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Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, Gladys Knight And The Pips, The Marvelettes, Willie Tyler And Lester, The Contours, Chris Clark and Bobby Taylor And The Vancouvers are playing during the second five nights of the annual Motor Town Revue at The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play at The Rainbow Ballroom, Fresno, California, USA.
Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield records a solo track, No One Left To Please, which will not surface publicly until 1969 as the Crosby, Stills And Nash song 49 Bye Byes.
Ten Years After are playing at Klook's Kleek, in The Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe.
It is announced that Goodnight Sweet Josephine is to be the next UK single for The Yardbirds, set for release on March 1. 
Revered Appalachian fiddler and banjo picker Henry Reed dies aged 84 because of a blood clot which formed a month after his foot was amputated because of an infection.
Edwin Starr plays at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Robert Plant And The Band Of Joy. (Plant will, of course, later become the vocalist of Led Zeppelin].John D. Loudermilk, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl and Tex Ritter appear in an NBC-TV special, American Profile : Music From The Land, hosted by Eddy Arnold in the USA.
BBC Radio's David Symonds show features a live concert by Family, pre-recorded at the Paris Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, a week earlier.
Traffic play at a record company convention in Grenoble, France, Europe.
Simon Dupree And The Big Sound play at Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK, Europe.
Solomon King is in the middle of a week of cabaret at The Scala, Doncaster, England, UK, Europe.
The Who record Call Me Lightning at Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA. It is highly probable that they also record John Entwistle's song Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde on this day.
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Paul Jones, formerly of Manfred Mann, releases a solo single, And The Sun Will Shine, in the UK, Europe. Written by The Bee Gees, it is produced by Peter Asher of Peter And Gordon, and features Paul McCartney of The Beatles on drums and Jeff Beck on guitar.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at Stony Brook, NYU, Long Island, New York State, USA.Family, Picadilly Line, Attack, Doctor K's Blues Band and Pete Brown's Poetry Band play at The Middle Earth, London, England, UK, Europe.
Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry play at The Auditorium Theatre Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Buffalo Springfield play at Will Rodgers Memorial Coliseum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
The Bee Gees and The Foundations play at The Odeon, Romford, England, UK, Europe.
The Temptations, Edwin Starr, The Monitors and Willie Tyler are playing during a week of shows at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The Steve Miller Band play the second of three nights at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
The album Rotary Connection by Rotary Connection enters the Billboard Top 40 albums chart in the USA. It will peak at No37 during a four-week stay.
A live set by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band is broadcast on the BBC Radio 1 show Top Gear in the UK, Europe.
Sly And The Family Stone play the first of two days at The Lighthouse Carnival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Velvet Underground play at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, supported by Bo Grumpus.
Big Brother And The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, play at Freeborn Hall, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
The Hour Glass play the second of three nights at The Kaleidoscope, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.The Hollies, The Scaffold and Paul Jones play at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, England, UK, Europe.
Taj Mahal plays the last of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dave Van Ronk, and The A.B.Skhy Blues Band.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience work on the song South Saturn Delta at The Record Plant, New York City, USA, with arranger Larry Fallon.
Psychedelic power trio Blue Cheer play the second of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Hello People.
Blood Sweat And Tears are playing during three nights at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supported by Buzzy Linhart.
The Who play at Majestic Ski Hill, an open-air ski resort and venue in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA, supported by The Geneva Convention.
Big Brother And The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, play at The Cheetah, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The music-oriented movie You Are What You Eat opens in New York City, USA. The film includes Tiny Tim, Paul Butterfield, Barry McGuire and The Electric Flag.
James Brown, The Chambers Brothers, Sly And The Family Stone, Sam And Dave, Street, Joe Namath, Alan Alda and others appear in the local New York tv special Rock Of New York, hosted by Frankie Crocker.
San Francisco band Moby Grape play at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, on a bill with Eire Apparent and Rotary Connection.
Creedence Clearwater Revival play the second of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York City, USA, supported by Deep Purple and The James Cotton Blues Band.
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