Blues

Blues singer, guitarist and recording artist Clifford 'Grandpappy' Gibson, is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

The Chicago Tribune reports that "from Twenty-second Street south in Michigan Avenue, Wabash Avenue, State Street, and the cross streets as far south as Thirty-first Street is a rich district of the so-called buffet flats. There, too, can be found hundreds of handbooks, gaming houses, and all night saloons of the most vicious character." A "buffet flat" was essentially a domestic residence in which live music, usually jazz or blues, was performed to small audiences. Bessie Smith is recorded as having frequently played shows in "buffet flats".

Bert Ralton and his Havana Band record Headin' For Home and Isn't She The Sweetest Thing?, for Columbia Records in London, UK.

Francis Blackwell [aka Scrapper Blackwell] records D Blues and A Blues, for Bluebird Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Paul Allen Rothchild is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. he will find success as music producer Paul Rothchild, working with The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and many others.

Under his real name of McKinley Morganfield, Muddy Waters records Burying Ground Blues for Columbia Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The company does not see fit to release it, and Waters is soon snapped up by Chess Records.

Blues vocalist and pianist Charles Brown records It's Rainin', Don't Fool With My Heart, I've Made Up My Mind, I've Got That Old Feeling, Be Still My Heart and Without The One You Love, for Aladdin Records in Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Peter McCann is born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. Working as a singer-songwriter, he will enjoy a Top 10 hit in the USA in 1977 with Do You Wanna Make Love.

The Big Rhythm And Blues Show, a package tour promoted by controversial deejay Alan Freed, plays in Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, with stars including Fats Domino, Joe Turner and The Moonglows.

Jazz, doo-woop, R'n'B and Rock'n'Roll music producer John Dolphin, aka Lovin John and The Toast of the Coast, is murdered aged 55 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dolphin is murdered behind the desk of his office in Hollywood by frustrated singer and shipping clerk Percy Ivy. His murder is witnessed by young musicians Bruce Johnston, Sandy Nelson and Dave Shostac, who were trying to get Dolphin interested in their music. In a long career, Dolphin worked with, among others, Sam Cooke, Jesse Belvin, Charles Mingus, Pee Wee Crayton, Major Lance, Scatman Crothers, Harry Caesar, Tony Allen, Gene Forrest , Percy Mayfield, Damita Jo, Marvin Phillips, Jesse Belvin, Illinois Jacquet and Linda Hayes. He was also a political activist, organising campaigns against racial intimidation in the music business.

US deejay/promoter Alan Freed's week-long revue spends its second day at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York, featuring Bo Diddley, Big Maybelle, Jo Ann Campbell, Bobby Day, The Cadillacs, and The Wheels.

Jimmie Rodgers plays the seventh of fourteen nights at The Statler-Hilton Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Ray Charles plays at the Donnelly Memorial Theater, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The Rolling Stones play at Eel Pie Island, Twickenham, London, England, UK, Europe.

The Renegades play at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.

Robert McCoy And His Five Sins record Bye Bye Baby and Louise for Soul-O Records in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

The Who play at the Trade Union Hall, Watford, UK, supported by Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds.

The Who play at The Marquee, Soho, London, UK.

Little Milton enters the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA with We're Gonna Make It, which will peak at No1.

The Rolling Stones play at The Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Don Crawford plays at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.

The Yardbirds play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Timechecks. This is one of the last Yardbirds gigs with Jeff Beck on guitar. He will leave within a week and be replaced by Jimmy Page.

Students attending the Rag Rave at Granby Halls, Leicester, England, UK, Europe, are treated to performances by The Kinks, The Move, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Plastic Penny and Eyes Of Blue.

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac play at The Star Hotel, Croydon, England, UK, Europe.

Nina Simone plays at The Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, USA.

The Moody Blues play at The Marquee Club, Wardour Street, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Keef Hartley.

The Grateful Dead, The Fugs and the Velvet Underground play at The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Canned Heat play at Robertson Gym, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Country Joe And The Fish play at The Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.

The Incredible String Band play at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK.

On their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, supported by Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.

My Sharona by The Knack reaches No1 in the Billboard singles chart in the USA, and stays there for six weeks.

Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang enters the Billboard US Top 40. The song will peak at No36 in the Billboard US Top 40 Singles chart, No3 in the UK, and is generally considered the song that made rap popular.

Jazawaki play at The Half Moon, Herne Hill, London, England, UK, Europe.

Bill Graham Day is declared in San Francisco, California, USA, by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, in honour of music business promoter Bill Graham, owner of the Fillmore theaters and manager of the The Grateful Dead. Graham's annual income at this point has been estimated at $100m.

The album Breezin' by jazz and r'n'b guitarist George Benson is awarded a 3xPlatinum Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A.

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant join forces for today's edition of popular tv series CMT Crossroads in the USA.

It is reported that Feargal Sharkey, CEO of music industry representative body U.K. Music, has written to Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair expressing concerns about personal details being demanded by Form 696, part of the risk assessment procedure for live events in London, England, UK, Europe. One major concern highlighted in Sharkey's latter is that "In explicitly singling out performances and musical styles favored by the black community: garage and R'n'B, and MCs and DJs, we believe the use of risk assessment Form 696 is disproportionate, unacceptable and damaging to live music in the U.K."

Eric Clapton And The Wallflowers play at The Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The Strypes play at The Music Hall Of Williamsburg, New York City, USA.

73-year-old Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger becomes a great grandfather when his 21-year-old granddaughter Assisi gives birth to a baby boy.