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David Rose is born in London, England, UK. He will find success as a songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader, his most famous compositions being The Stripper, Holiday For Strings and Calypso Melody. Using the pseudonym Ray Llewellyn, he will also write music for numerous television series, including It's A Great Life, The Tony Martin Show, Little House on the Prairie, Highway To Heaven, Bonanza, and Highway Patrol.Clyde Carol Wilson is born in Christian County, Missouri, USA. He will find success as country music singer, songwriter, bandleader and radio and TV personality Slim Wilson, becoming a cornerstone of country music in the Ozarks for more than 50 years.
Frances Rose Shore is born in Winchester, Tennessee. She will find
fame as singer and tv star Dinah Shore whose
many hits will include Shoofly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy, The Gypsy, and Buttons
And Bows.
Bobby Darin makes his first tv appearance in Stage Show, a portion of the Jackie Gleason Show.
Eddie Cochran appears live on US tv show The Town Hall Party, recorded at 400 Long Beach Boulevard in Compton, California, USA.
The Champs perform Too
Much Tequila on US tv show American
Bandstand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Seven members of the cast of the successful Broadway musical The Sound Of Music appear as the mystery guest in tonight's edition of popular tv show What's My Line? in the USA.
Folk duo Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor perform live on the BBC-tv topical news magazine show Tonight, in London, England, UK, Europe.Ike And Tina Turner perform Poor Fool on daily tv show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Joey Dee And The
Starliters appear on popular tv show American
Bandstand in the USA, performing Peppermint
Twist.
Tommy
Boyce appears on daily tv pop show American
Bandstand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, performing
I'll Remember
Carol.
Bobby Darin makes a guest appearance on tv's Steve Allen Show in KFMB Studios, San Diego, California, USA.The first edition of a new tv pop music show, Ready, Steady, Go!, presented by Keith Fordyce and David Gell, is broadcast in the UK. Artists appearing include Pat Boone, Billy Fury, Burl Ives, Chris Barber and Brian Poole And The Tremeloes. Dance band leader Joe Loss judges a dance contest.
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The Jimmy Dean Show begins a three-year run on the ABC television network in the USA. Dean is best-remembered for his hit Big Bad John.
A new tv pop show, The Big Five, has its first transmission in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (The name will later be changed to Upbeat.)
In London, The
A Ready, Steady, Go! tv special, The Sound Of Motown, is aired in the UK, starring The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and Martha And The Vandellas. Dusty Springfield hosts the event and sings with some of the stars.
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When The Rolling Stones and Howlin' Wolf appear on the tv show Shindig!, in Los
Angeles, California, USA, Wolf introduces Jagger to Son House, who is sitting in the audience.
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Having completed mixing of the album Out Of Our Heads, The Rolling Stones fly from Los Angeles, California, USA, back to London, England, UK, where they appear on BBC-tv show The World Of Jimmy Savile.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Fred Hughes performing Love Me Baby and Les Sultans performing This Could Be The Last Time.
Wilson Pickett, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Impressions and Jody Miller appear on syndicated tv pop show Shivaree, recorded for KABC in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Who play at The Guild Hall, Portsmouth, England, UK, Europe, and are seen on the first part of US tv show Shindig's special edition Shindig Goes To London, performing Anyway Anyhow Anywhere.
The tv series Soul! in the USA features The Sweet Inspirations, Tiny Irvin and The Popular Five.
Local music biz manager and musician Jim Simpson starts a weekly blues club, Henry's Blues House, in The Crown pub, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. Earth play on the opening night. Their vocalist is Ozzy Osbourne, and they will soon re-name themselves Black Sabbath.
John Lennon of The Beatles gives an interview to BBC-tv in the UK, explaining why he returned his MBE two months earlier, in protest against British involvement in overseas wars.Sandie Shaw, Billy Preston, Edison Lighthouse, Shocking Blue, B.J.Thomas and Barry Ryan appear live on UK tv show Top Of The Pops.
The 900th edition of UK tv show Top Of The Pops features a new signature tune, Yellow Pearl, by written by Midge Ure (formerly of Ultravox) and Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy). The tune will be used until 1986.
Elton John is interviewed at his home by Andrew Harvey of BBC-tv show Breakfast Time in the UK.
The Style Council, led by Paul Weller, record a BBC Sight And Sound
In Concert show live at Goldiggers, Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK.
Dead Or Alive, The Colour Field, Killing Joke, The Smiths and Elaine Paige And Barbara Dickson appear on tv music show Top Of The Pops in the UK. The show is presented by Simon Bates and Janice Long.
TV Personalities play at The Dovecote Arts Centre, Stockton On Tees, England, UK, Europe, supported by Icy Eye.
Tina Turner performs her current single, One Of The Living, on the tv show Countdown in Australia, Oceania.Andy Chapin, keyboardist with Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, is killed in the same Texas plane crash which kills Nelson. Chapin had also played keyboards for a later version of Steppenwolf.
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County dismisses the case brought against Ozzy Osbourne by the parents of 19-year old John McCollum, who had shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber handgun while listening to Osbourne's song Suicide Solution. The case will, however, go to appeal.
TV Evangelist Jimmy Lee Swaggart gives his infamous "I Have Sinned" speech live on tv in the USA, saying, "I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that Your Precious Blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness." Although he does not specify his sins, it is clear that he is referring to recent revelations about his frequent use of prostitutes. Later in the year, Ozzy Osbourne will be inspired by this very public confession to write his song Miracle Man.
Jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr collapses from a heart attack in a New York City tv studio shortly after taping four songs for a performance on CBS-tv's Early Show. He is taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, where he is pronounced dead.Malmesbury-raised jazz star Jamie Cullum makes his US television debut on The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn.
It is announced that Island Records has signed Shaheen Jafargholi, the 13-year-old singer who came to the world's attention on Britain's Got Talent and subsequently sang at Michael Jackson's memorial service to a global TV audience of more than 1bn.
It is announced that 21 by Adele was the best-selling album of 2012 in the USA, and Gotye's Somebody That I Used To Know was the best-selling single.
Bastille release Laura Palmer, the fifth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood, on Virgin Records in the UK.
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