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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.
Folk group The Rakes record Greensleeves / Harry Cox's / Carry Me Down To Carlow at Bob and Daisy Knightley's house, Croydon, London, UK.
Elizabeth Cotten plays the second of two nights at Club 47, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The Beatles release a new single, Twist And Shout, in the USA.
Lee Paul And The Boys play at The Iron Door Club, Liverpool, UK, supported by The Centremen.
A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single I Think Of You by The Merseybeats.
Popular bandleader Fred Waring plays at Emens Auditorium, Muncie, Indiana, USA.
Understand Your Man by Johnny Cash enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No35. (It will also reach No1 in the country music chart).
The Beach Boys and Lesley Gore play in a live concert at NBC Television Studios, Burbank, Los Angeles, California, USA. The show is broadcast as a closed circuit television transmission to cinemas across the USA to an audience estimated at over 500,000 people. The Beatles first American concert, in Washington DC a month earlier, is also transmitted as part of the broadcast.
Mike Muir is born in Venice, California, USA. Under the name Cyco Miko, he will find success as the singer for Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves.
Elvis Presley continues with the shooting of location scenes for his latest movie, Roustabout, at locations in and around Los Angeles, California, USA.
Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, marries Lillie Handley Jones from Alabama, USA. She is a property owner and a smart money manager, and the couple will settle in south Chicago. They will remain together until his death.
You're A Wonderful One by Marvin Gaye is the highest new entry in Cashbox magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No65.
Nino Tempo And April Stevens perform Stardust on weekly tv pop show American Bandstand in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Popular German band The Rattles, supported by Jeff Curtis And The Flames, play at The Starlight Ballroom, Boston Gliderdrome, Lincolnshire, UK.
The Squires, featuring lead guitarist Neil Young, play at the Glenwood Community Club, Winnipeg, Canada.
Tom Shipley plays at The Village Corner Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will go on to greater success as one half of Brewer And Shipley.
The Lonely Ones, later to find greater success as The Soul Agents, play at The Palais, Bury, Greater Manchester, UK.
Mississippi John Hurt spends the first of three days recording his LP Worried Blues with producer Pete Kuykendall in Wynwood Recording Studio, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Star, Croydon, UK.