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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.
Jimmy Witherspoon is playing during four nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, with the Coleridge Parkinson Trio.
Tubby Hayes And His Orchestra record In The Night, The Scandinavian, Pedro's Walk and Raga, for Fontana Records in London, UK.
Duane Eddy performs Guitar Child on tv show American Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Paul McCartney of The Beatles is filmed for the movie A Hard Day's Night at a dance school in Notting Hill, London, UK, but the sequence is not used.
Roy Orbison, Freddie And The Dreamers and Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders play at The Gaumont, Southampton, UK.
Duke Ellington plays at The Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, New York City, USA.
Slim Whitman records A Little Bitty Tear, I Fall To Pieces, Born To Lose and Boquet Of Roses at Sunset Sound Studios, 5652 East Daniels Avenue, Dallas, Texas, USA.
The Kingston Trio release a new single, If You Don't Look Around / Seasons In The Sun, on Capitol Records in the USA. (Seasons In The Sun will, in due course, provide a major hit for Canadian singer-songwriter Terry Jacks.)
Jump blues vocalist Jimmy Witherspoon plays the last of four nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Tony Bennett releases a new album, When Lights Are Low, on Columbia Records in the USA.
Elvis Presley comes to the end of shooting of location scenes for his latest movie, Roustabout, at locations in and around Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Jimmy Smith Trio records Winter Wonderland, God Rest Ye Merry gentlemen, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and Jingle Bells for Verve Recors in Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
All My Loving by The Beatles reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart, replacing another of their songs, This Boy.
John Coltrane releases a new album, The Believer, on Prestige Records in the USA.
The Rolling Stones are filmed in The Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, Europe, for a special edition of UK tv show Ready, Steady, Go!
Manfred Mann play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, UK.
UK blues pioneer John Mayall has his first recording session, at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, produced by Ian Samwell. He records Crawling Up A Hill and Mr James.
The Kentucky Colonels release the album Appalachian Swing in the USA on World Pacific Records. The group includes Clarence White who will go on to play guitar with The Byrds.
Eddie Floyd records A Deed To Your Heart and I'll Be Home for Lu Pine Records in New York City, USA.
Lee Peters And The Electrons play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK.
Polydor Records in Germany, Europe, release a new single whose A-side features Skinny Minny sung by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers [a pseudonym for The Beatles], while the b-side features Sweet Georgia Brown by The Beatles with Tony Sheridan.
Denny Laine And The Diplomats play at The Bull's Head, Yardley, UK.