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Walter Lewis is born in Greenwood, Mississippi, USA. He will find fame as blues pioneer Furry Lewis.
Blues harmonica player Big John Wrencher is born near Sunflower, Mississippi, USA.
William Webb is born in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He will find some success as blues and R'n'B guitarist, singer and songwriter Boogie Bill Webb.
Riley King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA. He will find fame as blues guitarist B.B.King.Vocalist Nathaniel Shilkret [aka Nat Shilkret] with The Victor Orchestra records O Sole Mio for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA. The melody of O Sole Mio will be used for the 1960 Elvis Presley hit It's Now Or Never.
Big Joe Williams records Mama Don't Allow Me and Delta Blues for Trumpet records in the USA.
Elvis Presley plays on the Louisiana Hayride radio show, Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. Also on the bill are Slim Whitman, Jim Reeves, J.E. And Maxine Brown, Johnny Horton, Jimmy Newman, The Lump Lump Boys, Betty Amos, Jack Ford, The Circle 6 Ranch Boys, Jeanette Hicks, Buddy Attaway, Hoot And Curley and Jerry And D ido Rawley. Elvis is listed in fifth position on the bill.
Elvis Presley plays in Watson Chapel High School, Pine Bluff, Mississippi, USA, supporting The Duke Of Paducah and Mother Maybelle And The Carter Sisters, as part of the WSM Grand Ole Opry Show.
While rehearsing a dance sequence for the film Jailhouse Rock at the MGM Soundstage, Hollywood, California, USA, Elvis Presley inhales a cap from one of his teeth into his lung.
Songwriter Gretchen Peters is born in Bronxville, New York Sate, USA. She will compose Faith Hill's The Secret Of Life, Martina McBride's Independence Day, Patty Loveless' You Don't Even Know Who I Am and Pam Tillis' Let That Pony Run. She will also pursue a career as a performer in her own right.
Having been deposed by Jerry Butler's He Will Break Your Heart for one week, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters return to No1 in the Billboard Singles Chart with Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go.
Elvis Presley records Blue Hawaii, Ito Eats, Hawaiian Wedding Song, Island Of Love, Steppin' Out Of Line and Almost Always True for the soundtrack to his upcoming movie Blue Hawaii at Radio Recorders Studio, Hollywood, California, USA.
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Entering at No59, Little Sister by Elvis Presley is the highest new entry on the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
The new No1 single in the USA is a cover version of an Elvis Presley album track Wooden Heart by Joe Dowell. The song is based on a German folk melody entitled Muss I Denn.
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[Marie's The Name] His Latest Flame / Little Sister by Elvis Presley enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No1 during a thirteen-week run.
Principal photography begins for Elvis Presley's tenth movie, Kid Galahad, on location at Hidden Lodge, Idyllwild, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues filming scenes for his next movie, Fun In Acapulco, at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Muddy Waters records Five Long Years for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The band features Muddy Waters on vocals, James Cotton, harmonica, Otis Spann on piano, Luther Tucker on guitar, Willie Dixon on bass and Willie Smith on drums.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of studio-based scenes at MGM Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for his fifteenth movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
In RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Elvis Presley begins recording vocals for his next movie, Kissin' Cousins. His band includes guitarists Scotty Moore, Harold Bradley and Grady Martin, backing vocalists The Jordanaires, drummers D.J. Fontana and Buddy Harman, bassist Bob Moore, saxophonists Boots Randolph and Bill Justis, pianist Floyd Cramer and fiddler Cecil Brower.
The Sam Cooke recording of the Willie Dixon composition Little Red Rooster peaks at No11 Pop and No7 R'n'B in the Billboard Magazine Charts in the USA. Piano player on the track is Ray Charles.
Elvis Presley is filming his next movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Elvis Presley's nineteenth movie, Harum Scarum, opens in cinemas in the USA. Filmed largely on the original Cecil B. DeMille set for the film The King Of Kings, some of Harum Scarum's plot is based on Rudolph Valentino's 1921 movie The Sheik. It will reach No11 on the Variety national weekly box office chart, earning $2m at the box office, and finishing at No40 on the year-end list of the top-grossing films of 1965. The film will be listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.
Elvis Presley holds a small party at home in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, with food provided by Monty’s Catering. .
The James Cotton Blues Band plays the first of two nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Holy Om.
Bobbie Gentry opens for the second time this year at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Elvis Presley hires The Memphian cinema in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, to hold a private screening of Death Of A Gunfighter and two other films.
Elvis Presley has a fourth day of rehearsals in Conference Room C of the International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in preparation for a four week season of concerts at the hotel.
Booker T And The MGs begin a nine-city tour of the UK, supported by Jimmy Ruffin and Blue Mink.
Jerry Butler, Billy Butler And The Infinity, Vivian Reed, Archie Bell And The Drells and Muhammad Ali appear on WNET tv show Soul! in the USA.
Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla are staying at their rented home in Camino Del Norte, Palm Springs, California, while looking for a new home to buy.When Elvis Presley takes his five year old daughter Lisa Marie to see the Jackson 5 play at the Sahara in Las Vegas, Nevada, she meets Michael Jackson for the first time.
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A Russian language version of Conway Twitty's 1970 hit, Hello Darlin' is broadcast worldwide as part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Twitty had worked with a University of Oklahoma language professor to record a phonetic Russian version of the song, with the Russian title Privet Radost. The song is perceived as a "gesture of goodwill" from the Apollo crew to the Soviet Union's Soyuz crew.
Kimberly Perry of Hal B. Wallis, producer of dozens of cheap and cheerful Elvis Presley movies, dies in California, USA.
On their Magic Summer tour, New Kids On The Block play at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
Britney Spears begins her 40-date Circus world tour at New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.In the Superior Court, Los Angeles, California, USA, Britney Spears settles a lawsuit brought against her by former manager Johnny Wright for failing to pay him commission.
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