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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 She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
The Art Farmer Quartet appears on the BBC 2 tv jazz series Jazz 625, in the UK.
The Beach Boys play at The Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Brian Poole And The Tremeloes appear on Rediffusion tv show The Five O'Clock Club, in the UK.
Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
Porter Wagoner, with Chet Atkins as producer, records I'll Meet You In Church Sunday Morning, Little Cabin Home On The Hill, Cotton Fields, Blue Moon Of Kentucky and other tracks at RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
To promote the career of Tommy Good, a white singer recently signed to Motown Records, the company's publicist Al Abrams stages a 'protest march' by white teenagers to Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. offices in Detroit, Michigan, USA. In fact, Good is conveniently in the offices and comes out to perform his single, Baby I Miss You, for the assembled crowd. The event is a parody of recent civil rights marches, and the teenagers have been specially bussed-in by Motown.
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Paul Anka plays the second night of a one-week run in the starring role of the musical play What Makes Sammy Run at the 54th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Doris Day, with Jimmy Joyce and the Children's Chorus, records High Hopes, The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack), The Lilac Tree and Do Re Mi for her Columbia Records album With A Smile And A Song, in the USA.
The Cumberland Trio play at The Hotel Greystone, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.
The Who, billed as 'The High Numbers (Re The Who)' play at The Railway Hotel, Harrow And Wealdstone, London, UK, where they are seen by Kit Lambert, later to become their co-manager.
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The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play in Churchill Hall, Kenton, London, UK.
Rockabilly singer Glen Glenn records I Didn't Have The Sense To Go at Goldstar Studio, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Beach Boys play at The RKO Orpheum Theater, Champaign, Illinois, USA.
The Applejacks play at The Floral Hall, Southport, UK.
In Stockholm, Sweden, Europe, jazz saxophonist Benny Golson records tracks which will be issued on the album Stockholm Sojourn.
Elvis Presley releases a new single, Such A Night, in the USA on RCA Records.
The Miles Davis Quintet plays in Koseinenkin Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
The Beatles record a live session is recorded for a new BBC radio show, Top Gear, at Broadcasting House, London, UK, then play the third date of a five-night stint at The Hippodrome, Brighton, UK.