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The Cliff Richard Show begins a thirteen-week run on European pop music radio station Radio Luxembourg.
Connie Francis records Lovey-Dovey Twist, Telephone Lover and other tracks for MGM Records in the USA.
Jeff Pilson bass player of heavy metal recording band Dokken is born in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
B.B. King, The Drifters, Gene McDaniels, Gladys Knight And The Pips and The Impressions play the last night in a week of shows at the Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Johnny Mathis is forced to postpone his opening at the Copacabana in New York City because of an injury to his back. Tony Bennett replaces him.
The current No1 single in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in the USA is Hey Baby by Bruce Channel.
At Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California, Elvis Presley records I Don't Wanna Be Tied and Earth Boy for the soundtrack to his next movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra record Things Ain't What They Used To Be, I Got It Bad and Circle Blues, at A + R Studio, New York City, USA.
Jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Stranger On the Shore which will peak at No1 during a 15-week run on the chart.
The Bill Evans Trio record Easy To Love, Danny Boy and other tracks in New York City, USA.
Frank Frost And The Night Hawks record a total of 27 songs at Sun Studio, 639 Madison Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Twelve of these
recordings will be released on the Phillips International LP
Hey Boss Man. The remainder will languish in the vaults, unreleased.
Dusty Springfield records Goodnight Irene, Gotta Travel On and Swahili Papa, in London, UK.
Gary 'U.S.' Bonds, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels, Mark Wynter and The Fleerekkers play at The Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK.
Elvis Presley has a
seventeenth day of location filming in Hawaii, USA, for his latest
movie, Girls! Girls! Girls!.
Gary 'U.S.' Bonds, Johnny Burnette, Gene McDaniels, Mark Wynter and The Fleerekkers play at The Granada, Rugby, UK.
Gospel vocalist Sister Elizabeth Eustis records The Old Rugged Cross, Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho and other tracks in the second Mt. Olive Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Chubby Checker plays the second of ten nights at The National Stadium, Mexico City, Mexico, Central America.
Brenda Lee plays the fourth of what is planned as fourteen nights at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA. She will, however, dislocate her neck on the 12th, necessitating cancellation of the remaining dates.
Joe Brown And His Bruvvers play at Cambridge Hall, Southport, UK, supported by The Beatles, The Dakotas With Pete MacLaine, Gerry And The Pacemakers, Billy Kramer with The Coasters, and The Four Jays.
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The Coasters record The Climb and Bull Tick Waltz, in New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records.
The Jazz Crusaders play at The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles California, USA.
Mohandes Dewese is born in New York City, USA. He will find success in the 80s as rap and hip-hop pioneer Kool Moe Dee in Harlem.
Vince Everett records I Ain't Gonna Be Your Lowdown Dog No More and Sugar Bee for ABC-Paramount Records at Columbia Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Jimmy Dean records Gonna Raise A Ruckus Tonight and A Day That Changed the World with producer Don law, for Columbia Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Dexter Gordon records Love For Sale, Cheese Cakes and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Blue Note Records.
Homer 'Slim' Miller, fiddler of pioneering country music string band the Cumberland Ridge Runners, dies. The group was popular for many years on WLS Radio in Chicago.
The Everly Brothers record an early version of the track Nancy's Minuet, for Warner Brothers Records in the USA.
B.B. King, The Drifters, Maxine Brown, Gene Chandler and others play the third of seven nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Johnny And The Jokers record Where Did My Baby Go? and I Know for Beltone Records in the USA.
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Stevie Wonder, just twelve years old, records Thank You For Loving
Me All The Way, in his first session for Tamla
Records in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Sensations , Etta James and Hank Ballard And The Midnighters play at The Zanzibar Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Aretha Franklin and Ike And Tina Turner play at the Castle Farms Club, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Operation Big Beat 6th at the Tower
Ballroom, New
Brighton, UK, features Johnny Sandon And
The
Remo Four, The
Undertakers, Rory
Storm & The Hurricanes, Billy Kramer with The Coasters, The Strangers and
The
Merseybeats. The evening also features the grand finals of the all-Merseyside Jive
and Twist Championship, with
Jazz pianist Jimmy Rushing is recorded live in a concert for the Jazz Casual tv series in at KQED Television Studios, San Francisco, California, USA.
Hank Ballard And the Midnighters play the fourth night in a week of gigs at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Georgie Fame
And The Blue Flames play a Sunday afternoon jam session at The
Flamingo
Club, Soho, London, UK.
The Beatles are recorded at EMI House, London, UK, for transmission on EMI's Radio Luxembourg show The Friday Spectacular.
Carl Perkins plays the twenty-seventh night of a month at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
UK folk trio The Springfields, featuring Dusty Springfield, spend the first of two days carrying out promotional appearances in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.During his first visit to the UK, Bob Dylan goes to see Martin Carthy sing at the King And Queen pub in London, UK. Carthy invites him up to sing and Dylan performs three songs.
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