2nd November

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 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.

The second of two days is spent recording the TV special The Music Of Lennon and McCartney, at Studio 6, Granada TV Centre, Manchester, England, UK, Europe. Performing artists include The Beatles, Lulu, Billy J. Kramer, Peter Sellers, Cilla Black, Marianne Faithfull, Henry Mancini and others.

Jazz pianist Lenny Tristano plays at the Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.

Motown package tour The Biggest Show of Stars '65, featuring The Four Tops, The Temptations, Martha And The Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, Junior Walker And His All-Stars, The Marvelettes, The Spinners, Kim Weston, Willie Tyler And Lester and Choker Campbell's Big Band, plays at The Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, Florida, USA.

The Who play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by the Mark Leeman Five.

The Top Ten Singles for this week on WABC radio in New York City, USA, are as follows :

1. A Lover's Concerto - The Toys (DynoVoice)

2. 1-2-3 - Len Barry (Decca)

3. Keep On Dancing - The Gentrys (MGM)

4. I Hear a Symphony - The Supremes (Motown)

5. Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones (London)

6. Let's Hang On! - The 4 Seasons (Philips)

7. You're The One - The Vogues (Co And Ce)

8. Yesterday - The Beatles (Capitol)

9. Liar, Liar - The Castaways (Soma)

10. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass (Checker)

TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features The Everly Brothers performing Cathy's Clown. Roy Head appears on the same show.

A 30-minute television documentary titled An Easter With Rod (aka Rod The Mod), about upcoming young r'n'b vocalist Rod Stewart, is broadcast in the UK.

The New Jump Band plays at The London Cavern Club, Holland Park, West London, England, UK, Europe.

Rockabilly singer Tommy Collins records Klippa Kloppa, If You Can't Bite Don't Growl, A Man Gotta Do What a Man Gotta Do and Man Machine in his first session for Columbia Records at the Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

The Yardbirds play at The Floral Hall, Gorleston, England, UK, Europe.

The Young Rascals play at The Phone Booth, Manhattan, New York City, USA.

Ned Miller records Sunday Morning Tears, That's Why I Sing In A Honky Tonk, Turn Down The Starlight and The Big Love in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Jazz saxophonist and recording artist Andrew D' Angelo is born in Greeley, Colorado, USA.

David Bowie And The Lower Third audition for the BBC's Talent Selection Group in London, England, UK, Europe, in hopes of getting work on BBC music radio and tv shows. The trio performs Chim-Chim-Cheree and an original composition called Baby That's A Promise but the Selection group is singularly unimpressed, describing the band as a "Routine beat group" with "nothing to recommend it." Bowie himself was called an "amateur sounding vocalist who sings wrong notes and out of tune."

Connie Smith records Go Ahead And Make Me Cry, In My Baby's Arms Again, For Better Or For Worse and Ain't Nothin' Shakin' in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with a band featuring guitarists Ray Edenton, Walter Haynes and Jimmy Lance, steel guitarist Weldon Myrick, bassist Junior Huskey, drummer Leonard Miller and pianist Hargus Robbins.

Elvis Presley sends a Christmas card showing a nativity scene to Sheila Leyden in Merton Park, England, UK, Europe, with the return address showing the card was from Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

The Spencer Davis Group release their debut LP, entitled Their First LP, on Fontana Records in the UK.

The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.