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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 Kings Of Surf Music, The Beach Boys record I Get Around at Western Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA. Intriguingly, I Get Around will give the quintet their first Top Ten hit in the UK where surf culture is virtually unheard of but, even more bizzarely, their fascination with cars and driving will inspire Kraftwerk in 1974 to create the first bona fide electronic rock hit, Autobahn, as a German equivalent of Beach Boys pop.
Liberty Records releases the compilation LP 5-String Banjo Greats, in the USA. The album features tracks by Jim McGuinn (later to form The Byrds), David Lindley, Mason Williams, Jim Helms, Billy Cheatwood, Mike Seeger, Joe Maphis and others.The Herman Schoonderwalt Quartet records Get Out Of Town and I
Loves You Porgy in Phonogram Studios, Hilversum, Holland, Europe.
The Beach Boys fire their manager, Murry Wilson, who is also the father of three members of the group.
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The
Kingston Trio play the eleventh night of a two-week season at
The
Hungry i, San
Francisco, California, USA.
Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by Tony Saturn And The Planets.
Elvis Presley continues with the shooting of location scenes for his latest
movie, Roustabout, at locations in and around Los Angeles, California, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at a press preview party for the upcoming NAB Convention in The Celebrity Lounge, at The Maryland Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. During the evening, Ellington is presented with Downbeat Awards for Top Big Band of 1963 and Top Arranger, by the magazine's editor Don DeMichael.
The Hubert Laws Quartet records Black Eyed Peas And Rice, Miss Thing, Bessie's Blues and Bimbe Blue for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
Gregory Abbott is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as a soul musician (keyboards and drums), singer, composer and producer.
Neil Young records twenty songs with his group The Squires at CKRC Studios, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Elvis Presley releases the album Kissin' Cousins on RCA Victor Records in the USA. The album is the soundtrack to Presley's movie of the same name.
Hard bop and soul-jazz organist Baby Face Willette comes to the end of of several days of recording his album Mo' Rock for Argo Records in Ter Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois, USA.