Billboard Best-Selling Pop Singles Chart in the USA, but coming up fast behind is Blacksmith Blues by Ella Mae Morse, rising from No5 to No3.
Cozy Cole, a jazz drummer revered for his work with Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton, plays with his own band at The Chateau Lounge, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chris Spedding, later to become a noted rock guitarist, starts work in the Clifford Essex music shop in the West End of London, England, UK, Europe.The Beach Boys are working on the song Cindy Oh Cindy at United WesternRecorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Frank Sinatra records I Won't Dance, Nice Work If You Can Get It and other tracks in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Reprise Records.
Jim And Jesse And The Virginia Boys record Cotton Mill Man and (It's A Long, Long Way) To The Top Of The World, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for Epic Records.
Chris Squire, later to play guitar for Yes, applies for (and gets) a job with Boosey and Hawkes Ltd, a music shop in the West End of London, UK.
Eric Burdon and Chas Chandler of The Animals both collapse while performing at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, England, UK.
During sessions for the album Rubber Soul, The Beatles completely re-make Norwegian Wood at Studio 2, Abbey Road, London. They also start work on Nowhere Man.
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The double-A-sided Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out by The Beatles reaches No1 in the UK singles chart, where it will remain for five weeks.
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Anna Leigh, the daughter of Bob Dylan and Sara Lowndes, is born. She will grow up to work as an artist, living in Santa Monica with her husband.
Jazz piano virtuoso Bill Evans is in Media Sound Studios, New York City, USA, working on his album From Left To Right.
Andy Partridge, later to found and lead the new wave band XTC, is fired from his job as teaboy/messenger at the Swindon Evening Advertiser in Swindon.Stevie Wonder is in Electric Lady Studios, New York City, USA, working on his album Talking Book. This is the first of three days on which guitarist Jeff Beck is also in the studio. Over the three days, the pair work together on the songs Superstition, Maybe Your Baby and Looking For Another Pure Love.
Bob Dylan is working on Walk Out In The Rain, Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long), Stop Now and New Pony, at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, California.
Bob Dylan is in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, USA, working on songs including When You Gonna Wake Up, with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on guitar.
Bob Dylan is working on tracks for the album Shot Of Love in Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, California, USA.
Midnight Oil release their seventh LP, Blue Sky Mining, on Columbia Records in Australia. The album's title track address the tragedy of the asbestos-related illnesses contracted by workers at The Wittenoom Asbestos Mine.
UK newspaper The Guardian reports that Meg Matthews, wife of Noel Gallagher of Oasis, has had to give up her job as a gossip columnist for the Sunday Times because her image "is at odds with the band's. They’re working class lads. All the hobnobbing and Meg's spending was sticking in craws…"
Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine take part in the Sound Strike press conference in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, alongside workers' rights activist Dolores Huerta.Kanye West posts a picture on Twitter of himself and Justin Bieber together in a recording studio. The picture's caption, 'My new beat protege', provokes speculation that the pair might be working on a collaboration.
Lady Gaga pays tribute to saxophonist Clarence Clemons when he is posthumously awarded the title of Big Man of The Year at a special Little Kids Rock charity ceremony in the Edison Ballroom, New York City, USA. Also in attendance are Steven and Maureen Van Zandt, Evan Harrison, Billy Squier, Matt White and Jake Clemons, musician and nephew of the revered saxophonist who was best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band.
During a master class at the Slamdance Festival in Utah, USA, Neil Young announces that he has completed work on a brand new album with Crazy Horse, and is already working on another.
At a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles, California, USA, Pete McNeal, a drummer known for his work with several well known artists including Cake and Norah Jones is facing a single felony count for oral copulation and sexual penetration with a child under the age of ten.
On their History Of The Eagles tour, The Eagles play at Jobing.com Arena, Glendale, Arizona, USA.1907 |
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