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Slim Wilson, country music singer, songwriter, bandleader, and radio and TV personality is born in Christian County, Missouri, USA. He will become a cornerstone of country music in the Ozarks for more than fifty years.
Syria Mosque, recently built in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, as a "mystical" shrine for the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (aka the Shriners), is dedicated. It will become internationally known as a venue for music concerts featuring top rock, pop, soul, jazz and blues artists until its demolition in 1991. The Mosque is also considered to have been the birthplace of network television.
Popular British radio deejay and tv presenter Brian Matthew is born in Coventry, UK.
"Another Gay Arthur Murray Party" is broadcast on tv in the USA, featuring Teresa Brewer, Roy Carter's Orchestra, The Arthur Murray Dancers and others.
Vocal quartet The Skylarks perform Milly The Filly on The Colgate Comedy Hour, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on NBC tv in the USA. Kitty Kallen appears in the same edition of the show.Broadcasting magazine in the USA reports that country group The Diamond Brothers has been signed to a recording contract by RCA Victor after winning the Talent Search Country Style show on NBC-tv.
On the NBC network in the USA, Nat King
Cole becomes the first black entertainer to host his own tv
series ' a fifteen-minute Monday night musical variety show, entitled The Nat King Cole Show.
The Osborne Brothers record She's No Angel, Two Lonely Hearts and Once More at the RCA Victor Studio in the Methodist Television Radio And Film Commission building, 1525 McGavock Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Future US pop star Gary Lewis appears as a comedian on his father's NBC TV special, The Jerry Lewis Show, in the USA.
Hank Ballard appears on popular tv show American Bandstand, at WFIL-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Ballard is paid $155.50 for the appearance.
Dizzy Gillespie is the featured artist in US tv series Jazz Casual, hosted by Ralph J. Gleason.
Steve Lawrence is the musical guest on CBS-tv's Garry Moore Show in the USA.Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr play the fourth of eight nights at the mafia-owned Villa Venice nightclub, Wheeling, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Odetta, Josh White, The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem, Will Holt and Judy Collins appear in the CBS-tv broadcast Dinner With The President, which also includes a talk by President John F. Kennedy.
With his novelty hit song Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah rising up the Billboard Singles charts in the USA, comedian Allan Sherman stands in for host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show on tv in the USA.
Sammy Davis Jr. takes on an acting role, appearing as Allie Burns in tonight's episode of tv medical series Ben Casey, which is entitled Allie, in the USA.
Steve Allen, Mel Torme and Jayne Meadows are the guests when The Judy Garland Show is taped for the CBS-tv network in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.The Fall 1963 Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
The Kentucky Colonels, Johnny Morier And Joel Myerson and John Townley Jr are seen on the Folk Music USA show on WGBH-tv of Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Hoyt Axton appears on the folk music tv show Hootenanny in the USA. The show was pre-recorded at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
The Beatles continue with rehearsals for a second Ed Sullivan Show appearance, in Miami, Florida, USA.
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Pete Best, former drummer of The Beatles , appears on the tv show I've Got A Secret in the USA.
UK tv show Ready, Steady, Go! features Brian Poole And The Tremeloes, Petula Clark, Millie, The Downliners Sect and Bobby Jameson.
The Seekers, Kenny Lynch and Johnny Dankworth appear in tv pop show That's For Me, presented by Anne Nightingale on Rediffusion tv in the UK.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features James Brown performing Night Train and The Lovin' Spoonful performing Do You Believe in Magic?
When Harry Chapin plays at The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the show is recorded for the Canadian tv show Let's Sing Out. 
Davy Jones is screen-tested in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for his role in The Monkees tv show.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Barbara Mason performing Yes, I'm Ready and Freddy Cannon performing Action.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Bobby Rydell, Dee Dee Sharp and Freddie And The Dreamers.The Beatles undertake mixing and overdubbing on the tracks I Am The Walrus and Flying in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, UK. The tracks will appear on their EP, Magical Mystery Tour, and in its accompanying tv special.
The Monkees continue working on the song Zor And Zam, at RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick And Tich play on the BBC tv show Whistle Stop in the UK. The show is hosted by Roger Whittaker.
Glen Campbell is in London, England, UK, Europe, for a week of promotional radio and tv appearances.
Nancy Ames is the musical guest on the tv show Bob Braun's 50-50 Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.Steppenwolf are tonight's guests on US tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA.
Kalli Bjarni is born in Reykjavik, Iceland, Europe. He will find success after winning Idol Stjörnuleit - the Icelandic version of 'reality' tv contest Pop Idol.
The second North American leg of Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard Of Ozz Diary Of A Madman tour begins at The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.The Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson promo video for their new single Say, Say, Say, is given its first showing on UK tv by the Channel Four show The Tube. Ringo Starr is interviewed in the same edition of the show.
Weekly UK tv show Top Of The Pops features Lulu, Chris De Burgh, Status Quo and The Smiths, along with Boris Gardiner, Gwen Guthrie and Sinitta.
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San Francisco-born voice actor Mel Blanc [aka The Man Of 1000 Voices] dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, of heart disease and emphysema, aged 81. Blanc was beloved by millions as the voice of Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy Duck and countless other animated characters in movies, on tv and on records. The inscription on his gravestone is headed, "That's all Folks!"Stevie Wonder presents Bill Cosby and the cast members of The Cosby Show with the Impact Award at the TV Land Awards in New York City, USA.
Mattesons Fridge Raiders begin a new tv advertising campaign in the UK based on instantly recognisable bespectacled guitarist Hank Marvin of
The
Shadows, playing on the fact that 'Hank Marvin' has long been a
Cockney
Rhyming slang term for very hungry [ie Hank Marvin = starvin']
Tyler James, a runner-up in tv talent show The Voice, is the musical guest on the BBC tv show Breakfast, live from Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
Loudon Wainwright III is interviewed live and performs a couple of songs on the Breakfast show on BBC1 tv in the UK. (2013
Rizzle Kicks are interviewed live on BBC tv show Breakfast, in Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
Tommy Chong, of comedy duo Cheech And Chong fame, is announced as one of the celebrities participating on the 19th season of tv show Dancing With The Stars in the USA. He will be paired with professional dancer Peta Murgatroyd.1910 |
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