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William H. Reitz records La kraquette, a Xylophone solo, and Felice, a bells solo, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
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Singer and exotic dancer Josephine Baker becomes the first African-American to star in a major movie feature when Siren Of The Tropics opens at cinemas in Paris, France.
Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra record I'll Always Be In Love With You, Do Something, I'm All A-Twitter and I Wanna Go Places And Do Things, in London, UK, for Columbia Records.
The movie King Of Jazz, starring Paul Whiteman, Bing Crosby and others, opens in theatres in Argentina, South America.
Judy Garland spends the fourth of six days of shooting interiors and exteriors of Noonan's Cottage for the movie Little Nellie Kelly in the USA.
The Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, opens with a concert by Frank Sinatra and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. 
The Lux Radio Theatre in the USA presents With A Song In My Heart, which tells the story of popular singer Jane Froman, including her tragic accident and courageous comeback. The show is broadcast on AFRS Radio in its Hollywood Radio Theatre slot.
The musical comedy movie Call Me Madam, written by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor and George Sanders, opens in Denmark, Europe.The musical film Carmen Jones, a contemporary version of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, starring Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey and Dorothy Dandridge opens in the USA.
Graeme Kelling, later to play guitar with Deacon Blue, is born in Paisley, Scotland.
Louis Jordan plays the fifth night in a week of shows at the Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Elvis Presley begins rehearsals for the movie G.I. Blues in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley takes a break from filming for his seventh movie, Wild In The Country , and begins a weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Weekly UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] reports that British pop idol Marty Wilde is shortly to begin making a film in Africa.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming for his latest movie, Follow That Dream, in Crystal River, Florida, USA.
Dean Martin records Cha Cha D'Amour, Love (Your Spell Is Everywhere), Amor and Two Loves Have I for Capitol Records at 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, USA.
The Hollywood Flames, The Clovers, The Cadillacs, The Imperials, Charlie And Ray, The Charts, The Kodoks, The Turbans, Tiny Topsy, and The Reuben Phillips Orchestra appear in a Hal Jackson oldies show at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Tennesse Ernie Ford records Peace In The Valley, Stand By Me, Wayfaring Pilgrim and other tracks at Capitol Recording Studios, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, California, USA.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio scenes for his next movie, It Happened At The World's Fair, in MGM Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley comes to the end of filming studio scenes for his next movie, It Happened At The World's Fair, in MGM Studios, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elvis Presley releases a new movie soundtrack album, Girls! Girls! Girls!, in the USA.
Elvis Presley continues with location filming in Las Vegas, Nevada, on his latest movie Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret.
Elvis Presley begins 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.
On a day off, the Rolling Stones catch the James Bond movie From Russia With Love in Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his
seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
Gary Lewis And The Playboys record Doin' The Flake at RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The song is designed as a promotional tune for a Corn Flakes tv advert. The track is arranged by Leon Russell.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
A feature headlined 'Presley As Top Money Star' in Variety magazine in the USA estimates Elvis Presley's income from motion pictures this year at $2.7m, easily surpassing the earnings of such established Hollywood heavyweights as Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn.
Hit songwriter Al Kooper and music publisher Irwin Schroeder, loaded on mescaline, go to see the film The Loved One, in Manhattan, New York City, USA. Halfway through, the movie stops because of a city-wide power blackout. Kooper wanders through the blackened streets marvelling, in his stoned state, at the ensuing chaos.
Buffalo Springfield record the song What A Day at Sunset Sound Recording studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. It will not immediately be released.
The Monkees are working on the songs Zor And Zam, D.W. Washburn and others at RCA Victor Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Michael Colombier dies in Santa Monica, California, USA, aged 65. He had enjoyed a successful career as a film score composer, with movies including Against All Odds, The Golden Child and The Money Pit. He had also worked with several rock acts, notably Prince on his film Purple Rain and Madonna on her film Swept Away.
Ringo Starr begins filming the slapstick comedy movie Caveman in Charubusco Studios, Mexico City.
The 1964 teen beach movie musical Bikini Beach, starring Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Little Stevie Wonder and The Pyramids, finally gets its European tv premiere with a screening in Portugal.
Bryan Adams reaches No1 in the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart for the first of seven weeks with (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - the theme from the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
U2's film Rattle
And Hum is released in the new Blu-ray format, along with
non-rock films including The Italian Job and Aeon Flux.
The film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, goes on general release in Brazil. In the film, which claims to be 'Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan', six different actors depict separate facets of Dylan's life and public persona. Dylan himself does not appear.
Chemical Wedding, a horror movie with a screenplay co-written by Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden, is screened at the Athens International Sci-Fi And Fantasy Film Festival in Greece, Europe, where it goes on to win the festival's Top Movie Award.
It is formally announced that the Universal Music Group has donated around 200,000 metal, glass and lacquer master discs from the period 1926 to 1948 to a Library of Congress site in Culpeper, Virginia, USA. The recordings, from Universal's vaults, include material by Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Fred Waring, Guy Lombardo, The Andrews Sisters, Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe and many others.
On their Hurricane tour, 30 Seconds To Mars play the first of two nights at The House Of Blues, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Cher Lloyd releases Swagger Jagger as the first single from her debut album Sticks + Stones in the UK.
Musical works added to the Library Of Congress in the USA on this day include Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd; Simon And Garfunkel
Jack White and T Bone Burnet attend the premiere of American Epic during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival at The Eccles Center Theatre, in Park City, Utah, USA.Boy George and Caitlyn Jenner are among the attendees at the 24th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar Viewing Party at The City of West Hollywood Park, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Miley Cyrus and actor Liam Hemsworth are photographed in public together for the first time since they called off their engagement in September 2013. The couple attend a Hemsworth family dinner at organic Mexican restaurant Gracias Madre in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. 1913 |
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