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Robert Hicks is born in Walnut Grove, Georgia, USA. He will find fame as blues singer, guitarist and recording artist Barbecue Bob.Baldwin's Cadet Band provides music at The fifth annual dinner of The Republican Club of Massachusetts, in The Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The Black Diamonds Band records the Ted Snyder composition Wild Cherries Rag for The Gramophone Company in London, England, UK.
The Original Dixieland Jazz band begins a residency at Reisenweber's Restaurant, 58th Street, New York City, USA. Variety magazine will report that their music is "quite conducive to making the dancers on the floor loosen up and go to the limit in their stepping."
Blues vocalist Victoria Spivey records Good Cabbage and From 1 To 12 [Dirty Dozen], for Vocalion Records in New York City, USA.
The Foursome and The Spike Jones Quartet record Nobody's Sweetheart and Sweet Potato Swing for Decca Records in the USA.
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra record I’ve Hitched My Wagon To A Star, Pop Corn Man and Let That Be A Lesson To You, for Victor Records in the USA.
Louis Armstrong with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra and vocalist Velma Middleton, records You're Just In Love and Big Butter And Egg Man for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Buddy Williams records Too Old To Cut The Mustard for Regal Zonophone Records in Australia, Oceania.When Tennessee Ernie Ford plays at The Civilian Employees Club, Honolulu Airport, Honoloulu, Hawaii, USA, his performance is so brief that patrons leave the venue in protest. The venue's usual $1400 income from food drops down to $500, and a $5000 damages lawsuit will be filed against the show's promoter Ralph Yempuku.
Dottie West, Kathy Dearth (later to become Kathy Dee) and The Dixie Harmonaires play at The Annual Farm Bureau Fish Fry, Lake Park, Coshocton, Ohio, USA.
Cliff Richard records Tea For Two, Forty Days and The Night Is So Lonely in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
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The Gary McFarland Orchestra records How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Grand Old Ivy and Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm, in New York City, USA, for Verve Records. The tracks will appear on the album The Jazz Version Of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
Fats Domino releases a new single, his version of the Hank Williams composition Jambalaya, on Imperial Records in the USA.
Frances Faye records Everything Happens to Me, More Than You Know, That's All (Brandt-Haymes) and Dont Worry 'Bout Me for Verve Records at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band on the session features Don Fagerquist, trumpet; Vince DeRosa, John Cave, Dick Perissi, Bill Hinshaw, French Horns; Bud Shank, alto sax; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Al Hendrickson, guitar; Joe Mondragon, bass; Earl Palmer, drums; Stella Castellucci, harp.Bobby Rydell plays the fifth of ten nights at The Montecello Supper Club, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.
The Preachers, a band from Bromley in Kent, England, UK, whose fifteen year old guitarist is named Peter Frampton, play at The Chinese R'n'B Jazz Club, Corn Exchange, Bristol, England, UK.
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Donaldson Quintet records Cole Slaw, Soul Gumbo, Skylark, People Will Say We're In Love and other tracks for Cadet Records in
New York City, USA.
The Kingsmen enter the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with Jolly Green Giant, which will peak at No4 – the last of their three chart hits.
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Eubie Blake performs with The Noble Sissle Orchestra in the Main Ballroom of The Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington DC, USA, at a gala benefit supper dance for the East Rock Creek Civic Association.
The Johnny "Hammond" Smith Septet records Dirty Grape, Animal Farm, High Heel Sneakers, To Sir With Love, Black Strap Molasses and other tracks for Prestige Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Beatles continue to work in EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, on Come Together, Sun King and Mean Mr Mustard.
Roy Harper plays at Mothers, Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by Hard Meat.
T.Rex play at Poperama, in The Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Freedom and The Rinki Dink Show.
Music mogul Robert Stigwood throws a reception at The China Garden restaurant, London, UK, to announce that Eric Clapton is about to fly to the USA to make a new album. Among the 100 guests are Pete Townshend, Elton John, Long John Baldry and deejay Alan Freeman. Later, Stigwood hosts another reception for Clapton at his home, with forty guests including Ric Grech and Ronnie Wood.Suzanne Vega writes the song Tom's Diner in New York City, USA. It will not be released until April 1987. The song's "dit-dit-dit" vocal hook will inspire Centuries, a 2014 single by Fall Out Boy.
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When socio-political shock-rockers Ludus play at The Hacienda, Manchester, England, UK, Europe, they decorate the tables with blood-soaked tampons on paper plates, and their co-founder/singer Linder wears a dress made of meat, which she whips off halfway through the set to reveal a massive dildo.
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Wendy O. Williams plays at Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, USA.
UK tabloid newspaper The Sun reports that "hellraiser" Toyah Willcox has "given up booze, fags and meat" and now prefers baking cakes for her boyfriend, guitarist Tom Taylor.
Prince performs a hits medley and sucks a lollipop throughout a rendition of We Are The World at the 22nd American Music Awards, in The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Whitney Houston begins vomiting as a result of food poisoning, on a flight bound for Paris, France, Europe. She receives treatment in the airport on landing, and is taken to a hospital.
The Neville Brothers play in The Canyon Dinner Theater, Agoura Hills, California, USA.
Rick Wakeman plays in a 'grand piano concert' at The Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders takes part in a PETA demonstation against animal cruelty outside a McDonalds food retail outlet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
When BBC Radio 4 show Any Questions is broadcast live from The Corn Exchange, Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, one of the panellists is Billy Bragg.
Elton John cancels tonight's gig at Tucson Arena, Tucson, Arizona, USA, because of a bout of food poisoning.
The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards dines with former US president Bill Clinton at Craft, a restaurant in New York City, USA.
Annie Lennox is presented with the prestigious O2 Silver Clef Award at the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards Lunch in The Hilton, Park Lane, London, England, UK, Europe.
Rapper 50 Cent flies to Dolo, Somalia, Africa, to take part in a World Food Program effort to alleviate the effects of famine in Somalia and Kenya.Reba McEntire, appears on BBC1 tv show Breakfast to promote her upcoming participation in the International Festival of Country Music at Wembley Arena, London, UK.
The snack brand Popchips announces that Katy Perry has become an investor and representative for the brand. The company approached Perry about a deal after she Tweeted about how much she liked them.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina of politically-active punk band Pussy Riot are attacked at a McDonald's restaurant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Europe, which the duo is visiting to take part in a prison protest alongside other activists.
On her Emerald Island tour, Caro Emerald plays the second of two nights at The Corn Exchange, Cambridge, England, UK, Europe, supported by Irit Dekel.
On their 107-date End Of The Road World Tour, Kiss play at The KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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