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The musical comedy Foxy Grandpa, based on a popular newspaper cartoon strip, is playing at Haverley's 14th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 125 performances.
Put Me Off At Buffalo, billed as a "hilarious musical comedy success", is playing at The Bijou Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Milton And Dollie Nobles, The Knight Brothers, Miss Susie Fisher, Banks And Winona Winter, The Mortons and The Petching Brothers are appearing at The Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'A Musical Tale of the East in Fourteen Scenes - Company of 300' is playing at His Majesty's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 2238 performances.Ambrose And his Orchestra record I'll Get By, A Precious Little Thing Called Love and Hello, Sunshine, Hello, in Chelsea, London, UK, for Decca Records. The tracks are all rejected.
The musical show The Wonder Bar is presented at The Nora Bayes Theatre on Breoadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 76 performances. Set in a Parisian nightclub in 1929, the show stars Al Jolson and features music by Robert Katscher with lyrics by Irving Ceasar.
Musical revue The Show Is On, starring Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, plays at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 236 performances.
Anthony Fitzgerald is born in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe. He will find enduring success as popular singer Tony Christie, best-known for his No1 hit single, Is This The Way Amarillo?Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the forty-eighth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Louis Armstrong is the star guest in tonight's broadcast of the Bing Crosby Chesterfield Radio Show in the USA.
Pee Wee King is playing during a week of shows at The Orpheum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.Doggin' Around by Jackie Wilson enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No15.
Brian Andrew Tatler is born in Stourbridge, England, UK, Europe. he is best known as Brian Tatler, guitarist and co-founder of the Stourbridge-based heavy metal band Diamond Head.
Ernestine Anderson is playing during a week of shows at The Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
King Curtis records the album Trouble In Mind at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.Comedy singing duo The Smothers Brothers continue with a three-week engagement at The Crystal Palace, Gaslight Square, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Second on the bill is teenage singer Barbra Streisand.
Johnny Maestro performs Model Girl and What A Surprise on tv show American Bandstand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Also appearing in the same edition is country music star Faron Young.
Jazz pianist Bill Henderson records Sweet Georgia Brown, Am I Blue and other tracks for Vee-Jay Records in Universal Recording Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Gary U.S. Bonds, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels, Mark Wynter and The Fleerekkers play at The Gaumont, Doncaster, UK.
Bob Dylan has a second recording session for his second album, Freewheelin', at Columbia Records Studio, New York City, USA. On this day he records Let Me Die In My Footsteps, Rocks And Gravel, Talking Hava Nagila Blues, Baby Please Don't Go and other tracks.Elvis Presley has a seventeenth day of location filming in Hawaii, USA, for his latest movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!
Freddy Cannon performs Patty Baby on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Town Hall, Abergavenny, Wales.
The Kentucky Colonels (Clarence And Roland White, Roger Bush, Billy Ray Lathum and Scotty Stoneman) play at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
The GPO sends a bill to John Lennon of The Beatles demanding an overdue payment of £12 and 3/- in respect of his car radiophone. Lennon uses the back of the bill to scrawl the lyrics for a new song, I'm Only Sleeping, which will be recorded soon after for the album Revolver.
The 
The Checkmates Ltd, are playing during four weeks at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Steeltips play at The Hot Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, supported by Fun City.
On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna plays the first of three nights at Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama, Japan, Asia.
Ride play Dee Dee Bridgewater plays the first of four nights at Yoshi's Jazz Club, Oakland, California, USA. During these four nights she records the album Live At Yoshi's, which features several songs associated with Ella Fitzgerald, who had died a year earlier.
Lisa 'Left
Eye' Lopes of TLC dies, aged 30, when her Mitsubishi 4WD crashes near
Juticalpa while on holiday in Honduras.
Rising from No30 to No10, Mockingbird by Eminem is the greatest gainer on the New Zealand Top 40 Singles chart. Moonshine by Savage And Akon remains at No1 for the fourth week.
Susan Reed, who found acclaim in the folk music world as a singer, harpist and zitherist, dies aged 84 of natural causes at a nursing home in Greenport, New York State, USA.
Toby Keith, Brooks And Dunn, The Oak Ridge Boys, Firefall, Carlene Carter, Mary Gauthier and Little Jimmy Dickens are among the artists taking part on the second of two days of the Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California, USA.
Green Day perform as their alter-ego side project band Foxboro Hot Tubs at Bowery Electric in New York City, USA.
London garage/grime collective Roll Deep release a new single, Good Times in the UK as a digital download on Relentless/Virgin Records.
On their 
Touring in support of her ninth album, Mental Illness, Aimee Mann plays at The Egg Center For The Performing Arts, Albany, New York State, USA.
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