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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.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
Al Martino is playing during a three-week stint at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
Eddie Floyd, Pigmeat Markham, J.J. Barnes, Pat Lewis, The Holidays, Ruby Andrews and Barbara Mercer play in the Memphis Sounds Show during a lengthy booking at The Riviera Theater, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Bobby Bare is playing during a five-night engagement at The Taft Hotel, New York City, USA.
The Hello People play during a one-week booking at The Chessmate, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Paupers play during thirteen nights at The Electric Circus, New York City, USA.
Tom Jones is playing during a month of live dates at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
John Davidson is playing during ten nights of shows at The Eden Roc, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Procol Harum play on tv show Time For Blackburn in the UK. The show is hosted by deejay Tony Blackburn.
The Mystic Tide are playing during a five-week engagement at Glenside Inn, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York State, USA.
The Rolling Stones spend the second of seventeen days of recording at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
(Theme from) Valley Of The Dolls by Dionne Warwick peaks at No2 on the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA.
The Grateful Dead play the second of three nights at The Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Standells, Bobbie Gentry and Vic Damone - have recently formed their own companies. The Standells have started and independent record production company, Big 5 Productions Inc; Gentry has formed publishing and production business Gentry Ltd; and Damone has also begun a publishing house, Madiv Music (BMI).
It is reported that three recording artists -
Fats Domino is playing during an engement in the lounge of the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Pink Floyd and Junior's Eyes play at The Middle Earth Club, London, England, UK, Europe. On the same day, Pink Floyd also play at The Crawdaddy Club, Hampton Court, London.
Billboard in the USA reports that of the 200 titles on the current album chart, 171 are currently available as 8-track cartridges (as well as standard LPs and cassettes).
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The Rob Hoeke R'n'B Group enters the Dutch Singles Chart with Drinking On My Bed on Philips Records. It will peak at No11 during a run of nine weeks on the chart in the Netherlands.
Clara Ward And The Ward Singers play the second of two nights of benefit shows for The Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital, at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Linda Keith, girlfriend of Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, collapses in her apartment in Belgravia, London, England, UK, Europe.
Over 300 Vietnamese people, mostly women, children, infants and elderly people, are killed in The My Lai Massacre. The killings are carried out by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. 26 soldiers will be charged with criminal offenses for their actions at My Lai, but only one, Platoon Leader Second Lieutenant William Calley, will be convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 people, he will serve just three and a half years under house arrest. This atrocity inspires several songs, both for and against Calley. Tragically, the best-remembered is perhaps the fiercely patriotic Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley by Shelby Singleton.
Blue Cheer, supported by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and The Nazz, play at Earl Warren Fairgrounds, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding tops the Billboard R'n'B Chart in the USA for the first of three weeks, and the national chart for the first of four weeks. Redding wrote the song while living on a houseboat overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, play the second of three nights at The Electric Factory, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is Forever Came Today by The Supremes entering at No54.