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Blues singer and guitarist Mississippi Fred McDowell is born in Fayette County, Tennessee, USA,
Sid Wayne is born in New York City, USA. He will grow up to become a successful songwriter, authoring See You In September, It's Impossible, I Need Your Love Tonight, Lover Doll, Flaming Star and others, many of them for Elvis Presley movie soundtracks.
Georgia Tom and Scrapper Blackwell record Six Shooter Blues, Second-Hand Woman Blues, Dark Hour Blues, Maybe It's The Blues and Mississippi Bottom Blues for Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana, USA.
Blues vocalist and guitarist Johnnie Temple records New Vicksburg Blues and Louise Louise Blues for Decca Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In the USA, trade magazine Billboard publishes a Disc Jockey Popularity Chart in which deejays chose their favourite artists. Frank Sinatra and Doris Day come tops, with Elvis Presley showing up at No8 in the 'Most Promising Country And Western Artist' category.
On a bill that also includes George Jones, Elvis Presley plays in the Louisiana Hayride tv show in the Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Elvis Presley plays at The Mississippi-Alabama Fair And Dairy Show, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA.
Elvis Presley is in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, re-shooting the ending of Wild In The Country, because pre-release screening audiences did not like the original ending in which Hope Lange committed suicide.
John Lee Hooker is playing two weeks of shows at Gerde's Folk City, New York City, USA, supported by up-and-coming folkie Bob Dylan.
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Elvis Presley continues filming scenes for his next movie, Fun In Acapulco, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Elvis Presley records eight tracks, including (You're The) Devil In Disguise in RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on his latest movie, Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio-based scenes at MGM Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for his fifteenth movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
Johnny Young records Let Me Ride Your Mule, Bad Blood and My Baby Walked Out In 1954, for Testament Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Leon McAuliffe and His Swingin‘ Western Band play at The Auditorium, Pensacola, Florida, USA.The American Folk, Blues And Gospel Caravan featuring Sonny Terry And Brownie McGee, Muddy Waters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davies, Cousin Joe Pleasants and Otis Spann plays at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie opens at cinemas in Hong Kong, Asia. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Jerry Lee Lewis plays the fourth of five days at The Fair, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Principal photography on the next Elvis Presley movie, Frankie And Johnny, continues at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues location filming for the movie Paradise Hawaiian Style, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Police in Jakarta, Indonesia, Asia, stage a mass burning of records and books by Western musicians and writers which is said to be "undermining Indonesian identity in culture." The burned materials include records by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Ventures, The Shadows, The Everley Brothers, Rick Nelson and, er, The Blue Diamonds.Having completed location filming for the movie Paradise Hawaiian Style, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Elvis Presley flies back to California.
Blues pianist Eddie Boyd records the album Five Long Years in Wessex Sound Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, with producer Horst Lippmann. Guitar on the album is played by Buddy Guy.
Indescribably Blue by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard US Best-Selling Singles chart, where it will peak at No33 during a four-week run.
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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Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla are staying at their rented home in Camino Del Norte, Palm Springs, California, while looking for a new home to buy.Elvis Presley flies from Los Angeles, California, USA, back to Memphis, Tennessee, arriving in the early hours of the next morning. During his brief return to Memphis he will obtain a gun permit for his father.
Amanda Blake, Charley Pride and Mickey Mantle appear on popular country music tv show Hee Haw in the USA.
Elvis Presley collapses while sitting on his toilet in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, after ingesting a cocktail of drugs including Morphine, Demerol, Chloropheniramine, Placidyl, Valium, Codeine, Ethinamate, Quaaludes and an unidentified barbiturate. He dies later in the day at the Baptist Memorial Hospital.
His death will inspire numerous songs including Elvis Ain't Dead by Scouting For Girls, Elvis Is Dead by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Elvis Is Dead by Living Colour, Dead Elvis by The Doug Anthony All Stars, Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty and The Day Elvis Died by Boxcar Willie.
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His death will inspire numerous songs including Elvis Ain't Dead by Scouting For Girls, Elvis Is Dead by Peter And The Test Tube Babies, Elvis Is Dead by Living Colour, Dead Elvis by The Doug Anthony All Stars, Dead Elvis by Michael Daugherty and The Day Elvis Died by Boxcar Willie.
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On their Eliminator tour, ZZ Top play the last of three nights at Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA, supported by Albert King.
Blues guitarist and singer Bubba Brown, who worked in the 1930s with Tommy Johnson, Johnny Temple and The Chatmon Brothers, dies aged 83 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
At the peak of interest in the "Is Elvis Dead?" phenomenon, Priscilla Presley holds a press conference to confirm that her husband, Elvis Presley, did, indeed, pass on in 1977.
On their Magic Summer tour, New Kids On The Block play at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
Craig Wiseman is given the Billboard 2004 Country Songwriter Of The Year Award in a ceremony held during The Key West Songwriters' Festival at The Hog's Breath Saloon, Key West, Florida, USA. Wiseman's songs have been recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes and others.
Britney Spears and her attorney, Sam Ingham, meet with Judge Reva Goetz in Los Angeles, California, USA, to discuss the progress of Spears' conservatorship. The conservatorship was put in place following Spears' 2008 meltdown, to ensure that her personal and professional decisions would be overseen by her father Jamie and others - including her fiance Jason Trawick. It is decided that the conservatorship should continue for the foreseeable future.
The Word release their second LP, Soul Food, on Vanguard Records in the UK. (The band, whose debut LP was released fourteen years earlier, includes members of the North Mississippi Allstars)
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