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Whispering Jack Smith records When Autumn Leaves Are Falling, Don't Be A Fool You Fool and I Don't Believe It, But Say It Again, for Victor Records in New York City, USA.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, who will find fame as Nina Simone, is born in Tryon, North Carolina, USA.
Frankie Carle plays the last night of a week of shows at the Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
R'n'b vocal group The Five Royales record their next two singles, Don't Let It Be In Vain and The Real Thing at King Records studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Big Pete Deuchar And His Professors Of Ragtime play at The Locarno Ballroom, Old Town Square, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. Deuchar's band around this time includes young guitarist John McLaughlin, who will go on to play with Georgie Fame and Graham Bond, before forming his jazz fusion band The Mahavishnu Orchestra.
An American music paper reports that Dion And The Belmonts have "ankled one another's scene". In plain English, they've split up. Dion will replace The Belmonts with The Del-Satins.
Paul Revere And The Raiders make their American national tv debut, performing Like Long Hair on American Bandstand, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated records a live session for the BBC Light Programme show Jazz Club, at the Paris Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London, UK. The session, featuring Alexis Korner (guitar), Graham Bond (alto sax), Dick Heckstall-Smith (tenor sax), Johnny Parker (piano), Jack Bruce (double bass) and Ginger Baker (drums) is broadcast the same day.
The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet records Metamorphosis and Introspection at WBAI Studios, New York City, USA.
The Four Upsetters record Honky Tonk, I Got A Woman and other tracks for Sun Records at Sam Phillips studios, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Florida State University student Jim Morrison is arrested on charges of drunkeness plus petty larceny of a police helmet and an umbrella in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. Six years later on March 5, 1969 Morrison will be arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious behaviour, indecent exposure, profanity, and drunkenness during a performance by his band The Doors in Miami.
Soul-jazz organist Freddie Roach records his third album Good Move, for Blue Note Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
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Jerry Lee Lewis plays at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, with The Animals, The Nashville Teens, The Paramounts, Pat Wayne And The Beachcombers, Gerry Levene And The Avengers, The Rockin' Berries and Carl Wayne And The Vikings.The Animals arrive in New York City, USA, for press and promotion activities prior to their first live dates on American soil.
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John Lennon and Ringo Starr of The Beatles go to see Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, UK.The Zombies, The Shangri-Las, The Nashville Teens, The Shirelles and others play the fifth of ten days of shows at The Brooklyn Fox, New York City, USA.
The Tamla Motown package tour featuring The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Miracles and Martha And The Vandellas, plus UK band Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames plays at The Empire, Liverpool, UK.
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The Steam Packet play at Redcar Jazz Club, England, UK. The band includes Long John Baldry, Brian Auger, Rod Stewart and Julie Driscoll.
Wilson Pickett plays his first British live show, at The Scotch of St James, London, England, UK, Europe, backed by members of The Animals.
Drummer Levon Helm, unable to cope with the booing of audiences during Bob Dylan's first electric tour of the USA, quits the group.
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Paul Revere And The Raiders appear on tonight's episode of the popular Batman show on ABC-tv in the USA.
A Whiter Shade Of Pale, the debut single by Procol Harum, gets its first airing on BBC Radio in the UK, by deejay Chris Denning on the show Where It's At. It had previously only been played on pirate radio.
Steppenwolf and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers play the last of four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is People Got To Be Free by The Rascals entering at No43.
The Velvet Underground play the last of three days at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.The Jimi Hendrix Experience play two shows at Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, supported by Vanilla Fudge and The Amboy Dukes, including rising young guitar hero Ted Nugent.
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Family, Marsha Hunt, Yes, Atomic Rooster, The Edgar Broughton Band, and Spirit of John Morgan play in The Brunel University Ball at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, UK.
Graham Bond plays at Farx, Potter's Bar, England, UK, Europe, supported by Forever More.Wishbone Ash, Argent and Kiss play at The Academy Of Music, New York City, USA.
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Argent play at The New Victoria, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Dirty Tricks.Squeeze play the second of three nights at The Rat Club, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Rushton Moreve, the original bass guitarist for Steppenwolf, dies, aged 32, in an automobile accident in Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA.
After a lifetime of drug abuse, which had started at the age of 10, revered blues organist-pianist James Booker dies of a heart attack in his apartment in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
At a Motown Records celebration in New York City, USA, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson both duet with George Michael.
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Ian McLagan, keyboardist of the Small Faces and The Faces, suffers a stroke in his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas, USA, which will end his life the following day.
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