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Sheet music for the song It Must Have Been Svengali In Disguise (lyric by Vincent Bryan and music by Harry von Tilzer) is published as a free supplement with today's edition of the New York American And Journal. The song is taken from the musical The Wild Rose.As heated debate continues over the impropriety of popular 'animal' dances including the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Trot and Bunny Hug, The United Press in New York City, USA, reports that "Dance hall proprietors who permit such dances will be arrested for disorderly conduct." Such dances, usually performed to ragtime or jazz music, are deemed inappropriate for "working girls on New York's East Side."
As a result of the popularity of the song It's A Long Way To Tipperary, an article about the town appears in The Nationalist newspaper in the UK under the heading 'Tipperary in the Limelight'.
Williams' Colored Singers [aka Williams' Jubilee Singers] play at The Opera House, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. The local newspaper ad notes that there are 'reserved seats for white people'.
My Sweeter Than Sweet by The Vincent Lopez Orchestra is released as the Durium Hit Of The Week on newspaper stands in New York City, USA at a cost of 15c, twenty percent of the price of an ordinary shellac record.
Time On My Hands / Jingle Bells by
Phil
Spitalny is released as the Durium Hit Of The Week on
newspaper stands in New York City, USA at a cost of 15c, twenty
percent of the price of an ordinary shellac record.
My Silent Love/Hummin' To Myself by Phil
Spitalny is released as the last Durium Hit Of The Week on
newspaper stands in New York City, USA at a cost of 15c, twenty
percent of the price of an ordinary shellac record.
An article in Billboard magazine in the USA predicts that the recently-initiated merchandising campaign based on Elvis Presley-endorsed products will "eclipse sales of $20,000,000 before the end of the year."
Weekly UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] reports that skiffle king Lonnie Donegan has signed a new recording contract with Pye Records.
Folk musician Pete Seeger, under indictment for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955, states to a press conference in New York City, USA, that he will continue to refuse "to answer questions as to my associations, my philosophy or religious beliefs, or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs."
Weekly UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] reports that Cliff Richard will tour the world promoting his latest movie.
The Searchers, John Leyton, Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, The Hollies, The Big Three, Mike Sarne, Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, The Nomads, The Undertakers and Ian And The Zodiacs are among twenty bands taking part in B-Day – The Daily Herald Beat Festival, the Britain's first all day long pop concert, which is held in Stanley Stadium, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. 
Billy J. Kramer is featured on the cover of today's edition of Disc Weekly pop newspaper in the UK, alongside the headline 'Billy J Still Can't Believe It'.Daryl Quist is featured on the cover of today's edition of UK pop paper The New Musical Express (aka NME), in a paid-for advertisement for his single Goodbye To Love. Quist was part of a stable of artists promoted by entrepreneur Larry Parnes.
A feature interview in today's edition of Newsweek magazine in the USA reveals Bob Dylan's middle-class Minnesota upbringing and repeats (now discredited) allegations that he had taken his song Blowin' In The Wind from another songwriter. The feature infuriates Dylan.Religious organisations often claim that on this day the US magazine The Saturday Evening Post quotes The Beatles' press officer Derek Taylor as saying, "They're [The Beatles] completely anti-Christ. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so anti-Christ they shock me which isn't an easy thing." However, there was no edition of Saturday Evening Post on this date, because it was a Thursday. An article about The Beatles by Al Aronowitz, did appear on the 8th August, but as far as can be ascertained, the Derek Taylor quote does not appear in that article.
Ringo Starr of The Beatles reluctantly gives a press interview to journalists in 2 Princes Crescent, Hove, Sussex, UK, the house where he is on his honeymoon with his new wife Maureen Cox.
The Rolling Stones have a day of media interviews, including Danish tv, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
In poet Kenneth Rexroth’s regular column in the San Francisco Examiner, he declares, among other things, that "Bob Dylan's songs are a cry of anguished moral outrage against the mess the oldies persist in making out of a world in which all men could be guaranteed lives of peace and modest comfort if only the will existed."
Judy Garland is at the Astor Tower, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for a press conference to promote her upcoming concert at The Arie Crown Theater.
Los Angeles-based pop magazine KRLA Beat devotes its front cover to the Rolling Stones recent visit to California.
