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Brown's In Town, billed as 'A tornado of merriment' featuring 'Catchy situations, bright music and pretty songs' opens at The Metropolitan Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Begin The Beguine and God's Country on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Leonard Feather And The Swinging Swedes record Rain On The Roof, Moonlight Saving Time, The Daring Young Swedes and A Handful of Stars for Cupol Records in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.The Vic Ash Quintet records Cinders, You Took Advantage Of Me, Ash Feld and With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair, for Nixa Records in London.
Guitarist Jack Eubanks, with Boots Randolph on saxophone, records After The Rain and Since I Met You Baby, at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein approaches drummer Ringo Starr of Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, to see if he'd like to replace Pete Best in The Beatles.
Sam Jones And Co record Come Rain Or Come Shine and Strollin', at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City, USA, for Riverside Records.
Johnny Thunder performs The Rosey Dance on daily tv pop show American Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Peter, Paul And Mary are dominating the Billboard Albums chart in the USA, with the No1 album (In the Wind), No6, (Moving), and No8, (Peter, Paul And Mary).
Dock Boggs records Wild Bill Jones, Prodigal Son, Mother's Advice, Harvey Logan and Bright Sunny South, for Folkways Records in Roosevelt, New Jersey, USA.
The Sonny Rollins Trio records Autumn Nocturne, in New York City, USA, for RCA Records.
I'll Follow the Sun by The Beatles reaches No1 in the pop singles chart, Tio i topp, in Sweden, Europe.
Popular singer John Gary plays the first of seven nights at Elmwood Casino, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
In-demand session saxophonist Artie Kaplan records Good Time Music, Three Blind Mice and the Bob Dylan composition Blowin' In The Wind at Mirasound Studio, New York City, USA. The tracks will not be released.
The Who record Call Me Lightning at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. It is highly probable that they also record John Entwistle's song Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde on this day.
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The Temptations record Cloud Nine, at Hitsville USA Studios, Detroit, Michigan, USA. This song is regarded as Motown's first venture into psychedelic sounds.
Ella Fitzgerald releases a new single Sunshine Of Your Love/Hey Jude, in the UK on Polydor Records. (Hey Jude is written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles]
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by Johnny Farnham reaches No1 in the Australian pop singles chart. The song is composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Rolling Thunder (hippy spiritual leader), Hot Tuna and The New Riders Of The Purple Sage play at The Family Dog, 660 Great Highway, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, is filmed for the CBS-tv documentary special Hard Rain, at Hughes Stadium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Kiersten Quin are born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They will find international acclaim as rock-pop duo Tegan And Sara.Harry Warren, composer of such songs as September In The Rain, I Only Have Eyes For You, Lullaby Of Broadway, Chatanooga Choo Choo, You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby, I’ll String Along With You and many others, dies in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Prince records Paisley Park in Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA.
The band Red Hot And Blue, appearing tonight at Bogart's, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, is actually Prince and the Revolution playing an unannounced 'secret' concert, as a warm-up for the Purple Rain tour.
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On his his 97-date Purple Rain tour, Prince plays the third of five nights at the 16,800 seat Omni, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
On the Purple Rain tour, Prince And The Revolution play the fourth of six nights at The Forum, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Barbara Dickson plays at Windsor Hall, Bournemouth, England, UK, Europe.Rain Parade play at Dingwalls, Camden Lock, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Doctors Children.
George Harrison concludes three months of recording sessions for his album Cloud Nine.
Thunder, a solo album Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor, enters the UK album chart where it will spend just one week at No67.
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Mick Ronson, guitarist for Mott The Hoople, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review band, dies aged 46 of cancer, in London, England, UK, Europe.
The novel Underworld by Don Delillo is published by Scribner. Passages from the book, pertaining to Delillo's character Ismael Munoz, will inspire Conor Oberst while he is writing the 2007 Bright Eyes song Four Winds.
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Rain by Billie Myers enters
the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No4 during a
nine-week run on the chart.
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Terminally ill with cancer, Warren Zevon is recording material for his final album, The Wind, in his home studio.
Kenny Chesney headlines a stadium show for the first time in his career, playing for 61,780 people in the rain at Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Also on the bill are Brooks And Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, The Warren Brothers and Deana Carter.
Air Supply, having been stranded overnight in Cuba by Hurricane Dennis, fly out to Los Angeles, California, USA. Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, David Byrne, Buckwheat Zydeco, Allen Toussaint, Queen Ida and others play in a Hurricane Katrina benefit show at Town Hall, New York City, USA.
The North American leg of U2's 360 tour begins with the first of two nights at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Snow Patrol.
Torrential rain and 80mph winds hit the stage during a Flaming Lips performance at the Brady Block Party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Bassist Michael Ivins narrowly escapes being crushed when he leaps to safety as a 15-foot video screen topples over the back of the stage.
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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the boxer who inspired the Bob Dylan song Hurricane, dies aged 76 in his sleep at home in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, having recently suffered from prostate cancer.
During his Divide tour, Ed Sheeran plays in pouring rain on the Hit Network's World Famous Rooftop show at Hanging Rock, Victoria, Australia, Oceania.
Thunder On the Left release a new LP, National Insecurity.
Gloryhammer play at LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany, Europe, supported by Nekrogoblikon and Wind Rose.1900 |
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