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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.
Astrud Gilberto with The Joao Donato Orchestra records O Ganso (O Guazo) for Verve Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Beatles release a new album, The Beatles Vol 1, on Odeon Records in Japan, Asia. It is, in effect, Please Please Me, with a different name and cover.
Hank Cochran records Jeannie's Waiting, Who's Gonna, You Kept Me Awake and I Ever Saw in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Session players include guitarists Jerry Reed, Fred Carter, Velma Smith and Harold Bradley, steel guitarist Lloyd Green, drummer Kenny Buttrey, pianist Floyd Cramer and harmonica player Charlie McCoy plus The Anita Kerr Singers.
During a North American tour, The Rolling Stones fly from Los Angeles, California, USA, to New York City.
Burl Ives, with producer Owen Bradley, records The Little Drummer Boy and The Story Of Bobby Lee Trent in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Elvis Presley continues with filming of his next movie, Frankie And Johnny, at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Seekers return to Australia, Oceania, for their first Australian tour on a bill shared with The Dave Clark Five, plus support acts Tommy Quickly and local duo, Bobby And Laurie. The touch down in Perth, Australia at 2.00am.
Sonny Boy Williamson II dies of a heart attack while in bed in his apartment in Helena, Arkansas, USA.
Simon Fowler, who will find success as the lead singer with popular Brit-pop group Ocean Colour Scene, is born in Birmingham, England, UK.
Harry Belafonte plays the first of five nights at The Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with Nana Mouskouri.
Herman's Hermits, Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, The Hondells, Little Anthony And The Imperials, Brenda Holloway, The Ikettes, Billy Stewart, Bobby Freeman, Reparata And The Delrons and Myron Lelli play in The Dick Clark Caravan of Stars at The War Memorial, Syracuse, New York State, USA.
Connie Francis spends the second of two days of a recording session in EMI Recording Studio, 3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, London, England, UK. Over the two days she records songs including Mack The Knife, What Now My Love, The Girl From Ipanema, Milord and Stardust.
John Lennon of The Beatles and his wife Cynthia attend the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, Europe.
The Squires, featuring Neil Young, play the fourth of nine consecutive nights at the Fourth Dimension, Fort William, Manitoba, Canada.
At the opening of the Muhammad Ali-Sonny Liston heavyweight championship fight in Lewiston, Maine, USA, smooth singer Robert Goulet mangles the lyrics to the United States National Anthem. Goulet had never sung the anthem in public before, and replaced the lyric "dawn's early light" with "dawn's early night". 
The second day of The British Song Festival is held at The Dome, Brighton, UK, with performers including Elkie Brooks, Wayne Fontana And the Mindbenders, Billy J. Kramer, Lulu, Manfred Mann, Julie Rogers and Mark Wynter.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, featuring Eric Clapton, play at Klook's Kleek, Hampstead, London, England, UK.
Virtuoso organist Lenny Dee records The Poor People Of Paris, Calcutta, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Arrivederci Roma and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Kitty Wells records A Woman Half My Age, Meanwhile Down At Joe's and other tracks at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with Owen Bradley as producer. At the same session, she also records We'll Stick Together with Johnny Wright.
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.