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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.Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at The RKO-Albee Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Jazz trumpet player Blue Mitchell records Fungii Mama, Step Lightly, The Thing To Do, Chick's Tune and Mona's Mood at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Blue Note Records.
Ron Block, banjo and guitar player for Allison Krause and Union Station, is born in Inglewood, California, USA.
The highest new entry in the UK singles chart is The Ferris Wheel by The Everly Brothers, entering at No27. It will peak at No22.
Marvin Gaye, The Spinners and Hattie Littles play the seventh of ten nights at the Driftwood Lounge in the The 20 Grand Club, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Cumberland Trio (actually a quartet) play at The Hotel Greystone, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA.
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Elvis Presley continues filming studio-based scenes for his seventeenth movie, Girl Happy, at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA.
Pete Morton is born in Leicester, Leicestershire, UK. After playing in punk bands as a youth, he will become a folk singer, acclaimed by British music magazine, Froots, as being "amongst the best that the British roots music scene has produced in living memory."
Bobby Goldsboro, with producer Jack Gold, records You Don't Know Me, Born To Lose, Worried Mind and Lonely Street for United Artists Records in the USA.
Fats Domino records (All Of My Life) For You and Sally Was A Good Old Girl, with producer Felton Jarvis in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Yardbirds play at The Locarno Ballroom, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe. At this point in their career, The Yardbirds had not yet released an album but they - and their guitarist at this gig, Eric Clapton, - will go on to become hugely successful.
Have I The Right? by The Honeycombs enters the UK Top 40 singles chart at No34. Produced by Joe Meek, it will peak at No1.
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Jimmie Davis records Ten Thousand Angels, Life's Railway To Heaven and other tracks at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Folk duo Len And Judy record Jesus Met The Woman At The Well and This Life I'm Living, in New York City, USA, for Prestige Records. The tracks will appear on the album Folksongs Sweet And Bittersweet.