Weather

The Shipping Forecast begins as a series of telegraph messages sent to harbour towns around the United Kingdom to warn of impending storms. From 1924 it will be broadcast daily on BBC radio. The forecast will inspire many musicians, including Tears For Fears (Pharaohs), Thomas Dolby (Windpower), Radiohead, Blur, Beck, The Prodigy, Jethro Tull and Manfred Mann, to incorporate audio samples of the forecast or lyrics based on the forecast into their songs.

Fifteen inches (380 mm) of rain fall in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, in 18 hours. More than 4 feet (1.2 m) of water covers parts of the city. 637,000 people are forced to relocate by the flooding, but excessive loss of life is averted by relief efforts. Inspired by the disaster, Ernest V. Stoneman will record The Story Of The Mighty Mississippi for Victor Records a few days later, and Barbecue Bob will record Mississippi Heavy Water Blues soon after. Still in 1928, James Crawford will record Flood And Thunder Blues for Gennett Records in New York City, USA. At the end of the same year, The Elders McIntorsh and Edwards will record The 1927 Flood for OKek Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In 1929, Charley Patton will record High Water Everywhere on the same subject for Paramount Records.

Jack Padbury's Cosmo Club Six record Hot Bricks, Praying For Rain and My Kinda Love, in London, UK, for Edison Bell Winner records.

The movie Stormy Weather, starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and others, opens to cinemas in Portugal, Europe.

The highest new entry in the Billboard Best Selling Pop Albums Chart in the USA is the Original Cast Sountrack to Singin' In The Rain, entering at No3. With A Song In My Heart by Jane Froman remains at No1.

Phil Hammond of Holt, Norfolk, England, UK, sings The Foggy Dew in a recording made by Peter Kennedy for the BBC. The recording will be released on the anthology Songs of Seduction (The Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 2, Caedmon 1961; 12T158, 1968).

Chicago Sunny Boy (aka Joe Hill Louis) records Jack Pot and Western Union Man at Meteor Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Rufus Thomas records Bear Cat and Walking In The Rain at Sun Records studio, 706 Union, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Bear Cat is an answer song to Big Mama Thornton's 1953 r'n'b hit Hound Dog.

The Bill Evans Trio records Come Rain Or Come Shine, Autumn Leaves and other tracks at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City, USA, for Riverside Records.

Jazz pianist Horace Parlan records The Lady Is A Tramp, Come Rain Or Come Shine and other tracks for Blue Note Records, at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

Gene Vincent and Jerry Keller play at Liverpool Stadium, Liverpool, UK, with support from local bands Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Big Three and Rory Storm And The Hurricanes.

Liverpool's Cavern Club holds its first night of all beat music groups, featuring Cass And The Cassanovas, with Rory Storm And The Hurricanes.

Cass And The Cassanovas play in a Rock Night at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK, supported by Eddie Storm And The Clubmen.

Jazz saxophonist Charlie Rouse records When Sunny Gets Blue and other tracks for Epic Records in New York City, USA.

The Drifters play the fourth night of a week at The Hurricane Room, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.

The Drifters play the fifth night of a week at The Hurricane Room, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.

The Miracles play the fourth night of a week at The Hurricane Room, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.

The Kenny Burrell - Brother Jack McDuff Quintet record The Breeze And I, Call It Stormy Monday and other tracks for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

Stonewall Jackson releases Wild Wild Wind on Columbia Records in the USA.

The Top Five Singles in the Lever Hit Parade in New Zealand, Oceania, on this day are as follows :

1. MY BOYFRIEND'S BACK - THE ANGELS

2. Sweets For My Sweet - The Searchers

3. Blowin' In The Wind - Peter, Paul and Mary

4. Candy Girl - The Four Seasons

5. Bad To Me - Billy J.Kramer And The Dakotas

The Kingston Trio release a new single, If You Don't Look Around / Seasons In The Sun, on Capitol Records in the USA. (Seasons In The Sun will, in due course, provide a major hit for Canadian singer-songwriter Terry Jacks.)

The album All Summer Long by The Beach Boys peaks at No4 in the Billboard albums chart in the USA.

The Ray Brown-Milt Jackson Orchestra records Monterey Mist, For Someone I Love and other tracks, for Verve Records in New York City, USA.

The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine chart of the 100 best-selling singles in the USA is Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows by Lesley Gore, entering at No79.

Hank Williams Jr. records The Rainmaker, Black Lightning and Slow Rider in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Lee Morgan Sextet records Cornbread, Ill Wind, Most Like Lee, Ceora and Our Man Higgins for Blue Note Records at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys record Little Maggie, She's So Sweet for Decca Records in the USA.

Two black males enter the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, USA, where they kill the bartender, James Oliver, and a male customer, Fred Nauyoks. A severely wounded female customer, Hazel Tanis, dies some weeks later. Championship boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter will be arrested and jailed for the crime. Bob Dylan will write the song Hurricane in 1975, insisting that Carter did not commit the murders. Carter will be freed in November 1985 when the convicition is set aside on the grounds that it had been "predicated upon an appeal to racism rather than reason, and concealment rather than disclosure."

The Mighty Clouds Of Harmony record Our Precious Lord, Didn't It Rain, The Hoily Spirit and other songs in Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA.

Walkin' In The Sunshine by Roger Miller enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, at No37, but it will rise no higher, lasting only one week on the chart. The song is taken from Miller's album of the same name.

Joe Williams opens at The Rainbow Grill, New York City, USA.

The Sunshine Company are playing during four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival is the new No1 single in the UK.

Kentucky Rain by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No16 during an eight-week run.

Monty Sunshine plays at The 100 Club, London, England, UK, Europe.

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band reach No1 on the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA with Against The Wind, for the first of six weeks.

The Monochrome Set play at The Leadmill, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.

Katrina And The Waves play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe.

Madness play a live concert in driving rain to mark the closure of the BBC Television Centre in London, England, UK, Europe.

ONI play at Thunder Alley, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

Sigrid releases her debut single, Don't Kill My Vibe, on Island Records to Top 40 Radio in the USA.

Gloryhammer play at Slay, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe, supported by Beast In Black and Wind Rose.

The Universal Music Publishing Group announces that it has signed a deal to purchase Bob Dylan's entire songwriting catalog. The price is not disclosed, but is estimated at more than $300m - probably the biggest acquisition ever of the music publishing rights of a single act. Dylan's catalogue includes world-changing classics like Blowin' in the Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin' and Like a Rolling Stone.