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Uncle Tom's Cabin, a play with music, is presented at The Academy Of Music, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 88 performances.
The musical comedy The Wild Rose is presented at The Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances.Billed as "Vaudeville's Most Accomplished Instrumentalist", Musical Dale is among the acts playing at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Musical comedy The Show Girl plays at Wallack's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 64 performances.
The musical comedy The Sultan Of Sulu is presented at Wallack's Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 192 performances.A concert in aid of the Pipe Band Fund of the Caledonian Society takes place in Canterbury Hall, Christchurch, New Zealand.
The musical revue Hip-Hip-Hooray is playing at The Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 425 performances.Oliver Naylor's Orchestra records Sweet Georgia Brown for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Record producer Bob Johnston is born in Fort Worth, Texas. He will produce memorable albums by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Simon And Garfunkel, Johnny Cash and others.
Pianist and bandleader Teddy Wilson records Blues In C Sharp Minor, Warmin' Up and Mary Had A Little Lamb, in the USA.
Musical revue The Show Is On, starring Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, plays at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 236 performances.The Eddie Fitzpatrick Orchestra plays in The Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, California, USA.
R'n'b pianist Ivory Joe Hunter plays the third night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The musical Bet Your Life is running at The London Hippodrome, London, England, UK, starring Julie Wilson, Brian Reece, Arthur Askey, Sally Ann Howes. Songs in the show include I Love Being in Love, It’s the Female of the Species, Hook Line and Sinker, I Want a Great Big Hunk of Man, All on Account of a Guy.
The popular musical Guys And Dolls is running at The Shubert Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The third of five days of recording for the Rodgers And Hammerstein soundtrack to the film Oklahoma proceeds at Columbia Studios, New York City, USA. Singers include Nelson Eddy, Portia Nelson and Virginia Haskins.Unchained Melody by Les Baxter reaches No1 in the Billboard Most-Played by Disc Jockeys chart in the USA, during a 21-week run on the chart.
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Love Is A Now And Then Thing, the debut album by Anthony Newley, enters the UK albums chart, where it will peak at No19 during a run of two weeks.
Blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers plays the third night of two weeks in the Camellia house Lounge at The D rake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Lesley Gore records Judy's Turn To Cry at A + R Studios, New York City, USA. The track is produced by Quincy Jones and arranged by Klaus Ogerman.
The Third Annual UCLA Folk Festival, a three day event, begins at Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. Artists appearing over the course of the event include Son House, Jimmy Driftwood, Sam Hinton, Ollie Gilbert, Bess Hawes, Ruth Rubin, Hedy West, Vern And Ray and Bookmiller Shannon.
The Ramsey Lewis Trio play the second of three nights at Bohemian Caverns, Washington DC, USA.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
Joe Tex is playing during ten nights at The Esquire Club, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral are playing during an engagement at Paul's Mall, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.
The League Of Gentlemen (including Robert Fripp) play at The Bataclan, Paris, France, France, Europe. During re-record sessions for the album Shot Of Love, Bob Dylan is in Clover Studios, Los Angeles, working on the songs Dead Man, Lenny Bruce Is Dead, Trouble and In The Summertime.
The Associates release the album Sulk, in the UK. It includes their version of the notorious jazz classic Gloomy Sunday, which is said to cause the tragic death of anyone who sings it.
On their Slippery When Wet tour, Bon Jovi play at Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, They Might Be Giants and Interpol play in the HFStival at the M And T Bank Stadium, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 
On their Marina And The Diamonds release their second studio album, Electra Heart in Russia and Greece, Europe.
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On their Nothin' But Love Summer Tour, Max And Harvey play at The Artists For Humanity EpiCenter Boston, Massachusetts, USA.On the North American leg of their WorldWired tour, Metallica play at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, supported by Avenged Sevenfold and Volbeat.
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