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The Fast Mail train [aka Ol' 97], is en route from Monroe, Virginia, USA, to Spencer, North Carolina when it leaves the track at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, USA, killing eleven on-board personnel and injuring seven others. The song The Wreck Of The Old '97 is inspired by this crash, and will be recorded by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash and many others.
The musical comedy The Trained Nurses, billed as "a riot of rollicking, roystering frivolity and a fast-flowing flood of melodies by musical comedy's prettiest girls and cleverest men, opens at The Grand Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Fred Hamm and His Orchestra record Flag That Train [To Alabam'] for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Greening's Dance Orchestra records On The Midnight Special for Imperial Records in London, UK. The song is thought to have been inspired by The Midnight Special train operated by the Chicago and Alton Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, USA, and St. Louis, Missouri. Lyrically, the song is similar to The Midnight Special made famous by Lead Belly some years later.
Sam Collins records Midnight Special Blues for Gennett Records of Richmond, Indiana, USA. The song is thought to have been inspired by The Midnight Special train operated by the Chicago and Alton Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, USA, and St. Louis, Missouri. In many ways, the song is similar to The Midnight Special made famous by Lead Belly some years later.Roy Martin (aka Lewis McDaniels) And His Guitar records North Carolina Blues for Jewel Records in New York City, USA. The song is thought to have been inspired by The Midnight Special train operated by the Chicago and Alton Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, USA, and St. Louis, Missouri. In many ways, the song is similar to The Midnight Special made famous by Lead Belly some years later.
Blues vocalist Joe Pullum records Cows, See That Train Comin' in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Meade Lux Lewis records a new version of his classic Honky Tonk Train Blues and Whistlin' Blues for Victor Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Blues vocalist Cow Cow Davenport records Railroad Blues, That'll Get It, I Ain't No Iceman and Don't You Loudmouth Me for Decca Records in New York City, USA. Davenport also records The Mess Is Here as a solo piano piece.
Buddy Featherstonhaugh And The Radio Rhythm Club Sextet, with Vic Lewis on vocals, record Jamboree Jive and Low Down Empty Railway Station Blues, for HMV Records in London, England, UK, Europe.
Richard Branson, who will found the Virgin Records empire, is born in Stonefield Nursing Home, Blackheath, London, UK.
Roy Hogsed records Free Samples, I Wish I Wuz, I'm Gonna Get Along Without You and Orange Blossom Special in Capitol Recording Studio, 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Sons Of The Pioneers perform Ride 'Em Cowboy, Wagon Wheels, Utah Trail and other songs, on their KHJ-Mutual radio series The Lucky-U Ranch, in the USA.The Johnny Burnette Trio releases a new single, The Train Kept A-Rollin'/Honey Hush, on Coral Records in the USA. On the same day, weekly UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] runs a feature entitled, 'What Makes Them Do This' - A Psychologist Reports on Rock 'N' Roll.'
Bill Haley And The Comets arrive in the UK on board the liner Queen Elizabeth II at Southampton. A chartered train takes the band to Waterloo Station, London, where they are mobbed by fans for twenty minutes.
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Boogie woogie pianist Meade Lux Lewis records new versions of Cow Cow Blues, Honky Tonk Train and other tracks in his home in Watts, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Little Jimmy Dickens records Night Train To Memphis, The Violet And A Rose and Out Behind The Barn in Bradley Film And Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Jerry Lee Lewis records Sweet Little Sixteen, Hello Josephine, Waiting For A Train and Set My Mind At Ease, at the Sun Records Studio, 639 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session include Jerry Lee Lewis on vocals and piano, Scotty Moore and Roland Janes on guitars, J.W. Brown on bass, Shirley Sisk on organ and Al Jackson on drums.
Bobby Bare performs 500 Miles Away From Home on popular tv show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bobby Darin is the musical guest on CBS-tv's Judy Garland Show in the USA. Darin performs Michael Row The Boat Ashore and Canaan. He also duets with Garland on a selection of railroad songs.
The Beatles continue filming A Hard Day's Night. Because a huge crowd had turned up at Paddington Station the day before, the group now joins the film's special train at Acton, West London. During this day's filming, George Harrison meets the model Pattie Boyd.
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Further filming for The Beatles' movie A Hard
Day's Night takes place at Marylebone Station, London, UK.
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The Who, billed as 'The High Numbers (Re The Who)' play at The Railway Hotel, Harrow And Wealdstone, London, UK, where they are seen by Kit Lambert, later to become their co-manager.
George Jones records Talk Back Trembling Lips, King Of The Road, If You Believe and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Backing vocals on this track are provided by The Jordanaires.
Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees is lucky to escape the disastrous Hither Green Train crash in London, England, UK, Europe, without injury. Fifty other passengers are killed.
The Savoy Brown Blues Band plays at Klook's Kleek Club, Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe.
Gene Harris And The Three Sounds record Put On Train and You Got To Play The Game for Blue Note Records at United Artists Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. The rhythm track of Put On Train will 'inspire' the rhythm track of What Comes Around (1989) by The Beastie Boys.
Bob Dylan's album Slow Train Coming enters the UK albums chart at No2, its peak position during a thirteen-week run.On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the seventh of fourteen nights at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the third of four nights at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA.On his Slow Train Coming Tour, Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at Golden Hall, San Diego, California.
On his Slow Train Coming tour, Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Community Center, Tucson, Arizona.
The Second Annual Soul Train Music Awards take place at the Civic Center, Santa Monica, California. Whitney Houston wins Album Of The Year (female). Michael Jackson gets Best Single (male) and Album Of The Year (male). Janet Jackson has to content herself with Best New Video.
The Rolling Stones arrive in Grand Central Station, New York City, USA, aboard a caboose used in the film The Cotton Club, to hold a press conference announcing their first tour in eight years – Steel Wheels.
When Aerosmith play at The Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, USA, they are joined by Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N'Roses for a performance of Train kept A-Rollin'.
Michael Jackson wins the Silver Award as Artist of The Decade (80s), at the 4th Annual Soul Train Music Awards in the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA. James Ingram performs live.
Randy Crawford and Bell Biv Devoe appear on tv series Soul Train in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The 15th Annual High Sierra Music festival, a two-day event, comes to an end in Quincy, California, USA. Over the course of the two days, artists appearing have included Gov't Mule, Chuck Prophet, The Yonder Mountain String Band, Grace Potter And The Nocturnals, Leo Kottke And Mike Gordon, Bill Frisell, Michael Franti And Spearhead and Railroad Earth.Malcolm Jones, guitarist with the band Runrig, is taken to hospital after collapsing at Waverley railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland. After being examined, he undergoes heart surgery.
The album Graffiti On
The Train by Stereophonics is
awarded a gold disc by the BPI in the UK.
On their Mechanical Bull tour, Kings Of Leon play at The Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, San Diego, California, USA.
A lawsuit filed in Chatham County State Court, Georgia, USA, by the parents of 27-year-old Sarah Jones, names Allman Brothers Band guitarist Gregg Allman and the producers of the movie Midnight Rider as being responsible for the death of their daughter, who was hit by a train on the first day of filming.
Spy Kids actor Daryl Sabara proposes to singer Meghan Trainor on her 24th birthday at the Living Desert Zoo And Gardens in Palm Springs, California, USA. She accepts.1903 |
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