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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.
Popular tv show Hullabaloo in the USA features several songs composed by Bob Dylan and credits him as "the greatest composer of folk-rock writing today." During the show, Joe And Eddie sing Walking Down The Line and All I Really Want To Do, Dionne Warwick performs Mr. Tambourine Man, The Animals cover It Ain't Me Babe, and the entire cast comes together for Blowin' In The Wind.
Joe McDonald Peter Krug, Paul Gilbert, Betty Reid, Carl Shrager and Bill Steele play a benefit show for DMB Publications - Rag Baby and Et Tu magazines - at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.
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The Kinks play at TUS-Halle, Neunkirchen, Germany, Europe.
Buck Owens releases a new instrumental single, Buckaroo, on Capitol Records in the USA. It will become Owens' fourth No. 1 on the Billboard country chart in less than a year, and will spend sixteen weeks on the chart.
Johnny Cash releases a new single, Happy To Be With You, on Columbia Records in the USA. It will peak at No9 on the Billboard country chart in the USA and No11 on the Cash Box country chart.
Lulu And The Luvvers play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland, Europe.
Police in Grand Prairie, Texas, USA, arrest three members of Jerry Lee Lewis' band and a teenage girl when more than two hundred illegal pills are found in the band's Cadillac.
Roger Miller sings You Don't Want My Love with the host on NBC-TV's The Andy Williams Show. Also appearing in this episode are Bob Hope and Mary Tyler Moore.
The 4th American Folk and Blues festival plays in Fairfield Halls, Croydon, England, UK, Europe, with artists including Big Mama Thornton, Buddy Guy, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Roosevelt Sykes, Walter 'Shakey' Horton, J.B.Lenoir, Dr. Ross, Eddie Boyd and Lonesome Jimmy Lee.
The Hollies play at The Youth Club Ball, Newport, Wales, UK.
The Fugs play for a private party in the home of Frank Hoffman in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. According to Fugs member Ed Sanders, their performance was taped for the archives of the local Kinsey Institute.
The Gentrys record A Little Bit Of Love Can Work A Miracle, Sunshine Girl, Giving Love Never Hurt Anybody and Smokey Places for MGM Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Frank Sinatra, with Sonny Burke And Orchestra, records Come Fly With Me, I'll Never Smile Again, From Here To Eternity and Love And Marriage for Reprise Records in United Recording Studio A, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers marries the band's former fan club secretary, Pauline Behan, at St Mary's Church, Woolton, Lancashire, UK. Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, is a guest at the wedding.
The Small Faces play at The Palais, Wimbledon, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Who play in Parr Hall, Warrington, England, UK, Europe.
Paul McCartney of The Beatles attends the Mike Leander-produced recording of Marianne Faithfull's version of Yesterday, at Decca Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
Charles Scott Leonard IV is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He will find success as Scott Leonard, a singer and member of the group Rockapella, the house band on the PBS children's geography game show Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?
The Rolling Stones, The Spencer Davis Group, Unit 4+2, The Checkmates and The End, play at The Gaumont, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
Jimmy James And The Vagabonds play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Uglys.
The Byrds play the eighth of thirteen nights at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Dean Martin releases a non-album singles compilation, The Lu sh Years, on Tower Records in the USA.
An overdub session for the Elvis Presley recording of the Italian traditional song Santa Lucia is held in RCA Studios, New York City, USA, without Elvis being present.
Elvis Presley is photographed in front of his home, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, with Priscilla Beaulieu and his paternal grandmother Minnie Mae Presley.
The Yardbirds play at The Majestic, Rhyl, Wales, 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.