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Monsieur Fernand (aka Emilio de Gogorza) records Plaisir D'Amour, Berceuse, A Toi and other songs for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.Kate Smith is born in Greenville, Virginia, USA. She will become one of America's most popular singers and a major radio variety star, known as The Songbird Of The South.
Country musician and recording artist Sonny James is born in Hackleburg, Alabama, USA. Nicknamed the Southern Gentleman, he will score sixteen No1 singles from 1967-1972, including Running Bear and Heaven Says Hello.
Marion Walter Jacobs is born in Marksville, Louisiana, USA, He will become blues harmonica star Little Walter.
The musical revue Thumbs Up! is presented at The St. James Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 156 performances.
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra are playing during a six-week residency at The Raymor Ballroom, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie spends May Day in San Francisco, California, USA.
Radio announcer and studio owner Frederick C. Wolf opens radio station WDOK in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Wolf hires young Navy veteran Ken Hamann as an engineer for both the radio and the recording studios. Hamann will become chief engineer of Cleveland Recording in 1956 and will help build the studio into a state-of-the-art recording and mastering facility in which many regional and national hit records will be produced. These include The Outsiders' Time Won't Let Me, The Human Beinz' Nobody But Me, The Lemon Pipers' Green Tambourine, and albums by The James Gang and Grand Funk Railroad.
Primo Scala releases a new single, An Old Fashioned Hay Ride on London Records in the USA.
Pee Wee King is playing during a week of shows at The Orpheum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
The Three Peppers play at The Capitol Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA, during a four week engagement.
John Giddings is born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He will become one of the world's most successful music agents and promotors, responsible for tours by artists including The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Genesis, Celine Dion, Iggy Pop and David Bowie.
Joe Williams records My Baby Just Cares For Me, S'Wonderful, Thou Swell and other tracks at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Joe Williams records My Baby Just Cares For Me, S'Wonderful, Thou
Swell and other tracks at Capitol
Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Johnny Preston begins a 22-city promotional tour of radio and tv stations in the USA based around his new single, Willy Walk / I Feel Good.
Comedian and songwriter Stan Freberg releases a new satirical album, The United States Of America, on Capitol Records in the USA.
Danny And The Juniors play during a week of shows at The Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.Neil Sedaka plays the sixth of seven nights at the Forty Thieves Lounge, Bermuda, North Atlantic.
Jazz saxophonist Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis records Night And Day, Love Is Here To Stay and other tracks for Prestige Records, at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Elvis Presley is at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, being photographed for publicity stills.
Helen Darling is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. She will score one chart single with Decca in the 1990s, but will also do well as a songwriter by co-writing Jo Dee Messina's hit Bring On The Rain.
The Kinks, The Yardbirds and Goldie And The Gingerbreads play the second show of a 21 date UK tour, at The Granada, Walthamstow, London, England, UK.
The Beatles play their last ever UK live gig at the 1966 NME Poll Winners Concert in The Empire Pool, Wembley, London, UK. Other acts on the bill include Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group, Roy Orbison, The Yardbirds, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, The Rolling Stones and The Who.
The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
Stock in country star Minnie Pearl's Chicken System is traded publicly for the first time in the USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience record tracks for the songs House Burning Down and Tax Free at Record Plant, New York City, USA.The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at Reid Green Coliseum, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA.
The Timeless All-Stars play the fifth of six nights at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA.
Compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 by Queen is certified by the BPI as a double platinum album in the UK.Two years before finding success, Then Jericho play at London University Union, London, England, UK, Europe.
It is announced that Starbucks will not be selling the new Bruce Springsteen album, Devils And Dust, which is the first Springsteen album to be stickered with an advisory label because of erotically-charged lyrics.
The marching band of McCord Middle School, McCord, Michigan, USA, is forbidden from playing Louie Louie at their Grand Floral Parade, because of the song's allegedly obscene lyrics. This act of censorship is all the more bizarre, given that the band had been planning to play an instrumental version of the classic 1963 hit by The Kingsmen.Rascal Flatts perform the US national anthem before the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Little Big Town, Smokey Robinson and Terry Bradshaw also attend the race, which is won by Super Saver.
It is made public that Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters recently married her long-time boyfriend Seth Kirby.
On her The Mrs Carter Show World Tour Beyonce plays the third of six nights at The O2 Arena, London, UK.It is reported that PepsiCo has pulled a tv commercial developed by rapper Tyler The Creator for the PepsiCo drink product Mountain Dew in the USA. The ad had been criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and making light of violence toward women.
The Royal Society publishes results of a study into the evolution of popular music between 1960 and 2010. Using music information retrieval and text-mining tools, the study analysed the musical properties of approximately 17,000 recordings that appeared in the charts and demonstrated quantitative trends in their harmonic and timbral properties. Among other conclusions was the Society's assertion that the quality of popular music had not declined over the period in question.
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