Random selection from around 80,000 Facts
Click to filter results
Pop
Musical comedy The Girl From Up There plays at The Herald Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 96 performances.
The Merry Maidens Burlesquers are playing at The Star Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
The Weber And Fields' burlesque show Fiddle-Dee-Dee is playing at Fischer's Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.The musical extravaganza Whoop-dee-doo is presented at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, New York City, USA, during a run of 165 performances.
Al Bowlly and his Orchestra record I Can Dream Can't I?, Outside Of Paradise, Sweet Stranger and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Bluebird Records. 
Jerry Blavat is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He will find success as 'The Geator with The Heater', a disc jockey known across the USA for promoting oldies music on radio.
Ray Noble And His Orchestra play at The Empire Room, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Judy Garland plays the first of seven nights at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, UK.
Etta James records Waiting For Charlie [To Come Home], for Argo Records in New York City, USA. The song is written by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard.
The stage musical Do-Re-Mi, starring Max Bygraves, with music by Jule Styne, opens its first British run at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, England, Europe, where it will notch up 169 performances.
Elvis Presley is enjoying an extended period of privately screening movies for himself and friends at The Memphian cinema in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Jerry Jackson records It Hurts Me for Kapp Records in the USA. The track will not immediately be released, and it will first be heard by the public when Elvis Presley records it some while later.
Dave Dudley, with Shelby Singleton as producer, records Six Days On The Road, John Henry, Sixteen Tons and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on this session features guitarists Jerry Kennedy, Ray Edenton and Harold Bradley, plus steel guitarist Pete Drake, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Floyd Cramer.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his
seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
The 
Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, The Temptations, The Drifters, Maxine Brown, Yvonne Fair, Eloise Hester, The Bobby Scott Band and The Joe Scott Band play in Parker Field, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
The Riot Squad play at The Corn Exchange, 39 Fore Street, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, UK, Europe.A Guitar, Banjo and Mandolin Society Festival and Rally is held at St Pancras Town Hall, London, UK. Top of the bill is guitar innovator Wout Steenhuis supported by Hugo D'Alton, The Aston Banjo Club, The London Balalaika Ensemble, The Nelson Touch and others. Jimmy Page, guitarist with The Yardbirds, and later to form Led Zeppelin, is in attendance demonstrating classical guitar technique on a trade stand.
The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, and King Curtis play at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York State, USA.
The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, play the first of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA. Also on the bill are Joe Cocker And The Grease Band plus NRBQ.Gladys Knight And The Pips make a live appearance on tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
If Not For You, a cover of a Bob Dylan song, sung by Olivia Newton-John, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No25, during a ten-week run.
It is revealed that hitmaking UK pop duo 
On their Love And Pride tour, hitmakers King, play at Aston University, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz trumpet player Matt Blistan, known as Atlanta Bliss, joins Prince's backing band, The Revolution.
The over-hyped debut album by Sigue Sigue Sputnik enters the UK chart at No10. That night, the band's drummer, Ray Mayhew, is involved in a fight at the Limelight Club with Boy George's brother, Kevin O'Dowd.
The front page of UK tabloid newspaper The Sun claims that the RSPCA is to investigate whether or not Elton John's Rottweilers have been silenced by surgery to prevent the dogs from barking.Whitney Houston out-does The Beatles and The Bee Gees when Where Do Broken Hearts Go gives her seven US No1 singles in a row.
On her Rhythm Nation World Tour, Janet Jackson plays at Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
70s teen pop idol David Cassidy marries his third wife, Sue Shifrin. The couple will have one child, Beau, before separating in 2013.
On her Fearless tour, Taylor Swift plays the first of two nights at the Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Corinne Bailey Rae comes to the end of a North American tour in support of her album The Sea, with a gig at The Ram's Head Live, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
On his Welcome 2 America tour Prince plays at The Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
It is reported that that men's urinals shaped like the famous Rolling Stones' lips logo, set to be installed in a soon-to-be-opened Rolling Stones Fan Museum in the town of Luechow, Germany, Europe, are causing controversy because women feel they convey a misogynistic message.
On his 20/20 Experience World Tour, Justin Timberlake plays at The MGM Garden Arena, Las vegas, Nevada, USA.
On her 1989 World Tour, Taylor Swift plays the second of two nights at The MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, supported by Vance Joy, Shawn Mendes and HAIM.
Gloria Trevi attends "The Love" World Tour press conference in Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
On her Live 2016 Tour, Adele plays the second of four nights at The Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe.Jess Glynne releases a new single, Thursday on Atlantic Records. It will peak at No3 in the UK Singles Chart.
A Girl Called Eddy releases her second LP, Been Around, on Elefant Records in the UK. (Her debut album was released fourteen years earlier).1901 |
2019 |