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The musical comedy A Runaway Girl is playing at Daly's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 40 performances.
Clarice Vance, billed as "The Best Singer Of Coon Songs", plays at The Palace Theatre, New York City, USA.
The musical comedy Foxy Grandpa, based on a popular newspaper cartoon strip, is playing at Haverley's 14th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 125 performances.Paul Whiteman plays a benefit in Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA, with vocalist Bee Palmer. The concert is to raise funds for the Northwoods Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York State.
The musical revue The Show Is On, featuring songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen and others, closes after just seventeen performances at the Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City.
After 289 performances at The Shubert Theatre, New York City, USA, the Rodgers And Hart musical comedy Babes In Arms transfers to the Majestic heatre. The best-known song in the production is My Funny Valentine.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York State, USA. Gipsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt flies into New York City, USA, where a welcoming party is thrown for him at The Aquarium Restaurant by Duke Ellington and The William Morris Agency. Reinhardt is in America to become part of Ellington's concert troupe.
The Three Riffs with The Oscar Pettiford Trio record Pluto and I'll Be There for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA. At the same session, The Four Riffs record Tormented and You've Got To Reap What You Sow, but neither of these two tracks are released.
The Delta Rhythm Boys record Nobody Knows, You Don't Move Me Anymore, Sentimental Journey, If You See Tears In My Eyes and I Lied [When I Said I Loved You] for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
The Irving Berlin musical comedy Call Me Madam is presented on Broadway at The Imperial Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 644 performances.
Blind street composer Louis 'Moondog' Hardin gives evidence in New York Supreme court in a $100,000 damages suit alleging that Alan Freed, a deejay for WINS Radio, New York City, USA, is using his music and his name without permission. [Freed was broadcasting under the name Moondog].
The Dick Clark C aravan of Stars plays the third night of a week of shows at The Centennial Exposition, Wichita, Kansas, USA, featuring Frankie Avalon, The Shirelles, Gary U.S. Bonds, Johnny And The Hurricanes and Chuck Jackson.
Despite facing severe losses, The Twist Spectacular Tour plays the third of five nights at St Nicholas Arena, New York City, USA, headlined by Chubby
Checker with Joey Dee And The
Starliters, Dee Dee
Sharp, The
Dovellsand The
Carroll Brothers.
Ben E.
King, The Drifters, Mary Wells and
The
Crystals play the fifth of seven nights at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Jazz trumpeter Bobby Hackett, with Sir Charles Thompson on piano, records As Long As He Needs Me, I'd Do Anything and other tracks for his Columbia Records' album Jazz Impressions Of Lionel Bart's Oliver, at Columbia Records' 30th Street studio in New York City, USA.
One Fine Day by The Chiffons is the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the US, entering at No71. The song is composed by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
John Coltrane plays at The Konserthusen, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe. The show is taped and will be released as the LP Live In Stockholm 1963.
Barbra Streisand plays at Indiana State University, Concert Hall, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA.
A new coffeehouse venue, The Cafe Au Go Go, opens in
Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. The opening act is stand-up
comedian Professor Irwin Corey. It will become a vitally important
venue for folk, folk-rock, blues and other musicians.
The Ray Brown-Milt Jackson Orchestra records Monterey Mist, For Someone I Love and other tracks, for Verve Records in New York City, USA.
Bob Dylan's latest single, Maggie's Farm, enters the UK singles chart where it will peak at No22 during an eight-week run.
Tony Bennett plays the first of five nights at Oakdale Music Theatre, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA.When The Byrds play at The Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, their performance is disrupted by female fans storming the stage. Twenty girls actually get onto the stage, and thirty police officers are called in to quell the resultant chaos. One girl is injured when she falls into the orchestra pit, and two other youths are arrested.
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Jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson and The Wynton Kelly Trio record the live album Straight, No Chaser, at The Left Bank Jazz Society, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Jimi Hendrix attends a Traffic/Pretty Things gig in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK, Europe, where he meets journalist Anne Bjorndal who will become a friend.
The Rascals play in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, and King Curtis play at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York State, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler disappears in New York City, USA. His body will be found in the East River on the 25th of the month, and his death will be ruled as suicide.
While the band Chicago is recording the album V in New York City, USA, Robert Lamm goes to a celebration in Central Park, and is so
inspired by the jubilant music featuring steel drum players, singers, dancers and jugglers, that he and fellow Chicago member
Walter Parazaider write the song Saturday
In The Park, which will be released as a single.
Black Sabbath play in Ungano’s Ritz, Staten Island, New York State, USA, supported by Sweathog.
When David Johansen appears at The Fast Lane, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, he is joined on stage for two songs by Bruce Springsteen.
The Grateful Dead play at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York State, USA.When the J. Geils Band appear on New York City tv's Joe Franklin Show, they re-create their Centerfold single video by forming a human pyramid and splashing each other with paint.
The Rolling Stones are photographed in New York City, USA, by Annie Liebowitz, for the cover of their upcoming 18th album Dirty Work.
Kiss release a new single, 
David Cassidy, David Essex, The Osmonds and Les McKeown's 70s Bay City Rollers play at The NEC, Birmingham, England, UK.
On her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga plays the first of two nights at The General Motors Place, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Vans Warped Tour plays at The Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien Center, New York State, USA. Artists appearing include Air Dubai, A Lot Like Birds, A Skylit Drive, Antiserum, Bayside, Bad Rabbits, Bowling For Soup, Cute Is What We Aim For, Echosmith and Attila.1900 |
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