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The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The Treniers are playing during a lengthy engagement at The Sahara Lounge, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
Jack Jones is playing during a two-week stand at The Copacabana, New York City, USA.
Connie Francis is playing during eleven nights at The Statler Hilton Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner is playing at Al Hirt's Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The Jazz Communicators (saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Herbie Lewis, and drummer Louis Hayes) are playing during a fifteen night booking at The Both/And Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Roman Numerals are playing at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Warner Mack records I'm Gonna Move On for Decca Records at Bradley's Barn, Bender’s Ferry Road, Mount Juliet, Tennessee, USA.
The Pretty Things and The Crystal Ship play at The Middle Earth Club, London, England, UK, Europe.
Bridge Piece by Joseph Jarman of avant-garde jazz combo The Art Ensemble Of Chicago is performed at Ida Noyes Hall, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The multi-media performance includes the band casually dressed, strobe lights, video projections, a smoke machine, strolling performers and someone carrying a portable radio tuned to a Top 40 music station. Some audience members are told to wear sacks over their heads, while others are draped in tinfoil. If any audience members are not casually dressed, they are asked to leave.
John D. Loudermilk, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl and Tex Ritter appear in an NBC-TV special, American Profile : Music From The Land, hosted by Eddy Arnold in the USA.
The Band record the Bob Dylan composition I Shall Be Released in Big Pink, Woodstock, New York State, USA. It will appear on their debut album, Music From Big Pink.
The Cream play at The Arts Ball in Leicester University, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
The Hamilton Movement play at The Tiger's Head, Catford, London, England, UK, Europe.
Daydream Believer by The Monkees reaches No1 in the Official New Zealand Singles Chart, for the first of four weeks.
The Siegel-Schwall Band, Buddy Guy, Mance Lipscombe and Hour Glass play the first of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And The Holding Company play at The Exhibition Hall, San Diego, California, USA.
The Action and Chicken Shack play at Hammersmith College, Hammersmith, London, England, UK, Europe.
Jeff Beck releases his new single, a dodgy rocked-up cover of MOR composer Paul Mauriat's Love Is Blue, in the UK, Europe. "We rushed into the studio and the whole thing was finished in two days," is the best excuse Beck can muster.
Buffalo Springfield play at The Gym, California State University, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Spooky Tooth play at The El bow Room, Aston, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. On the same night they also play at The Carlton Club in Birmingham.
Judy Collins opens at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Hedge And Donna.
Black Cat Bones and Jethro Tull play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.
Spirit undertake the first recording session for their third LP, Clear, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
When folk guitarist and singer Bert Jansch is unable to play tonight's gig in Manchester, England, UK, Europe, he is replaced by Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick who were in the audience to attend the show.
Alejandra Gabriela Guzmán-Pinal is born in Mexico City, Mexico, North America. The daughter of actress Silvia Pinal and singer Enrique Guzmán, she will find success under the name Alejandra Guzman as a singer-songwriter, actress, and musician.
Bobby Wood records Say It's Not You, She Thinks I Still Care, You've Got A Place In My Heart and Just Out in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Lovin' Spoonful and The 5th Dimension play at The Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience play two shows at Anaheim Convention Center, California, USA, with The Animals, Eire Apparent and Soft Machine.
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Dave Berry appears on the BBC-1 tv show All Systems Freeman, hosted by Alan Freeman, in London, England, UK, Europe.
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers play the second of three nights at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.