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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 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, is playing at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 280 performances.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, featuring Butterfield on vocals and harmonica, Michael Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars, Mark Naftalin on organ, Jerome Arnold and bass and Sam Lay on drums, is playing during a month of live shows at The Unicorn, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Cliff Richard has a recording session in EMI's Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe, during which he records the single Visions, and three other songs.
The Dave Clark Five, The Toys and The Barbarians play at the Island Gardens Auditorium, West Hempstead, New York State, USA.
The Riot Squad play at The Bromel Club, Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Stonemans record Tupelo County Jail, Mule Skinner Blues and other tracks in Jack Clement Recording Studio, 3102 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Booker T And The MG's release the single Be My Lady on Stax Records in the USA.
Gary Lewis And The Playboys release a new single, She's Just My Style on Liberty Records, which will peak at No3 in the USA.
The Singers Circle with Barry Olivier provides the entertainment at The Jabberwock, Berkeley, California, USA.
Chris Farlowe plays at the Alford Jazz Cellar, Norwich, England, UK, Europe.
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys records an instrumental, Run James Run, at Western Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA. In due course the track will be re-titled Pet Sounds, and serve as the title track for the album widely regarded as the band's finest.
Free jazz drummer Sunny Murray records the LP Sonny's Time Now for Jihad Records in New Yorl City, USA.
The Yardbirds play at The Locarno, Stevenage, England, UK, Europe.
The Serendipity Singers play to 1400 people at The University Of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA. Jazz pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines is also on the bill.
Herman's Hermits, Wayne Fontana, Billy Fury, The Fortunes, Little Frankie and The Country Gents play at The Gaumont, Ipswich, England, UK, Europe.
The Wednesday Play on BBC1 tv in the UK is The End of Arthur's Marriage, which features songs sung by Long John Baldry, Christine Holmes, Samantha Jones and Rita Williams.
The Rolling Stones play at The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Hedgehoppers Anonymous play in the Corn Exchange, Bristol, England, UK, Europe.
The Vancouver Playboys play at The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sonny Curtis records And I'll Go.
The process of cutting the discs for The Beatles album Rubber Soul begins.
Tell Me Why/Puppet On A String by Elvis Presley, enters the UK Singles chart, where it will peak at No15 during a run of ten weeks on the chart.
Jazz saxophonist Hank Crawford records Route 66, Teardrops and Makin' Whoopee for his Atlantic Records LP After Hours in New York City, USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Eddie Rambeau performing Concrete And Clay and We Five (from a teen night spot in Los Angeles) performing Cast Your Fate to the Wind.
The Links, The Fetish Crowd and Duke Lee play at El Partido, Lewisham, London, England, UK, Europe.
Tom Jones has his first UK tv special, Call In On Tom, screened nationally by ITV.
John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers play at The Scaffold Club, Northampton, England, UK, Europe.
The Sir Douglas Quintet appear on the TWW pop show Discs A Gogo, in the UK.
The Reaction play at The Methodist Hall, St. Agnes, Cornwall, England, UK, Europe. The band includes drummer/vocalist Roger Taylor who will go on to global success as a member of Queen.
Fontella Bass releases a new single, Rescue Me, in the UK. It will peak at No7 in the British singles chart.
The Blues Project play at the Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
A baby boy is born to actress/singer Denise Gordy, just days after her sixteenth birthday. The boy will subsequently be adopted by Marvin Gaye and his wife Anna Gordy. The boy will be christened at Detroit's Bethel AME Church, Detroit, Michigan, USA, and will be named Marvin III after his adoptive father.
The Great Society record Right To Me at Golden State Recorders, San Francisco, California, USA. The group includes Grace Slick, later to join Jefferson Airplane.
The Hollies record their version of the song If I Needed Someone (composed by George Harrison of The Baetles). The track will be released in December on Parlophone Records.
Steam Packet play at The Town Hall, Farnborough, England, UK, Europe. (The group includes Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger.)
Kenny Lynch stars in the pop music show, Chart Busters, on Southern-tv in the UK.
The Supremes play a gig in Savannah, Georgia, USA, supported by The Lovin' Spoonful.
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.