Manager

Country music promoter and manager Oscar Davis is born in Providence, Rhode island, USA. In an acclaimed career he will work with Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, Minnie Pearl, Ernest Tubb, The Hoosier Hot Shots and others.

Harry Levy is born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, UK. He will become notorious as unscrupulous rock entrepreneur, Don Arden, manager of The Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra, Black Sabbath and many others.

Hal Carter, well-loved British music agent and manager of Billy Fury, Marty Wilde and others, is born in Liverpool, UK.

Music manager Lester Melrose refunds $84 to Vocalion Records, which he had received for a recording session by blues singer Johnnie Temple. Unfortunately, Temple had been under contract to Decca Records at the time the recordings were made.

Phil Walden, founder of Capricorn Records [The Allman Brothers Band] and manager of Otis Redding is born in Greenville, South Carolina, USA.

Learning that jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams is in dire financial straits (because of her affair with and financial dependence on trumpeter Harold Baker), her former manager Joe Glaser writes to her and offers her gigs in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Brooke Payne is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He will find success in the music industry as manager of New Edition, LSG and Bell Biv Devoe.

Don Randall, manager of the Radio And Television Equipment Company in Santa Ana, California, USA, which distributes Fender Broadcaster guitars, informs his sales staff that the company is abandoning the Broadcaster name, because of a possible lawsuit based on an infringement of the Gretsch company's Broadkaster drum kits. Randall requests suggestions for a new name and will be rewarded with The Telecaster.

Vic Lewis And His Band play at The Royal Star Hotel, Maidstone, England, UK, Europe.

Reports in the UK press claim that rocker Marty Wilde has fallen out with his and Billy Fury's manager Larry Parnes, because Wilde is jealous of the attention Fury is receiving from record labels.

Film producer Hal Wallis sends a letter to Col Tom Parker, manager of Elvis Presley, stressing the need for Elvis to remain fit and tanned before filming begins on his next movie, Blue Hawaii.

Barbra Streisand comes to the end of a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA. During this performance, Streisand meets Martin Erlichman, who will become her personal manager.

Impresario Larry Parnes' package tour, Star Spangled Nights, plays at The Granada, Grantham, England, UK, Europe. Featured artists include Billy Fury, Eden Kane, Joe Brown, Tommy Bruce, The Allisons, The Viscounts, The Karl Denver Trio, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Terry Hale and newcomer Georgie Fame.

The Beatles manager Brian Epstein books in to the Green Park Hotel, London, UK, at the start of a week-long visit to London seeking a recording deal for the band.

John Lennon of The Beatles, and the group's manager Brian Epstein, return to London, England, UK, from a holiday in Paris, France, Europe.

Paul McCartney of The Beatles is given an oblong gold watch with a black leather strap as a birthday gift by the group's manager, Brian Epstein.

The Estates Committee of Bromley Borough Council refuses to give planning permission to a proposal by deejay Brian Matthew and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein to build a new theatre - The Pilgrim Theatre - in Bromley, Kent, UK.

The Brian Epstein-promoted Star Scene 65 tour, starring The Everly Brothers, supported by Liverpool hitmakers Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer, comes to an end at The ABC Cinema, Wigan, England, UK, Europe.

Brian Epstein, Juliette Greco, Françoise Hardy and Hugh Lloyd are the guest panellists on tonights edition of the BBC1 tv show Juke Box Jury in London, England, UK, Europe.

Harry Vanda, guitarist of The Easybeats, marries Pamela Joyce Higgins in Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia. In the evening The Easybeats meet their future manager Mike Vaughan at a dance in the suburb of Hornsby, Sydney, Australia.

In Los Angeles, California, USA, Joan Baez writes a two-page letter to her friend Wendy Hanson, the personal assistant of Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles) in London, England, UK, Europe. The letter, which includes details of Baez' recent romantic life, will not be posted until Jan 12.

UK music biz manager Kenneth Pitt meets with Mike Pruskin, manager of Marc Bolan, to decide whether or not to buy his contract. He decides instead to take on another aspiring pop star, David Bowie.

The morning after a disastrous performance at The O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Johnny Cash's manager Saul Holiff finds the singer overdosed and close to death in his Winnebago.

An advertisement appears in Melody Maker for the Jimi Hendrix Experience's upcoming Ricki-Tick club gig. Jimi and manager Chas Chandler go to The Cromwellian, London, England, UK, Europe, and see Pretty Things' drummer Viv Prince sitting in with The Shevelles.

Georgie Fame, Cat Stevens, Julie Felix and Sounds Incorporated play the sixth night of a 14–day run in 'Fame In 67' at Brian Epstein's Saville Theatre, London, England, UK.

Bill Collins, manager of The Iveys, meets The Beatles' road manager, Mal Evans, and is invited to a Beatles' recording session for Within You, Without You in Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe. Collins talks to Paul during the session, and Paul expresses an interest in hearing The Iveys.

A memorial service is held for The Beatles' recently deceased manager, Brian Epstein, at the New London Synagogue, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe.

It is reported that Jefferson Airplane have split from their manager, the music business entrepreneur Bill Graham.

Marty Melcher, husband and manager of Doris Day, dies of an enlarged heart, aged 52, following a period in hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA. (It will be discovered after his death that he was in huge debt, leaving Doris Day with no option but to sue to recover the money he had lost, most of which she had earned.)

While playing golf in Long Island, New York State, USA, James Brown's manager, Ben Bart collapses and dies from a heart attack. Bart was also the founder of the agency Universal Attractions in 1949.

David Bowie signs a contract with GEM, a music production company co-owned by music lawyer Lawrence Myers and Bowie’s manager Tony DeFries.

It is reported that reggae singer Finley Quaye has been arrested following an incident in which he bit the arm of his tour manager during a dispute at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, UK. Police reportedly found cannabis in Quaye's possession when they attended the incident.

John Rich of Big And Rich earns $20,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the winning project manager for a four-page Donald Trump Collection advertising presentation on NBC tv's The Celebrity Apprentice in the USA.

19 Recording, founded by tv pop mogul Simon Fuller, files a lawsuit against Sony Music seeking royalties said to be due to former American Idol contestants including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson. The lawsuit asserts that Sony has deprived the singers of royalties relating to lucrative streaming deals with Google, Apple and Spotify.

It is reported that Frank Ocean has fired his management (Christian and Kelly Clancy) and his publicity company (Life Or Death PR) in advance of the release of his second album.

Stephen Fitzpatrick (24) and Audun Laading (25) of Liverpool, UK, band Her's, and tour manager Trevor Engelbrektson, die in a car crash on Interstate 10 in Arizona, en route to a gig in Santa Ana, California, USA.