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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.
Returning from a tour of the USA, The Beatles touch down at Heathrow Airport, London, England, UK. John Lennon and his wife Cynthia leave immediately for a holiday in the south of Europe.
Joe Brown is the musical guest on The Arthur Haynes Show on the BBC Light Programme in the UK.
Wayne Newton plays the fourth of seven nights in the Marine Ballroom, The Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Elvis Presley is filming his next movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Steampacket, including Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll, play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK.
Chuck Berry records Welcome Back Pretty Baby, Voya Con Dios, Merrily We Rock And Roll, Wee Hour Blues and Loving You In Vain for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Small Faces first hit, Whatcha Gonna Do About It enters the UK pop singles chart. It will peak at No14 and will stay on the chart for a total of fourteen weeks.
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When aspiring rock combo Sound Of The Seventh Son go to court in Los Angeles, California, USA, to have their contracts with Tower Records and SOS Productions approved, Judge A.A. Scott exclaims "They look like freaks! … I don’t know whether they are girls or boys … God help t hem if they get to some real men". The band includes Jimmy Greenspoon, who will find greater success as a member of Three Dog Night.
The The Caravan Of Stars plays at Bushnell Auditorium, Hartford, Connectictut, USA, featuring Peter And Gordon, Tom Jones, The Turtles, The Shirelles, Ronnie Dove, Mel Carter, Brian Hyland, Billy Joe Royal, Jimmy Ford And The Executives, Jimmy Rice and Timothy Rice.
After a Rick And The Ravens recording session at World Pacific Jazz studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, that group falls apart. With the addition of guitarist Robby Krieger, they evolve into The Doors. 
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Sonny And Cher performing the Bob Dylan composition All I Really Want To Do, and Bobby Goldsboro performing Voodoo Woman. Also on the show are The Liverpool Five.
The Beat Show, on the BBC Light Programme in the UK, features live music by The Fourmost, with Bernard Herrmann And The N.D.O.
Simon Dee presents Swing Into Summer on the BBC Light Programme in the UK, featuring live performances by Adam Faith And The Roulettes, Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Craig Douglas, Terry Lightfoot's Jazzmen, The Barron Knights and others.
Independent record producers George Martin, John Burgess, and Ron Richards open a new recording studio, Associated Independent Recordings [AIR (Record Productions)] London, Ltd., in London, England, UK.
Jackie Wilson records Please Don't Hurt Me, Think Twice (with LaVern Baker) and Me, My Mother's Son for Brunswick Records in New York City, USA.
John Coltrane records the LP First Meditations (for quartet) in Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Viewers of the UK tv show Ready, Steady, Go! are treated to an impersonation of Sonny And Cher executed by presenter Cathy McGowan with The Rolling Stones and their manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
Chuck Berry records Welcome Back Pretty Baby, Voya Con Dios, Merrily We Rock And Roll, Wee Hour Blues and Loving You In Vain for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Flatt And Scruggs (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs) record Memphis Tennessee (a Chuck Berry composition), Jackson and Colours in Columbia Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, 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.