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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.
John Lennon of The Beatles has his first opportunity to try out a new musical instrument, a Mellotron, at IBC Studios, Portland Place, London, UK. Highly impressed, he declares, 'I must have one of these.'
Gerry And The Pacemakers, Gene Vincent and Karl Denver play at The South Pier, Blackpool, England, UK.
Warner Mack records Hurt (Is The Name Of The Game), Sittin' On A Rock and The Way It Feels To Die, in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Unit 4 + 2 play at The Winter Gardens, Great Yarmouth, England, UK.
See My Friend by The Kinks enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No15 during a four week run.
Jody Miller records Only Love Can Break A Heart, All I Really Want To Do (a Bob Dylan composition), He Hit Me and Lonely Queen in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. None of these tracks will be released.
Black jazz trio The Cool Strings begin a residency at The AG Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. They will continue as the house band until 1970.
Manager Brian Epstein takes out a £1m insurance policy on each member of The Beatles to cover eventualities on their forthcoming tour of the USA.
I Got You Babe by Sonny And Cher enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No1 during a ten-week run.
Elvis Presley continues location filming for the movie Paradise Hawaiian Style, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Eric Burdon and Chas Chandler of The Animals both collapse while performing at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, England, UK.
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Connie Francis records When The Boys Meet The Girls (unissued version) and Jealous Heart for MGM Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The album Barry McGuire Featuring Eve Of Destruction is released in the USA by Dunhill Records. The album includes a version of the Bob Dylan song She Belongs To Me.
Charles Fizer, former vocalist with The Olympics, is released from jail in the USA after serving six months on a county prison farm on a barbiturates possession charge. 
Peter, Paul And Mary and Henry Mancini And His Orchestra play the fourth of six nights at The Arie Crown Theater, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features The Hondells performing Little Honda; Major Lance performing Monkey Time.
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.