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The Noel Coward-composed musical Sail Away is presented at The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 167 performances.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.
Musical comedy The Gay Life is presented at The Shubert Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 113 performances.Louis Jordan plays during a lengthy engagement at Danny's Lounge, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
Danny Peppermint And His Jumping Jacks are in residence at The Thunderbird, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Ella
Fitzgerald records After
You've Gone, Hallelujah
I Love Him So and other tracks for Verve Records in
Webster
Hall, New York City, USA.
Jimmie Davis records Come A Little Closer To The Lord, How Great Thou Art, Crown Of Thorns and other tracks with producer Owen Bradley in Bradley Film and Recording Studios, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Yusef Lateef records Goin' Home, Salt Water Blues and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Prestige Records.
Patsy Cline releases She's Got You on Decca Records in the USA. It will reach No1 on the Hot C'n'W Sides country chart, No14 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, and No3 on the Easy Listening chart. It will also deliver her first hit single in the United Kingdom, where it will reach No43.
James Marshall Hendrix [later to find fame as Jimi Hendrix] is promoted to Private First Class in the US Army.
The Swinging Blue Genes (later to find fame as the Swinging Blue Jeans) play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK, supported by Johnny Sandon and The Searchers.
Jackie Wilson plays the second of six nights at Sciolla's Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jackie Wilson plays the second of six nights at Sciolla's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Elvis Presley flies home to Memphis, Tennessee, USA, at the end of a long holiday spent mostly in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
The US Patent and Trademark Office issues Patent No. 3,018,680, for an improved pickup device for
electric guitars to famed guitarist Les Paul.
Yusef Lateef records Goin' Home, Salt Water Blues and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Prestige Records.
Ray Charles appears in court in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, where charges of heroin possession against him are dropped on the basis that the police raid on his hotel room had violated his Constitutional rights.Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record Speak To Me Of Love, Guitar Amour and Paris Blues for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Yusef
Lateef records Goin' Home, Salt Water Blues and other tracks in
New York City, USA, for Prestige
Records.
Helen Shapiro plays at The ABC, Dover, UK, supported by The Brook Brothers, The Four Jays, The Dale Sisters, Colin Day and The Red Price Band. Compere for the show is comedian Dave Allen.
Jimmy Jones And The Sensationals record I Can't Begin To Tell You, Lead Me On and other tracks for Savoy Records in the USA.
The Sonny Rollins records God Bless The Child for RCA Victor Records in New York City, USA.