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The Noel Coward-composed musical Sail Away is presented at The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 167 performances.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 musical 
Musical comedy The Gay Life is presented at The Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 113 performances.The Mann-Hugg Quartet, later to become Manfred Mann, headlines The Marquee Club, London, for the first time.
A package tour starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows with Jackie Trent, The Trebletones, The Breakaways and Alan Randall plays at The Gaumont, Southampton, UK.
Merle
Travis, Lester
Flatt And Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys play at The
Town Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The musical I Can Get It For You Wholesale, starring Barbra Streisand, closes at The Broadway Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA.
Bobby Rydell continues with his three-week engagement at Sciolla's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Brenda
Lee records I Left My Heart In San Francisco and other tracks
for Decca Records in Bradley Film
and Recording Studios, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Session men on these tracks include Floyd Cramer on piano, Grady Martin on guitar and Boots Randolph on sax.
The very first Motor Town Revue, starring The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Little Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Martha And The Vandellas and plays the third of ten nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
EMI Records producer George Martin sees The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK, with a view to recording a live album. Also on the bill are The Fourmost and The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans].
Drumming legend Gene Krupa appears on tv's Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in the USA. Krupa plays a big band arrangement of Caravan and also performs a drum duel with Carson.
Juan Atkins, widely regarded as one of the originators of
techno music, is born. Atkins will become one of The Belleville Three, along with Derrick
May and Kevin
Saunderson, who will forge a template for the music while in
college in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Ray Charles plays the eleventh of fourteen nights at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
Jazz saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster appears on tv's Dinah Shore Show, recorded in New York City, USA.