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The Blues Project continue their residency at the The Http://En.Wikipedia.Org/Wiki/Cafe_Au_Go_Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Charlie Owens records That Devil Forrest and Ballad Of Sam Davis for Birchfield Music in Sam Phillips Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The Singers Circle with Barry Olivier play at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.
The Who play two shows in one day. First is at the Embassy Ballroom, Swansea, Wales, and later at Ritz Ballroom, Skewen, Wales, UK, Europe
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features The Beau Brummels performing Good Time Music and Don't Talk to Strangers. On the same show, Bobby Freeman performs the latest dance-craze song, The Swim.
Burl Ives, with Owen Bradley as producer, records Medicine Man, Here She Comes There She Goes and The Sixties in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
BBC-tv's pop music flagship show, Top Of The Pops moves from Manchester to the BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK, Europe. Tonight's edition features Cilla Black , Crispian St. Peters, The Overlanders, David And Jonathan and Paul And Barry Ryan.
Country Joe McDonald plays at The Questing Beast, Berkeley, California, USA. [There is evidence to suggest that this was, in fact, the first live date of Country Joe And The Fish as a band.]
During their Winter Concert Tour, Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass are playing in Portland, Oregon, USA.
The Kinks spend the last of four days recording Dedicated Follower Of Fashion in London, UK. for Pye Records.
Robbie Basho and Reverend Gary Davis play at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA. That night Gary Davis stays with Country Joe And The Fish in their Russell Street apartment building behind The Jabberwock.
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The Artwoods, led by Art Wood, brother of Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones, play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by The Bohemians. The Artwoods line-up includes organist Jon Lord who will go on to greater fame withDeep Purple, and drummer Keef Hartley who will have considerable success as a solo performer.
Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play at California Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Beatles start work on a track called Mark 1 at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK. The track will later be re-named as Tomorrow Never Knows.
On Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA, in rush hour traffic, a white van going one way passes a battered old 1953 Pontiac hearse bearing Ontario licence plates heading in the opposite direction. In the van: guitarists/singer/songwriters Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, both former Greenwich Village folkies from The Au Go Go Singers plus friend/manager Barry Friedman. In the hearse: guitarist/singer/songwriter, ex-Winnipegger Neil Young and Torontonian bass player Bruce Palmer, both formerly members of The Mynah Birds, in LA to look for Stills whom Young had met a year earlier in Fort William, Ontario. After 6 days searching in vain, they were heading north to San Francisco on that April afternoon.
The occupants of the white van noticed the hearse and Stills remembered that Young liked old hearses. Somehow the white van managed to manoeuvre itself behind the hearse. Honking their horn, the white van caught the attention of the two in the hearse. Both vehicles pulled into the parking lot of popular hippie hangout Ben Frank's restaurant. The occupants of both vehicles got out, Stills and Young embraced and introduced the other occupants. Later that evening, in Barry Friedman's house, Stills, Young, Furay and Palmer agreed to form a band. Taking a nameplate from a steamroller parked outside Friedman's Fountain Avenue house, they named themselves The Buffalo Springfield.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Jefferson Airplane play at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Blues Project play the second of two nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, supported by The Great Society (whose vocalist Grace Slick will subsequently join Jefferson Airplane.)
Quicksilver Messenger Service play the second of two nights at the Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck on guitar, start work on recording their first album, at Advision Studios, London, UK.
The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The New Tweedy Brothers play the second of two nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
The No1 single in New Zealand on this day, for the third consecutive week, is Dedicated Follower Of Fashion by The Kinks.
The Beatles play a live concert at The Grugahalle, Norbertstrasse, Essen, West Germany, Europe.The Beatles play two shows on their second night at The Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
I Want You by Bob Dylan enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No20 during a four-week run.
Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band play in the Town Hall, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Manfred Mann enter the UK pop singles chart with their version of Bob Dylan's Just Like A Woman, which will peak at No10.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Otis Redding plays at The Carousel Club, Farnborough, UK. (N.B. Other sources claim Redding was attending a Volt Records recording session in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, on this date, but photographic evidence appears to place him firmly in Farnborough)The Pink Floyd Sound play at the Celebration Dance for the London Free School in All Saints Hall, Powis Gardens, London, UK.
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The Grateful Dead play at Winterland, San Francisco, with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
The Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Electric Train play the second of two nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
R'n'b and jazz guitarist George Benson comes to the end of recording his album The George Benson Cookbook with producer John Hammond Sr.
When The Great Society play at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA, they learn that their vocalist Grace Slick is planning to join Jefferson Airplane.Country Joe and The Fish and Neon Gothic play the second of five nights at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.
The Justice League, The Group, The Fuzz and The Chosen For play at Maple Hall, San Pablo, California, USA.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Jefferson Airplane play the second of fifteen nights at The Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, California, USA, supported by The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
Big Brother and The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, record a single, The Last Time, for Mainstream Records.
Fame And Felix [Georgie Fame And Julie Felix] play during a week of shows at the Brian Epstein-owned Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, UK. A new young singer-songwriter, Cat Stevens, is also on the bill.
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