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Clyde Julian Foley is born in Blue Lick, Indiana, USA. He will find success as Red Foley, one of the biggest country music stars after World War II, selling over 25m records.
Henry D. 'Homer' Haynes is born near Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Starting in 1936, he will find enduring success on radio and tv as Homer of the country music comedy duo Homer And Jethro. The duo will record more than fifty albums during their career and will win a Best Comedy Performance Grammy in 1959 for The Battle of Kookamonga, a parody of Johnny Horton's Battle of New Orleans.Jazz, blues and gospel vocalist Ethel Waters is the musical guest on tv show This Is Show Business in the USA.
Desi Arnaz records The Straw Hat Song in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for use in the tv series I Love Lucy.
Saxophonist, bandleader, composer and musical arranger Hugo Winterhalter makes a guest appearance on the Jimmy Melton tv show in New York City, USA.The Bob Crosby Show on CBS-tv in the USA opens the year as the highest-rated show in daytime television with a 55.8% share of the viewing audience. Starring Bob Crosby And His Bobcats, with The Modernaires, Joanie O'Brien, Carol Richards and others, The show runs from 3.30 to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday every week.
Band leader Lawrence Welk is the subject of This Is Your Life on NBC TV in the USA.
Harmonica virtuoso Eddy Manson appears on tv's Ed Sullivan Show in the USA playing selections from his new LP The Fi Is Hi on Vik Records.Elvis Presley arrives in Miami, Florida, USA, where he is shortly to record a tv show with Frank Sinatra.
The Smothers Brothers make a live appearance on The Jack Paar Show on tv in the USA.
Joe
Jones performs California Sun on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Pop idol Fabian undertakes a guest spot on CBS-tv show Candid Camera in the USA, during which he narrates an item showing the behaviour of teenage boys.
Lena Martell is the musical guest on The Charlie Chester Music Hall programme on BBC-yv in London, England, UK, Europe.
Brenda
Lee appears on popular tv show American
Bandstand in the USA performing Break It To Me
Gently.
Barbra Streisand appears on tonight's edition of tv's The Tonight Show in the USA, hosted on this occasion by Groucho Marx.
Connie
Francis performs I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter on daily tv pop
show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Freddie And The Dreamers appear on UK tv pop show Thank Your Lucky Stars, recorded at the Alpha ATV/ABC studios in Aston, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
The musical comedy film Bye Bye Birdie is released to cinemas in Brazil, South America. The film, based on Elvis Presley being drafted into the US Army, stars Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke, with Jesse Pearson as fictitious pop idol Conrad Birdie (a pun on Conway Twitty), along with Ann-Margret and Bobby Rydell. TV show host Ed Sullivan appears as himself.
Memphis Slim, Manfred Mann, Marianne Faithfull and Long John Baldry appear on BBC2 tv show The Beat Room in the UK.
The Beatles are seen on the UK tv show Thank Your Lucky Stars, miming to Ticket To Ride, Yes It Is and Eight Days A Week. The show also features The Animals, The Drifters, Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones and Peter And Gordon.
The Ed Sullivan show in New York City, USA, begins broadcasting in colour, because Studio 50 has become equipped with Norelco Color Cameras. The cameras are specially shielded to counter the magnetic field from subway power station transformers at the rear of the stage. Artists appearing include Dino, Desi And Billy and Eddie Fisher.
The Beach Boys pre-record a live appearance for tv's Jack Benny Hour, in NBC-tv's Color City Studios, Burbank, California, USA.
San Francisco band Moby Grape appear on the Robin Seymour tv show, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. They also play at the Upper Deck Club in Detroit.
The single Valleri by The Monkees is awarded a Gold Disc by the R.I.A.A. in the USA. The song is written by songwriting duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
During a visit to California, USA, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of The Beatles jam with David Crosby (The Byrds, CSN+Y) and Peter Asher (Peter And Gordon) at Willow Glen, Los Angeles, home of The Monkees' Peter Tork.
The Rolling Stones set up and begin filming their ill-fated tv special, Rock And Roll Circus, at Intertel Studios, Wembley, London, UK. Because of work permit problems, Taj Mahal is filmed on this day. Other guests include John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Jethro Tull, Marianne Faithfull, Mitch Mitchell and The Who.UK weekly tv music charts show Top Of The Pops is broadcast in colour for the first time.
Ringo Starr of The Beatles appears with actor Peter Sellers on UK tv show Frost On Saturday, transmitted live from Wembley Studios, Wembley, London, UK.
Funkadelic reach No1 in the Billboard R'n'B Singles Chart in the USA with One Nation Under A Groove (Part 1).
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The Undertones, Matchbox and The Wurzels appear on the BBC-1 tv show Cheggers Plays Pop, recorded in Manchester, England, UK.King Sunny Ade and His African Beats play live on tv show Rockpalast in Essen, Germany, Europe.
George Harrison is interviewed at the offices of Handmade Films in London, England, UK, Europe, for the BBC tv show Newsnight.Actor/singer Al Corley (of tv's Dynasty fame) releases his first UK single, Square Rooms.
The Wizard by Paul Hardcastle is adopted as the theme tune for BBC1-tv's weekly pop chart show Top of the Pops in the UK. It will continue to be used until September, 26, 1991.
Popular xylophone soloist Sammy Herman dies in Fishkill, New York State, USA. At NBC radio and television he had performed every morning (with Frank Banta accompanying on piano) on N.B.C. radio for many years. He also played on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade in the orchestras of Carl Hoff, Al Goodman, and Leo Reisman. In 1931 he played with Bing Crosby in Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys on the Old Gold Hour.
The final episode of Britney Spears and husband Kevin Federline's UPN reality show, Britney and Kevin : Chaotic, is broadcast in the USA.
David Cassidy, David Essex, The Osmonds and Les McKeown's 70s Bay City Rollers play at Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England, UK.
It is announced that Island Records has signed Shaheen Jafargholi, the 13-year-old singer who came to the world's attention on Britain's Got Talent and subsequently sang at Michael Jackson's memorial service to a global TV audience of more than 1bn.
The 2010 MTV Movie Awards are held in Los Angeles, California, USA. Music performances at the event include Katy Perry, who performs a duet with Snoop Dogg, and Christina Aguilera who delivers a medley of three songs from her new album Bionic.Set
Fire To The Rain by Adele, reaches No1 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, for the first of
two weeks.
Australian tv star and pop singer Holly Valance and her new husband, billionaire property developer Nick Candy, host an informal 'recovery' barbecue for guests who attended their wedding the day before in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Status Quo appear on BBC tv show Breakfast, live from Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK, to promote their upcoming movie, Bula Quo!, and tour.1910 |
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