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Peter Welin of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, applies for a patent in respect of his invention of an automatic playing attachment for musical instruments. Eve Becke, with Geraldo and His Orchestra, records the Cole Porter song Begin The Beguine, in London.
Stan Getz is playing during a one-week stint at The Hi Hat, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Billy Eckstine and Ruth Brown, Johnny Hodges and Timmie Rodgers are playing at the YMCA Circus For Underprivileged Children, St. Louis, Missouri, 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.
Alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce records Summertime, Frankie And Johnny and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA,for Prestige Records.
Fourteen year old Cathy Jean Giordano, records Please Love Me Forever for Valmor Records in New York City, USA. Feeling that the track could be stronger, Valmor owners Gene and Jody Malis bring in local vocal quartet The Roomates to overdub harmony parts. Although Giordano had never even met the Roomates, the single will be released under the name Cathy Jean And the Roomates.
The Marcels, Little Anthony And The Imperials, Ernie K-Doe, Freddie King, and Marv Johnson play the sixth of seven nights in a special presentation, The Stars Of The Swinging Sixties, at The Tivoli, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Del Shannon, The Springfields (including Dusty Springfield], Johnny Tillotson, Kenny Lynch and The Eagles (UK band) play at The Granada, Kingston, England, UK, EuropeGene Pitney plays the fifth night of a week of dates at The Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.
Bob Dylan sings live and is interviewed on the Studs Terkel Wax Museum radio show on WFMT in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Paul Anka, accompanied by and songwriter Sammy Cahn, makes a short promotional film in Ostia Harbour, Rome, Italy, Europe, featuring two songs he recorded the day before.
Gerry And The Pacemakers perform Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying and I'm The One on tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Jump blues vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon comes to the end of two weeks at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Dorothy Ashby Octet records Dodi Li, Why Did You Leave Me, What Am I Here For, Nabu Corfa and House Of The Rising Sun for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA. The tracks will appear on the LP The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of Dorothy Ashby.
Bob Dylan holds a press conference in the Mayfair Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe. In the evening Dylan takes British singer Dana Gillespie to see John Lee Hooker at Blaises.The King Sisters, Alvino Rey and Kent Larsen are playing during a three-week engagement at The Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Mad River and Seeds Of Time play at The Retinal Circus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Joe Tex is playing during seven nights at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.The Yardbirds play the first of two nights at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by Frost and The MC5.
The Allman Brothers Band plays the second of two nights at the College Discotheque, Macon, Georgia, USA.
Entering at No45, the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the top-selling singles in the USA is Oh Happy Day by The Edwin Hawkins Singers.
Bob Dylan is in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, USA, working on songs including Slow Train, with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on guitar.
20/20 and Phil Seymour play the second of two nights at The Starwood, Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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TV Personalities (aka Television Personalities, play at Brighton Polytechnic, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
The Nightingales play at The Stars And Stripes, Carlisle, England, UK, Europe.XMAL Deutschland, Gene Loves Jezebel and The Folk Devils play at The Lyceum In The Strand, London, England, UK, Europe.
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The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, is flooded by water from the Cumberland River, peaking more than two feet above the venue's stage. The Opry moves to various other Nashville locations during the next four months.
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P Diddy, Katy Perry and Pharrell are among the music stars attending the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, USA.On their Ceremonials tour, Florence And The Machine play at The New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival, Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
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Vossi Bop by Stormzy enters the UK Singles Chart at No1, giving the grime star his first No1 Single. The track's lyric is fiercely political, including the line, "F**k the government and f**k Boris."
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