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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 Beach Boys have recording sessions for You're So Good To Me, Girl From New York City, I'm Bugged At My Old Man and And Your Dreams Come True, at Western Recorders, Los Angeles, California, USA. Guitarist Glen Campbell is among the session players.
R'n'b star Sonny Boy Williamson II, the second artist of that name, dies having suffered a heart attack in his sleep in his apartment above Newkirk's Auto Shop, Elm Street, Helena, Arkansas, USA. 
Filming continues on the Elvis Presley movie Frankie And Johnny at Goldwyn Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Lulu, Dave Berry And The Cruisers, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, Maureen Evans, Marianne Faithfull, Ivy League, Kenny Lynch, The Moody Blues, Helen Shapiro and others appear live on the first day of The British Song Festival in The Dome, Brighton, UK. Kenny Lynch wins the contest with I'll Stay By You, and Lulu is runner-up with Leave A Little Love.
The Kinks record demo versions of I Go To Sleep and When I See That Girl Of Mine at Pye Studios in London, England, UK.
Manfred Mann record You Gave Me Somebody To Love at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK. In the evening, the band plays at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK.
Virtuoso country music fiddler and recoring artist Earl Johnson dies aged 78 of a heart attack in Georgia, USA.
Lorne Greene records The Devil's Grin and The Ol' Chisholm Trail in RCA Victor Studio, 6363 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA. Players on the session include Ervan Coleman, Carol Kaye, Neil Levang, Tommy Tedesco, Morty Corb, Earl Palmer, Tommy Morgan and Pete Jolly.
The Who record a version of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere for BBC Radio at the Aeolian Hall, Studio 2, London, England, UK. Later they play at The Majestic, Reading.
Dizzy Jones releases Let Me Talk To You/I Don't Care on Blue Rock Records in the USA. The tracks are both produced by James Brown.
Jazz drummer and songwriter Denzil Da Costa Best dies as a result of a fractured skull caused by falling down the stairway in a subway in New York City, USA. In a long career he had worked with Coleman Hawkins, Thelonious Monk, Illinois Jacquet, Errol Garner, George Shearing, Nina Simone and many others.
The Herbie Mann Octet plays at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. The gig is recorded and tracks will be released on the Atlantic Records LP Herbie Mann - Monday Night At The Village Gate.
Connie Francis spends the first of two days of recording sessions in EMI Recording Studio, 3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, London, England, UK. Over the two days she records songs including Mack The Knife, What Now My Love, The Girl From Ipanema, Milord and Stardust.
Burl Ives records Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Winter Wonderland in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with Owen Bradley as producer.
John Lennon overdubs additional vocals and percussion onto the original tape of the single Help! by The Beatles at the CTS film dubbing studio, London, England, UK.
The Squires, featuring Neil Young, play the third of nine consecutive nights at the Fourth Dimension, Fort William, Manitoba, Canada.
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.