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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.
Oscar Brown Jr opens for a three-week season at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
A feature in Variety magazine in the USA reports that sales of records by The Beatles have now topped one hundred and fifty million.
Revered old-time fiddler Ward Allen dies of a heart attack, aged 43, at his home in Hull, Quebec, Ontario, Canada. Hull was best known for his 1957 hit, Maple Sugar.
Gerry And The Pacemakers and Gene Vincent play at The South Pier, Blackpool, England, UK.
Dion records You Move Me Babe and I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound, for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Jazz organist Richard "Groove" Holmes records the album Soul Message for Prestige Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Bob Dylan continues recording the album Highway 61 Revisited in Studio A, Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Sandie Shaw plays a ballroom gig in Elgin, Scotland, UK.
Slim Whitman records Be Honest With Me, Please Help Me I'm Falling, Have You Ever Been Lonely and other tracks in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Spencer Davis Group, supported by the Mark Leeman Five, play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK.
The Who are filmed performing I Can't Explain, Daddy Rolling Stone and an early version of My Generation at Twickenham Film Studios, London, England, UK, for use on the tv show Shindig! in the USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Bobby Rydell performing Diana and World Without Love and Joe Tex performing Hold On To What You've Got.
Merle Haggard records If I Could Be Him, Shade Tree and This Town's Not Big Enough, with producers Ken Nelson and Fuzzy Owen, in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Musicians on the session include guitarists Roy Nichols and Lewis Ley , steel guitarist Ralph Mooney, bassists Bert Dodson and Robert Morris, drummer Helen Price and pianist George French Jr. Harmony vocals are supplied by Billy Mize and Bonnie Owens.
Jerry Reed, with Chet Atkins as producer, records Ain't That Just Like A Fool, I'll Get Over You and Love's Battleground, in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Byrds open their UK tour with a show at The Imperial, Nelson, Lancashire, England.
The Shangri-Las play at The Club Pony Tail, Harbour Springs, Michigan, USA.
Johnny Bond records Side Car Cycle, X-15, Fastback and other tracks at Starday Sound Studio, 3557 Dickerson Road, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald plays at The Musikhalle, Hamburg, West Germany, Europe. A recording of the concert will be released as the album Ella In Hamburg.
Elvis Presley continues recording tracks for the soundtrack to the film Paradise Hawaiian Style at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
John Lennon of The Beatles buys a house in Poole, Dorset, England, UK, for his Aunt Mimi.
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.