1st December

The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.

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.

Female saxophonist Vi Redd is playing during a month-long engagement at The Sugar Hill, San Francisco, California, USA.

Billy Eckstine is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

King Curtis is playing during a two-week season at The Latin Casino, Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Stan Getz is playing during ten days at Shelley's Manne Hole, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Marvin Gaye is playing during a week at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by The Vibrations, The Contours, Billy Stewart, Jimmy Pelham and The Charmettes.

Anita O'Day is playing at The Safari Room, San Jose, California, USA.

Damita Jo is playing at The Three Rivers Inn, Syracuse, New Jersey, USA.

Little Richard, Bo Diddley and The Everly Brothers play at The Odeon, Rochester, England, UK, Europe.

The Osmond Brothers (aka The Osmonds) appear, singing O Shenandoah, in today's edition of tv series The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters, entitled The Day of the Flying Dutchman, on ABC-tv in the USA.

The New York Times publishes its first feature on a rising young British band, reporting that, "The Beatles are four young men who play guitars and drums and sing pop songs they write themselves. This sounds like merely a minor accomplishment, but it isn't - not the way they do it, and the noise they make while they are doing it, and the spectacularly demented way they look while they are doing it. By comparison, Elvis Presley is an Edwardian tenor of considerable diffidence."

The Billy J. Kramer Pop Parade tour, featuring Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, The Caravelles, The Fourmost, Houston Wells, Tommy Quickly and The Marauders plays at The Hippodrome, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.

The Downliners Sect play an afternoon session at Studio 51, Great Newport Street, London, England, UK, Europe.

King Curtis plays the fifth night of a two-week season at The Latin Casino, Camden, New Jersey, USA.

Al Martino is appearing at The Magic Inn, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Bobby Rydell, Helen Shapiro, The Spotnicks, The Chants, The Harlems and The Trebletones play at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.

Billy Fury plays at Colston Hall, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.

During a concert at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, Louis Armstrong spontaneously plays a rendition of God Bless America, in tribute to the recently assassinated President Kennedy.

Bill Anderson, with producer Owen Bradley, records Five Hundred Miles, You Don't Have To Be A Baby, Abilene, Green Green and I'm Leaving It All Up To You in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session includes guitarists Harold Bradley, Jerry Kennedy and Grady Martin, steel guitarist Weldon Myrick, bassist Joseph Zinkan, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Hargus Robbins [piano], with The Anita Kerr Singers.

Oscar Peterson is playing at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on guitar, play their regular Sunday night residency at The Crawdaddy, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK, Europe.

The Shirelles, Duane Eddy and Gene Vincent play at The Odeon, Sunderland, UK, Europe.

Barbra Streisand plays at Butler University, Clowes Memorial Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Jerry Lee Lewis plays the first of six nights at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, Heinz And The Saints, Bert Weedon and The Sundowners play in the Disc All Star Show at The Granada, Tooting, London, England, UK, Europe.

Pioneering crooner Gene Austin and Marge Cameron are playing during a two-week booking at The Tidelands Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

Folksinger Paul Sykes is appearing at The Ice House, Pasadena, California, USA.