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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.
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 musical
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.
The Olympics, The Innocents and The Marketts play at Morgan Hall, Long Beach, California, USA.
Go Away Little Girl by Steve Lawrence, entering at No80, is the highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
The John Barry Seven play at Matrix Hall, Fletchamstead Highway, Coventry, Warwickshire, UK, supported by The Beatles.
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The Classics, with Neil Young on guitar, play at Churchill High School, Winnipeg, Canada.
The Kon-rads play a gig at Cudham Village Hall in Kent, UK. One of their members will go on to become known as David Bowie.
Return To Sender by Elvis Presley peaks at No2 in the Billboard chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.
The
Four Seasons hit No1 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA for the second time, with
Big Girls Don't Cry.
Shirley Bassey attends the opening of The Shirley Bassey Record Shop in West End Lane, London, England, UK, Europe. The shop is an extension of a bookshop owned by her husband, film producer Kenneth Hume, and the opening is also attended by Danny Williams, Shane Fenton and Jess Conrad.
UK weekly music newspaper Melody Maker reports, "the music which is currently drawing the biggest crowds in London clubs these days is plain unadulterated rhythm'n'blues. And the rhythm'n'blues purveyed by Alexis Korner's Blues Inc unit at The Marquee every Thursday night is not music just to listen to - it's music to twist to, jive to, jump to, swing with, and get with. Last Thursday the joint was jumpin' with 800 fervent fans."
Johnny
Kidd And The Pirates appear on UK tv show Thank Your Lucky
Stars, to promote their new single A Shot Of
Rhythm And Blues.
The Motor Town Special, a two-month long all-Motown package tour featuring The Miracles, The Supremes, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Martha And The Vandellas and Little Stevie Wonder, plays a date in Township Auditorium, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.