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Blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes records Mr. Sykes Blues, Mosby Stomp, Worried Blues, Steady Grinding, I Can't To Save My Life, Rattlesnake Blues, Mary Johnson Blues and Highway 61 Blues for Champion Records in Richmond, Indiana, USA. On some tracks, Sykes is accompanied by vocalist Mary Johnson and/or fiddler Artie Mosby.

Multi-instrumentalist Will Batts records Highway No61 Blues for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA. Highway 61 is the road taken by impoverished blacks from the southern states to seek work in the industrial north. In 1965, Bob Dylan, well-versed in blues history, will compose Highway 61 Revisited.

Charley Straight, composer, arranger, pianist, orchestra leader, accompanist and musical director of the Imperial Player Roll Company, dies in Chicago, Illinois, USA, after being struck by a car while emerging from a manhole in the street.

Jazz guitarist Bus Etri, and singer Lloyd Hundling, both best known for their work with Charlie Barnet's band, die in a car crash in Culver City, near Los Angeles, California, USA.

Popular vocalist Mindy Carson plays the ninth night of a two-week season at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Tennessee Ernie Ford and Molly Bee, with Cliffie Stone And His Orchestra, record Don't Start Courtin In A Hot Rod and We're A' Growin' Up in Capitol Studios, Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Elvis Presley and his entourage drive in rented Cadillacs from Dallas, Texas, USA, to Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Chuck Berry releases a new single, Jaguar And Thunderbird, on Chess Records in the USA.

Rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland is released from Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where he has been in a coma following a recent serious car crash.

Revered rock'n'roll guitarist Hank Garland is admitted to Madison Sanitarium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His wife Evelyn Garland has declared him to be agitated, disoriented and hostile, following a recent car crash. Over the next six weeks, he will be administered twelve shock treatments and a given the drug Thorazine.

British pop idol Cliff Richard buys a Chevrolet for his mother, Dorothy Webb.

Julio Iglesias suffers a compressed spine in a near-fatal car crash in Madrid, Spain, Europe. He will learn to play guitar during his recovery.

The Soul Agents play at The Flamingo Ballroom, Illogan Highway, Pool, between Redruth and Camborne, Cornwall, UK.

In Dundee, Scotland, UK, Peter Waller of UK pop duo Peter And Gordon almost runs over a woman with his car. When he stops the vehicle, she calls him "a bloody fool", so he spits on her. The incident will result in a court appearance for Waller.

George Jones records Six Days On The Road, Blue Side Of Lonesome, Once A Day, Don't Let Me Cross Over, Strangers and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Backing vocals on this session are provided by The Jordanaires.

Elvis Presley comes to the end of work on the film Paradise Hawaiian Style in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and sets off to drive back to Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

The GPO sends a bill to John Lennon of The Beatles demanding an overdue payment of £12 and 3/- in respect of his car radiophone. Lennon uses the back of the bill to scrawl the lyrics for a new song, I'm Only Sleeping, which will be recorded soon after for the album Revolver.

South Side Sound System, The Phoenix and Freedom Highway play the first of three nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.

Neil Landon, vocalist of Fat Mattress sustains injuries to his neck, head and elbow when his Jaguar skids into a wall on Hampstead Hill, London, UK.

Rolling Thunder (hippy spiritual leader), Hot Tuna and The New Riders Of The Purple Sage play at The Family Dog, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, California, USA.

Johnny Cash performs for US President Richard Nixon in the East Room of The White House, Washington DC, USA. Cash sings three songs specially requested by the President - A Boy Named Sue, Okie From Muskogee and Welfare Cadillac, the last of which castigates black people on welfare who drive Cadillacs while other working people struggle to get by. (N.B. Other reports say that Cash did not sing Okie or Cadillac, substituting those songs with Man In Black and What Is Truth)

Zenon de Fleur Herowski, guitarist with UK garage/pub rock/r'n'b band The Count Bishops dies of a heart attack following a car crash, aged 28, in London.

Janet Vogel Rapp, vocalist with 50's hitmakers The Skyliners, is found dead in her car in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, having committed suicide the previous day. In recent years she had been suffering severe mental disorders.

Harry Wayne Casey of K.C. and the Sunshine Band is seriously injured in an automobile accident in Miami, Florida, USA.

Steve Marriott's Packet Of Three play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by A Bigger Mercedes.

Gloria Estefan’s back is broken when a tractor rams her tour bus during a freak snowstorm outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.

Two buses for the music group Soul II Soul are involved in a seven-vehicle, chain-reaction accident on U.S. Interstate 290 in Itasca, near Chicago, Illinois, USA, in the afternoon. Soul II Soul leader Romeo Beresford, known as Jazzy B, is among the 31 people injured, forcing cancellation of the remaining six dates on the tour.

After he pleads guilty in Aspen, Colorado, USA, to driving while his ability was impaired, John Denver is sentenced to sing at a benefit concert during 28 hours of public service. He is also fined $50.

R.E.M., Wilco and the Dandy Warhols play at Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Thom Yorke of Radiohead guests briefly with R.E.M.

Country music star Glen Campbell begins serving ten nights in jail for a November 2003 drink-driving, hit-and-run collision. The 68 year old entertainer also got 75 hours of community service, two years on probation and a $900 fine.

Michael Dahlquist, drummer of Silkworm, John Glick guitarist for The Returnables, and Douglas Meis, drummer for Exo And The Dials, all die in a car crash when a suicidal woman deliberately rams their car at traffic lights in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Elvis Costello plays in The Chevrolet Amphitheater, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Alan Jackson plays a free concert at Cadillac Ranch, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, to celebrate two decades since signing his first recording deal. He plays 34 of his Top 10 hits, including Wanted, Little Bitty, "here Goes and Chattahoochee.

Headliner Mary J. Blige infuriates the organizers of the Jazz In The Gardens Festival at Sun Life Stadium, Miami, Florida, USA, by refusing to leave her limousine until the backstage area is cleared of journalists and, later, taking to the stage ninety minutes late.

Chi Cheng, bass-player of The Deftones, hospitalised since being seriously injured in a 2008 car crash in Santa Clara, California, USA, is released from ICU and returns home to continue his recovery.

Rapper DMX is arrested for the third time, at Spartanburg Airport, South Carolina, USA. The rapper spends three hours in jail before posting bond on charges of driving with a suspended license and having no car tag or insurance.

Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith), A Thousand Horses and The Cadillac Three perform live at the Big Machine Label Group CRS Bash at aVenue, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.