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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.
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.
Guitarist Billy Strange records Get Smart, Thunderball, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Run Spy Run and I Spy in United Recorders, 6050 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band on this session comprises Wrecking Crew members Tommy Tedesco, Lou Morell, Joseph Gibbons, Carol Kaye, Larry Knechtel, Hal Blaine, Julius Wechter, Plas Johnson, Roy Caton, A. D. Brisbois, Oliver Mitchell, Robert Knight and Lew McCreary. The tracks will appear on Strange's album Secret Agent File.
Gene Pitney, The Rockin' Berries, Peter And Gordon and Lulu play at The Granada, Tooting, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Riot Squad play at The Bedford Hotel, Bedford Hill, Balham, Wandsworth, Greater London, England, UK, Europe.
Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, Billy Fury, The Fortunes, Little Frankie and The Country Gents play at The Granada, Bedford, England, UK, Europe.
The Blues Project begins a residency at The Café Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
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The Graham Bond Organisation plays at The Corn Exchange, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
The Yardbirds play at K-52, Frankfurt, Germany, Europe.
Mono mixes of The Beatles' songs Michelle, Think For Yourself, What Goes On and Run For Your Life are prepared at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Small Faces play in The Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes, England, UK, Europe
The Supremes are working on the songs My World Is Empty Without You and Everything Is Good About You at Hitsville Studio, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
In Los Angeles, California, USA, Frank Sinatra files a $281,547 legal suit in the US District Court against CBS-tv in respect of an imminent hour-long CBS News Special about Sinatra, a broadcast for which the artist had previously withdrawn permission. Sinatra also charged that Columbia Records (parent company of CBS-tv) had improperly reduced costs of arrangements and accompanists from his royalties.
Keith Jarrett plays at The Five Spot Café, New York City, USA.
Jimmy Ruffin overdubs his lead vocal to the previously recorded instrumental track of the song What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted in Motown's Hitsville Studio, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Jazz pianist Lenny Tristano plays in Padova, Italy, Europe.
Marc Bolan, later to form T.Rex, makes his first appearance on UK tv show Ready, Steady, Go!
Yesterday by The Beatles reaches No1 in the Singles Chart in Sweden, Europe, for the first of six weeks.
Jazz clarinet player Pete Fountain records Fountain In The Rain, The In Crowd, King Of The Road, The Shadow Of Your Smile, Faded Love, Cast Your Fate To The Wind and The Theme From The Yearling for Coral Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers play at The Five Spot, New York City, USA.
Lulu makes a personal appearance at Tillett And Holt Records in London to autograph copies of her records.
Johnny Cash plays at The Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Three fourteen year-old musicians in San Diego, California, USA, obtain a temporary injunction against the Board of Education's attempt to transfer the trio to a school for "problem students" because they had refused to relinquish their haircuts in the style of The Beatles.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Little Richard performing Lucille plus Jackie De Shannon performing Lifetime of Loneliness.
Wilson Pickett plays his first British live show, at The Scotch of St James, London, England, UK, Europe, backed by members of The Animals.
Steam Packet play at The Floral Hall, Gorleston, England, UK, Europe.(The group includes Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger.)
In the New York Hilton hotel, during a power blackout, Bob Dylan enjoys an impromptu jam session with guitarist Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Robbie Robertson of The Band and Bob Neuwirth.
Hit songwriter Al Kooper and music publisher Irwin Schroeder, loaded on mescaline, go to see the film The Loved One, in Manhattan, New York City, USA. Halfway through, the movie stops because of a city-wide power blackout. Kooper wanders through the blackened streets marvelling, in his stoned state, at the ensuing chaos.
The Spencer Davis Group play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.
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.