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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.
Ken Curtis (aka Festus from the tv series Gunsmoke) records Streets Of Dodge City and In My Home Town, for Capitol Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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A feature headlined 'Presley As Top Money Star' in Variety magazine in the USA estimates Elvis Presley's income from motion pictures this year at $2.7m, easily surpassing the earnings of such established Hollywood heavyweights as Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Peter And Gordon performing To Know You Is To Love You and I Go to Pieces.
Bass-player Harvey Brooks is rung up by Al Kooper and invited to take part in the recording of the LP Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan at Columbia Studio A, 777 Seventh Avenue, New York City, USA. One day later, Brooks begins work with Dylan and Kooper.
Nina Simone begins a short season at Annie's Room, Russell Street, London, England, UK.
Dutch anarchist group The Provos launch 'The White Bicycle Plan' in Amsterdam, Holland, Europe. The idea is that white bicycles are to be left unlocked throughout the city for free use by the general population. The plan ultimately fails but it inspires British psychedelic pop band Tomorrow to write and record the 1967 song My White Bicycle
The BBC-tv programme Songwriters documents the songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
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Woody Herman And His Orchestra play at The Juan Les Pins Festival, Antibes, France, Europe.
The Ministry Of Labour and The Variety And Allied Entertainments Council in London, England, UK, announce new restrictions on visiting American entertainers, limiting the m to one television appearance per month.
In London, England, UK, Lulu records a filmed sequence for tv show Shindig! in the USA.
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Waylon Jennings, with Chet Atkins as producer, records What Makes A Man Wander, Look Into My Teardrops and I Don't Mind in RCA Victor Studio, 800 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Musicians on the session include guitarists Gerald Gropp and Jerry Reed, pianist Floyd Cramer, bassist Henry Strzelecki, drummer Kenneth Buttrey, Ray Stevens on vibes and The Anita Kerr Singers.
Country music singers Sue York and Johnny Seay open for two weeks at The Bitter End Club, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Charlie Moore and Bill Napier record John Henry, There's A Place Called Banjo Mountain, Talk Of The Town and other tracks in King Recording Studio, 1540 Brewster Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
In Twickenham, London, England, UK, The Rolling Stones record an appearance for the tv show Shindig! in the USA. 
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Nancy Sinatra and her husband of five years, 
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.