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Billie Holiday plays a concert in Seattle, Washington, USA. Quincy Jones aged 15, plays trumpet in her band.
Billie Holiday plays the first of six shows at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Billie Holiday plays the second of six shows at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Billie Holiday plays the last of six shows at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Max Miller, The Harmaniacs, blind singer Alfred Thripp and Jay And His Merry Lads, plays the second night of a week at The Metropolitan Theatre, Edgeware Road, London, UK.
Jazz cornettist and bandleader Muggsy Spanier plays at Jazz, Ltd, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for the first time. He will play at the venue for fifteen months over the next two years.Jazz cornettist and bandleader Muggsy Spanier plays at Jazz, Ltd, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for the first time. He will play at the venue for fifteen months over the next two years.
Billie Holiday opens for four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA. On the same day, assault charges against her, relating to an incident In Billy Berg's Club in Hollywood, California, USA, are dropped.
Max Miller, The Harmaniacs, blind singer Alfred Thripp and Jay And His Merry Lads, plays the fourth night of a week at The Metropolitan Theatre, Edgeware Road, London, UK.
Billie Holiday plays the third night of four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA.
Billie Holiday plays the sixth night of four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA.
Billie Holiday plays the twelfth night of four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA.
Vic Lewis And His Orchestra record Swanee, Summertime, S'Wonderful and other tracks in a live session for BBC Radio Jazz Club in London. The band includes Humphrey Lyttelton on cornet and Dill Jones on piano.
Billie Holiday plays the seventeenth night of four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA.
Billie Holiday plays the eighteenth night of four weeks at Joe Tenner's Cafe Society Uptown, in San Francisco, California, USA.
Ross Valory who will play bass with The Steve Miller Band, Frumious Bandersnatch and Journey, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Little Jimmy Dickens records Country Boy at Castle Studio [founded by Paul Cohen] in The Tulane Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Phil Spector's father, Benjamin, commits suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide fumes in his car, because of insurmountable debt problems. Written on his tombstone will be the words, To Know Him Was To Love Him, prompting Phil to write the song To Know Him Is To Love Him which he will record a decade later with The Teddy Bears, giving him his first hit single.Blues Stay Away from Me, co-written by The Delmore Brothers and Henry Glover, is recorded by The Delmore Brothers for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio. Regarded by some as the first rock'n'roll record, it becomes a top five hit in 1949, and has a chart run of 23 weeks.
Donald Peers, Britain's most popular vocalist, gives a solo concert at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
Jimmy Witherspoon records Big Fine Girl and No Rollin’ Blues for Modern Records in Los Angeles.
T-Bone
Walker records Call It Stormy Monday, No Worry Blues, Bobby Sox Baby, I'm In
An Awful Mood, It's A Lowdown Dirty Deal, Don't Give Me The
Runaround, Long Skirt Baby Blues, Goodbye Blues, I'm Waiting For
Your Call, Lonesome Woman Blues, Vacation Blues, I Want A Little
Girl, I'm Still In Love With You,T-Bone Jumps Again, West Side Baby
and Don't Leave Me Baby for Black And White
Records in Los Angeles, California USA.
Walter Hawkins is born in Oakland, Califonia, USA. He will come to be regarded as one of the world's greatest gospel singers, and is best-remembered as a member of The Edwin Hawkins Singers.Tommy Mottola is born in The Bronx, New York City, USA. He will become a talent manager, helping acts including Hall And Oates and Carly Simon to secure record deals before going on to become head of Sony Music for fifteen years. He's also known for having married and divorced Mariah Carey.
Richard R. Baker IV is born in Washington DC, USA. He will find success as fingerstyle guitarist and recording artist Duck Baker, combining genres as varied as rags, blues, country, gospel, cajun, bluegrass, Celtic music, ballads and jazz, swing, New Orleans jazz and free jazz.Louis Armstrong And His All Stars play at The Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Enigmatic blues singer, guitarist and recording artist King Solomon Hill dies in Sibley, Louisiana, USA. His birth name is thought to have been Joe Holmes, but there is no conclusive evidence to support this idea.That Lucky Old Sun by Frankie Laine on Mercury Records enters the Billboard magazine Best-Seller chart in the USA where it will peak at No1 during a 22-week run on the chart.
James Marshall Hendrix, later to be Jimi Hendrix, enrols at Dawson Annex School, Vancouver, Canada.
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Sharon Ilo Hershiser is born on the campus of The University Of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. She will briefly find success as pop singer Robin Clark in 1961.
Shep Fields And His Rippling Rhythm record Moon Over Burma (with vocalist Dorothy Allen) and Down Argentine Way (with vocalist Sonny Washburn) for Bluebird Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Vocalist Florence Wright records Deal Me A Hand, Farewell To Arms, Moody Music and Game Of Broken Hearts for National Records in New York City, USA.
Bernard Doherty is born in Chelmsford, UK. He will become one of the most successful publicists in the UK music business, looking after artists of the stature of Paul McCartney, Tina Turner and Rod Stewart, as well as handling major events including Live Aid.
That Lucky Old Sun by Louis Armstrong on Decca Records enters the Billboard magazine Best-Seller chart where it will peak at No24 during a three week run on the chart.
Journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet Nick Tosches is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, will be praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."Mule Train by Vaughn Monroe enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10 during a nine-week run.
Seventh grade student Buddy Holly scores a B in his Social Studies test at Hutchinson Junior High, Lubbock, Texas, USA.Mule Train by Bing Crosby enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No2 during a sixteen-week run.
Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Harry Belafonte, Stan Getz, Lennie Tristano and Oran 'Hot Lips' Page play as part of the All-American Jazz Festival on the opening night of Birdland jazz club, on Broadway and 52nd Street, New York City, USA.
When Artie Shaw and his Orchestra play at The Ritz Ballroom, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, he draws an audience of 2,093 fans, which is hailed as, but isn't, a local record for a Christmas Day show.
Blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and producer Joe Louis Walker is born in San Francisco, California, USA.
Radio deejay and singer Milton Estes records the Hank Williams' song A House Of Gold for Coral Records.
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