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James Osborne is born in Winchester, Kentucky, USA. He will enjoy some success as hillbilly musician Blind Jimmy Osborne, making appearances of, for example, the WSM Grand Ole Opry, Louisiana Hayride and the WLS National Barn Dance.
Everett Lilly, mjandolin player and vocalist of bluegrass group The Lilly Brothers, is born in Clear Creek, West Virginia, USA.
Les Hite's Syncopators are featured for the opening day ceremony of a "colored country club" called the Appomattox, in Los Angeles, California, USA.Eighteen men are killed in an explosion at the MacBeth Mine, owned by the Hutchinson Coal Company in Logan, West Virginia, USA. The tragedy will inspire the song McBeth Mine Explosion by country music trio Cap, Andy And Flip on their own Fireside Melodies label.
Singer and songwriter Jan Crutchfield is born in Paducah, Kentucky, USA. His best-known songs will include Statue Of A Fool, Tear Time, My Heart Is An Open Book, She's Lying, It Turns Me Inside Out and Going, Going, Gone.
US Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is cut in half in a collision with the Japanese destroyer Amagiri, off Kolombangara, Solomon Islands, East of Papua, New Guinea, Oceania. The commander of the PT-109, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, will be awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his bravery in this action. Kennedy is also awarded the Purple Heart for injuries he sustained in the collision. He will, in due course, become the President of the United States Of America. The tale of PT-109 will inspire the 1961 country song PT-109 by Jimmy Dean, which will reach No8 on the Billboard pop music chart in the USA, and No3 on the country music chart.
When Capitol Records of Los Angeles, California, USA, releases its first long-playing records, it becomes the first company to to have released recordings at three speeds - 78rpm, 45rpm and 33rpm.Frank Sinatra records Kisses And Tears and When The Sun Goes Down, for Columbia Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Cowboy Copas records Tennesse Flat Guitar, Those Gone And Left Me Blues, I'm Glad I'm On The Inside Looking Out and Four Books In The Bible, at King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.Jimmie Davis records Forever Is A Long, Long Time (co-written with Hank Williams) for Decca Records, in the USA.
Barbra Streisand plays the fifth night of two weeks at The Town'n'Country, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Connie Francis plays the twentieth night of three weeks at The Sahara Hotel And Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Marty Robbins, with producer Don Law, records I Told The Brook and Sometimes I'm Tempted, in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session includes guitarists Grady Martin and Jack Pruett, steel guitarist Jerry Byrd, bassist Joseph Zinkan, drummer Louis Dunn and pianist William Pursell.
Country music singer and songwriter Tex
Owens dies at home in New Baden, Texas, USA. His best-known
composition is probably Cattle Call, and his best-known group The
Original Texas Rangers.
Charmaine, the first Decca Records single by The Bachelors, enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No6.
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Brenda Lee spends her fourth night in a week of portraying Dorothy in a production of The Wizard Of Oz in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Ernest Tubb, Roy Drusky, Porter Wagoner and Kenny Roberts play at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, USA.Patti Page plays the eighth night of a month-long engagement at The Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA.
Bill Monroe plays at a party in the home of Tex Logan, Madison, New Jersey, USA. His band includes Peter Rowan and David Grisman, both of who will later form the psychedelic folk-rock band Earth Opera.
Bluegrass vocalist Grandpa Jones records Turn Your Radio On, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, for Monument Records.
The Everly Brothers, Minnie Pearl and Gladys Knight and The Pips appear on the ABC-tv series Operation Entertainment in the USA.
Neil Young completes recording of Here We Are In The Years for his solo debut album on Reprise Records, in Wally Heider Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play at the Civic Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Wesley Rose, a powerful music publisher, music industry executive and record producer, dies aged 72, in Edgefield Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, following a long illness.
Wiley Andrew Morris of pioneering country-bluegrass duo The Morris Brothers, dies in Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA.
Shelby Lynne and Bob Schneider play at The Avalon Hollywood, Hollywood, California, USA.
Brad Paisley is voted America's favourite country star in a survey
conducted by the Country Radio Broadcasters Inc. and Edison
Research. Over 13,000 country music radio listeners were polled -
and chose Paisley ahead of Brooks And Dunn, George Strait, Trace
Adkins, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and Tim MCGraw.
C.W.Stoneking And His Primitive Horn Orchestra play at The Black Cotton Club, London, UK.
Country-rock trio Lady Antebellum release their second studio album, Need You Now, in Brazil and Mexico.
Curb Records sues Tim McGraw for alleged breach of contract, claiming that he recorded his eleventh album Emotional Traffic too soon after his previous release.
Darius Rucker is awarded an honorary doctorate and delivers the commencement speech at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
Singer and songwriter Jan Crutchfield dies aged 74 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His best-known songs included Statue Of A Fool, Tear Time, My Heart Is An Open Book, She's Lying, It Turns Me Inside Out and Going, Going, Gone.
Julian Dawson plays at Uncommon Ground, 3800 North Clark Street, Wrigleyville, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Over 59 people are killed and more than 500 injured by a gunman while Jason Aldean plays the headlining set at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in The Mandalay Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The gunman, located on the 32nd floor of the hotel, kills himself shortly after.On her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of two nights at Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
The Tim O'Brien Band plays at Chickie Wah Wah, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1923 |
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