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Hugh Mendl is born in London, England, UK, Europe. He will become a celebrated record producer with Decca Records, responsible for Lonnie Donegan's first recordings, which launched the skiffle craze and led to the birth of British rock'n'roll. In the 1960s, he will be instrumental in bringing David Bowie and Genesis to Decca and will produce The Moody Blues' album Days of Future Passed.Clarence Williams' Washboard Five record Red River Blues and Shake It Down for OKeh Records in New York City, USA. (1928),
Blues-jazz vocalist Margaret Webster records You've Got To Give Me Some, for Okeh Records in New York City, USA, with Charlie Green on trumpet, Clarence Williams on piano and Floyd Casey on washboard.
Under the name Bill McKinley, harmonica virtuoso Bill 'Jazz' Gillum records Poor Boy Blues for Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The track also features Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam.
Johnny Parker, with The Pete Rugolo Orchestra and The King Sisters, records Can't Seem To Laugh Anymore, Never Again, Our Little Ranch House and Two Weeks With Pay at MGM Studios, New York City, USA. The orchestra includes such jazz luminaries as Maynard Ferguson, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Shelly Manne and Kai Winding.
Lonnie Johnson plays at The Royal Festival Hall, London, England, UK, supported by The Tony Donegan Jazz Band (including Lonnie Donegan).UK skiffle star Lonnie Donegan records his version of the Leadbelly song Bring A Little Water Sylvie and Dead Or Alive, in London, UK.
Purist British skiffle fans are horrified to discover that Skiffle King Lonnie Donegan has dropped the washboard from his new group line-up. "We haven't incorporated a washboard in the new group," he explains, "for the very simple reason that I don't like them."
A new 600 capacity jazz venue, The Cavern Club, is opened in Liverpool, UK, by local entrepreneur Alan Sytner. Headliners are The Merseysippi Jazz Band, supported by The Wall City Jazzmen, The Ralph Watmough Jazz Band and The Coney Island Skiffle Group. Over 2,000 fans turn up, so 1,400 have to be turned away.
The Platters and Lonnie Donegan play the ninth night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
Lonnie Donegan plays at The Empire, Liverpool, UK. After the show, Donegan repairs to The Cavern Club for a jam session.
Amateur skiffle group The Quarrymen perform from the back of a lorry in Roseberry St, Liverpool, UK. Their guitarist is John Lennon, later to form The Beatles.BBC TV rock show The Six Five Special expands into a live touring show, and plays its very first concert in Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Tonight's cast includes Wee Willie Harris; Don Lang and The Frantic Five; Rosemary Squires; Jimmy Jackson; Carl Barriteau; Kenny Baker and his Half Dozen; The Blue Star Skiffle Group; Joe 'Mr Piano' Henderson.
Wee Willie Harris, plays at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, with The Southlanders, The Vagabonds, Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group, Tony Crombie and The Most Brothers (featuring future superstar record producer Mickie Most).
Wee Willie Harris, The Southlanders, The Vagabonds, Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group, Tony Crombie and The Most Brothers play at The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. The Most Brothers include Mickie Most, who will go on to become one of the UK's top record producers in the 60s, working with The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Lulu, Duncan Browne and many others.
Stanley Dale's Skiffle Show Of 1958 plays the last of five nights at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK, featuring Jim Dale, Wally Whyton And The Vipers, Susan And Valerie Pardoe, Stan Van, Campbell And Rogerson and Betty Fox's Eight Dancing Teenagers.
Wee Willie Harris, The Most Brothers, Tony Crombie And His Rockets and Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group play the first of six nights at The Alhambra, Bradford, UK.
Wee Willie Harris, The Most Brothers, Tony Crombie And His Rockets and Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group play the first of six nights at the Alhambra, Bradford, UK.
Wee Willie Harris, The Most Brothers, Tony Crombie And His Rockets and Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group play the last of six nights at the Alhambra, Bradford, UK.
The Treniers, The Chas McDevitt Group, The Hedley Ward Trio and Terry Wayne play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK.
To reflect changes in popular music tastes, the BBC radio show Saturday Skiffle Club, in the UK changes its name to Saturday Club. Guests on the first of the new-style shows are Terry Dene And The Aces, Johnny Duncan And His Blue Grass Boys and, in the 'Jazz Cellar' section, Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band.
Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan, Max Bygraves, Shirley Bassey, Alma Cogan, Humphrey Lyttleton and others appear in the Record Star Show, the first live music concert to take place at Wembley Empire Pool [later re-named Wembley Arena], London. The event, sponsored by Vera Lynn's Stars Organisation for Spastics and the Daily Express newspaper, attracts an audience of 8,000 people.
The Avon Cities Jazz Band play at the Swindon Jubilee Carnival Dance in McIlroy's Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Daryl Grand And The Descants and Don Jones And His Music.
Adam Faith, Bert Weedon, Wally Whyton, Lorie Mann, The Trebletones and Tommy Sanderson are the musical guests appearing live on the BBC Light Programme show Easy Beat, hosted by Brian Matthew, and recorded in The Playhouse Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK, supported by The Brook Brothers, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Hunters and Dave Sampson.
The 9th annual New Musical Express (NME) Poll Winners concert, held at The Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, UK, Europe, is televised for the first time by ABC to an audience estimated at 15 million. Connie Francis presents awards to Adam Faith, The Shadows and skiffle king Lonnie Donegan. Performing live are Bert Weedon, Billy Fury, Emile Ford And The Checkmates, Adam Faith and The John Barry Seven, and Cliff Richard And The Shadows.
