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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.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Jazz pianist Erroll Garner is playing at Al Hirt's Club, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.The Jazz Communicators (saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Herbie Lewis, and drummer Louis Hayes) are playing during a fifteen night booking at The Both/And Club, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Beacon Street Union play during a three-night stand at The Cheetah, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Foundations play two gigs in one night, first at The Carioca Club, then at The Queen Margaret Club, both in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe.
Shell Shock Show play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays at Will Rogers Auditorium, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, supported by Soft Machine, The Chessmen and Moving Sidewalks. Meanwhile, in the UK, Disc and Music Echo publishes its annual readers poll, showing Hendrix as Best Musician In The World.The Move appear on the BBC1 tv show Dee Time, hosted by Simon Dee in London, England, UK, Europe.
Edwin Starr plays at The Tin Hat, Kettering, England, UK, Europe, and also at the Beachcomber, Nottingham.
San Francisco heavy rock trio Blue Cheer plays the second of two nights at the Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon, USA.Pink Floyd play at Patronaat, Terneuzen, Netherlands, Europe, and also at Concertgebouw, Vlissingen, Netherlands.
Lulu wins the Top British Girl Singer, Top TV Artist, Miss Valentine and Best Dressed Girl Star awards at The Disc And Music Echo Awards ceremony in London, England, UK, Europe. Never mind though, because at least Jimi Hendrix gets the Top Musician award.
Donovan is the guest artist on the BBC2 tv show Once More With Felix, hosted by Julie Felix, in London, England, UK, Europe.
Vikki Carr appears on the tv show Hollywood Palace in the USA.
The Youngbloods, Mount Rushmore and Phoenix play the second of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.UK pop weekly the New Musical Express (NME) reports that the British Musicians Union is planning to ban the use of stand-in musicians on pop records made by British groups. The action follows the admission that The Love Affair used session players on their hit Everlasting Love.
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The Cream spend the eighth of eleven days of recording tracks in Atlantic Studios, New York City, USA, for their double album Wheels Of Fire.
Barclay James Harvest play at Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK, Europe.The Sunshine Company and Iron Butterfly play at LaSalle High School, Pasadena, California, USA.
Kaleidoscope play at Bradford University, Bradford, England, UK, Europe.The two-day long Boston Globe Jazz festival concludes at The War memprial Auditorium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Artists appearing over the two days of the event include Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Mongo Santamaria, Herbie Mann, Miriam Makeba, Wes Montgomery, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Gary Burton.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling US singles, is Too Much Talk by Paul Revere And The Raiders entering at No54.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The James Cotton Blues Band and Albert King play the second of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
Peter, Paul And Mary play the second of two nights at The Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California, USA.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And The Holding Company play at the Anderson Theater, New York City, USA. This is their first live show in New York. Support is provided by B.B. King. Ed Sanders of The Fugs attends the show and hangs out with Big Brother after the show.
The Pretty Things play at Ewell Technical College, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK, Europe, supported by Dantalian's Chariot.
The Gabor Szabo Quintet plays at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Coloured Raisins, featuring The Freddie Mac Show with Honey Darling, play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe.
Drummer Bill Ward plays his first gig with blues-rock band Mythology at the Globe Hotel in Main Street, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England, UK, Europe. Already in the band is guitarist Tony Iommi. Both men will go on to greater success as founder-members of Black Sabbath.