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As the new decade opens, the No1 song in the UK pop singles chart is Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris.
Poco and Lee Michaels play the second of two nights at the Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Revered country music fiddler and recording artist Clayton McMichen dies in Battletown, Kentucky, USA.




The first recital of music played by a quartet of electronic Moog Synthesisers is held at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA, under the direction of Gershon Kingsley.
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Tommy Roe records Stir It Up And Serve It, which will be released as a single by ABC Records in the USA.


Jackson 5, featuring Michael Jackson, perform ABC and I Want You Back on tv series American Bandstand in the USA.
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Bruce Springsteen's group Steel Mill a $1,000 recording contract after they make a three song demo at his Fillmore Recording Studio in San Francisco, California, USA. They turn it down.
Powerful promoter Bill Graham offers
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Buddy Guy plays at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, he is joined briefly on stage by blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter Lonnie Johnson, who recently suffered a stroke. Walking with the aid of a cane, Johnson sings a couple of songs with Buddy Guy and receives a standing ovation. It will prove to be his final stage appearance.
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James Brown records A Man Has To Go Back To The Crossroads for Bethlehem Records, in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Jazz pianist Ray Bryant records My Cherie Amour, written by Stevie Wonder, for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.




Jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff records Come And Carry Me Home at Island Studios, London, for Blue Note Records.


The Festival Express tour, featuring Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, The Band and others, plays in Winnipeg, Canada. The tour is unusual in that the artists all travel together on a train.
UK music weekly Music Now reports that British band Ashton, Gardner And Dyke has been signed to a five-year worldwide recording contract by Capitol Records in the USA.
R'n'b/soul vocalist Baby Huey dies aged 26 from a dug-related heart attack in a room in the Roberts Motel on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA. During the 1960s, he had pioneered a style which influenced the emergence of hip hop music.
San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane play at the Roberts Athletic Center, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.


Love and The James Gang play the third of four nights at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Black Sabbath.
T.Rex release their first album, T.Rex, in the UK on Fly Records. The band had previously been known as Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Canned Heat, The Youngbloods and the Blues Image, play the first of three nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
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