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"The Inimitable Colored Comedians" Williams And Walker are appearing in Sons Of Ham at The Great Northern Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Birth of Ewart G. Abner, record company executive with Chance, Vee-Jay and Motown Records in the USA. As well as working with many essential soul acts, Abner will be the first man to release The Beatles' material in America. In the seventies he will manage Stevie Wonder.
The DeBroy Somers Band, records The Toymaker's Dream, Heather Moon, and Hungarian Medley Parts 1 and 2, for Columbia Records in London, UK.
Blues star Blind Lemon Jefferson dies aged 36 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will be buried in an unmarked grave in the Wortham Negro Cemetery.
Ambrose And His Orchestra record St. Louis Blues, I'm Thru' With Love and I'm An Unemployed Sweetheart, at The Small Queens Hall, London, UK, for HMV Records.
Anna Ottilie Patterson is born in born Comber, County Down, Ireland. As Ottilie Patterson she will become one of the UK's greatest jazz vocalists.
Tommy Bruce is born in London, UK. His biggest success will be his British hit
recording of the Fats
Waller song Ain't
Misbehavin' in 1960.
Harold Ray Ragsdale is born in Clarkdale, Georgia, USA. He will find fame as Nashville-based songwriter, producer and performer Ray Stevens, known for hits including Gitarzan, Everything Is Beautiful and The Streak.
Eddie Condon records Friar's Point Shuffle, There'll Be Some Changes Made, Nobody's Sweetheart, and Someday Sweetheart, in New York City, USA, for a Decca Records album entitled Chicago Style.
Dave's Cafe, a popular Chicago, Illinois, USA. jazz club at 343 East 55th, re-opens under the ownership of Dave Heilig. It had been facing financial difficulties, but Heilig will keep it alive for two more years.
Raymond Scott And His Orchestra, with vocalist Nan Wynn, play in The Panther Room, College Inn, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Creadel Jones, one of the founding members of soul group The Chi-Lites, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
While his father is away at sea, John Lennon (John Winston Lennon), is born in Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England, UK. He will find fame as a member of The Beatles.Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The Paradise Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra records S'Wonderful and Younger Every Day for Parlophone Records in London.
Johnny Dankworth And His Orchestra, including vocalist Cleo Laine, play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Louis Prima and his Orchestra with Keely Smith on vocals records I've Got You Under My Skin [written by Cole Porter], for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Having just completed a tour of the West Indies, Jackie Wilson returns to New York City, USA.
Sarah Vaughanrecords If Not For You and Oh Lover, at Bell Sound Studios, New York City, USA, for Roulette Records.
Chubby Checker, The Drifters, Maxine Brown and Chuck Jackson play the fifth night of a week at The Regal, Chicago Illinois, USA.
Jerry Butler, The Miracles, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed play at The Rockland Palace, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The four-day-long New York Folk Festival begins in in Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA. Over the next four days, the festival will present live performances by Mose Allison, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Son House, Doc Watson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Muddy Waters and nearly 60 other singers, instrumentalists, and dancers. The line-up for the first night is Chuck Berry, Mose Allison, Ric Von Schmidt, Mississippi John Hurt, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, Dave Van Ronk and Son House, with Sam Charters acting as emcee. The event will lose around $35,000.
I Will Always Think About You by The New Colony Six peaks at No1 on the WLS Singles Chart in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Savage Resurrection play the second of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Buddy Rich plays the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Buddy Miles and psychedelic soul pioneers Rotary Connection.
Prominent jazz saxophonist Ben Webster dies aged 64, in Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.
Heart play at Poplar Creek Music Theatre, Hoffman Estates, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
R.E.M. play at Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, Somerset, England, other acts include Hole, Beautiful South, Bush, Blondie, Barenaked Ladies, Wilco, Pavement and Kula Shaker.Lorraine Blue, owner of famous 60's club Mother Blues in Chicago, Illinois, USA, dies of lymphoma, aged 73, in Sacramento, California, USA. Mother Blues showcased a broad range of up-and-coming performers, from Buddy Guy to Big Brother And The Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), Jefferson Airplane, Spanky And Our Gang, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.
The second day of the Cambridge Folk Festival at Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, England, UK., features Mavis Staples, The Proclaimers, K T Tunstall, Kathryn Tickell, Hayseed Dixie and others.
Fall Out Boy play at Islington Assembly Rooms, London, UK, to promote the imminent British release of their sixth studio album, American Beauty / American Psycho. 
On their The M A N I A tour, Fall Out Boy play at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, Long Island, New York State, USA.1902 |
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