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Kingston Trio release their eponymous debut album in the USA. It includes a future No1 hit, Tom
Dooley.
Ray Charles, The Drifters, The Heartbeats, The Cadillacs, The Cookies, Ann Cole, Tiny Topsy, Mary Ann Fisher, Solomon Burke and The 5 Crowns play the fourth night of a week of shows at The Apollo, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The Crickets, with Buddy Holly on lead vocal, release a new single, Think It Over, in the USA.
Chuck Berry is arrested outside St Charles, Missouri, USA, when a Highway Patrol officer finds a concealed gun in his pink Cadillac.
On The Street Where You Live by Vic Damone enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No4 during a sixteen-week run on the chart.
The Kingston Trio release their eponymous debut album in the USA. It includes a future No1 hit, Tom Dooley.
High school drop-out Barry Sadler joins the US Air Force. In 1966, under the name Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler, he will have a No1 hit in the USA with his patriotic single The Ballad Of The Green Berets.
Johnny Horton records Mr Moonlight, All Grown Up, Got The Bull By The Horns and Counterfeit Love at Bradley Film And Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Eddy Arnold records I'll Do As Much For You Someday, for RCA Records in the USA, but this version of the song will remain unreleased.
On The Street
Where You Live by Vic
Damone enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak
at No4 during a sixteen-week run on the chart.
Elvis Presley's fourth movie, King Creole, is released in the USA by Paramount Pictures.