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The Baltimore American runs a feature about the life and work of Silas Leachman, a Chicago man who makes a good living - around $50 a day - by recording songs on wax cylinders at home for the phonograph. The article reveals that, "He prepares three 'records', as the wax cylinders are called, at one time," by using three recording machines simultaneously. His repertoire includes ballads, negro melodies [aka coon songs], irish, Chinese and Dutch dialect songs.
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Jazz trombonist and recording artist Claude Jones is born in Boley, Oklahoma, USA. He will work with Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra, Cab Calloway And His Orchestra, Chick Webb And His Orchestra, The Chocolate Dandies, Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra, Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen, Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra, McKinney's Cotton Pickers and others.
Ralph Basso is born in The Bronx, New York City, USA. He will find fame as R'n'B and jazz performer/producer Ralph Bass, working with record labels including King, Savoy, Chess and Black And White.
Nick Fatool is born in Milbury, Massachusetts, USA. He will become an in-demand jazz drummer, working with Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and numerous others, as well as playing on innumerable recording sessions for Capitol Records.
Annoyed by inadequate hotel accomodation on their national tour, two-thirds of Sousa's Band, led by John Philip Sousa, stage a strike and do not turn up for an afternoon performance in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. They do, however, turn up for the evening show.
Gene Christian is born on a farm in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He will become an early fiddle player with Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys and will also work with Flatt And Scruggs, Benny Martin, Vassar Clements and others.
Keith Moore Mitchell is born in New York City, USA. He will find fame as jazz bassist Red Mitchell working with Charlie Ventura, Woody Herman, The Red Norvo Trio, The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Andre Previn, Hampton Hawes and Billie Holiday to name but a few.
Neal Matthews, Jr is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He will find success as a member of country music vocal group The Jordanaires, best-known for their work with Elvis Presley.
Tasio Golios is born in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He will find success as country music guitarist Sleepy Willis, working with Capitol Records artist Dick Curless.
Benny Spellman is born in Pensacola, Florida, USA. He will find some success on the New Orleans r'n'b scene, working with Allen Toussaint and others.
Carl Davis is born in Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will
become a revered record producer, considered an architect of 'The
Chicago Sound' for his work on songs including Gene Chandler's 1962
smash Duke of Earl, Jackie Wilson's 1967 hit [Your Love Keeps
Lifting Me] Higher and Higher, Major Lance's Monkey Time [1963] and
the Chi-Lites 1972 ballad Oh Girl.
Blues guitarist, harmonica player, organist and pianist Frank Frost is born in Augusta, Arkansas, USA. He will work as a sideman to Sonny Boy Williamson II, B.B. King, Carl Perkins, Conway Twitty and Little Milton.
During a UK visit, country music star Jim Reeves performs at a private record company event in the Astor Club, London, England, UK, Europe. He is, however, unable to play any live performances for the public because of restrictive rules enforced by the Musicians' Union.Having recently moved to New York City, USA, Jelly Roll Morton writes to his friend Roy Carew, about the new band he is forming, stating, "It is a hard thing to organize a band . . . it seems impossible to work alone any more".
Blues pianist Joshua Altheimer [aka Josh Altheimer], dies aged 30 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A revered accompanist, his best work can be found on recordings by Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson 1st.
Lord Invader performs his composition Rum And Coca Cola for the first time in front of a paying audience in the Victory Calypso Tent [an informal music venue set up for the carnival season] in Port of Spain, Trindidad, West Indies. Six months later, visiting US radio comedian Morey Amsterdam will hear the song, take it back to the USA, sanitise its saucy lyric and copyright it in his own name. Rum And Coca Cola will be a huge hit for The Andrews Sisters but Lord Invader will have to go to court to win his royalties.
Paul Joseph Brady is born in Strabane, Northern ireland. He will find success as singer-songwriter Paul Brady, working first with The Johnstons and then Planxty, before launching out on acclaimed solo career.
Record producer Bruce Fairbairn, who will work with Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Van Halen and many others, is born in Canada.
David Christopher Holzhaus is born in in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He will become a much-respected blues guitarist, Chris Holzhaus, working with his own band as well as with Doug Sahm, Augie Meyers and Delbert McClinton.
John D'earth is born in Holliston, Massachusetts, USA. He will find acclaim as a post bop/hard bop jazz trumpeter, working with Miles Davis, Buddy Rich, The Dave Matthews Band and others as well as pursuing his own career.
The Walt Disney animated film Cinderella, including the songs A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, So This is Love, Sing Sweet Nightingale, The Work Song, and Cinderella, is released to cinemas in Japan.
