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The Vaudeville show Fads And Follies is playing at The Dewey Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.



William DeBerardinis is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He will find fame as jazz trombonist Willie Dennis, best-known as a big band musician but was also an influential bebop soloist.
David Chapman is born in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. In a long career as a jazz saxophonist and clarinettist he will play and/or record with the Nat Pierce Band, Herb Pomeroy, the Artie Shaw Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey / Buddy Morrow Band.
Blind Willie McTell marries Ruthy Kate Williams, a student he had heard singing the previous year at a high school ceremony in Augusta.
Billy Walker records Anything Your Heart Desires, What Makes Me Love You (Like i Do)?, One Heart's Beatin', One Heart's Cheatin' and If I Should Live That Long, in Jim Beck Studio, 1101 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Jazz trumpet virtuoso Kenny Dorham records Stella By Starlight, When Sunny Gets Blue and other tracks for Xanadu Records in New York City, USA.
Bobby Darin plays the last night in a week of shows at Blinstrub's, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
At Chess
Records studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Chuck Berry records Route
66, I'm Talking About You and Rip It Up.
Freddie
King records High Rise and Sittin' On The Boondock, in
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, for King-Federal Records.
Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, visits the BBC's offices in Manchester, UK, to complete a three-page "Application For An Audition By Variety Department". His hope is to get the group an audition with radio producers, who will then call on them to perform on their shows.

The Beatles Christmas Show has its penultimate night at The Astoria, Finsbury Park, London, UK.


The George Benson Quartet record Peg Leg Jack, Redwood City and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Barry McGuire sing a Roger Miller medley on NBC-tv show Hullabaloo in the USA. They string together England Swings, You Don't Want My Love, Do-Wacka-Do, You Can't Rollerskate In A Buffalo Herd, Chug-A-Lug, Engine Engine Number 9 and King On The Road.
Leslie Uggams and


TV show Hullaballoo in the USA features The McCoys performing Fever and The Shangri-Las singing Long Live Our Love.

Curly Putman, with producer Paul Cohen, records Take It All Off and Happy Shoes in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Abba.
Aspiring pop singer Agnetha Faltskog makes her first tv appearance on the programme Studio 8 in Sweden, Europe. On this day, she also meets Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who is performing her debut single, En Ledig Dag, on the same show. The two women will later work together as members of
George Harrison of The Beatles is undertaking four days of recording sessions in Bombay, India, Asia, which will result in his soundtrack for the film Wonderwall.




Black Eyed Peas vocalist Fergie marries actor Josh Duhamel in Malibu, California. Kid Rock is among the 350 guests.
On their Up All Night Tour, One Direction play the first of two nights at The Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK.
Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band play at the Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Folksy singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow releases his second studio album, Post Tropical, on EMI/Universal in Ireland, Europe.



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