26th September

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.

Rusty 'Ko Ko' Adams is playing during thirteen days at The Little Brown Jug, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA, with Jo Ann And Ray Cantrell.

Gene Krupa opens for a week at Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Harry Belafonte is playing during a month of shows at The Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Buddy Greco is playing during a week of shows at Blinstrub's, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Judy Henske is playing during three weeks of gigs at The Gate Of Horn, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

At an informal dinner at Al And Dick's in New York City, USA, Florence Greenberg, President Of Sceptre Records, maps out proposals for an organisation to be called "The Music Industry Sings Out On Human Rights". The organisation is being set up to raise funds to advance the cause of Civil Rights for all segments of the population. Fund-raising Sing Out live events are to be held over the coming months, underwritten by record companies.

House band, The Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo is playing in The Jazz Lounge, Club A-Gogo, Percy Street, Haymarket, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK, Europe. The group will find greater success when it evolves to become The Animals.

Gene Vincent And The Outlaws play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by Steve Law and The Group 4.

Sam Cooke, Dion, Bobby Blue Bland, Little Willie John, Baby Washington, The Tymes, The King Pins, Freddie Scott, Gorgeous George and Joe Scott And His Orchestra play at The Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

Gene Pitney plays in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Johnny Tillotson records Talk Back Trembling Lips for MGM Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Buck Owens And The Buckaroos play in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.

Paul Anka Plays in Antwerp, Belgium, Europe.

Tony Martin and Rita Pavone are the guest performers on tonight's edition of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC-tv in the USA.

A plaque honouring the birthpace of songwriter / composer George Gershwin is unveiled at the two story building in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, where he was born 65 years earlier

I (Who Have Nothing) by Shirley Bassey peaks at No6, during a run of twenty weeks on the UK Singles chart.

Ernest Tubb And His Texas Troubadours play the first of three nights in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

The Merseybeats play a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.

The Jazz Crusaders record Purple Onion and Greenback Dollar in Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sammy Davis Jr is playing at The New Latin Quarter, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.

Cliff Richard and The Shadows leave the UK to begin a tour of Israel.

Roy Orbison plays at The Granada, East Ham, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Searchers, Bob Luman, Freddie And The Dreamers, and Brian Poole And The Tremeloes.

Flamenco guitarist Juan Serrano is playing during three weeks of gigs at The 2nd Fret, Philadelphia, pennsylvania, USA.

In the United States Senate, Washington DC, USA, Senator Kenneth B. Keating ridicules a resolution adopted by The Fire And Police Research Association of Los Angeles which has described folk music as "an unidentified tool of Communist Psychological or Cybernetic Warfare." The resolution also states that "Communists are using " the subtleties and the verbal subterfuges of applied dialectics in both poems and songs" and that Hootenannies are being used to "brainwash and subvert and ensnare and capture youthful minds."

The Elgin Jazz Club presents The Barron Knights with Duke D’Mond plus The Alex Sutherland Sextet in The Two Red Shoes, Elgin, Scotland, UK, Europe.

The Detours, featuring Pete Townshend, who will go on to form The Who, play at The Oldfield Tavern, Greenford, England, UK, Europe

Otis Redding records Pain In My Heart and Something Is Worrying Me for Volt Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

A cartoon by Franklin in British newspaper The Daily Mirror, depicts leading Conservative political figures as tiny Beatles-like caricatures about to be crushed by the coming general election.

The Cyril Davies All-Stars play at The Marquee Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.