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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.
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 rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The Beacon Street Union are playing at The Scene, New York City, USA.
The Lemon Pipers are playing during a two-week engagement at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, with Jake Holmes.
Barbara McNair is playing during two weeks at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Diahann Carroll is playing during an engagement at The Hilton Plaza, Miami, Florida, USA.
Eddie Floyd, Pigmeat Markham, J.J. Barnes, Pat Lewis, The Holidays, Ruby Andrews and Barbara Mercer play in the Memphis Sounds Show during a lengthy booking at The Riviera Theater, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
John Davidson is playing during a week of shows at The Latin Casino, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band plays at Ewell Technical College, Ewell, England, UK, Europe.
Simon And Garfunkel play at The Odeon, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Junior Walker And The All Stars play at Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, USA.
The Incredible String Band and their dancers present a 'Mystical Pantomime' at The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The Who play at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by Soap.
Ways And Means play at The Victoria And Bull, Dartford, England, UK, Europe.
The Freddy Mack Show plays at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, play at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.
Traffic play at Liverpool University, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is Valleri by The Monkees entering at No36.
Pioneering San Francisco psychedelic band The Amazing Charlatans play the second of two nights at The Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Love, Congress of Wonders, and The Sons of Champlin play the second of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Troggs play at The Imperial Hall, Nelson, Lancashire, England, UK, Europe.
Simon Dupree And The Big Sound appear on the Southern ITV show Time For Blackburn in the UK.
The Moody Blues, Traffic, Manfred Mann, Nirvana and Sharon Tandy appear on the TV show Beat Club in Germany, Europe.
The Symbols play at The California Ballroom, Dunstable, England, UK, Europe.
Eddie Arnold and Fannie Flagg play the second of two nights at The Auditorium Theatre Chicago, Illinois, USA.
At this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, USA, Up Up And Away by The 5th Dimension wins Record of the Year and Best Vocal Group Performance, while Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles takes home Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Album, Best Engineered Record and Best Album Cover.
Tim Rose plays at The Starlight room, Gliderdrome, Boston, England, UK, Europe.
The Yardbirds, with Jimmy Page on guitar, perform live on the tv show Bouton Rouge at Maison de Radio-France, Paris, France, Europe.
Simon Dupree And The Big Sound play at Dreamland, Margate, England, UK, Europe.
The Nice, The Spencer Davis Group and Tony Rivers And The Castaways play at Leeds University, Leeds, England, UK, Europe.
Hour Glass and The Sunshine Company play the last of three nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA. Hour Glass, features Gregg and Duane Allman, later to form The Allman Brothers Band.
Plastic Penny play at The Civic Hall, Nantwich, England, UK, Europe.
Hank Williams Jr. plays a live concert in Augusta, Georgia, USA.
Traffic appear on the BBC radio show Pete's People in the UK.
Donovan appears on the BBC radio show Saturday Club, recorded in London, England, UK, Europe.
Cilla Black releases a new single, Step Inside Love, in the UK, Europe. It is written by Lennon and McCartney of The Beatles.
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Pink Floyd play at The technical College, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
Manfred Mann's cover version of the Bob Dylan song Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo), enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10.
The Paupers play the second of three nights at The Trauma, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Byrds record the Bob Dylan song You Ain't Goin' Nowhere for Columbia Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. At the same session they also record Hickory Wind.
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The Rolling Stones spend the eleventh day in a fortnight of rehearsals at R.G.Jones Studio, Morden, Surrey, UK, Europe.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at Stony Brook, NYU, Long Island, New York State, USA.
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Diana Ross And The Supremes are playing at The Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bob Dylan's 8th studio album, John Wesley Harding tops the UK albums chart for the first of ten consecutive weeks.
Tyrannosaurus Rex play at The Middle Earth, London, England, UK, Europe.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.