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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.
The Squires, featuring Neil Young, play the fourth of seven nights at the Fourth Dimension Folk Club, Fort William, Manitoba, Canada.
In poet Kenneth Rexroth’s regular column in the San Francisco Examiner, he declares, among other things, that "Bob Dylan's songs are a cry of anguished moral outrage against the mess the oldies persist in making out of a world in which all men could be guaranteed lives of peace and modest comfort if only the will existed."
The Beach Boys perform Do You Wanna Dance on popular tv show Shindig! at ABC tv studios, New York City, USA. Also seen in this edition are Wayne Fontana And The Mindbenders, Cilla Black, The Shangri-Las and The Ikettes.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich play at The Cavern, Liverpool, UK.
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers record Spot Session and Midtown Strut in New York City, USA.
The Beatles film a Scotland Yard sequence at Twickenham Film Studios, St Margaret's, Twickenham, UK, for their second film, Help!
The Hullabaloos, The Detergents, Shirley Ellis, Little Richard [whose backing group includes Jimi Hendrix], The Vibrators, The Exciters, The Hollies, The Uniques, Dee Dee Warwick, Roddy Joy, Sandie Shaw and King Curtis play at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
The Yardbirds play at Bromley Court Hotel, Bromley, UK.
Tim Rice, a trainee solicitor in London, UK, writes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and suggests that he could write lyrics for Webber's music. The pair will go on to become one of the most successful songwriting duos in the history of stage musicals.
The Wes Montgomery Quartet plays at Ronnie Scott's Club, London, England, UK.
Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan is recording tracks for his Blue Note records LP The Rumproller at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Stan Getz Quartet begins six nights of shows at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
The Kinks play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, supported by That Group.
The Beach Boys play at The Colonial Theatre, Keene, New Hampshire, USA.
Manager Brian Epstein sends a telegram to Elvis Presley on behalf of The Beatles' to congratulate him on completing his first decade in the music business.
A Ready, Steady, Go! tv special, The Sound Of Motown, is aired in the UK, starring The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and Martha And The Vandellas. Dusty Springfield hosts the event and sings with some of the stars.
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Shirley Bassey releases a new single, No Regrets, in the USA on United Artists Records.
The Coasters record Money Honey and Let's Go Get Stoned for Atco Records in New York City, USA.Let's Go Get Stoned will be a much bigger hit when it is recorded in 1966 by Ray Charles.
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Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play at Romano's, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
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.