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The Steven Sondheim musical Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, is performed on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 702 performances.Pete Seeger, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Tommy Makem, Jimmy Driftwood, Cisco Houston, Lester Flatt And Earl Scruggs, Ewan McColl, Oscar Brand and Theo Bikel are among the artists playing at the three-day long Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Tina Brooks records the album True Blue for Blue Note Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
The Tom Nicholls Dance Orchestra and The Eric Latham Orchestra play
at The Victory
Memorial Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, UK.
US singing star Anita Bryant marries Bob Green, a deejay at radio station WINZ, Miami, USA.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet enters the UK popular albums chart with Time Out which will peak at No11 in its week of entry.
Brenda Lee plays the second of three days at Springlake Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
While Elvis Presley is in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on a gambling weekend, he catches a show by Billy Ward And His Dominoes.
Everybody's Somebody's Fool by Connie Francis reaches No1 in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling pop singles in the USA.
Entering at No66, the highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling pop singles in the USA is There's Something On Your Mind by Bobby Marchan.
Louis Jordan plays the last of five nights at The Embers Club, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA.
Jackie Wilson, supported by Dion And The Belmonts, Elmore James, and The Vibrations, plays the second of seven nights at The Regal, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The musical Irma La Douce is running at The Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It runs at The Plymouth for more than a year before transferring to The Alvin Theatre.