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John Levy is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will become a respected double-bass player and, later, the first African-American personal manager in jazz, directing the careers of Ahmad Jamal, Cannonball Adderley, Freddie Hubbard, George Shearing, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson and many more of the biggest stars in jazz.
The Allen
Brothers, aka The Chattanooga Boys, record their first single, Salty
Dog Blues b/w Bow Wow Blues, for Columbia
Records in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This is believed to be the first Country music recording of Salty Dog Blues.
In their first session for RCA Victor's race music label, Bluebird Records, The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet record fourteen songs, including Gospel Train, in the ballroom of The Pope Hotel, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
The Mills Novelty Company, incorporated in Chicago, Illinois, USA, makes its first release of a reel of 'soundies' - short
promotional films of musical performances - to jukebox owners in
the USA, by the Soundies Distributing Corporation of America.
Soundies, precursors of the pop video, were manufactured
specifically for use in a presentation mechanism called the Mills
Panoram.
The Frolics Club a 1200 seat venue at Salisbury Beach, New Jersey, USA, begins a policy of bringing in big-name artists. For the first week-long series of shows, singer and comedienna Martha Raye is the headline act.
Guitar Slim records his first [and only] major hit single, The Things That I Used To Do, in Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, for Specialty Records. Pianist on the session is Ray Charles.
Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Witherspoon and Floyd Dixon play the first of three nights as part of a Battle Of The Bands at the Savoy Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley begins a new tour with the first of two nights at the Fox Theater, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The Alan Freed Show, on America's ABC-TV network, becomes a nation-wide record-hop show. Guests on the first show include Guy Mitchell, The Del-Vikings, The Clovers and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
The Crickets release a new single, Love's Made A Fool Of You/Someone Someone, in the USA on Brunswick Records. This is their first release without the recently deceased Buddy Holly.
In their first session for United Artists Records, under the supervision of production and songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, r'n'b vocal group The Clovers record Love Potion No9, Stay Awhile, Lovey and Noni Cosi.
Radney Foster is born in Del Rio, Texas, USA. He will achieve success as a singer-songwriter and music producer. As half of the Foster And Lloyd duo, he will record three studio albums and place nine singles on the country charts. His songs will be been recorded by Gary Allan, Sara Evans, Keith Urban and Jack Ingram.
The Cadillacs play the first of five nights at The Spatz Show Bar, Hamilton, Ohio, USA.
At his first RCA
Records session in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Roger Miller records You
Don't Want My Love. The song will subsequently be re-named In The
Summertime.
Guitarist Hilton Valentine and drummer John Steel play with The Alan Price Rhythm And Blues Combo in a midnight set at The Downbeat Club, Newcastle, UK. This is the first appearance together of the quintet that will later find international fame as The Animals.
Bob Dylan appears at the Hootenanny held in Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA, and hosted by Pete Seeger. This show features the first performance of Dylan's song A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall.
The Beach Boys' debut album, Surfin' Safari, enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA where it will peak at No32.
Barbra Streisand spends the first of three days recording
tracks for her Columbia
Records' debut LP, The Barbra Streisand Album, in New York City, USA.
The Goldebriars, an aspiring pop group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, which includes Curt Boettcher who will go on to enjoy a solo career as an artist and producer, complete the recording of their debut album at Columbia Studios on 30th Street, New York City, USA. The album includes such songs as He Was a Friend of Mine, A Mumblin’ Word, Shenandoah and Old Time Religion.
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Cyril Knowles plays his first match for English football team Tottenham Hotspur. Knowles' glittering career at Tottenham will inspire the 1973 hit single, Nice One Cyril by The Cockerel Chorus. The song is derived from a chant sung by Tottenham supporters which, in its turn, had been derived from a tv advertisement for Wonderloaf bread.
The Kinks spend the second of eight days recording tracks for their album The Kink Kontroversy in Pye Studios, London, UK.
The first public performance of an Andrew Lloyd Webber – Tim Rice musical takes place when Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is staged as a "pop cantata", by pupils of Colet Court preparatory school in Hammersmith, London, England, UK, Europe.
John Fred and the Playboy Band play two gigs in one day, first at The Civic Hall, Nantwich, England, UK, Europe, and then at The Clockwork Orange, Chester.
The Siegel Schwall Blues Band and Travel Agency play the first of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Vanilla Fudge, Soft Machine and Eire Apparent play at Balboa Stadium, San Diego, California, USA.
A new late night tv series Soul!, begins on Channel 13 in New York City, USA. Guests on the first edition are Barbara Acklin, Patti LaBelle And The Bluebelles, Novella Nelson, Billy Taylor, The Vibrations and Pearl Williams Jones. This was the first American tv series specifically to target African-American artistry, community and culture, and walso the first show on WNET to be recorded using new technology of videotape.
English singer/songwriter Nick Dra ke releases his debut album, Five Leaves Left, on Island Records.Joe Cocker And His Grease Band, Fleetwood Mac, King Crimson and The Voices Of East Harlem play the first of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA.
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The Jackson 5 appear on tv's prestigious Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA, for the first time, singing I Want You
Back.
The first day of the Paul McCartney-instigated Buddy Holly Week, is held in the UK.
Slade organise a press event at The Trumpet, a pub in Wolverhampton, England, UK, Europe, where the band first met. The occasion is intended to promote the band's latest LP, Rogue's Gallery, and includes a stripogram girl dressed as a police officer who 'arrests' Noddy Holder. Shortly afterwards, the real police showed up and somewhat dampened the mood of the occasion.
In response to music trade adverts, the original five Spice Girls (with Michelle Stephenson rather than Baby Spice Emma Bunton) meet for the first time.
On his Howard Morrison dies from a heart attack in his sleep, aged 74, in Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, Oceania. He is best-remembered as the founder and leader of New Zealand's first all-Maori pop/rock'n'roll group, The Howard Morrison Quartet.
Ellie Goulding plays her first live date since signing to Polydor Records, at Audio, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
The Pixies cancel their first ever show in Israel, the Pic.Nic Festival in Tel Aviv, citing "events beyond our control" as the reason. The action is widely interpreted as as protest against the recent Isreali forces attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Rihanna sets a new record when the success of her latest single, What's My Name?, (featuring Drake) makes her the first female solo artist in UK chart history to achieve number one singles in five consecutive years.
On her Aphrodite World Tour, Kylie Minogue plays the first of four nights at The MEN Arena, Manchester, UK.
Lana Del Rey releases Born To Die in Sweden, Europe. It is the first single and title track from her second album, Born To Die.
super-Earth, a new band fronted by Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney, makes its live debut at Secret Society, Portland, Oregon, USA.
On her Rebel Heart tour, when Madonna plays the first of two nights at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania, fans are only allowed into the venue four hours later than originally advertised.
Radiohead play the first of two nights at Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe.
Blossoms, the debut album by Blossoms, spends its second week at No1 in the Official UK Albums Chart, but sells less than 8,000 copies, making it the lowest-selling UK No1 album ever.1912 |
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