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Little Caruso, The Imperial Quartet and blackface duo Bertie Herrron and Milt Arnsman are appearing at The Empress Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Carol Elaine Channing is born in Seattle, Washington, USA. She will find success as Carol Channing, the actress and singer best known for starring in the Broadway musicals Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly!Singing trio The Gumm Sisters play the sixth of seven nights at The Paramount Theatre, Seattle, Washington, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will find stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.
Amy Denio, composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Ray Charles, His Orchestra and The Raelets, play at Kleinhan's Music Hall, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
Ray Charles And The Raelets (with musical arrangements by Quincy Jones) play at Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Ray Charles, His Orchestra and The Raelets play at The Southern Methodist University Coliseum, Dallas, Texas, USA.
The Top 10 Singles on WABC Radio's All American Survey in New York City, USA, on this day are as follows :
1. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (Wand)
2. Dominique - The Singing Nun (Philips)
3. There! I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton (Epic)
4. Forget Him - Bobby Rydell (Cameo)
5. Popsicles And Icicles - The Murmaids (Chattahoochee)
6. Since I Fell For You - Lenny Welch (Cadence)
7. I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry And The Tamerlanes (Valiant)
8. Wives and Lovers - Jack Jones (Kapp)
9. Drag City - Jan And Dean (Liberty)
10. Drip Drop - Dion di Muci (Columbia)
1. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen (Wand)
2. Dominique - The Singing Nun (Philips)
3. There! I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton (Epic)
4. Forget Him - Bobby Rydell (Cameo)
5. Popsicles And Icicles - The Murmaids (Chattahoochee)
6. Since I Fell For You - Lenny Welch (Cadence)
7. I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Barry And The Tamerlanes (Valiant)
8. Wives and Lovers - Jack Jones (Kapp)
9. Drag City - Jan And Dean (Liberty)
10. Drip Drop - Dion di Muci (Columbia)
Despite (or, arguably, because of) being banned by some radio stations, Louie Louie by The Kingsmen peaks at No2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA. It is held off the top spot by The Singing Nun with Dominique.
The Brothers Four record The Wild Colonial Boy in Columbia Recording Studio, 30th Street, New York City, USA.
The Big TNT Show, produced by Phil Spector, is filmed at The Moulin Rouge Club, Los Angeles, Caliufornia, USA. The show features Ray Charles, The Byrds, The Lovin' Spoonful, Ike And Tina Turner, Bo Diddley, Donovan, The Ronettes, Roger Miller , Joan Baez, Petula Clark, The Modern Folk Quartet. In the audience are Frank Zappa, Sky Saxon, singer and frontman for The Seeds, and Ron Mael and Russell Mael, who will later form the band Sparks. The show, effectively a sequel to The T.A.M.I. Show, will be released as a movie in 1966.
At The Knuckles Club, Carlisle St, London, England, UK, Europe, part-owned by Pretty Things drummer Viv Prince, Jimi Hendrix jams with Deep Feeling, which includes Dave Mason on guitar and Jim Capaldi on drums. Later, at Hyde Park Towers, Jimi writes Stone Free.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, UK. He is seen at this gig by K.K. Downing, later to play guitar for Judas Priest.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Move, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Amen Corner, The Outer Limits and Eire Apparent play at The City Hall, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe. DJ Pete Drummond acts as compere.
Jimi Hendrix is interviewed by Claes Hanning of Expressen, and plays a gig with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Jernallen Sports Hall, Sandvikan, Sweden, Europe.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at the Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. In his diary, Hendrix writes that the gig was "terrible" because the "stage manager dropped the power right in the middle of our set. So I am depressed. Gonna get completely smashed."
Jimi Hendrix continues working at The Record Plant, New York City, USA, recording 1983, Moon, Turn The Tides … Gently Gently Away.
During recording sessions at The Record Plant, New York City, Jimi Hendrix's relationship with co-manager Chas Chandler continues to deteriorate.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience work on the song South Saturn Delta at The Record Plant, New York City, USA, with arranger Larry Fallon.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience have a photo-session with Linda Eastman in Central Park, New York City, USA. Linda Eastman will become better-known as Linda McCartney, after she marries Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
For the second consecutive day, Jimi Hendrix jams with Roland Kirk at Ronnie Scott's Club, London, UK, and the pair continue later at Hendrix's Brook Street home.
Jimi Hendrix is kidnapped from The Salvation Club in New York City, USA, by a group of men described as young 'Mafia wannabes'.
Jimi Hendrix goes to see the band Rubber Duck, playing in The Revolution club, London, England, UK, Europe..
When Paul McCartney and Wings play in Seattle, Washington, USA, the show is filmed for release as the in-concert movie, Rockshow. The gig also sets the record - 67,100 - for the largest attendance at an indoor concert.
Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees is working on his solo album The Winding Sheet, at Reciprocal Recording, Seattle, Washington, USA. He is aided and abetted on the album by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana.
David Geffen, head of Geffen Records, founds a new subsidiary label, DGC, to market alternative rock acts. The label roster will include Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Counting Crows, Beck and Weezer, before merging with Interscope in 1999.
Nirvana spend the first of five days recording at Smart Studios, owned by producer Butch Vig, in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Robbie Robertson, formerly of The Band, inducts slide guitarist Elmore James into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, at The Waldorf Astoria, New York City, USA. Other inductees include Johnny Cash, The Isley Brothers, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Yardbirds.
Pedal steel guitarist Buddy Emmons dies aged 78, of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Emmons was rated high among the world's foremost pedal steel guitarists of his era and recorded with artists including Linda Ronstadt, The Everly Brothers, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Ray Price, Judy Collins, and Ray Charles. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1980. 
Jeff Loomis, guitarist of Nevermore, releases his first solo LP, Zero Order Phase, on Century Media in the USA.
On their Wasting Light tour, The Foo Fighters play at The Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia, Oceania.
Stevie Wonder performs his classic album Songs In The Key Of Life in its entirety at Key Arena, Seattle, Washington, USA.
On her During the European leg of their Not In This Lieftime tour, Guns N'Roses play at San Mames Stadium, Bilbao, Spain, Europe, supported by Mark Lanegan and Tyler Bryant And The Shakedown. This tour features classic Guns N'Roses line-up members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, playing together for the first time since 1993.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at Chiba Marine Stadium, Chiba, Japan, Asia, with Babymetal, Man with a Mission, Royal Blood, All Time Low, Circa Waves and The Struts.
On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at Treptower Park, Berlin, Germany, Europe.On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at The Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, supported by The Struts.On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at The Autodromo Harmanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.On their 113-date Concrete and Gold tour, Foo Fighters play at London Stadium, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Wolf Alice and Frank Carter And The Rattlesnakes.
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