Radio

Jazz bandleader and instrumentalist Troy Floyd is born in Texas, USA. Floyd will lead various jazz groups in San Antonio during the late 1920s and early 1930s and will broadcast as Troy Floyd and His Plaza Hotel Orchestra, regularly on radio station HTSA from the Plaza Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Operatic soprano Jeanette Vreeland sings the first radio concert from an aeroplane, while flying over New York City, USA.

Musical comedy The Cocoanuts, starring The Marx Brothers, with music by Irving Berlin, opens at Lyric Theatre, on 52nd Street and Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 276 performances.

Broadway Melody Of 1929, the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, opens in the USA. It is Hollywood's first all-talking musical, and introduces the popular hit You Were Meant For Me by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, as well as providing the talkie debut for George M. Cohan's classic Give My Regards To Broadway.

The song Happy Days Are Here Again! is copyrighted by Milton Ager [music] and Jack Yellen [lyrics] .

The Carter Family record Wabash Cannonball, When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland, No Telephone In Heaven, Western Hobo, and Carter's Blues for Victor Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Banjo and guitar-picking country music star Roy Clark is born in.

Nelson Eddy appears on radio show Vick's Open House, live from Kansas City, Missouri, USA, performing Rio Rita, Ave Maria, Song of the Volga Boatmen, I'll Follow My Secret Heart and Siboney.

Popular vocalist Jan Peerce sings On The Road To Mandalay on radio show The Chevrolet Hour in the USA.

Benny Goodman and his Orchestra make a live radio broadcast from the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City.

Bing Crosby performs She Loves Me Not on Lux Radio Theater, in the USA. The show also features Joan Blondell, Nan Gray, Sterling Holloway and William Frawley.

Michael Terence Wogan is born in Limerick, Ireland, Europe. He will find success as radio and tv presenter Sir Terry Wogan, a leading media personality in Ireland and Britain from the late 1960s, often referred to as a "national treasure".

Benny Goodman And His Orchestra play on the CBS network's Camel Caravan radio show in The Lyric Theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Popular singer Elsie Carlisle plays at The Palace Theatre, Blackpool, UK. Her nickname is "Britain's Radio Sweetheart Number One."

Woody Herman And His Orchestra are heard on an AFRS [Armed Forces Radio Service] radio programme recorded in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires record songs including Music! Music! Music!, Candy And Cake, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes and Dear Old Girl at the Convention of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, in the Chicago Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The songs are transmitted as part of the radio programme Bing Crosby's All Star Chesterfield Show.

Kevin Dempsey, guitarist of folk-swing group Dando Shaft, is born in Coventry, West Midlands, UK.

Leroy Anderson, an American composer of short, light concert pieces, finishes work on his latest composition, The Typewriter, in which the main 'musical instrument' used is a typewriter. The piece will become unexpectedly popular with recordings made by many artists, including Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops, guitarist Alan Hanlon, Spike Jones, Frederick Fennell with the Eastman Orchestra and also with the Tokyo Wind Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin with the St Louis Symphony, Pinchas Steinberg with the Cologne Radio Orchestra, pianist Marco Rizo, and the 101 Strings.

The Big Show on NBC Radio in the USA features Meredith Willson and his Orchestra, Mindy Carson, Jimmy Durante, Eddy Arnold, Joe Bushkin, Charles Boyer and Tallulah Bankhead.

The Crane River Jazz Band plays in King's Lynn, UK.

It is announced that, according to a survey by The Pulse For BAB, 27.5m cars in the USA are now equipped with radios, with the national average standing at 70.5%.

Frank Sinatra stars as the footloose and frequently unemployed private eye Rocky Fortune in another episode of his radio series of that name in the USA. This episode is entitled Paid Companion To A Monkey.

I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent by Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers enters the UK's singles chart.

Two detectives serve controversial American tv and radio deejay Alan Freed with a subpoena to appear before the New York District Attorney, in ongoing investigations into payola in the music business.

Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play the third of six nights at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.

Brenda Lee signs a new five-year contract with MGM Records which guarantees her minimum earnings of $100,000 per year.

Ray Charles plays the fifth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by Maxine Brown plus Don And Juan.

Ernie Maresca enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Shout, Shout [Knock Yourself Out], which will peak at No6.

Carl Albert, vocalist of 80s San Francisco power metal band Vicious Rumours, is born.

Tom Jones, Sandie Shaw, The Fourmost, The Settlers and Brian Poole And The Tremeloes appear on BBC radio show Saturday Club, in London, England, UK.

The Beat Show, on the BBC Light Programme in the UK, features live music by The Fourmost, with Bernard Herrmann And The N.D.O.

The Graham Bond Organisation perform Wade In The Water, Only Sixteen and When Johnny Comes Marching Home for the BBC Light Programme Show Jazz Beat, recorded live in The Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London, England, UK, Europe.

David Bowie And The Buzz play at the Big L Disc Night, organised by pirate radio station Radio London, at the Coronation Ballroom, Pleasurama, Ramsgate, UK.

John Cipollina and David Freiberg of Quicksilver Messenger Service are interviewed by Michael Wanger and Vance Frost in Mill Valley, California, USA, for a Grateful Dead Documentary, to be run on KSAN Radio in San Francisco.

The Top Ten singles being played on KOIL Radio, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, for the week ended on this date are as follows :

1. Abraham, Martin And John - Dion

2. I Love How You Love Me - Bobby Vinton

3. Love Child – The Supremes

4. Soulful Strut – Young-Holt Unlimited

5. Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell

6. Stormy - Classics IV

7. Promises, Promises - Dionne Warwick

8. Gabriel - Billy Joe Royal

9. Vance - Roger Miller

10. Will You Be Staying After Sunday - Peppermint Rainbow

Fleetwood Mac record a live session for the BBC World Service radio show Rhythm And Blues, in Studio 4, Maida Vale, London, England, UK, Europe.

The first edition of a new BBC Radio One series starring The Pentangle is broadcast in the UK.

Nektar play at the Corn Exchange, Devizes.

Incubus play at the SWU Festival, Fazenda Maeda, Itu, Brazil, South America.

Gladys Horton, co-founder and former lead singer of popular all-female Motown group, The Marvelettes, dies aged 66 in a nursing home in Sherman Oaks, California, USA, where she had been recuperating from a stroke.

Crosby, Stills And Nash play the first of two nights at Humphrey's, San Diego, California, USA.

Radio Moscow, Kings Destroy and Holy Serpent begin a tour of Australia and New Zealand with a show at The Kings Arms Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania.