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African-American comedian, songwriter and singer Sherman H. Dudley is playing at The Empress Theatre, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.Jim Foglesong is born in Lundale, West Virginia, USA. He will become a country music producer and executive based in Nashville from the 1950s until the 1990s. Anong the many artists he signed are Barbara Mandrell, Don Williams, Garth Brooks, Donna Fargo, Reba McEntire, The Oak Ridge Boys, Con Hunley, George Strait, Tanya Tucker, Sawyer Brown, Suzy Bogguss and Kevin Morris.
Country music singer and songwriter Charlie Walker is born in Copeville, Texas, USA.
Mack Lunsford, His Westerners and The Texas Ranch Girls play the second of two nights at The Ace Theatre, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.The annual Texas Prison Rodeo begins at Texas State Prison, Huntsville, Texas, USA. Among the performers appearing at the rodeo is Johnny Cash.
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Tex Ritter, with producer Lee Gillette, records Lord Let They Grace Surround Me, The Sacred Guest and other religious songs in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Texas-based rockabilly vocalist and recording artist Gene Summers marries his songwriter girlfriend Deanna Trentham.
Ernest Tubb And His Texas Troubadours, Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, Martha Carson, Kathy Perry, Johnny Johnson, Tommy Duncan, Autry Inman and Dick Flood are playing in Topeka, Kansas, USA.
Lightnin' Hopkins records Business You're Doin', Little Sister's Boogie and other tracks for Prestige Records in New York City, USA.
The Greatest Record Show Of 1963, starring Brook Benton, Dion, Trini Lopez, Timi Yuro, Lesley Gore and The Ken Thorne Orchestra plays at The Capitol, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe.
The The Beach Boys Summer Spectacular at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA, sponsored by KFWB Radio, also features Sam the Sham, The Byrds, Donna Loren, The Sir Douglas Quintet, Sonny And Cher, Dino, Desi And Billy, The Kinks and Ian Whitcomb.
Lightnin' Hopkins begins a two day recording session for Verve Records in Los Angeles, California, USA, during which he records Shake It Baby, Goin' Back Home, Good Times, What'd I Say and other tracks.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience are filmed by ABC-tv while recording Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) at The Record Plant, New York City, USA. In the evening Jimi sits in with Joe Tex at The Town Hall, New York City, USA.
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Buddy Holly And The Crickets are awarded a Gold Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A. for the hit single That'll Be The Day - a decade after its original release.
Kenny Rogers And The First Edition, Pickettywitch, White Plains, The Cuff-Links and Dave Dee appear on weekly UK tv pop chart show Top Of The Pops.
The Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band, Doug Sahm and Wet Willie play the second of two nights at RFK Memorial Stadium, Washington DC, USA.Twenty eight year old Texan Joseph Riviera, pulls out a gun in the New York offices of Elektra/Asylum Records, and demands to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles, because he wants them to finance his trucking business. He is over-powered by police.
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On their Blues legend Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins dies of cancer in Centerville, Texas, aged 70.
Musical comedy film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is released in the USA, starring Dolly Parton. The film presents Universal with problems, largely because the word "whorehouse" is considered obscene in parts of the USA at that time. As a result, the film is renamed The Best Little Cathouse in Texas in some print ads.Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band reaches No1 in the Billboard Top 40 Singles chart in the USA.
On their Hide Your Sheep Tour [aka the K.A.T.N. (Kicking Ass and Taking Names tour) Tour], Van Halen play at The Summit, Houston, Texas, USA, supported by After The Fire.
Julian Lennon and his band begin rehearsals for his first live tour in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Bob Dylan plays the first of two nights at Chastain Memorial Park Amphitheater, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, supported by Steve Earle.
On her Rhythm Nation 1814 tour, Janet Jackson plays the second of two nights at The Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
On their Whack Attack tour ZZ Top play the last of three nights at The Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Dave Matthews Band plays at The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre-TX, Schertz, Texas, USA. 
Rapper Lil Wayne is hospitalized after suffering seizure-like symptoms while traveling on a private jet over Texas, USA. His plane makes an emergency landing and he is taken to a local hospital for treatment, but released soon after.
Shemane Deziel Nugent, the wife of heavy metal guitarist and notorious 'Wild Man Of Rock' Ted Nugent is arrested after security officers find a gun in her carry-on luggage at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Snarky Puppy and Terrace Martin play at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Long John Hunter, dies aged 84, at his home in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.On their The End World Tour, Black Sabbath play at The Gaxa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, Texas, USA, supported by Rival Sons.
Country singer Kacey Musgraves becomes engaged to longtime boyfriend Ruston Kelly on Christmas morning, while the couple are enjoying the holidays at her childhood home in Texas, USA. Later in the day she posts a picture of her engagement ring on instagram.
On their The M A N I A tour, Fall Out Boy play at The Don Haskins Center, El Paso, Texas, USA, supported by Machine Gun Kelly and nothing,nowhere.
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