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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 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.
Musical comedy The Gay Life is presented at The Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 113 performances.
UK Silver Discs are awarded to the single Rock-a-Hula
Baby and the album G.I.Blues by Elvis Presley.
Marty Robbins records All The Way in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Among the session players on this track is guitarist Grady Martin.
The Beach Boys make their first impact on the Billboard charts in the USA when their debut single, Surfin', enters at No118.
Billboard magazine in the USA reviews the new Howlin' Wolf single, Goin' Down
Slow, on Chess
Records as 'a strong down-home blues in a slow walk tempo.
Talk-sing style here is powerful.'
UK Silver Discs are awarded to the single Rock-a-Hula Baby and the album G.I. Blues by Elvis Presley.
Music trade magazine Billboard in the USA reports that Adam Young, Chairman of the Radio Trade Practices Committee, has called for screening of all pop music lyrics by the National Association of Broadcasters Code Committee. It seems that Mr Young is concerned about "the proliferation of songs dealing with raw sex and violence, beamed directly and singularly at children and teenagers." [censorship]
Billboard magazine in the USA reviews the new Howlin' Wolf single, Goin' Down
Slow, on Chess
Records as 'a strong down-home blues in a slow walk tempo.
Talk-sing style here is powerful.' The stinging guitar on the track
is played by Hubert Sumlin.
The Beach Boys play the second of two nights at Rainbow Gardens, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Lightnin'
Hopkins records Walkin' This Road By Myself, Black Gal, How
Many More Years, Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes, Worried Life
Blues, Happy Blues For John Glenn, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Devil Jumped The Black Man, Coffee Blues and Black Cadillac for
Bluesville
Records in Houston, Texas, USA.
David Richard McComb is born in Perth, Western Australia. He will find success as a singer/songwriter and guitarist with of The Triffids.
Johnny Mathis is forced to postpone his opening at the Copacabana in New York City because of an injury to his back. Tony Bennett replaces him.
Aretha Franklin plays the last of six nights at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Bobby Bland, Erma Franklin, The Crystals, The Edsels, The Corsairsand The Sensations play the fifth of seven nights at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
US music trade magazine Billboard reports that Adam Young, Chairman of the Radio Trade Practices Committee, has called for screening of all pop music lyrics by the National Association of Broadcasters Code Committee. It seems that Mr Young is concerned about "the proliferation of songs dealing with raw sex and violence, beamed directly and singularly at children and teenagers." [censorship]
The Beach
Boys make their first impact on the Billboard charts in the USA when their debut single, Surfin', enters at
No118. (1962)
Dream Baby by Roy Orbison is the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No69.
Frankie Avalon plays the last of nine days at the Holiday House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.