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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.
Ethel Ennis is playing during two weeks at The Stater Brothers, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Christmas Pantomime at The Odeon, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, features the My Boy Lollipop girl Millie, Jess Conrad, Jimmy Wheeler and Des Lane.
Controversial American radio deejay and music business entrepreneur Alan Freed dies aged 43, penniless, in hospital in Palm Springs, California, USA, from uremia and cirrhosis brought on by alcoholism. Freed's career was ended after his involvement in the payola scandal of the early 1960s. He is mentioned in The Ramones' song Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? as one of the band's idols in rock'n'roll. Freed also crops up in Ballrooms Of Mars by Marc Bolan, They Used To Call It Dope by Public Enemy, Payola Blues by Neil Young, Done Too Soon by Neil Diamond, The Ballad of Dick Clark by Skip Battin, and The King Of Rock n' Roll by Cashman And West on their 1973 ABC album Moondog Serenade.
Chuck Berry, The Moody Blues, The Graham Bond Organisation, Long John Baldry, Winston G and The Five Dimensions play at The U sher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Jokers Wild, a group including guitarist David Gilmour, later to join Pink Floyd, plays at Les Jeux Interdits, The Victoria Ballroom, Cambridge, England, UK.
TV show Shindig, in the USA, features The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Walker Brothers, The Dave Clark Five, Gerry And The Pacemakers and Petula Clark.
The Miles Davis Quintet records ESP at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
John Michael Montgomery is born in Danville, Kentucky, USA. He will become one of the top country balladeers of the 1990s with hits including I Love The Way You Love Me, I Swear and I Can Love You Like That.
The Byrds record the Bob Dylan composition
Mr Tambourine Man at Columbia Records Studios, Hollywood, California, USA.
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Otis Redding records Keep Your Arms Around Me, Home In Your Heart, Woman A Lover A Friend, and For Your Precious Love for Volt Records in the USA.
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 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.