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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.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Sonny And Cher performing I Got You, Babe; Major Lance performing Ain't That a Shame; and Ronnie Dove performing One Kiss for Old Time's Sake.
The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein signs The Moody Blues to a management contract.
Elvis Presley is filming his next movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Marlene Dietrich plays the second of six nights at the The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, England, UK.
Musician, singer and songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist Red Ingle dies aged 58 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Vocalist Pat Bowie records Since I Fell For You, Baby Won't You Please Come Home and other tracks for Prestige Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
On the Normandy Beaches in France, Europe, where the WW2 D-Day landing took place, Donovan makes a promotional film of Universal Soldier, to be shown on UK tv show Top Of The Pops.
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Jackie De Shannon releases a new single, A Lifetime Of Loneliness in the USA on Imperial Records. The song is written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
The Kinks play at Linnanmäen Peacock, Helsinki, Finland, Europe.
Jazz pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali records Epitome and True Train for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
The Rolling Stones complete two days of recording Get Off Of My Cloud at RCA Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Top Ten Singles on WABC Radio in New York City, USA, for the week beginning on this date are as follows :

1. Help! - The Beatles (Capitol)

2. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher (Atco)

3. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (Columbia)

4. Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire (Dunhill)

5. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers (Philles)

6. California Girls - The Beach Boys (Capitol)

7. Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys (Bang)

8. Catch Us If You Can - The Dave Clark Five (Epic)

9. The "In" Crowd - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (Argo)

10. It's the Same Old Song - The Four Tops (Motown)

The Beatles release a new single, Yesterday/Act Naturally, on Capitol Records in Canada.
Bob Dylan releases a new single, Positively 4th Street, on Columbia Records in the USA.
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Jean Shepard records Many Happy Hangovers To You, I Forgot To Care, Wherever You Are and Look What I've Got in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
George Hamilton IV records Write Me A Picture, Something Special To Me and I've Got A Secret, with producer Chet Atkins, in RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The studio band includes guitarists Ray Edenton, Jerry Kennedy and Wayde Phillips, with Floyd Cramer on piano, Charlie McCoy on harmonica, Henry Strzelecki on bass and James Isbell playing drums.
The Moody Blues play at the California Ballroom, Dunstable, England, UK.
The First New York Blues Project, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Hammond Jr. and The Little John Trio play during a week of shows at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich, Village, New York City, USA.
Milt Trenier and Micki Lynn are playing at The Scotch Mist, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Temptations, Martha And The Vandellas, Brenda Holloway, Patti LaBelle And The Bluebelles and The Beau Brummels play the fifth night of a ten day season, promoted by top radio DJ Murray The K, at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre, New York City, USA.
Ron Blake is born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribbean. He will find success as a saxophonist, band leader, composer and music educator, perhaps best-known as a member of the Saturday Night Live Band.
A new teen-dance show Sump'n Else, makes its debut on WFAA-tv Channel 8 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas, USA. The show will run until January 1968, featuring nationally known guest performers, including The Monkees, Herman's Hermits, Paul Revere and the Raiders,The Rose Garden,13th Floor Elevators, Sonny and Cher, The Outsiders and Frank Zappa. The show also featured its own all-girl go-go dance quartet, known as The Little Quartet.
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.