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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 John Coltrane Quartet plays in the Juan Le Pins Jazz Festival at Antibes, France, Europe.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Fred Hughes performing Love Me Baby and Les Sultans performing This Could Be The Last Time.
The Four Seasons record The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore) and This Is Goodbye in Atlantic Studios, 11 West 60th Street, New York City, USA.
Guitarist, singer, songwriter, recording artist, novelist and painter Dan Bern (aka Dan Bernstein) is born in Mount Vernon, Iowa, USA.
Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis record Take The 'A' Train, Peg O' My Heart, Spotted Dog and The Nearness Of You, for their Verve Records album Wings And Things at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Beatles' new movie Help!, is previewed for the UK press.
Jimmie Davis, with producer Owen Bradley, records I'm Nearer Home, Love Is The Reason, No-one But Jesus and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Otis Redding records Ole Man Trouble for Volt Records in the USA.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Gibson, Barbara Dane and The Chambers Brothers play the first of six nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Aspiring rock star Jimmy Hendrix [Jimi Hendrix] signs a contract with Sue Records and Copa Management in New York City, USA.
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Lightnin' Hopkins plays the second of two nights at Club 47, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Ken Curtis records The Ballad Of Hawg Haggen, You're Nothin' But A It and Trip To Las Vegas, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Yardbirds spend the first of two days recording Still I'm Sad, in London, England, UK. The track is considered to be an early influence on the sound of psychedelia which would emerge more fully in the next year.
For the second day running, Elvis Presley is scheduled to begin recording soundtrack material for his next movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style, at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, but he fails to turn up, claiming to be ill.
Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones buys a Sussex, UK, manor house, built in the 16th century as a hunting lodge for The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sandie Shaw appears in a Gala Festival in Cannes, France, Europe.
The Charles Lloyd Quartet plays its debut live performance at Slug's Saloon, New York City, USA.
Charlie Moore and Bill Napier record The Ballad Of Christopher Columbus, Guitar Pickin' Truck Driver, One Broken Home For Sale and other tracks in King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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.