Daniel Robert Elfman is born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Under the name Danny Elfman, he will find success first as a member of the band Oingo Boingo, then as a filmscore composer, often working with director Tim Burton.
Little Richard continues work on recording the tracks Ready Teddy and Heebie-Jeebies at J + M Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Eleven year old Brenda Lee has her first-ever recording session, at Bradley's Barn, Nashville, Tennessee, where she records Jambalaya, Bigelow 6-200, Your Cheatin' Heart and Some People. On the same day, Little Richard is recording in Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana, working on Good Golly Miss Molly and other tracks.
Count Basie and His Orchestra with Joe Williams on vocals, is working on music for the film Cinderfella, in Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, USA.
Joe Cole is born. He will become a roadie for Black Flag and The Rollins Band, as well as a close friend of Henry Rollins. His book, Planet Joe, will document his experiences tourng with Black Flag and the Rollins Band.
Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean reaches No1 in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
The Johnny Lytle Quintet records Moon Child, Work Song, The Nearness Of You, The Moor Man, A Taste Of Honey, When My Dreamboat Comes Home, Moonlight In Vermont and The House Of Winchester for Jazzland Records in New York City, USA.
The Beatles play two shows in one day. First is El Rio Club, Macclesfield, Cheshire, and then King's Hall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK, Europe. Before going on stage at King's Hall, John Lennon and Paul McCartney start work on a song called Misery, intended for UK pop vocalist Helen Shapiro.
Kathy Dee undertakes a pre-recorded colour video taping session for her song Unkind Words on the WGN Barn Dance Show in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Sterling Campbell is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as a rock and funk drummer, working with high-profile acts, including Duran Duran, Soul Asylum, Cyndi Lauper and David Bowie.
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet records You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, Line For Lyons, Blues For Linda and Theme For Jobim for Limelight Records in New York City, USA.
In New York City, at the end of a tour of the USA, The Beatles' PR man, Derek Taylor, quits his job because he is finding it difficult to work with their manager, Brian Epstein.
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The highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the 100 best-selling singles in the USA is We Can Work It Out by The Beatles, entering at No18.
Pink Floyd have an Abbey Road Studios, London, UK, recording session, working on Matilda Mother, Chapter 24 and Flaming.
Starting around midnight, The Beatles work until the early hours of the morning in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, UK, mixing I Am The Walrus. They also do further work on Your Mother Should Know. Both tracks will appear on their EP, Magical Mystery Tour, and in its accompanying tv special.
Cliff Richard begins a two day recording session at EMI's Abbey Road studios in London, UK, during which he will work on several songs including Help!, which was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
Bob Dylan is in A&R Recording, New York City, working on songs including Buckets Of Rain, If You See Her, Say Hello and Meet Me In The Morning for the album Blood On The Tracks.
Bob Dylan is in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, USA, working on songs including Gotta Serve Somebody, with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on guitar.
Bob Dylan is in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, USA, working on songs including Slow Train and Trouble In Mind, with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits on guitar.
During sessions for the album Shot Of Love, Bob Dylan is in Clover Studios, Los Angeles, working on overdubs for the songs Every Grain Of Sand, Shot Of Love and Property Of Jesus.
Bob Dylan is in the Power Station, New York City, working on tracks for his album Infidels. Mark Knopfler is acting as co-producer. Knopfler also plays guitar on the album, along with former Rolling Stones' axeman Mick Taylor. On this day, Dylan works on the songs Sweetheart Like You, Clean-Cut Kid, Jokerman, Man Of Peace and others.
Bob Dylan is in the Power Station, New York City, USA, working on tracks for his album Infidels. Mark Knopfler is acting as co-producer. Knopfler also plays guitar on the album, along with former Rolling Stones' axeman Mick Taylor. On this day, Dylan works on the song Blind Willie McTell.
Lalo Schifrin records the album Gillespiana, live at The Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Cologne, Germany, Europe. First recorded in 1960, the work is an homage to Dizzy Gillespie in the form of a five-movement concerto.
Influential British record producer Martin Rushent dies aged 63. Rushent was best-known for his work with The Human League, The Stranglers and The Buzzcocks.Leading Russian music critic Art Troitsky, is found not guilty of having defamed rock star Vadim Samoylov. The court case against Troitsky had stemmed from a Ren-TV production in which Troitsky referred to Samoylov as a "trained poodle for Surkov" - implying that the singer/guitarist was working hand-in-glove with Vladislav Surkov, the Kremlin
Slash completes work on his second album, Apocalyptic Love, at Barefoot Recording Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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