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The Noel Coward-composed musical Sail Away is presented at The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 167 performances.
Milk And Honey, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, is playing at The Martin Beck Theater on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 543 performances.
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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.
Musical comedy The Gay Life is presented at The Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 113 performances.
The album My Son The Folk Singer by Allan Sherman is awarded a Gold Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
Having completed filming on the teen-oriented UK movie, Just For Fun, Johnny Tillotson flies back to the USA.
Ray Charles plays the twelfth of fourteen nights at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
The Peter, Paul And Mary album by Peter, Paul And Mary is certified Gold in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
Cannonball Adderley records Corcovado, Once I Loved and Sambob, in New York City, USA, for the Riverside Records album Cannonball's Bossa Nova.
Bobby Rydell continues with his three-week engagement at Sciolla's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The trial of Alan Freed on payola charges begins. He testifies to receiving $2,000 in 1958 from Cognat Distributors for a promise to play their records on his New York City, USA, radio show. He also worked a similar deal with Superior Records for $700. A few days later, pleading guilty to payola, he will be fined $300 and given sixmonths probation.
Chart-topping jazz clarinettist Acker Bilk is the featured guest on UK radio show Desert Island Discs.
Frank Sinatra and Count Basie release their first collaborative LP, Sinatra-Basie - An Historic Musical First, on Reprise Records in the USA.
The very first Motor Town Revue, starring The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Miracles, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Little Stevie Wonder, The Contours, Martha And The Vandellas and plays the fourth of ten nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.