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Tony Bennett records Chicago, I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face, Anything Goes, Jeepers Creepers and other tracks at Capitol Studios, New York City, USA. accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra.
Disheartened by her lover Ray Charles' "sex and drugs" lifestyle, vocalist Mary Ann Fisher plays her last gig as vocalist with his band at The Magnolia Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.Lucky Thompson records Have You Met Miss Jones?, Solitude, Soul Food, Pennies From Heaven, How About You and Midnight Sun for Symphonium Records in Paris, France, Europe.
At the end of a run of 56 performances, the musical comedy Whoop-Up!, with music by Moose Charlap and lyrics by Norman Gimbel, closes at The Shubert Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA.
Craig Douglas plays at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, with The Mudlarks, The Avons, Johnnie Wiltshire and The Treble Tones, Roy Young, Bill Forbes and master of ceremonies Alan Freeman.
Peggy Lee and George Shearing release a new album, Beauty And The Beat on Capitol Records in the USA.Chuck Berry releases a classic double-sided single, Back In The USA / Memphis, Tennessee, on Chicago-based Chess Records in the USA.
Reuvin Zev ben Yehoshua Ha Levi is born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He will find success as funky, bluesy soul-jazz organist/pianist Ron Levy.
Fats Domino releases a new single, I Want To Walk You Home/ I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday, on Imperial Records in the USA.
Singer and songwriter Marc Cohn is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His biggest hit, Walking In Memphis, will be even bigger when Cher covers it.
US package tour The Cavalcade Of Stars, featuring Johnny and the Hurricanes, Freddie Cannon, The Mystics, Frankie Ford, Barbara Evans and Carl Dobkins Jr, comes to an end.
Ritchie Sambora, lead guitarist for Bon Jovi, and sometime toyboy for Cher, is born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA.
The Swan Silvertones play the sixth night in a week of shows at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Here Comes Summer by Jerry Keller enters the Billboard Top 40 in the USA. Although it stalls at No14 in America, it will go on to No1 in the UK.
The Chet Baker Septet records Almost Like Being In Love, On The Street Where You Live and other tracks in New York City, USA, for the Riverside Records album Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe.
Frank Sinatra records It’s All Right With Me and C’est Magnifique, in Capitol Records Studio A, Hollywood, California.
Benny Golson records My Blues House, Drum Boogie and other tracks at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for New Jazz Records.
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Sixteen reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK.
The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Sam Cooke and Craig
Douglas.
The Montgomery Brothers, with Wes Montgomery on guitar, record Monk's Shop, Summertime, Falling in Love with Love and Renie, for Pacific Jazz Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dakota Staton records The Song Is Ended, High On A Windy Hill and other tracks for Capitol Records in New York City, USA.
The first Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars package tour plays in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with acts including Paul Anka, The Drifters, Duane Eddy, Lloyd Price, LaVern Baker, Annette, The Coasters, The Skyliners and Bobby Rydell.
A new tv version of the classic movie The Jazz Singer, starring Jerry Lewis, airs on NBC tv in the USA.
Eddie Holland releases a new single, Everybody's Going, on United Artists Records in the USA. Holland will become one third of Motown's phenomenally successful songwriting and production team, Holland-Dozier-Holland, in the 60s.
Sam Cooke files court papers in Los Angeles, California, USA, against Keen Records, claiming that the company owes him $30,000 in back royalties.
Bruce Turner's Jump Band play at The 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Diz Disley.The first Dick Clark Caravan Of Stars package tour plays in Des Moines, Iowa, with acts including Paul Anka, The Drifters, Duane Eddy, Lloyd Price, LaVern Baker, Annette, The Coasters, The Skyliners and Bobby Rydell.
Louis Jordan plays the second night in a week of shows at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Conway Twitty records Lonely Blue Boy at Bradley Film And Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
A package tour featuring Johnny Horton, Carl Perkins and The Collins Kids plays in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Future President of the USA, Richard Nixon plays piano in a duet with comedy violinist Jack Benny in a national tv broadcast of The Jack Benny Show in the USA.
Jazz pianist Bud Powell and saxophonist Barney Willen play at the Club St Germain, Paris, France.
Mark Dinning performs his death disc Teen Angel on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bill Haley and His Comets release a new single, Skokkian, in the USA on Decca Records.
Guy Mitchell records The Same Old Me and Cry Hurtin' Heart in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Dakota Staton records Romance In the Dark, I Need Your Love So Bad and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Capitol Records.
Jackie Wilson, Bo Diddley, The Isley Brothers, Bobby Rydell, Santo And Johnny, The Skyliners, Tommy Facenda and others perform as part of Alan Freed's Big Beat Show at The Fox Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Harlem Nocturne by The Viscounts enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA. it will remained on the chart for four months, peaking at No52.
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