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The musical Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
The stage musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Rudy Vallee, is playing at the 46th Street Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,417 performances.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Female saxophonist Vi Redd is playing during a month-long engagement at The Sugar Hill, San Francisco, California, USA.
Billy Eckstine is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
King Curtis is playing during a two-week season at The Latin Casino, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
Stan Getz is playing during ten days at Shelley's Manne Hole, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Damita Jo is playing at The Three Rivers Inn, Syracuse, New Jersey, USA.
Anita O'Day is playing at The Safari Room, San Jose, California, USA.
Marvin Gaye is playing during a week at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA, supported by The Vibrations, The Contours, Billy Stewart, Jimmy Pelham and The Charmettes.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on guitar, play their regular Sunday night residency at The Crawdaddy, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK, Europe.
Bobby Rydell, Helen Shapiro, The Spotnicks, The Chants, The Harlems and The Trebletones play at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Pioneering crooner Gene Austin and Marge Cameron are playing during a two-week booking at The Tidelands Club, Houston, Texas, USA.
Al Martino is appearing at The Magic Inn, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Leon McAuliffe and His Swingin‘ Western Band play at The KRNT Theatre, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
Folksinger Paul Sykes is appearing at The Ice House, Pasadena, California, USA.
The Osmond Brothers (aka The Osmonds) appear, singing O Shenandoah, in today's edition of tv series The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters, entitled The Day of the Flying Dutchman, on ABC-tv in the USA.
Oscar Peterson is playing at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Little Richard, Bo Diddley and The Everly Brothers play at The Odeon, Rochester, England, UK, Europe.
The Shirelles, Duane Eddy and Gene Vincent play at The Odeon, Sunderland, UK, Europe.
The Beatles play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Vernons Girls, The Brook Brothers, Peter Jay and The Jaywalkers, and others.
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King Curtis plays the fifth night of a two-week season at The Latin Casino, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
The Downliners Sect play an afternoon session at Studio 51, Great Newport Street, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Detours play at St. Mary's Hall, Putney, London, England, UK, Europe. The band will achieve worldwide fame after evolving to become The Who.
Peggy Lee is the guest star on tonight's edition of The Judy Garland Show on CBS-tv in the USA.
The Fall 1963 Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in Richmond, Virginia, USA.
The Rolling Stones play at The Oa sis, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
During a concert at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, Louis Armstrong spontaneously plays a rendition of God Bless America, in tribute to the recently assassinated President Kennedy.
Barbra Streisand plays at Butler University, Clowes Memorial Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Bill Anderson, with producer Owen Bradley, records Five Hundred Miles, You Don't Have To Be A Baby, Abilene, Green Green and I'm Leaving It All Up To You in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on the session includes guitarists Harold Bradley, Jerry Kennedy and Grady Martin, steel guitarist Weldon Myrick, bassist Joseph Zinkan, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Hargus Robbins [piano], with The Anita Kerr Singers.
Jerry Lee Lewis plays the first of six nights at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The Billy J. Kramer Pop Parade tour, featuring Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, The Caravelles, The Fourmost, Houston Wells, Tommy Quickly and The Marauders plays at The Hippodrome, Brighton, England, UK, Europe.
Billy Fury plays at Colston Hall, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
The New York Times publishes its first feature on a rising young British band, reporting that, "The Beatles are four young men who play guitars and drums and sing pop songs they write themselves. This sounds like merely a minor accomplishment, but it isn't - not the way they do it, and the noise they make while they are doing it, and the spectacularly demented way they look while they are doing it. By comparison, Elvis Presley is an Edwardian tenor of considerable diffidence."
Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, Heinz And The Saints, Bert Weedon and The Sundowners play in the Disc All Star Show at The Granada, Tooting, London, England, UK, Europe.