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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


Dance/house/electronica/techno DJ, producer, recording artist, composer, and remixer Mario Fargetta is born in Lissone, Milan, Italy, Europe.
Twangy guitar man Duane Eddy performs his instrumental version of popular tv show theme The Ballad Of
Paladin on daily tv pop show American
Bandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Neil Sedaka enters the UK pop singles chart with Breaking
Up Is Hard To Do, which will peak at No7 during a sixteen-week
run.
Chubby Checker plays the fifth night of a week of shows at The Frolics Club, SalisburyBeach, New Jersey, USA.
Rita Faye records Salt And Pepper, Another Fool Like Me, Look For Me and Don't You Come Back At All, with producer Ken Nelson, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Neil
Sedaka enters the UK pop singles chart with Breaking
Up Is Hard To Do, which will peak at No7 during a sixteen-week
run.
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Bill Haley And His Comets play the fifteenth night of a three-week season at the El Cortez Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Popular saxophonist Tom Archia is fined $10 by the Local 208 Musicians' Union Board in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for failing to file a contract, failing to pay local tax - and for hiring Steve Boswell, a drummer who had been "erased" for failure to pay quarterly dues, local tax, and a fine to the Union.
Bill Haley And His Comets play the fifteenth night of a three-week season at the El Cortez Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Folk singer Larry Older opens for a week at The Cosmic Coffee
House, Lake George, New York State, USA.
The hit single I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles earns a gold disc from the R.I.A.A. for sales of over one million copies in the USA.
Kay Starr, with an orchestra conducted by Bill Liebert, records Oh Lonesome Me, I Really Don't Want To Know, Just Walk On By, Singin' The Blues, Pins And Needles In My Heart and other tracks in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra play at The Marine Ballroom, Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Now certified as having sold 500,000 copies each in the USA, Ray Charles' album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music and its first-released single, I Can't Stop Loving You, are both awarded gold discs by the R.I.A.A.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet record Why Can't I and Circus On Parade for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.