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The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
R'n'b organist The Clovers enter the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA with Love Potion No9, which will peak at No23, but will also go on to become a much-covered r'n'b/pop standard.
Rock'n'roll combo The Echoes record Ecstasy, Loving And Losing and other tracks for Columbia Records in Bradley Film And Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Noted session guitarists Grady Martin and Hank Garland feature on the track.
Elvis Presley fans in East Germany are arrested for shouting 'Long Live Elvis Presley' and various anti-government slogans.
Elvis Presley fans in East Germany are arrested for shouting 'Long Live Elvis Presley' and various anti-government slogans.
Watford Gap, the first of Britain's motorway service stations opens. The station's restaurant, The Blue Boar, will prove conveniently located as a stop-off for rock bands travelling back to London after gigs in the north of the country, so it will be visited in the early hours of the morning by Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, Pink Floyd, Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group, The Soft Machine and many others. In 1977, on his album Bullinamingvase, Roy Harper will include a song called Watford Gap with the chorus, 'Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of c**p'.
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The Clovers enter the Billboard US Top 40 Singles Chart with Love Potion No9, which will peak at No23, but go on to become a much-covered
R'n'B/pop standard.