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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.


The Sousa Band does a live broadcast on the General Motors Family Party show on NBC Radio in the USA.
Billie Holiday and the Count Basie Band play the last of seven days at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City.

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.


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.

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.


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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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.

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 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.


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