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The Haydn Quartet record Annie Laurie, Farmyard Medley, Cornfield Medley and A Sleigh Ride Party for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Phil Harris And The Sportsmen Quartet perform Jingle Bells on The Fitch Bandwagon, an NBC Radio show, sponsored by the F.W. Fitch Shampoo Company, an Iowa-based manufacturer of hair care products.
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by singing cowboy Gene Autry reaches No1 in the Billboard Best-Sellers In Stores chart in the USA. It will go on to sell 2.5m copies in its first year, eventually reaching a total of 25m, becoming the second best-selling record of all time until the 1980s.
Composer Leroy Anderson records his version of his own compoasition
Sleigh Ride, for Decca Records in the USA.
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Hank Williams undergoes spinal surgery at Vanderbilt Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It is hoped he will leave hospital by Christmas but he is expected to convalesce for at least six weeks.
Elton Britt And The Beaver Valley Sweethearts record If You Should Change Your Mind, One For Wonderin' and (Before You Know It) Christmas Will Be There, at RCA Victor Studio 1, 155 East 24th St., Manhattan, New York City, USA.Deejay Allen Brook of CKWS radio in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, begins playing tracks from the new Elvis Presley release, Elvis' Christmas Album, and invites listeners to ring the station to register how they feel about a rock'n'roller singing religious songs. Of his first 800 callers 93% are in favour and just 7% object to the idea.
Bing Crosby stars in the fourth of his annual CBS radio specials A Christmas Sing With Bing in the USA.
Bing Crosby stars in the fifth of his annual CBS radio specials A Christmas Sing With Bing in the USA.
Neil Sedaka, Dion, Bo Diddley, The Drifters, Chubby Checker, Little Anthony, The Skyliners, Johnny Burnette, Bobby Vee and Dante And The Evergreens play the fourth of ten days in the Christmas Rock'n'Roll Show at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Neil Sedaka, Dion, Bo Diddley, The Drifters, Chubby Checker, Little Anthony, The Skyliners, Johnny Burnette, Bobby Vee and Dante And The Evergreens play the eighth of ten days in the Christmas Rock'n'Roll Show at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the fourth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the tenth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the twelfth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Brenda Lee plays the fifteenth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Christmas No1 single in the UK is Tower Of Strength by Frankie Vaughan. The song is composed by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard.
Ray Conniff, His Orchestra And Chorus record medleys of Christmas songs including We Wish You A Merry Christmas and The Little Drummer Boy, in CBS Recording Studio, 6121 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Frank Sinatra records An Old Fashioned Christmas, The Little Drummer Boy and I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, for Reprise Records in Los Angeles, California, USA, backed by Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians.
The Beach Boys are recording Frosty The
Snowman and other tracks for their Christmas
Album in Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Popular accordionist Frankie Yankovic releases the album Christmas Party, on Columbia Records in the USA.
Rehearsals for Another Beatles Christmas Show, starring The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Freddie And The Dreamers, Elkie Brooks, Sounds Incorporated and others continue at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows continue with their Christmas season in the pantomime Aladdin, at The London Palladium, London, England, UK.Jerry Lee Lewis plays the second of seven nights as part of the Christmas Holiday Spectacular Show in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Long-haired British pop group The Rolling Stones place an ironic message in UK pop music paper the NME (New Musical Express) wishing a 'Happy Christmas to the starving hairdressers and their families'.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo Four and Danny Williams appear in the second night of Gerry's Christmas Cracker at The Odeon, Liverpool, UK.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Bennett And the Rebel Rousers, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo Four and Danny Williams appear in the third night of Gerry's Christmas Cracker at The Odeon, Liverpool, UK.Jerry Lee Lewis plays the sixth of seven nights as part of The Christmas Holiday Spectacular Show in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Bennet and the Rebel Rousers, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo
Four and Danny Williams appear in the seventh night of Gerry's
Christmas Cracker at The Odeon, Liverpool, UK.
Following today's second performance of Another Beatles Christmas Show at Hammersmith Odeon, The Beatles visit the annual Boat Show, Earl's Court, London, England, UK, after the event has been closed to the general public.
Burl Ives, with producer Owen Bradley, records Frangipani and Christmas Is A Birthday in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Tennessee Ernie Ford records Little Gray Donkey, What Child Is This and The Virgin's Slumber Song, in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Having collapsed with a perforated appendix, Jim Armstrong Armstrong, lead guitarist of Them, spends Christmas in Southern Hospital, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Today's edition of UK music paper Record Mirror features an illustration depicting Santa Claus with an open sack over his shoulder in which can be seen Bob Dylan, Lulu, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul McCartney, Cilla Black and other pop/rock idols.
The two-day Pilton Pop, Folk And Blues Festival begins at Worthy Farm, Pilton, in The Vale Of Avalon, Somerset, UK. The 1,500 fans who attend pay £1 each to see T.Rex, Amazing Blondel, Quintessence, Stackridge, Sam Apple Pie, Keith Christmas, Ian Anderson and Al Stewart over the course of the two day event, which includes free milk from the farm owned by festival organiser Michael Eavis. The event is, in effect, the first Glastonbury Festival.
Wishbone Ash, supported by Vinegar Joe, Renaissance and Al Stewart, play a Christmas concert at Alexandra Palace, London, England, UK, billed as Christmas At The Palace. During this gig, Wishbone Ash are presented with a gold disc for their album Argus.
Three armed intruders break in to Johnny Cash's holiday home, Cinnamon Hill, in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Caribbean, and rob the assembled Cash family and guests of an estimated $35,000 – $50,000 in cash and jewellery, plus 175 pairs of shoes intended as donations for a local orphanage for Christmas. Two of the men are later caught at Montego Bay airport waiting for a flight to Miami, and will eventually die while in police custody. Cliff Richard, Lulu, Sandie Shaw, Junior, Chris de Burgh, Flying Pickets, Jim Diamond, Captain Sensible and others play at Carol Aid, a Christmas extension of Live Aid, in Heaven, a nightclub in London, England, UK, Europe.
Country Club's Christmas Concert, presented by Wally Whyton on BBC Radio 2 in the UK, features Tammy Cline and Southern Comfort, Lome Gibson, The Hillsiders, Pete Stanley and Brian Golbey.
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis comes to the end of a Christmas/New Year season of shows at The Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Annie Lennox appears on
UK tv show Breakfast (BBC1) to promote the release of her new
album, A Christmas Cornucopia.
Miley Cyrus spends Christmas with her family in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Part of the day's fun includes karaoke singing sessions.Linkin Park, Rise Against, Bush, Gaslight Anthem, Garbage, Slightly Stoopid, Awolnation, The Lumineers, Walk The Moon, Two Door Cinema Club, Youngblood Hawke play in the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Show at The Gibson Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 30 goes to No1 in the Official UK Singles Chart, with 312,000 copies sold so far. The single is an all-star charity fund-raiser to raise money to fight the Ebola crisis in Western Africa.
A Facebook campaign by fans of Iron Maiden begins to buy digital downloads of their track Number Of The Beast in hopes of making it the Christmas No1 Single in the UK.
Engelbert Humperdinck and Ron Sexsmith release a Christmas duet single, Something to Hold On To, featuring a children's choir.
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