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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.
Female saxophonist Vi Redd is playing during a month-long engagement at The Sugar Hill, San Francisco, California, USA.
Billy Eckstine is playing during a lengthy engagement at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Folksinger Paul Sykes is appearing at The Ice House, Pasadena, California, USA.
Duke Ellington plays during a nineteen day season at The Golden Key Club, 641 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Roy Acuff is playing during a four-week long series of shows in The Mint, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Judy Garland tapes a performance of Almost Like Being In Love for episode No17 of the Judy Garland Show, to be broadcast in the USA the following month.
Dave Curtis And The Tremors play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Pete Budd And The Rebels and The Three Ways.
The Squires, including guitarist Neil Young, play their final gig of the year at Charleswood Collegiate, Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada.
The Animals play at the Club A'Gogo, Newcastle, England, UK, Europe, for a fee of £4 each.
With interest in The Beatles spreading fast, Alan Livingston, President of Capitol Records in the USA, decides to bring forward the release date of their single I Want To Hold Your Hand, from mid-January to boxing day. Christmas leave for the staff of Capitol Records is cancelled to cope with the extra work involved.
Ray Charles plays the first night of a week of shows at The Flamingo Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas Nevada, USA.
Popular singer and actress Mitsui Hisako (aka Chako) is born in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, Asia.
Major Lance releases a new single, Um Um Um Um Um Um, on Okeh Records in the USA.
Rod And The Sceptres, Gerry And The Freelancers and Jonny And The Saints play in the Christmas Spectacular at The Town Hall, Calne, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. (Rod Goodway of Rod And The Sceptres will go on to greater success with The Pack, The Artwoods, Magic Muscle and others.
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In the Annual Readers Poll in UK pop weekly the NME (New Musical Express), The Beatles win in the World Vocal Group and British Vocal Group categories. The Rolling Stones are 6th Best British Vocal Group. Meanwhile an imported copy of I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles is creating a stir in America after plays on WWDC Radio in Washington DC, USA.
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Brenda Holloway records Deep Freeze for Motown Records in California, USA.
Bob Luman, with producer Wesley Rose, records A Lonely Room (composed by Roy Orbison), Bigger Men Than I, Run On Home Baby Brother and Sentimental in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band on this session includes guitarists Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton and Grady Martin, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman, pianist Floyd Cramer and backing vocalists The Jordanaires.
Joe Williams, with the Jimmy Jones Orchestra, records tracks including Rocks In My Bed and Nice Work If You Can Get It, at Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for RCA Records.
The Beach Boys play at The Civil Memorial Auditorium, Stockton, California, USA.
The Modern Jazz Quartet records In A Crowd in the last of three recording sessions for their Atlantic Records album The Sheriff, in New York City, USA.
Successful German band The Rattles play their final gig at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, before returning home.
The Downliners Sect play at Ken Colyer's Studio 51, Great Newport Street, London, England, UK, Europe.
Gene Pitney releases a new single, That Girl Belongs To Yesterday on Musicor Records in the USA. The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones.
The Kentucky Colonels play the last of three nights at Club 47, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Little Stevie Wonder continues with his Christmas season booking at L'Olympia, Paris, France, Europe.
Elvis Presley's 1963 Christmas greetings cards are mailed out. One card bears the message from 'Elvis, Priscilla and Lisa', while the other is a blue paper fold-out Christmas card with photographs of Graceland and the words 'greetings from The Presleys'.
Teen movie Summer Holiday, starring Cliff Richard And The Shadows, is released to cinemas in West Germany, Europe.
Brook Benton continues with his two-week engagement at Basin Street West, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Rolling Stones play at The Lido, Winchester, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Strangers.
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Barbra Streisand undertakes the first of several recording sessions in Columbia Studio A, New York City, USA, which will result in her 1964 Columbia Records album People.
The Yardbirds, with Eric Clapton on guitar, play at The Plaza, Guildford, UK, Europe.