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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.
The stage musical She Loves Me with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick is playing at The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 301 performances.
Buddy Bair And His Orchestra with vocalist Elaine Powell are playing during a three-week booking at The Skyway, Hotel Peabody, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.The Atlantic Cara van Of Stars is playing during a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA, featuring Ben E. King, The Drifters, The Coasters, Doris Troy, Rufus Thomas, Otis Redding, The Falcons and King Curtis.
The Beatles are seen on tv in the USA for the first time, in an NBC-tv Huntley-Brinkley report by Edwin Newman about the band's phenomenal success in the UK.
The John Coltrane Quartet records Alabama at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Impulse Records. The song is a eulogy for the victims of the bombing that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, two months prior.
Jimmy Powell And The Five Dimensions play at Studio '51 (aka Ken Colyer's Jazz Club), 10-11 Great Newport Street, Covent Garden, London, England, UK, Europe.
Billy Fury, Eden Kane, Karl Denver, Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, The Allisons, Tommy Bruce, Chas McDevitt And Nancy Whiskey, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Dave Sampson, The Viscounts, Gordon Peters and Terry Hale play at The Gaumont Cinema, Princess Way, Bradford, England, UK, Europe.
Joe Williams, with the Jimmy Jones Orchestra, records Hobo Flats and Every Night, at Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for RCA Records.
The Wilburn Brothers, with producer Owen Bradley, record I'm Not Gonna Dress Up, Making Plans, Hangin' Around and Never Alone in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bobby Goldsboro releases a new single, See The Funny Little Clown, on United Artists Records in the USA. It will provide him with his first hit.
Sugar Shack by Jimmy Gilmer And The Fireballs begins the last of six weeks at No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
Current affairs magazine Newsweek in the USA runs its first feature on The Beatles, declaring, "Beatle music is high-pitched, loud beyond reason, and stupefyingly repetitive. Like rock `n' roll, to which it is closely allied, it is even more effective to watch than to hear. They prance, skip, and turn in circles; Beatles have even been known to kiss their guitars. The style, certainly, is their own."
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The Beatles meet with EMI Chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood for lunch in the company's boardroom in Manchester Square, London, England, UK, Europe. A presentation of several Silver Discs is made to The Beatles, including the albums Please Please Me and With The Beatles, even though the latter has not yet been released.
Pedal steel guitarist Pete D rake records Danny Boy, Sleepwalk and Forever in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Goldebriars, an aspiring pop group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, which includes Curt Boettcher who will go on to enjoy a solo career as an artist and producer, begins recording an album at Columbia Studios on 30th Street, New York City, USA. (While in the studio, they meet Australian pop hitmaker Rolf Harris.)Manfred Mann play at The Marquee Club, Oxford Street, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
Janice Lynn Kuehnemund is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She will achieve success as Jan Kuehnemund, lead guitarist and vocalist with all-female heavy rock/glam band Vixen.
Johnny Mathis releases a new LP, Romantically, on Columbia Records in the USA. It will prove to be his final original studio album for the label before he moves to Mercury Records.The Fall 1963 Dick Clark Cara van Of Stars tour, featuring a line-up consisting of Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, The Ronettes, Little Eva, The Dovells, Myron Lee And The Caddies, Linda Scott, Jimmy Clanton, The Jaynettes, The Thymes and Paul And Paula, plays in The Orpheum Theatre, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.