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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.
Principal photography on the next Elvis Presley movie, Frankie And Johnny, continues at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Monti Rock III begins a week of shows at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Lester Young And His Discotheques.
The Elvis Presley movie Girl Happy opens at cinemas in Venezuela, South America.
The Beach Boys, The Shangri-Las, Cilla Black, Ian Whitcomb and Dick And Dee Dee tape their performances for an edition on tv show Shindig in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Having just played his final gig with his band The High Flying Birds, Neil Young is headed for Sunbury, Ontario, Canada, when his 1948 Buick Roadmaster hearse breaks down in Blind River. The incident will provide Young with the inspiration for his song Long May You Run, which he will record with The Stills-Young Band.
George Jones records Feeling Single - Seeing Double, If You Won't Tell On Me (duet with Melba Montgomery), My Favourite Lies and other songs in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
In and around The Ricky Tick Club, Windsor, England, UK, The Yardbirds make a film to promote their single For Your Love on tv in the USA.
The album, Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, is awarded a Gold Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
The Beatles complete post-sync work on their film Help! at Twickenham Film Studio, St Margaret's, Twickenham, UK. In the evening, John Lennon is interviewed at NEMS' offices for the BBC radio programme The World Of Books.
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Sandie Shaw plays the third night of a week at La Dolce Vita, Newcastle, UK.
Scott McKenzie records There Stands The Glass and Wipe The Tears in Capitol Recording Studio, 151 W, 46th Street, New York City, USA.
The Who play in The Town Hall, Stourbridge, UK.
The John Coltrane Quartet and the Alice Coltrane Trio record Living Space and Dusk Dawn for Impulse Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Just one month after the Elvis Presley film Tickle Me opened nationally in the USA, the studio claims in a Variety advertisement that 5,210 play dates have already been booked. A month later an article in the same publication will imply that Tickle Me has actually saved Allied Artists from going under financially. By the end of the year, the movie will finished at No30 on Variety's list of Big Rental Pictures of 1965 with $3.4m of projected sales.
Frank Sinatra is presented with the Entertainer of the Year Award from the Conference of Personal Managers at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Petula Clark, P.J. Proby, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Everly Brothers, Dave Berry, The Bitter End Singers, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, Gary Brento Weiss, Gary Lewis And The Playboys and Dick And Dee Dee appear on tv show Shindig! in the USA.
During her two week engagement at The Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, a lien is placed on her salary to cover debts she has failed to pay to her lawyer, William Morsae.
During the second recording session for his album Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan records Like A Rolling Stone at Columbia Records' Studio A, New York City, USA.
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Rick Nelson records Love Is Where You Find It, I Should Have Loved You More and I Paid For Loving You at Radio Recorders, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Jimmy Haskell produces the session, with a band including guitarists James Burton and Jerry Cole, bassist Skip Battin, drummer Richie Frost and Glen Hardin on piano.
The Supremes are recording Sincerely and Mister Sandman for Motown Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Rolling Stones, The Hollies and The Moody Blues play at The U sher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits is certified as a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in the 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.