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Guitar Slim plays the sixth night of a week at The Palms Club, Hallendale, Florida, USA.
Chart-topping UK clarinettist Acker Bilk has a recording session in London, at which his drummer is Ginger Baker, later to play with Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton in The Cream.
An article in Billboard magazine in the USA predicts that the recently-initiated merchandising campaign based on Elvis Presley-endorsed products will "eclipse sales of $20,000,000 before the end of the year."
Billy Ward And His Dominoes play the sixth night of a week at Zardi's Jazzland, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets, Chuck Berry, The Platters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, Clyde McPhatter, The Clovers, Shirley And Lee, The Flairs, Shirley Gunter And The Queens and The Buddy Johnson Orchestra play in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Miles Davis Quintet, including John Coltrane, plays at Café Bohemia, New York City.
More by Jimmy Young enters the Singles Chart in the UK at No26. It will peak at No4 during a seventeen-week run on the chart.
Roy Milton plays the second night of a week at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
In The Still Of The Night by legendary doo-wop R'n'B band The Five Satins enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No24. Nevertheless, it will go on to become a genre classic, and eventually achieve multi-platinum sales.
The Maddox Brothers And Rose release a new single, The Death Of Rock And Roll in the USA, on Columbia Records.
The Maddox Brothers and Rose release a new single, the Death Of Rock And Roll in the USA, on Columbia Records.
Chart-topping UK clarinettist Acker Bilk has a recording session in London, at which his drummer is Ginger Baker, later to play with Eric Clapton in The Cream.
Chart-topping clarinettist Acker Bilk has a recording session in London, UK, at which his drummer is Ginger Baker, later to play with Eric Clapton in The Cream.
In The Still Of The Night by legendary doo-wop r'n'b band The Five Satins enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No24. Nevertheless, it will go on to become a genre classic, and eventually achieve multi-platinum sales.