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The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
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Vee Jay Records in America releases the bizarre double album The Beatles Vs The Four Seasons, featuring hits by both acts.
Folk-music duo Ian and Sylvia Tyson appear on The Steve Allen Playhouse on tv in the USA.
The Oscar Peterson Trio records a live concert for the tv show Jazz 625 in London, UK.
Johnny Cash releases a new album, Bitter Tears - Ballads Of The American Indian, in the USA on Columbia Records. The album includes six songs written by Greenwich Village songwriter Peter La Farge.Flugelhornist/painter Bill Dixon and film-maker Peter Sabino book The Cellar Cafe, on the Upper West Side of New York City, USA, for four nights of avant garde jazz under the title "The New Thing". Artists playing over the four nights include Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, Paul Bley and Andrew Hill.
The Missing Links do a promotional performance for electrical goods retailer H.G. Palmer in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, billed as "the new Rock and Roll Group with the 'Rolling Stones Sound'".The Rolling Stones, Inez and Charlie Foxx, Mike Berry and The Mojos, play at Colston Hall, Bristol, UK.
Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas plus Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, The Nashville Teens and The Yardbirds (featuring Eric Clapton on guitar) play in the ABC, Dublin, Eire.
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The Beatles release a new single, I Should Have Known Better, in Sweden, Europe, on Odeon Records. It will peak at No1, spending thirteen weeks on the chart. The song is composed by John Lennon, but credited on the single to the team of Lennon-McCartney.
The Top Ten records played on WKNR Radio in Detroit, Michigan, USA, for the week ended on this date, are :
- We'll Sing in the Sunshine -Gale Garnett
- Chug a Lug - Roger Miller
- Come A Little Bit Closer - Jay And The Americans
- Haunted House - Gene Simmons
- Baby Love - The Supremes
- Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson
- Have I The Right - The Honeycombs
- Gotta Give Her Love - The Volumes
- Let It Be Me - Everett And Butler
- Death of a Angel - The Kingsmen
The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, becomes the first Western pop movie to debut behind the Iron Curtain of Communist countries when it is shown in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Europe.