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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.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
Barbara McNair is playing during three weeks of shows at The Royal Box of The Americana Hotel, New York City, USA.
Trini Lopez is playing during three weeks at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
Blood Sweat And Tears are playing during a season at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Linda Ronstadt And The Stone Poneys are playing during a ten-day engagement at The Marco Polo Restuarant, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Joni Mitchell is playing during eleven nights at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Her support acts change during this period, but include David Steinberg and Bunky And Jake.
The Everly Brothers are playing during a fourteen-night stint at The Latin Quarter, New York City, USA.
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Folk-rock duo Bunky And Jake are playing at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Headline act is Joni Mitchell.
The 5th Dimension are playing during eleven nights at The Cave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Sunshine Company are playing during four nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Nina Simone plays at The Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, USA.
The First Acapulco Jazz Festival takes place in Acapulco, Mexico, North America, and features Herbie Mann, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, George Wein and Cannonball Adderley.
The Who play a second night at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Aretha Franklin plays at Cleveland Arena, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Chicken Shack play at the Alex Disco in the Alexandra Rooms, New Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, with DJ Kazoon.
The Small Faces reach No1 in the UK albums chart with their fourth long-player, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.
The Foundations play the last of six nights in Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
The Moody Blues play at The Royal Festival Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play the second of two nights in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Ten Years After play the second of three nights at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Seven thousand people attend the first Hyde Park rock concert in London, England, UK, Europe, featuring Roy Harper, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Psychedelic power trio Blue Cheer play the second of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by The Hello People.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience are in The Record Plant, New York City, USA, working on And The Gods Made Love.
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The Amboy Dukes, featuring Ted Nugent on guitar, release the album Journey To The Center Of The Mind, in the USA.
Herb Fame of Peaches And Herb is accidentally shot in the abdomen by his road manager, Walter Booth, in Columbia, South Carolina, USA.
UK folk supergroup Pentangle play at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
UK pop weekly the NME [New Musical Express] reports that "after weeks of speculation, The Lovin' Spoonful have finally broken up."
The Incredible String Band plays at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
The highest new entry in the Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, is The Autumn Of My Life by Bobby Goldsboro entering at No69.
The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals, plays the last of four nights at The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The Intruders and Joe Tex are playing a live show in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play the fifth of six nights at The Generation Club, New York City, USA.
Lady Willpower by Gary Puckett And The Union Gap reaches No1 in the Canadian singles chart.
Esther And Abi Ofarim play the first of two nights at The Coventry Theatre, Coventry, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd release their second album, A Saucerful Of Secrets, in the UK, Europe. This is their first album with new guitarist David Gilmour.
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The Young Americans play at The Waikiki Shell, Waikiki, Hawaii, USA.
Dolly Parton releases her self-composed song, Just Because I'm A Woman, as a single on RCA Records in the USA.
The Bee Gees, Barry Ryan, Bobby Vee and Gulliver's People appear on Southern Television tv series Time For Blackburn, hosted by radio deejay Tony Blackburn in Southampton, England, UK, Europe.
Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie play at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, New York State, USA.
The Doors and The Chambers Brothers play at the Community Concourse Convention Hall, San Diego, California, USA.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.