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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.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe is playing during four weeks at The Hungry i, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill is Vicki Frazer.Jimmy Witherspoon records It's All In the Game, Blues In The Morning and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers recordKyoto, The High Priest, Never Never land, Nihon Bashi and Wellington's Blues for Riverside Records in New York City, USA.
Rock And Roll Music by The Beatles reaches No1 in the pop singles chart, Tio i topp, in Sweden, Europe. The song was originally written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, The Crystals, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Heinz and Manfred Mann play at the Odeon, Bolton, UK.
Freddie And The Dreamers enter the UK singles chart with Over You, which will peak at a disappointing No13, beginning a run of three consecutive flops.
Dusty Springfield enters the UK singles chart with her second solo hit, Stay Awhile, which will peak at No13.
Elvis Presley's father, Vernon, writes a letter to Elvis's road manager, 'Diamond' Joe Esposito, criticizing him for sloppy book-keeping and accounting on his son's behalf.
Gerry And The Pacemakers, Ben E. King, The Fourmost, Tommy Quickly and Jimmy Tarbuck play at The Odeon, Glasgow, Scotland.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, play at The Marquee Club, Oxford Street, London, UK. Topping the bill, however, is Long John Baldry And The Hoochie Coochie Men.
Jonathan Peter Sharp is born. He will find success as British record producer Jonny Dollar . Dollar, widely considered the primary architect of the trip-hop genre of music for his innovative work on Massive Attack's influential album Blue Lines. He will also work with Neneh Cherry, Gabrielle and Youssou N'Dour.
The Beatles' single, All My Loving, is released in Germany, Europe, on Odeon Records.
The All-Star 64 package tour plays at The Top Rank, Sunderland, UK, featuring John Leyton, The Rolling Stones, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Mike Berry, Jet Harris, Billie Davis, and The Paramounts
The Beach Boys have a recording session at Western Recorders, Los Angeles, during which they work on Don't Worry Baby, Shut Down Part 2, Louie Louie and other tracks.
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The Who, formerly The Detours, play their first gig using the name under which they will find success, at The Oldfield Tavern, Greenford, West London, UK.
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