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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.
Ethel Ennis is playing during two weeks at The Stater Brothers, Los Angeles, California, USA.
A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single Terry by Twinkle, which had been banned by both the BBC and ITV on grounds of 'bad taste', because it referred to the death of a teenager in a motorcycle smash.
With their brief Irish tour completed, The Rolling Stones fly back to London, England, UK.
Lefty Frizzell headlines Eddie Zack's W.R.I.B. Hayloft Jamboree radio show in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
US trade magazine Billboard reports that new song book by Pete Seeger, Bells Of Rhymney, has been bought by Oak Publications.
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Anti-nuclear protest song What Have They Done To the Rain by The Searchers peaks at No13 in the UK. The song is composed by Malvina Reynolds.
The Birds, including future Rolling Stones' guitarist Ron Wood, play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, supported by Ricky Vernon and The Pathfinders.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Hollies, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly, The Rustiks, The Remo Four and Danny Williams appear in the last of six nights of Gerry's Christmas Cracker at The Odeon, Leeds, UK.
The New Journeymen [later to become The Mamas And The Papas) decide to move out of New York City, USA, and live in the Virgin Islands.
Country artist Judy Lynn is given two Pioneer Awards - Best Western Female Vocalist for 1964 and Best-Dressed Female Western Artist - by the International Western Market at The Ramada Inn, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys overdubs his vocal and bass guitar parts onto Please Let Me Wonder in Western Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows continue with their season at The Palladium Theatre, London, England, UK.
The Birds, including future Rolling Stones' guitarist Ron Wood, play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. supported by Ricky Vernon and The Pathfinders.
The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine chart of the 100 best-selling singles in the USA is The Jolly Green Giant by The Kingsmen, entering at No72.
Another Beatles Christmas Show, starring The Beatles, continues at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, UK. Also on the bill are Freddie And The Dreamers, Sounds Incorporated, Elkie Brooks, The Yardbirds and The Mike Cotton Sound.
It is reported that Nina Simone is suing Premier Records, R.H.Macy and others in the State Supreme Court, New York City, USA, over sales of an unauthorised album, Starring Nina Simone, in the USA.What Have They Done To The Rain by The Searchers peaks at No7 in the Singles Chart in Sweden, Europe.
Chuck Berry records several tracks (including She Once Was Mine and Jamaica Farewell, at Pye Studios, London, England, UK, with pick-up band The Five Dimensions, to be released on the album Chuck Berry In London. That evening he plays a gig at The Astoria, Finsbury Park, London, along with The Moody Blues, Long John Baldry and The Graham Bond Organisation.
Peter And Gordon's version of Del Shannon's song I Go To Pieces enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No9.
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 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.
Al Martino is playing during three weeks at Basin Street East, New York City, USA.