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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.
Unit 4+2 play at Merseyview, Frodsham, UK.
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A live session by The Yardbirds is broadcast by the BBC Radio show Saturday Club. That night, the band plays live at The Assembly Hall, Farnborough Technical College, Farborough, UK.
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The John Coltrane Quartet plays the second night of a booking - Friday through Sunday - at The Half Note, New York City, USA.
The John Barry-composed soundtrack album to the James Bond film Goldfinger, reaches No1 in the Billboard albums chart in the USA, for the first of three-weeks.
The Motown package tour arrives in the UK, with Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Miracles, The Temptations and Martha And The Vandellas, plus UK band Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames. The first show is at The Astoria, Finsbury Park, London, UK. Astonishingly, the show plays to half-empty venues in much of the UK.
A package tour headlined by Roy Orbison and featuring Marianne Faithfull, The Rockin' Berries and Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, plays at The ABC, Blackpool, UK.
Gene Pitney enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with I Must Be Seeing Things, partly written by Al Kooper, which will peak at a disappointing No39.
Shirley Ellis and Dobie Gray appear on syndicated tv pop show Shivaree, recorded for KABC in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dave Clark Five, Mark Wynter, Susan Maughan and compere Alan Field play the fifth night in a week of shows at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
The Standells perform Big Boss Man and The Boy Next Door on tv pop series American Bandstand in the USA.
The Birds, including future Rolling Stones' guitarist Ron Wood, play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
The Rolling Stones US-only album Now! enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA, where it will peak at No5.
Irish blues band Them, featuring vocalist Van Morrison, play in Hayes, Middlesex, UK.
I Know A Place by Petula Clark enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No3.
In Obertauern, Austria, Europe, The Beatles finish seven days of filming scenes for their second film, Help!, provisionally titled Eight Arms To Hold You On this day they are filmed miming to Ticket To Ride.
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Kathy Kirby represents the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in Naples, Italy, Europe.
The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine chart of the 100 Best-Selling Singles in the USA is I'm Telling You Now by Freddie And The Dreamers, entering at No52.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
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.