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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.
Country music star Jim
Reeves holds his final recording session, during which he
records Make The
World Go Away, You'll Never Know and other tracks in RCA Victor
Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The session
is produced by Chet
Atkins, who also plays guitar. Other players on these tracks
include Harold Bradley [guitar], Bob Moore [bass], Buddy Harman
[drums], Jerry Smith [piano] and The Anita Kerr Singers.)
In Los Angeles, California, USA, The Beach Boys are presented with
the Billboard magazine Top Single award for I Get Around.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of legislation in the United States outlawing major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation, is passed into law in the USA. Bruce Hornsby's 1986 song The Way It Is ruminates on the fact that although, "They passed a law in '64, to give those who ain't got a little more", racism and discrimination have continued ever since.
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Bluegrass legends Lester
Flatt and Earl Scruggs record Georgia Buck for Columbia Records
in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Rolling Stones have the fourth of nine days of demo recording sessions at Regent Sound Studios, London, UK.
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself by Dusty Springfield
enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No3.
The Soul Agents play at The Waterfront Club, Cliff Hotel, Woolston, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play the second of two nights at Koseinenkin Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
The Cumberland Trio play at The Hotel Greystone, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.
The
Paramounts [later to become Procol Harum] hold a promotional
bash for their forthcoming single I`m The One Who Loves You (a Curtis Mayfield composition), at
The Casino Club, Archer Street, Picadilly Circus, London, UK.
Cilla Black. records It's For You with
Paul McCartney of The Beatles playing piano, at EMI's Abbey Road
Studios, London, UK.
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The Tridents, featuring future rock guitar hero Jeff Beck, play at the 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, UK.
The new Cliff Richard movie, Wonderful
Life, is premiered at the Empire, Leicester Square, London, UK.
Cliff Richard attends the event, as do Princess Alexandra and Angus
Ogilvie.
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Stock car racer Edward Glenn "Fireball" Roberts Jr. dies aged 35 from burns sustained in a recent crash at the World 600 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. His death will inspire the 1975 hit Fireball Rolled A Seven by Dave Dudley.
The The Sonny Rollins Quartet records It Could Happen To You, My One And Only Love, Winter Wonderland and When You Wish Upon A Star for RCA Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his
seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
Louis Armstrong And His All Stars play on the first night of The Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.