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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 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.The Manish Boys, not yet including Davy Jones (later to become David Bowie) on vocals, audition at the BBC in London, UK, for a season at The Star Club.
Eric Dolphy lands at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe, and begins rehearsals at huis Frankendael, a house belonging to Misha Mengelberg, for a European tour.
British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror dubs The Rolling Stones 'the dirtiest group in Britain.'
During a typhoon in Hong Kong, Asia, Judy Garland takes an overdose of sleeping pills and has to be rushed to Canossa Hospital to have her stomach pumped. She remains in a coma for fifteen hours, but survives.
Polydor Records in the UK release two old recordings by The Beatles, Aint She Sweet/If You Love Me Baby, in the UK as a single.
The Rolling Stones release their first album for the American market, entitled The Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hitmakers.
Chuck Berry [backed by The Nashville Teens] plays at The Odeon, Southend, UK. Other acts on the bill are Carl Perkins (also backed by The Nashville Teens) and The Animals, plus two top Liverpool bands, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes and The Swinging Blue Jeans.
The Rolling Stones' fourth UK tour continues at the City Hall, Sheffield, supported by Peter And Gordon, The Overlanders, The Barron Knights, David John And The Mood, Julie Grant and Tony Marsh.
Paul McCartney of The Beatles oversees a Billy J. Kramer recording session
for From
A Window, in EMI's Abbey
Road studios, London, UK.
John Lee Hooker makes a live appearance on weekly tv pop music show Ready Steady Go!, which is records in London, UK.
While Carter-Lewis And The Southerners are on tour in Holland, Europe, their bass player Rupert Ross dies of cancer.
The Charles Lloyd Quartet record Forest Flower, Days Of Wine And Roses, Bizarre and Ol' Five Spot for Columbia records in New York City, USA.