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The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.
The Noel Coward-composed musical Sail Away is presented at The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 167 performances.The musical 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.
The stage musical Do-Re-Mi, starring Max Bygraves, with music by Jule Styne, is playing at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, England, Europe, during a run of 169 performances.
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 musical Irma La Douce is presented at The Alvin Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA during a total of 524 Broadway performances.
The musical 
Musical comedy The Gay Life is presented at The Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 113 performances.
Elvis Presley is filming scenes for his tenth movie Kid Galahad in Culver Studios, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.Santo And Johnny are playing during a long engagement at The El Cortez Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra are playing during a 17-night engagement at Basin Street East, New York City, USA. Also on the bill is Gloria Lynne, with her trio led by Earl May.
George Jones and Georgie Riddle are playing during six days at The Flame Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Bob Scobey And His Frisco Band are playing at Bourbon Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Roy Acuff is undertaking a one-month tour of Spain, Europe, and Morocco, Africa, where he is performing for American troops, sponsored by the United Service Organizations.
Gene Vincent plays at The O asis, Manchester, England, UK, Europe, supported by Pete Maclaine and The Dakotas.
The Harvard Crimson of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, runs a feature by Merry Maisel, Folk Music Director of WHRB Radio, about the folk-music boom, complaining, among other things, that "folk music suffers from renaissance - the trios and quartets (which shall be nameless) begin turning out corrupt, oompah versions of perfectly good folk songs; no lover of folk musics enjoys hearing the lush, superfatted, slick results."
Jazz saxophonist Jesse Powell records Blues On The Rocks, From The Soul and other tracks in New York City, USA, for his Tru-Sound Records album It's Party Time.
Bobby Sykes records The Guard On The North Wall and One More Chance in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Johnny Cash, The Tennessee Three, June Carter, Roger Miller, Gordon Terry and Johnny Western play in The Melody Mill Ballroom, Davenport, Iowa, USA.
The Rabin Band, Barbara Kay, Colin Day, Ray Pilgrim, The Hound Dogs, Arthur Greenslade And His Swingin' Piano, Groovin' Don Sanford, Rockin' Rex Morris and The Razz-Ma-Tazzers provide live music on the BBC Light Programme radio show Go Man Go in London, England, UK, Europe.
Laurence Cottle is born in Swansea, Wales, UK, Europe. He will find acclaim as a jazz and rock bass player and music composer, working with Black Sabbath, Brian Eno, Eric Clapton and many others.
With surf music beginning to take off, The Mar-Kets (aka The Marketts) release a new single, Surfer's Stomp, on Liberty Records in the USA.
The movie Paris Blues, with a soundtrack by Duke Ellington, opens in theatres in West Germany. The film includes Louis Armstrong in the role of Wild Man Moore.
Cy Grant sings a calypso based on current news events during his appearance on the BBC-tv current affairs magazine show Tonight, in London, England, UK, Europe.While Chubby Checker is in England, UK, he visits Manchester to pre-record a show called Trad With A Twist for Granada tv. As well as Chubby, the whow features the jazz bands of Terry Lightfoot, Chris Barber, The Back O'Town Syncopators and the
Original Downtown Syncopators. It will be broadcast early in 1962.
The Beatles play at The Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, Wallasey, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, Derry And The Seniors and Cass And The Cassanovas.
Joann Val and Jimmy Blade And His Orchestra are playing at The Camellia House, in The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Brenda Lee plays the eleventh night of a pre-Christmas season in The Congo Room of The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The world premiere of Judy Garland's latest movie, Judgement At Nuremberg, takes place in Berlin, West Germany, Europe, with Garland in attendance.
The Smothers Brothers, Isobel Robins and The Marty Rubenstein Trio are playing at Mister Kelly's, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bud Powell and Don Byas record the LP A Tribute To Cannonball in Studio Charlot in Paris, France, Europe. The session, produced by Cannonball Adderley, will not be released until 1979.
The Horace Silver Quintet is playing at The Sutherland Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Carmen McRae records Take Five and It's A Raggy Waltz for Columbia Records in New York City, USA. She is backed for this session by the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
The Willie Jones All-Star Jazz Trio plays the first of three nights at The Talk Of The Town, Phoenix, Illinois, USA.
Sarah Vaughan is feted with a press buffet party at the My Fair Lady club in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Vaughan is set to begin a three week season at the club the following day.
Using a borrowed camera, US Army private James Marshall Hendrix (Jimi Hendrix) takes some shots of the 101st Airborne Division jump school at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA.
Glen
Campbell appears on tv show Dick Clark's
American Bandstand in the USA, singing his debut single, Turn Around Look At Me.
Helen Shapiro, Danny Williams, The Brook Brothers, Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor and The Galliards, The Two Tones, The Red Price Combo, Joe Baker and Jack Douglas play at The Granada, Aylesbury, England, UK, Europe.