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Harry Macdonough records I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do, Hiawatha, Lenore My Own Leonore and Violets for Victor Records in PHiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Little Brother Montgomery records Crescent City Blues and Shreveport Farewell for Bluebird Records in The St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The instrumental Crescent City Blues will have lyrics added by Gordon Jenkins (and sung by Beverly Maher) in 1953. This version will inspire Johnny Cash to write his almost identical hit Folsom Prison Blues in 1955. In the early 1970s, Cash will pay Jenkins a compensation settlement of approximately $75,000.
Michael Tyler is born in Birmingham, England, UK. He will find success as the leader of 60s beat group Mike Sheridan And The Nightriders.
The Buddy DeFranco Quartet record The Way You Look Tonight, Sophisticated Lady, Lover Come Back To Me and I Got It Bad, for MGM Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Perry Como records To Know You Is To Love You with The Fontane Sisters plus Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra for RCA Victor Records in the USA.
Hound Dog by Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton on Peacock Records enters the Billboard R'n'B Chart in the USA. It will spend 14 weeks on the chart, seven of them at No1.
Revered American architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies, aged 91, shortly after undergoing surgery in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, to remove an intestinal obstruction. Inspired by his musical partner Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon will compose the song So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright in 1969, as a tribute to the architect's life and works.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers record Pardon Me Please, Blessed Are They, The Joke, Come Be My Love and Since The Beginning Of Time in Executive Sound Studios, Bronx, New York City, USA.
The musical 13 Daughters, starring Don Ameche, opens at the 54th Street Theatre, on Broadway, New York City, USA.
Songwriter Tommy Barnes is born in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA. His biggest successes will be the platinum single Indian Outlaw by Tim McGraw, and the gold single My Love by Little Texas.
Frank Sinatra records So In Love and Twin Soliloquies for Reprise Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sharon Marie releases a new single, Run-around Lover on Capitol Records in the USA. The song is co-composed by Brian Wilson and Mike Love of The Beach Boys.
The True Endeavor Jug Band records Blues Just Blues That's All, Jug Band Blues and She's Gone for Folklore Records in New York City, USA. The tracks will appear on their only LP The Art Of The Jug Band. The group conssists of Danny Kalb, Sam Charters, Ann Charters, Artie Traum, Artie Rose and Sita Dimitroff, all of whom will go on to enjoy distinctive solo careers.
The new Rolling Stones album, Out Of Our Heads, enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1.
Jazz pianist Artie Butler records The Loop and Music For Night People in New York City, USA, for A+M Records. Herbie Hancock also plays piano on these tracks, and Butler plays an early electronic keyboard instrument, the ondioline.
Daydream Believer by The Monkees reaches No1 in the Official New Zealand Singles Chart, for the first of four weeks.
The Cream begin the first of eleven days of recording in Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA, working on the album Wheels Of Fire.
Marvin Gaye completes work on his duet with Kim Weston, You're All I Need To Get By, for Tamla Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Simon And Garfunkel enter the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with The Boxer, which will peak at No7.
Ten Years After finish a North American tour at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Syd Barrett, formerly of Pink
Floyd, is working on the songs Golden Hair and Octopus, in
EMI's Abbey
Road Studios, London, UK.
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At EMI's Abbey Road studio, London, England, UK, George Harrison of The Beatles works on Here Comes The Sun, while Paul McCartney works on Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
Elvis Presley buys eleven Cadillacs from Madison Cadillac, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, to give to friends, relatives and associates.
Queen release the album A Day At The Races, in the UK.
Having checked into hospital with stomach pains, in New York City, USA, jazz organist Larry Young dies. He was said to be being treated for pneumonia, but the actual cause of his death is not clear.
Pink Floyd's album Dark Side Of The Moon notches up its 520th week (10 years) on the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA.Working Week release a new single, Sweet Nothing, on Virgin Records in the UK. On the same day, they play at Reading University, Reading, England, UK, Europe.
Slippery When Wet by Fleetwood Mac, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Chuck Berry, Elton John, Kenny Rogers and Trisha Yearwood perform in The Presidential Inaugural Gala one day before Bill Clinton takes office in Washington DC, USA.
The Beautiful Experience EP by 
Bob Dylan's album MTV Unplugged enters the UK albums chart where it will peak at No10 during a five-week run.
Britney Spears, Alicia Keys, Jessica Simpson and P. Diddy appear in an infomercial about acne which has its first airing in the USA today.
When Massive Attack play at The Academy, Bristol, UK, they are joined for a guest appearance by Elizabeth Fraser, former vocalist of The Cocteau Twins.
The film North Country, starring Charlize Theron, is released in Belgium and The Phillippines. The movie features several Bob Dylan songs, including the newly-recorded Tell 'Ol Bill.
Peter Andre is rushed to Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset, UK, after waking in the early hours of the morning with severe stomach pains. He is diagnosed with kidney poisoning, and undergoes emergency surgery.
Russian tv service ZAO files a legal suit against Miami-based NWE Talent Agency and Management Inc., for failing to fulfill a $1.5m deal for Lady Gaga to perform at their network MUZ-TV awards show.
The Veronicas release a video for their song You Ruin Me, which is set to be released as a single the following day.
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