The Top Ten Singles on WMCA Radio in New York City, USA, on this day are as follows :
1. YESTERDAY - The Beatles (Capitol)
2. HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys (Bang)
3. THE 'IN' CROWD - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)
4. EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Barry McGuire (Dunhill)
5. YOU WERE ON MY MIND - We Five (A+M)
6. HELP! - The Beatles (Capitol)
7. CATCH US IF YOU CAN - The Dave Clark Five (Epic)
8. IT AIN'T ME BABE - The Turtles (White Whale)
9. YOU’VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES - The Fortunes (Press)
10. 1-2-3 - Len Barry (Decca)
1. YESTERDAY - The Beatles (Capitol)
2. HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys (Bang)
3. THE 'IN' CROWD - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)
4. EVE OF DESTRUCTION - Barry McGuire (Dunhill)
5. YOU WERE ON MY MIND - We Five (A+M)
6. HELP! - The Beatles (Capitol)
7. CATCH US IF YOU CAN - The Dave Clark Five (Epic)
8. IT AIN'T ME BABE - The Turtles (White Whale)
9. YOU’VE GOT YOUR TROUBLES - The Fortunes (Press)
10. 1-2-3 - Len Barry (Decca)
An advert in the Los Angeles Free Press for the Kim Fowley single The Trip, describes the track as having a psychedelic sound. The ad invites readers to send a dollar to Fowley’s address in Hollywood to receive the single, and states that the record has not only been banned by local radio stations but has also been refused for sale by record shops.
Judy Garland and her husband Mark Herron attend a New Year’s Eve party given by the English actress, author and screenwriter, Pamela Mason.
When The Jimi Hendrix Experience fly to New York City, USA, the whole band is strip-searched for drugs as they go through customs.
Spirit and the Illinois Speed Press play the last of five nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. 
Jimi Hendrix is interviewed by Black Music magazine. The feature will run in September with the headline 'Jimi Hendrix - Is His Music Black Or White?'
John Lennon and Yoko Ono are interviewed by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn for the radical left wing publication, Red Mole, in their Tittenhurst Park home near Ascot, Berkshire, England, UK, Europe. The next day, inspired by the ideas put forward in the interview, Lennon will write his song Power To The People.
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Black Sabbath hold a press conference in Sydney, New South Wales, to tie in with their first Australian visit.
Aspiring young UK band The Jam place a newspaper small ad stating "Jam require lead guitarist." No suitable applicants respond. On the same day, Jack White of The White Stripes is born.
Bruce Springsteen appears on the covers of both Newsweek and Time magazines in the USA on the same day. Musicians rarely appeared on the cover of either magazine, so to be featured on both on the same day was quite remarkable.
On their first world tour, 
UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror runs a feature headlined "It's Murder! Maggie Gets Rock Mugging", ispired by the fact that the latest Iron Maiden single, Sanctuary, shows the band's horror mascot Eddie crouching over the corpse of a freshly slain Margaret Thatcher, prime Minister of the UK.
It is announced in the UK rock press that all-girl punk band The Slits has split up.Bo Diddley and The Associates are both interviewed by Johnny Black in London, England, UK, Europe.
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The UK rock paper Sounds reports that Deep Purple have had to abandon plans to record their comeback album in the Von Trapp family mansion in Salzburg, Austria, Europe – famed for its appearance in the film The Sound Of Music – because local authorities have refused permission.
Sounds music newspaper in the UK reports that Ian McCulloch of Echo And The Bunnymen has lost his assault case against Eric Newby, a bouncer at the 1984 York Festival. The court case stemmed from the band's headline gig at York Rock Festival at York Racecourse, Yorkshire, England, UK, Europe, where there was an altercation between singer McCulloch and Newby. McCulloch claimed to have been beaten up backstage, but Newby denied the charge and magistrates decided there was no case to answer.
Suggs of UK hitmaking 2-Tone band Madness denies allegations (in The Sun newspaper a week earlier) that he has racist sympathies.
The Sun newspaper reveals that UK pop trio Bros are being sued for £58,000 by American Express for overspends on their Platinum cards.
Ray Davies of The Kinks publishes his pseudo-autobiographical book X-Ray, via Viking Publishers in the UK. In the evening, when the book is launched with a press event at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, Davies plays an acoustic set for the assembled media throng.
UK tabloid The Sunday People claims that Lemmy of Motorhead indulged in a three-day-long sex and bondage session during which his lover was handcuffed to the bed. When Lemmy objects, pointing out that the session lasted seven days and his lover was suspended from the ceiling, the newspaper apologises unreservedly.During a BBC-tv documentary, The Death of Kiss and Tell, Pete Doherty compares the world's
press to the Nazis who oversaw the holocaust.
Two Iranian music journalists, Behrang Tonekaboni and Kayvan Farzin, are arrested at the offices of a monthly music journal Farhang va Ahang. No reason for the arrests is given. Their case will be taken up by Amnesty International.
Ellie Goulding wins the BBC Sound Of 2010 poll, a vital showcase award for promising young musicians. The poll is compiled by a panel of 165 'tastemakers' including magazine editors, newspaper critics, DJs and radio and TV producers.
UK newspaper the Daily Mail reports that Madonna's brother, Anthony Ciccone, lives under a bridge in Traverse City, Michigan, USA, and depends on a local soup kitchen for food.Country music star Ray Price reveals, in a local newspaper interview, that he has been battling pancreatic cancer for six months.
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