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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.Mary Lou Williams, Muddy Waters, Dave Brubeck, Ahmad Jamal, Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman play on the last night of the three-day long Pittsburgh Jazz Festival, Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Johnny Cash overdubs German language vocals onto the songs Kleine Rosemarie and Besser So Jenny-Jo in Columbia Recording Studio A, 799 7th Avenue, New York City, USA.
The Beatles set off on a European tour, starting at the Palais Des Sports, Paris, France. Support group for this opening night is The Yardbirds.
Cab Calloway sings It Ain't Necessarily So and There's a Boat Leaving Soon for New York, and The Dave Clark Five perform Glad All Over, Come Home and I Like It Like That on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York City, USA. 
Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band play at The Witch Doctor, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Sussex, England, UK.Dusty Rankin, with Jean Stafford And The Singing Kettles, plays in The Cabaret Room, Hotel Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania.
Ira Louvin, formerly of influential country-gospel duo The Louvin Brothers, is killed in a car crash in Jefferson City, Missouri, USA, aged 41.
Principal photography on the next Elvis Presley movie, Frankie And Johnny, continues at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Charlatans continue their two month long residency at The Red Dog Saloon, Virginia City, Nevada, USA.
Jazz trumpeter and cornettist Ruby Braff comes to the end of two weeks at at Embers West, West 49th Street, New York City, USA.
George Jones records Six Days On The Road, Blue Side Of Lonesome, Once A Day, Don't Let Me Cross Over, Strangers and other tracks in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Backing vocals on this session are provided by The Jordanaires.
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., aka The Rat Pack, play at Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Trini Lopez is their opening act.
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.