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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.
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Tommy Steele, Teddy Johnson And Pearl Carr, Jimmy James, The Raindrops, Joe Baker And Jack Douglas, Desmond Walter-Ellis, The KIms and Regine And Andre Berny play during a seven-week season at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, England, UK, Europe.
The Vandergrift Brothers are playing during a four week long engagement in Rockland, Maine, USA.
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Barbra Streisand is playing during a one-month engagement at The Blue Angel, New York City, USA.







Patsy Cline, Billy Grammer and Rene Waters play to a capacity crowd at Danceland, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
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Petula Clark, Katie Boyle and Bunny Lewis are the jurors on BBC tv record-rating show Juke Box Jury, hosted by David Jacobs, in London, England, UK, Europe.
The Gaumont Ballroom, Bradford, England, UK, Europe, starring Billy Fury, Eden Kane, The Karl Denver Trio, The Allisons, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Dave Sampson and Gordon Peters. The tour is promoted by impresario Larry Parnes.
Package tour A Star Spangled Night arrives at
Shane Fenton And The Fentones, The Viscounts, Elaine Delmar, Keith Kelly, Tommy Sanderson And The Sandmen, The Ted Taylor Four with Jo Marney and The Alex Welsh Band perform live on the BBC Light Programme radio show Saturday Club, introduced by Brian Matthew. (Shane Fenton will find greater success in the 1970s, after a name-change to

Minnie Pearl, Carl Smith And His Tunesmiths, Stonewall Jackson, Jimmy Dickens, Red Sovine, Carl Belew and Dolores Smiley play in The Chamber Of Commerce, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.


Patti Page records Put Your Head On My Shoulder, Don't Be Cruel, Big Bad John, Mack The Knife and other tracks at Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The session is produced by Shelby Singleton, Jr., and the band features guitarists Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy and Harold Bradley, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman, pianist Floyd Cramer and saxophonist Boots Randolph.
Run To Him by Bobby Vee is the highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No69.

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 ABC, Cleethorpes, England, UK, Europe.
Hank Ballard And The Midnighters, Junior Lewis, aka C.L. Blast, The Dovells, The Isley Brothers and Solomon Burke play the fifth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.

Elvis Presley continues with location filming for his latest movie, Kid Galahad, in Idyllwild, California, USA.

A UK Silver Disc is awarded to the single Reach For The Stars / Climb Ev'ry Mountain by Shirley Bassey.