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Vocalist Roger Harding records the monologues A Coon In Love, The Stage Struck Coon, I've Been Down In Old Kentucky, Mr Dingy, Don't Be So Stingy, and other tracks for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Apollo Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a lengthy run.
Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.
The Sousa Band does a live broadcast on the General Motors Family Party show on NBC Radio in the USA.
UK folk star Ian Campbell is born in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1965 The Ian Campbell Folk Group will become the first non-US artists to record a Bob Dylan song.
Beatrice 'Beatty' Stone marries Abram Zimmerman at her mother's home in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA. Their firstborn son, Robert Allen Zimmerman, will find worldwide fame as Bob Dylan.
The Casa Loma Orchestra records Jungle Jitters and Copenhagen for Decca Records in the USA.
Billie Holiday and the Count Basie Band play the last of seven days at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City.
Roman E. Shvetz of New York City, USA, is granted US Patent No.2,599,948 for his invention of a combination rocking chair and musical box.
A National Skiffle Contest is held in Bury St Edmunds, UK, featuring such acts as The Sunrisers, The Vampires, The Black Zombies, 2.19, The Skiffle Cats, the Five Sided Squares and others. Winners are the 2.19 Skiffle Group.
John Lee Hooker records I Love You Honey, Bundle Up And Go and I'm Gonna Love You, for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Nature Boy by Bobby Darin is the highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling pop singles in the USA, entering at No70.
Gene Vincent plays at The Elizabethan, Nottingham, England, UK, Europe.
Having run for 1040 performances, the London production of West Side Story closes at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Teddy Randazzo continues his summer booking at The Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Battle Of The Beat for The Salisbury Times Trophy is staged at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, featuring bands including The Castaways, The 007s, The Electrons, The Initials, The Satellites and The Ten Feet Five. Host for the event is popular BBC Radio deejay Alan 'Fluff' Freeman.
The Iveys play at Ritz Entertainments Club (a.k.a. The Ritz), Skewen, South Wales, UK, with The Blackjacks. The Iveys will find greater fame as Badfinger.
The John Coltrane Quartet records Welcome, Transition and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Impulse Records.
Chet Atkins with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops plays in Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The session is recorded by RCA Records and will be released as the album The Pops Goes Country.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
Bob Dylan and The Band begin work on tracks at Big Pink, near Woodstock, New York State, USA, on tracks which will eventually surface as The Basement Tapes.
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Moby Grape play the last of three nights in The Scene Club East, New York City, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
David Bowie plays at The Polytechnic, Leicester, UK, supported by The JSD Band.
Bill Monroe plays at Sunset Park, West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA.
Nine Below Zero, on their 'Christmas Tour' play at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Dylan begins a brief tour of the USA in support of the album Shot Of Love, with a show at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, Chicago, Illinois.
R.E.M. release their third album, Fables Of The Reconstruction, in the UK on IRS Records.
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On their Presto Tour, Rush play at The Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.
On his Sound And Vision tour, David Bowie plays at The St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Top 5 Singles in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA on this day are :

1. Hold On - Wilson Phillips

2. Vogue - Madonna

3. Poison - Bell Biv Devoe

4. All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You - Heart

5. It Must Have Been Love - Roxette

The Rolling Stones headline the last day of The 2007 Isle Of Wight Festival at Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle Of Wight, UK.
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Guitarist and singer Huey Long dies aged 105 in Houston, Texas, USA. In a long and acclaimed career, he worked with The Ink Spots, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, The Three Deuces and many others.
On their Farewell Tour, Supergrass play at The O2 Academy, Brixton, London, England, UK.
Rickie Lee Jones plays at The Arts and Cultural Center, Castle Theater, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
Bon Jovi play the third gig of a twelve-night residency at The O2 Arena, London, UK.
Willie Nelson plays at The Apollo, Manchester, UK.
Wynonna Judd, barefooted, marries Highway 101 drummer Cactus Moser at her home in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, USA.
On their first tour together in over twenty years, the surviving members of The Beach Boys play at The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Manchester, Tennessee, USA.
On their Up All Night Tour, One Direction play at The Comerica Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
Black Sabbath release their nineteenth studio album, 13, in the UK.
Blues-rock supergroup The Royal Southern Brotherhood release a new album, heartsoulblood, on Ruf Records in the UK.
It is officially announced that pop/opera vocalist Sarah Brightman has paid $52m to secure the honour of becoming the first professional musician to sing from space. Assuming all goes to plan, she would achieve her goal during a 2015 flight to the International Space Station, organised by a company called Space Adventures.
Angel Olsen plays at The Lantern, Colston Hall, Bristol, UK.
On their The Book Of Souls World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Download France, Paris, France, Europe.
Beoga release their fifth LP, Before We Change Our Mind,
Globelamp releases a new LP, The Orange Glow, on Wichita Recordings, in the UK.
On his Purpose tour, Justin Bieber plays at Gardet Open Air Venue, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
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