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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 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 As the new decade opens, the No1 song in the UK pop singles chart is Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris.
Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees records two solo tracks, Sky West And Crooked and A Very Special Day, in London, UK.
As the new decade opens, the No1 song in the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA is Someday We'll Be Together by The Supremes.
Badfinger, Arrival, The Dave Clark Five, Rolf Harris and Blue Mink appear on UK tv show Top Of The Pops, at the BBC TV Centre, Shepherds Bush, London, UK.
Rock manager/entrepreneur David Geffen establishes a new label, Asylum Records, to which he signs Jackson Browne as its first artist.Floyd 'Salty' Holmes, guitar, harmonica and jug player of pioneering country music recording artists The Kentucky Ramblers aka The Prairie Ramblers, dies.
After playing at a New Year's Eve Party at St. Michael's Hall in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA, famed polka musician and recording artist Frankie 'Gee' Grybosh is struck and killed by a car.
Mike Jeffery, manager of Jimi Hendrix, rings bassist Noel Redding and offers him a tour with Jimi. In the evening, Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys have a gig and live recording at Fillmore East, New York City, USA, supported by the Voices Of East Harlem.
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Howard "Cedric Rainwater" Watts, a former member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys, dies in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.