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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.Neil Sedaka plays the fourteenth of fifteen nights at the Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Tony Orlando plays at a benefit gig in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, to raise funds for victims of leprosy in Burma, Asia.
Liverpool-born Michael Holliday appears on the UK tv show Thank Your Lucky
Stars. Also on the show are Petula Clark and The Brook Brothers.
Helen Shapiro plays the sixth 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.Hank Ballard and the Midnighters play the sixth of fourteen nights at the Roundtable Club, New York City, USA, supported by Dale Hawkins.
Gene Pitney enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance. It will become his first Top Five hit, peaking at No4.
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Ben E.
King, The Drifters, Mary Wells and
The
Crystals play the second of seven nights at The Apollo
Theater, Harlem, New York
City, USA.
UK pop weekly Disc, reports that vocalist Mick Jagger has joined Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. Jagger will find rather more fame when he moves on to sing for The Rolling Stones.
During a show at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA, Marilyn Monroe, sings Happy Birthday To You, for president of the USA John Kennedy. For her performance, Monroe is wearing a dress described as "skin and beads" which will later sell at Christie's auction house for over a million dollars.
Bobby Vee's new
single, Sharing You, enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No15.
(1962)
R'n'B vocal quartet The Fiestas record Broken Heart, The Railroad Song and I Feel Good All Over for Old Town Records in New York City, USA. The group consists of Tommy Bullock [lead vocals], Eddie Morris [tenor], Sam Ingalis [baritone] and Preston Lane [bass]. 1962)
Bobby Darin plays the seventeenth of twenty nights at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.
Ben E.
King, The Drifters, Mary Wells and
The
Crystals play the second of seven nights at The Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single I'm Looking Out The Window/Do You Wanna Dance by Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
Bobby Darin plays the seventeenth of twenty nights at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.
The King Kasuals, including a young Jimi Hendrix, play at Club Del Morocco, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
George Jones reaches No1 on the Billboard country singles chart in the USA with She Thinks I Still Care.
Gene Pitney enters
the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with the Burt
Bacharach / Hal
David song [The Man Who Shot] Liberty Valance.
It will become his first Top Five hit, peaking at No4.
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That Dream, from the EP of the same name by Elvis Presley, enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will
peak at No15 during a seven-week run. (1962)
Ray Charles plays at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe. The audience includes UK hitmakers Cliff Richard and The Shadows who have flown from London, UK, specially for the show.
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Murry Wilson, father of three of The Beach Boys, plays their demo tapes to Capitol Record producer Nick Venet, who is sufficiently impressed to purchase them with a view to release.