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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.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
The Checkmates Ltd, are playing during four weeks at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
John Davidson is playing during a month of shows at The Plaza Hotel, New York City, USA.
Albert King is playing during six nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA, with The Loading Zone, Rain, Ten Years After, Canned Heat and Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks.
Stephen Stills, having recently left Buffalo Springfield, records an album's worth of solo acoustic demos in New York City, USA, some of which will eventually be recorded by Crosby, Stills And Nash.
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Stevie Wonder releases a new single, Shooby Dooby Do Dah Deh in the UK on Tamla-Motown Records.
Chuck Berry plays at The Village Theatre, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Four Tops play at Westbury Music Fair, Long Island, New York State, USA.
The Temptations, Edwin Starr, The Monitors and Willie Tyler are playing during a week of shows at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Prog-rockers Caravan play their second live gig, at The Beehive Club, Canterbury, UK, Europe.
Traffic, Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly play the first of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA. A young Billy Joel, of local band The Hassles, visits Traffic in their hotel room.
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Brenda And The Tabulations are playing during ten nights at The Nixon Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Ike And Tina Turner play at The Royal Ballroom, Tottenham, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Paupers play the first of two nights at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, USA.
The Kinks play at Central Hall, Chatham, UK, Europe.
Jazz - The Intimate Art, an edition of long-running American tv series The Bell Telephone Hour, features the jazz styles of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck and Charles Lloyd as they perform, rehearse and spend time at home.
The Honeybus play at The Tabernacle, Stockport, England, UK, Europe.
Ten Years After, Marmalade, Jethro Tull and Alan Bown play at Loughboroguh University, Loughborough, England, UK, Europe.
Duane Eddy plays at The Municpal Theatre, Pontypridd, Wales, UK, Europe.
Little Boy Blues play the first of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Rush.
Jefferson Airplane and The Ultimate Spinach play at Rhode Island Auditorium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
The Herd play on the BBC tv show Whistle Stop in the UK. The show is hosted by Roger Whittaker.
On their second North American tour, The Cream play at The Cellar, Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA.
The Yardbirds play at Meehan Auditorium, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, supported by Procol Harum.
Kenney Jones, drummer of The Small Faces, is interviewed by BBC Radio at Studio 2, Kensington House, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Fugs play the first of two nights at The Kaleidoscope, 6230 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Barry Goldberg Reunion, supported by Pacific Gas And Electric, plays the second of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Count Basie and Georgie Fame play at The Odeon, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
During recording sessions at The Record Plant, New York City, Jimi Hendrix's relationship with co-manager Chas Chandler continues to deteriorate.
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Ray Charles plays the second of two nights at Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
The Steve Miller Band plays the first of three nights at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Bee Gees and The Foundations play at The Odeon, Exeter, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd have a recording session in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe, working on Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, See Saw and Let There Be More Light.
Buffalo Springfield play at Arizona State Fairgrounds, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
The Jackson Five, including Michael Jackson, plays at an after-prom banquet for Thomas Edison Junior-Senior High School in East Gary, Indiana, USA.
The Velvet Underground is playing during three nights at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Vanilla Fudge release a new single, Where Is My Mind, in the UK on Atlantic Records
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band spend the second day of recording the album Strictly Personal for Blue Thumb Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.