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William McKinley Gillum is born in Indianola, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as blues harmonica master Jazz Gillum.
Jazz guitar and violin duo Eddie Lang and
Joe Venuti record Wild Cat for Okeh Records in New
York City, USA.
Amos Wells is born in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He will find fame as blues harmonica master Junior Wells.
Richard Salwitz is born in New London, Connecticut, USA. He will find fame as Magic Dick, harmonica player with blues rock combo the J. Geils Band.
Ronald Chesney, rated by many as England's No.1 harmonica player, plays a solo concert at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
Bing Crosby records Accidents Will Happen and Milady, for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
Betty Hutton plays at The Palace Theater, New York City, USA, with The Skylarks and The Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals.
Lloyd Price plays the third night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA, supported by Mickey And Sylvia.
Tony Bennett records Ask Me and Bring Me A Rainbow, in CBS Studios, 30th Street, New York City, USA.
Acoustic guitarist John Fahey, using the pseudonym Blind Thomas, records John Henry, Paint Brush Blues and other tracks for FonotoneRecords in Frederick, Maryland, USA.
Lightnin' Hopkins records the album Last Night Blues at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Bluesville Records. Sonny Terry plays harmonica on this album.
Little Willie John, Sonny Boy Williamson, The Upsetters, The Sheppards and Savannah Churchill play the fifth night in a week-long engagement at The Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois.The Beaulieu Jazz Festival, Hampshire, England, UK, Europe, featuring Johnny Dankworth, James Cotton, Kenny Ball's Jazzmen, Chris Barber's Jazzband with Ottilie Patterson, Terry Lightfoot and others, ends in riots when members of the crowd begin to climb the scaffolding which supports the lighting rigs being used for the tv broadcast. Among the audience is a young Rod Stewart.
Sam Cooke, Ben E. King, The Olympics, Carla Thomas, Ernie K. Doe, The Sheppards and Slim Harpo are playing during a week of shows at The Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated plays its regular Thursday night residency at The Marquee, London, UK.
Bobby Vinton records Blue Velvet for Epic Records in New York City, USA. Pianist on the session is Floyd Cramer, with Charlie McCoy on harmonica.
Little Stevie Wonder records Take This Hammer, with producer Clarence Paul, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The track will not be released.
Manfred Mann play at The Marquee Club, Oxford Street, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
Sonny Boy Williamson II plays at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK, supported by Alexis Korner. The show is a tribute to recently deceased British blues maestro Cyril Davies.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that sales of harmonicas have rocketed
because of their use by such contemporary stars as Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.
The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Honeycombs and Tony Sheveton play the second of two nights at Sydney Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Sonny And Cher performing Baby Don't Go and All I Really Want to Do; Aretha Franklin performing Rock-A-Bye Your Baby; Paul Revere And The Raiders (live from Hawaii) performing Satisfaction.
The First New York Blues Project, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Hammond Jr. and The Little John Trio play during a week of shows at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich, Village, New York City, USA.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, featuring Butterfield on vocals and harmonica, Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars, Mark Naftalin on organ, Jerome Arnold and bass and Sam Lay on drums, begins a month of live shows at The Unicorn, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Rhythm and blues harmonica player Little Walter Jacobs is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery, Evergreen Park, near Chicago, Illinois, USA, but his grave will remain unmarked until 1991, when fans Scott Dirks and Eomot Rasun will arrange to have a marker designed and installed.On their second tour of the USA, The Cream play at Earl Warren Showgrounds, Santa Barbara, California, supported by Taj Mahal and The James Cotton Blues Band.
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Magic Sam, Ike and Tina Turner, The Steve Miller Blues Band and Kaleidoscope play at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Santana, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, Initial Shock and The Hello People play the last of six nights at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA.When Muddy Waters plays with an all-star band including Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T And The MGs and Sam Lay at the Super Cosmic Joy-Scout Jamboree in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the show is recorded and some tracks will appear on the album Fathers And Sons.
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Colwell-Winfield and The Corky Siegel Blues Band play at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Albert Collins plays the fourth of seven nights at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Charlie Musselwhite.
Bob Dylan plays guitar and harmonica when Doug Sahm and Band record Tennessee Blues, Your Friends and Papa Ain't Salty in New York City for Atlantic Records.
Blues harmonica player, singer and recording artist Big John Wrencher, aka One Arm John, collapses and dies, aged 54, while chatting with friends in Wade Walton's barber shop in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.
Nine Below Zero record their debut LP, Live At The Marquee, during a gig at The Marquee Club, London, UK.Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Louisiana Red, Bowling Green John And Harmonica Phil Wiggins, Lurrie Bell, Carey Bell and Margie Evans play in the American Folk Blues Festival '81 at the Konzertaula, Kamen, Germany, Europe.
Three blues harmonica masters, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield and Norton Buffalo play in the Harmonica Summit at The Marin Veterans' Theatre, San Rafael, California, USA.
A feature in today's edition of Variety magazine reveals why Stevie Wonder recently rejected an invitation from the Reagan administration in the White House, Washington DC, USA.William Clarke, whose skills on harmonica made him a sensation in blues circles during the late '80s and early '90s, dies in Fresno, California, USA, when surgery on a bleeding ulcer fails.
Songwriters Lee Oskar, Keri Oskar and Greg Errico file a $3m copyright infringement lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court, New York City, USA, alleging that the hit single Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha has borrowed its harmonica riff from their 1978 song San Francisco Bay.
Mark Feltham and Dennis Greaves, best known as founder members of Nine Below Zero, play at The Prince Albert, Stroud, England, UK, Europe.On their Are We There Yet? - 40th Anniversary Tour, Nine Below Zero play at Islington Assembly Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
Julian Dawson plays at the Studiobuehne, Fahrenbacherstr. 22, 64658 Fuerth im Odenwald, Germany, Europe.
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