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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
Engelbert Humperdinck is appearing in a season as Robinson Crusoe in pantomime at The Palladium Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra are playing during a three-week engagement at Harrah's, Reno, Nevada, USA.
Ed Ames is playing during a three-week engagement at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Georgie Fame is playing during a three-week season at The Mayfair Hotel, London, England, UK, Europe.
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.
Joe Cocker's contracts with Straight Ahead Productions and Essex Music come into effect, but will prove to be unsatisfactory because of the royalty arrangements imposed by Essex MD David Platz.
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Family are playing during a six-night engagement at Hatchett's Playground, Piccadilly, London, England, UK, Europe.The Jonah Jones Quartet and Ray McKinley Sextet play at The Rainbow Grill, New York City, USA.
Singapore's most successful beat group, The Quests, begin an engagement at the Mocambo Club, Hong Kong, Asia.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that in the past year, for the first time, album sales (192m) have overtaken single sales (187m). Record sales overall generated over $1bn in the USA during the same twelve month period.
Georgie Fame continues with his three-week long Christmas engagement at the Mayfair Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.Roger Waters invites Dave Gilmour of Cambridge-based band Jokers Wild to join Pink Floyd, hoping to prop up the band because their songwriter/guitarist Syd Barrett is now dysfunctional because of drug abuse.
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Arlo Guthrie plays the thirteenth night of two weeks at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience have a rehearsal at the Hillside Club, and an interview at BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, England, UK, Europe.
Ernestine Dickens, the wife of country star Little Jimmy Dickens, dies in a car accident in Sherman, Texas, USA, when her car veers off an overpass.Don Helms, a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, joins Hank Williams Jr's band, The Cheating Hearts.
Frank Hubble And The Village Stompers play at The London House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Internationally successful Australian folk-pop group The Seekers begin a new recording contract which sees the quartet switching from former producer Tom Springfield to Mickie Most.
The Nice play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Mabel Greer's Toyshop. 
The Shadows begin a three-week cabaret season at The Talk Of The Town, London, England, UK, Europe, with Brian Locking standing in for bassist John Rostill who has suffered a nervous breakdown. If The Whole World Stopped Loving by Val Doonican is awarded a Silver Disc in the UK, Europe.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.
The Paupers play at El Patio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.