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The American Quartet records A Negro Wedding In Southern Georgia, Louisiana Lou, Nationality Medley, The Battle Of Santiago and The Wedding Of Reuben And The Maid, for Victor Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
An interview with pioneering ragtime blues musician Antonio Maggio appears in the Times-Picayune Newspaper of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. In the interview Maggio asserts that he is an anarchist but denies that he supports the idea of assassination being used to achieve anarchist goals. (Maggio's song I Got The Blues is sometimes credited as being the first blues song ever composed)
James Burke Oden is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He will find success as blues vocalist, pianist, songwriter and recording artist St. Louis Jimmy Oden. He will work with Big Joe Williams and Roosevelt Sykes, record for many labels, and compose the soundtrack to the 1970 movie Blues Like Showers Of Rain.Lew Chudd, founder of Imperial Records, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Imperial will launch the career of Fats Domino, and score major successes with T-Bone Walker, Smiley Lewis, Ricky Nelson and others.
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.Comedy country music duo Homer And Jethro play at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Preacher Rollo And The Five Saints record The Darktown Strutters' Ball for MGM Records in Miami, Florida, USA.
Louis Armstrong performs Jeepers Creepers, On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Gone Fishin' and Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries on NBC-tv's Texaco Star Theater - The Milton Berle Show, in new York City, USA.Joe Thomas records Way Down Yonder In New Orleans, Royal Garden Blues, At The Jazz Band Ball, Black And Blue and other tracks during Jazz At Central Plaza, New York City, USA.
Big Joe Turner reaches No1 in the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA with Honey Hush, which features Fats Domino on piano.
Fats Domino's original version of Ain't That A Shame enters the Billboard singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10 during a thirteen-week run.
In Cosimo Matassa's J + M Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Little Richard finishes his first two-day recording session for Specialty Records. One of the songs recorded at this session is Tutti Frutti.Johnny Duncan And The Blue Grass Boys, Terry Lightfoot And His New Orleans Jazz Band and The Crescents play at St George's Hall, Bradford, UK. Lightfoot's band includes drummer Ginger Baker, later to find fame with 60s supergroup The Cream.
The movie Disc Jockey Jamboree, starring Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and Carl Perkins, opens in the UK.
Lloyd Price, The Spaniels and The Dubs are playing during a week-long engagement at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.Fats Domino performs What A Price and Ain't That Just Like A Woman on tv show American Bandstand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Preservation Hall, a new venue dedicated to showcasing traditional jazz, opens in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Fats Domino releases a new single, Let The Four Winds Blow, in the USA on Imperial Records. On the same day, plays the first of two nights in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Mahalia Jackson headlines The Third Annual Festival Of Gospel Music at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA.
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry plays the sixth night of a week at The Beachcomber Bar, Wildwood, New Jersey, USA.James Brown plays the sixth night of a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by Ben E. King, The Spinners and Lee Dorsey.
Perry Como hosts the final show of his tv series, The Chesterfield Supper Club, on NBC tv in the USA. In its fifteen year run, the show had featured such guests as The Everly Brothers, Fats Domino, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee and Paul Anka.
Margie Singleton records Old Records for Mercury Records at Bradley Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Singleton also joins Faron Young to cut Keeping Up With The Joneses.
In Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, aspiring young guitarist Jimmy Hendrix, later to become Jimi Hendrix, sends a card home to his father.
Louis Armstrong appears on the NBC tv series I've Got A Secret in the USA. The secret is the trumpet on which he learned to play. The show also features Peter Davis who taught Armstrong to play while the boy was in The Colored Waifs' Home orphanage in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Kaleidoscope play the last of three nights at The New Orleans House, Berkeley, California, USA, supported by The A.B. Skye Blues Band.
Hot Tuna play the first of three nights at The New Orleans House, Berkeley, California, USA. They are supported on this first night by all-girl band The Ace Of Cups.
Leon T. Gross dies of a heart attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Under the stage names Archie Boy and Archibald, he was a popular r'n'b singer and barrelhouse-style pianist in the 1940s, acknowleded as an influence on Fats Domino and others.
Country music singer-songwriter Troy Olsen is born in Morenci, Arizona, USA. He will co-write Blake Shelton's 2009 single I'll Just Hold On and Tim McGraw's Ghost Town Train.
Bob Dylan is recording the album Oh Mercy with Daniel Lanois at Studio-On-The-Move, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Snooks Eaglin and Earl King headline the second night of the First Annual UK Blues Festival, at The Town And Country Club, Kentish Town, London, UK.Jazz guitarist and banjo player Danny Barker, who worked with Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder, Benny Carter and many others, dies of cancer aged 85, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Robert "Catman" Caffrey, who had worked with Roy Brown, Guitar Slim, Smiley Lewis, Joe Turner, Earl King and Huey "Piano" Smith, dies in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, aged 77.
Alanis Morissette, supported by Jason Mraz, continues her Jagged Little Pill Acoustic tour at the Saenger Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.The town of Parma, Italy, Europe, names streets after Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
Brad Paisley is voted America's favourite country star in a survey
conducted by the Country Radio Broadcasters Inc. and Edison
Research. Over 13,000 country music radio listeners were polled -
and chose Paisley ahead of Brooks And Dunn, George Strait, Trace
Adkins, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith and Tim MCGraw.
Harry Connick Jr. plays at Ryman Auditorium, 
Rapper Boosie Badazz is indicted along with two associates, of the first-degree murder by shooting of 35-year-old Terry Boyd in his own house. On the same day, Badazz is also indicted on multiple drug and conspiracy charges relating to smuggling large amounts of codeine, ecstasy and marijuana into prison with intent to distribute.
While revered country music fiddler Doug Kershaw is playing an encore at The Oriental Theatre, Denver, Colorado, USA, a 20-foot-by-15-foot section of ceiling plaster crashes down onto the stage, crushing most of his equipment, including his guitar and accordion [but not his beloved fiddle]. Fortunately, no-one is injured.On his The Cowboy Rides Away Tour, George Strait plays at The New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Meschiya Lake And The Little Big Horns play at One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
On his Purpose World Tour Justin Bieber plays at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Detroit, Michigan, USA.The Church Studio at 304 South Trenton Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its significance to American music culture and, in particular, The Tulsa Sound. The studio was owned by musician Leon Russell, and used by artists including Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Dwight Twilley, Dr. John, JJ Cale, The Gap Band, Freddie King, Phoebe Snow, Peter Tosh and Tom Petty.
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