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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.A new record production company, Shad-Rich, is formed in London, UK, by an alliance of Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Aberbach Music and music business agent Leslie Grade.
Elvis Presley takes
some time out from filming his latest movie, Girls!
Girls! Girls!, to visit an old army friend at 4225 Beach Drive
SW in West Seattle, Washington, USA.
A new record production company, Shad-Rich, is formed in London, UK, by an alliance of Cliff Richard, his backing group The Shadows, Aberbach Music and music business agent Leslie Grade.
Hank Ballard And The Midnighters play the fifth of fourteen nights at The Roundtable Club, New York City, USA, supported by Dale Hawkins.
When folksinger Ramblin' Jack Elliott plays at The Second Fret, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA, the show is recorded and will be released as the LP Live At The Second Fret.
Jerry Lee Lewis, The Viscounts and Johnny Kidd And The Pirates play at St Andrew's Halls, Glasgow, Scotland.
Bobby Darin plays the sixteenth of twenty nights at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.
The Clefs Of Calvary record Baptized, Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine and other tracks in their first session for Tru-Sound Records in New York City, USA. The group includes Lou Rawls and James Phelps.
Helen Shapiro plays the fifth night of two weeks at The Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are Matt Monro, Malcolm Mitchell And His Trio, Billy Dainty and Joan Turner. Orchestral support is supplied by the London Palladium Orchestra under the baton of Eric Tann.Jerry Lee Lewis, The Viscounts and Johnny Kidd And The Pirates play at St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow, Scotland.
Vocal duo Pete And Repeat record Hip City Slicker, But I Still Do and other tracks for Bethlehem Records in Los Angeles,California, USA.
Folk music's elder statesman Pete Seeger is acquitted, on appeal, of the guilty verdict for contempt of Congress found against him in April 1961. The guilty verdict was in relation to Seeger's testimony to the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives in Washington DC, USA - popularly known as the McCarthyite Communist Witch Hunt.Vocal duo Pete And Repeat record Hip City Slicker, But I Still Do and other tracks for Bethlehem Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
When the Kansas City 5 play at The Downbeat, Newcastle, UK, their keyboardist, Alan Price, fails to turn up. The Kansas City 5 will, in due course, evolve into The Animals.
Ben E.
King, The Drifters, Mary Wells and
The
Crystals play the first of seven nights at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Brenda Lee has the second of three recording sessions in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, working on tracks which will appear on her album Brenda, That's All. On this day she records I Hadn't Anyone Til You, Someday You'll Want Me To Want You, Just Out Of Reach and It Started All Over Again. The session is produced by Owen Bradley, and musicians on the tracks include guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton; pianist Floyd Cramer; saxophonist Boots Randolph and The Anita Kerr Singers.
Neil Sedaka plays the thirteenth of fifteen nights at The Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
A feature in UK pop music weekly NME [New Musical Express] predicts a bright future for video juke boxes.
Brenda Lee has the second of three recording sessions in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, working on tracks which will appear on her album Brenda, That's All. On this day she records I Hadn't Anyone Til You, Someday You'll Want Me To Want You, Just Out Of Reach and It Started All Over Again. The session is produced by Owen Bradley, and musicians on the tracks include guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton; pianist Floyd Cramer; saxophonist Boots Randolph and The Anita Kerr Singers.
Bobby Darin plays the sixteenth of twenty nights at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.