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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.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
The Mojos play at The Town Hall, Farnborough, UK.
The Dexter Gordon Quartet do a live radio broadcast from Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
The Lovin' Spoonful play at Indiana Beach Ballroom, Monticello, Indiana, USA.
Connie Smith signs a recording contract (offered to her by Chet Atkins) with RCA Victor Records in the USA.
The Cliffie Stone Singers record the Hank Williams compositions You Win Again, Hey Good Lookin', I Can't Help It and My Heart Would Know at Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jerry Lee Lewis plays the sixth of nine nights at The Montreal Club, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The Osborne Brothers record Cotton Fields, Faded Love, This Heart Of Mine and Charlie Cotton, at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Applejacks play at The Town Hall, Stourbridge, UK.
The Sonny Rollins Quartet records My Ship, Deep In A Dream, Three Little Words and Night And Day for RCA Victor Records in New York City, USA.
The Rolling Stones spend the first of three days recording at Regent Sound Studios, London, UK. On this day, they record the first of two versions of the song Time Is On My Side for Decca Records.
Robin and the Seven Hoods, a movie musical set in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby, opens at cinemas in the USA. The film's most memorable song is My Kind Of Town - a hymn to Chicago.
UK tv show Top Of The Pops features live performances by John Lee Hooker, playing Dimples, and PJ Proby singing Hold Me.
The Beach Boys record Frosty The Snowman and I'll Be Home For Christmas for their Christmas Album at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sam Cooke begins a two-week engagement at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.
The Crickets play at The Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet records Lonely Mr Broadway, in New York City, USA, for Columbia Records.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
When Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play in The Dailichi Kaikan, Kyote, Japan, Asia, the show is filmed by CBS and will be released under the title Duke Ellington Swings Through Japan.
Brenda Lee records Maybe for Decca Records in Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Beatles play the first of two nights at The Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand.
The Swinging Blue Jeans come to the end of a six-day tour of Ireland.
The Merseybeats play at The Corn Exchange, Bristol, UK.
The John Coltrane Quartet records Village Blues, Naima and Out Of This World in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.