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Jazz bandleader and instrumentalist Troy Floyd is born in Texas, USA. Floyd will lead various jazz groups in San Antonio during the late 1920s and early 1930s and will broadcast as Troy Floyd and His Plaza Hotel Orchestra, regularly on radio station HTSA from the Plaza Hotel in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Abe Lyman's California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra record Twelfth Street Rag, Don't Somebody Want Somebody To Love?, Havin' Lots Of Fun, Wistful And Blue, Pal Of My Lonesome Hours, Beside A Garden Wall and The New St. Louis Blues for Brunswick Records in New York City, USA.
Vocal duo Correll And Gosden [better known as radio stars Amos'n'Andy] record Just A Bird's-Eye View Of My Old Kentucky Home, for Victor Records in The Webster Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Billie Holiday and the Count Basie Orchestra make a live radio broadcast from The Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, play at the Astor Hotel, New York City, during a fourteen-week engagement.
The Raffles Orchestra plays for a 'Special Dinner And Dance' at The Raffles Hotel, Singapore, Asia.Count Basie And His Orchestra are playing during a month and a half-long residency at The Hotel Lincoln in New York City, USA.
The Eddie Fitzpatrick Orchestra Orchestra plays in The Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, California, USA.
Carl Butler records Vicious Lies, River Of Love, A Blue Million Tears and Everything Will Be The Same, in Castle Studio At the Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Paul Pendarvis And His Orchestra are playing at the newly-re-opened Dinner Room of The Golden Hotel, Reno, Nevada, USA.
Ralph Marterie And His Orchestra are playing at The Hotel Statler, Detroit, Michigan, USA.Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA at No68.
For the second of two days, thousands of teenage rock'n'roll fans cause traffic chaos in Johannesburg, South Africa, as they besiege the hotel in which visiting British pop idol Cliff Richard is staying.
Jimmie Rodgers plays the final night in a week of shows at The Coronado Hotel, San Diego, California, USA.
Nina And Frederik are playing during an extended engagement at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the eighth night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Ray Charles appears in court in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, where charges of heroin possession against him are dropped on the basis that the police raid on his hotel room had violated his Constitutional rights.
Esther And His Band are playing 'exotic' dance music at The Hotel Ambassador, Singapore, Asia.
The Rolling Stones play at Studio 51, Soho, London, England, Europe, and also at The Station Hotel, Richmond, UK, Europe
The Rolling Stones play at Studio 51, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, and also at The Crawdaddy Club in The Station Hotel, Richmond.
The Rolling Stones' fourth British tour continues at The Royal Hotel, Lowestoft, England, UK, Europe, supported by Peter And Gordon, The Overlanders, The Barron Knights, David John And The Mood, Julie Grant and Tony Marsh. Gil Evans records Las Vegas Tango and Hotel Me for Verve Records in Webster Hall, New York City, USA
Blues harmonica virtuosi Walter Horton (aka Big Walter 'Shakey' Horton) and Paul Butterfield record live sessions for Swedish Broadcasting Company ("I Blueskvarter") at the bar of The Sutherland Hotel, 4569 South Drexel Ave., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Cumberland Trio play at The Hotel Greystone, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.The Yardbirds play at The Ricky-Tick Club in The Thames Hotel, Windsor, England, UK, Europe.
Prior to playing two Scandinavian dates, Bob Dylan is interviewed for Swedish Radio by Klas Burling at the Hotel Flamingo, Solna, Sweden.
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band perform live on the beach in front of The Martinez Hotel, during the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, Europe.
John Lennon of The Beatles and Yoko Ono sign their autographs for local lad Charles Mulchrone, while they are staying in the Great Southern Hotel, Mulrany, Dornish, Clew Bay, Mayo, Ireland.
Elvis Presley continues with his four-week second season at the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with his four-week second season at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Rolling Stones’ vocalist Mick Jagger, still married to Bianca, brings in the New Year at a cottage adjoining the Greensleeves Hotel in Barbados, Caribbean, with friends including model Jerry Hall, Monty Python star Eric Idle and record company mogul Clive Davis.
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lowell George, formerly of Little Feat, dies aged 34 in the Twin Bridges Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Virgina, USA, from a heart attack brought on by drugs and obesity.
The Jacksons release a new single, Heartbreak Hotel, (aka This Place Hotel) which will peak at No22 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. N.B. This is not the same song as Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley.
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The Rolling Stones hold a business planning meeting in The Savoy hotel, London, England, UK, Europe.
Britney Spears files suit in New York State Supreme Court against eight insurance companies which are contesting her $9.8m reimbursement claim over last year's cancelled Onyx Hotel Tour, on the grounds that she had never informed them of the knee injury which caused cancellation of the tour.Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Bizzy Bone is beaten and robbed at the Universal Hilton hotel in Los Angeles. His attackers beat and choke the rapper before stealing his jewelery.
After checking her luggage - about 20 laminated boxes and suitcases - into the Dorchester Hotel, London, UK, at 3.00am, Lady Gaga returns to her tour bus and is driven to the car park of a Tesco supermarket on West Cromwell Road where she spends the rest of the night in the bus.Jani Lane, former frontman of glam metal band Warrant is found dead, aged 47, in a Comfort Inn motel room in Woodland Hills, California, USA. The cause of death is later determined as alcohol poisoning.
Guns N'Roses play the eighth night of a twelve-show residency at The Joint Inside Hard Rock Hotel And Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Neutral Milk Hotel play their first live date since 1999 with a show at The 40 Watt Club, Athens, Georgia, USA, supported by Elf Power.
Carly Rae Jepson films parts of a video for her upcoming single, I Really Like You, in front of the Mondrian Hotel in Manhattan with Tom Hanks and Justin Bieber as guest performers.
To the astonishment of singer Grayson Erhard, while he is performing Supersition in the lobby of The NAMM Show in The Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, California, USA, he is joined by the song's composer Stevie Wonder onstage, and the pair perform the track together to the delight of the audience.
Oritse Williams, formerly a member of boy band JLS, is charged with raping a fan at a hotel in Wolverhampton, England, UK, Europe in December 2016.1901 |
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