The Swinging Blue Genes, later to find success as The Swinging Blue Jeans, play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. The First National Jazz Festival, organised by Marquee Club owner Harold Pendleton, begins at Richmond Athletic Grounds, Richmond, Surrey, UK. Acts appearing over the course of the two day event include Johnny Dankworth, Chris Barber, The Mike Cotton Jazzmen, Tubby Hayes, Ken Colyer, The Back of Town Syncopaters, Gerry Brown's Jazzmen, The Clyde Valley Stompers, Alan Elsdon, The Tubby Hayes Quintet, Jazz News All Stars, Terry Lightfoot, The Merseysippi Jazz Band, The Original Downtown Syncopaters, The Freddy Randall Band, The Don Rendell Quintet, The Ronnie Rose Quintet, Alvin Roy's Saratoga Jazz Band, The Ken Sims Vintage Jazz Band, Bob Wallis And His Storyville Jazz and Alex Welsh And His Band.
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The First National Jazz Festival concludes at Richmond Athletic Grounds, Richmond, Surrey, UK. Acts appearing over the course of the two day event have included Johnny Dankworth, Chris Barber, The Mike Cotton Jazzmen, Tubby Hayes, Ken Colyer, The Back of Town Syncopaters, Gerry Brown's Jazzmen, The Clyde Valley Stompers, Alan Elsdon, Tubby Hayes Quintet, Jazz News All Stars, Terry Lightfoot, Merseysippi Jazz Band, Original Downtown Syncopaters, Freddy Randall Band, Don Rendell Quintet, Ronnie Rose Quintet, Alvin Roy's Saratoga Jazz Band, Kem Sims Vintage Jazz Band, Bob Wallis And His Storyville Jazz and Alex Welsh And His Band
The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] play at The Cavern, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill is Gerry And The Pacemakers.
Gene Vincent, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Johnny Duncan And The Bluegrass Boys, Jess Conrad and Sounds Incorporated play at Ebbisham Hall, Epsom, England, UK, Europe. The show is promoted by Don Arden.
The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] play an evening show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill is Gerry And The Pacemakers.The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] play an evening show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.Cliff Richard, Alma Cogan and Bert Weedon feature in a year-end special edition of UK tv show Sunday Night At The London Palladium.
Chubby Checker, The Brook Brothers, The Kestrels, Susan Singer, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Gary Edwards Combo, The
Semi-Tones and The Red Price Orchestra play in The Twist Spectacular at The Odeon, Leeds, UK.
The last UK Albums Chart of 1962 is as follows :
- THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW - GEORGE MITCHELL MINSTRELS
- Out Of The Shadows - The Shadows
- Bobby Vee Meets The Crickets - Bobby Vee And The Crickets
- On Stage With The George Mitchell Minstrels - George Mitchell Minstrels
- Rock 'n' Roll No.2 - Elvis Presley
- West Side Story - Original Soundtrack
- South Pacific - Original Soundtrack
- Another Black And White Minstrel Show - George Mitchell Minstrels
- A Picture Of You - Joe Brown
- 32 Mins. And 17 Secs. - Cliff Richard
- Blue Hawaii - Elvis Presley
- Golden Age Of Donegan - Lonnie Donegan
- Best Of Ball, Barber And Bilk - Kenny Ball, Chris Barber And Acker Bilk
- The First Family - Vaughn Meader
- Twangy Guitar,Silky Strings - Duane Eddy
- Elvis' Golden Records Vol.1 - Elvis Presley
- The King And I - Original Soundtrack
- Sinatra With Swinging Brass - Frank Sinatra
- Great Songs From Great Britain-Frank Sinatra
- 'S Wonderful,'S Marvelous - Ray Conniff
The Beatles play at The ABC, Blackpool, England, UK, Europe, supported by Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Sons Of The Piltdown Men, Jack Douglas, Patti Brooks, Terry Young, Colin Day and Gary And Lee.
Chubby Checker, The Brook Brothers, The Kestrels, Susan Singer, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Gary Edwards Combo, The Semi-Tones and The Red Price Orchestra play at the Odeon, Leeds, England, UK, Europe.St. Louis Jimmy records Going Down Slow in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Spivey Records. His backing band consists of Willie Dixon, Homesick James, Washboard Sam and Evans Spencer.
The Tridents, featuring future rock guitar hero Jeff Beck, play at Ken Colyer's Studio 51, Soho, London, UK.
The 1965 Newport Folk Festival, at which Bob Dylan famously goes electric, begins in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Acts on this day include Joan Baez, Maybelle Carter, The Rev. Gary Davis, Son House and The New Lost City Ramblers.
Cliff Richard is seen on the UK tv show Cinema, being interviewed about his acting career.
It is reported that UK chart-topping pop vocalist Tony Christie, known for his cheesy style, has secured a £50,000 contract to appear in advertisements for Stilton cheese.Celebrated record producer Hugh Mendl dies aged 88 in Torbay, Devon, UK, Europe. Mendl was responsible for Lonnie Donegan's first recordings, which launched the skiffle craze and led to the birth of British rock'n'roll. In the 1960s he was instrumental in bringing David Bowie and Genesis to Decca and produced The Moody Blues' album Days of Future Passed.
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