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Kingston Trio release their eponymous debut album in the USA. It includes a future No1 hit, Tom
Dooley.

Dinah Washington opens for a brief season at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jimmy Dean, Johnny Burnette, Dick And Dee Dee, Ral Donner, Johnny Tillotson, Curtis Lee, Johnny And The Hurricanes, Ray Peterson, and Charlie Rich play at a WVOK Shower Of Stars show in Birmingham Armory, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Shannon Powell is born in in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will become a world-famous jazz drummer, working with Wynton Marsalis, The Harry Connick, Jr. Trio, Diana Krall, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and others.
Helen Shapiro plays the thirteenth night of two weeks at The Palladium, London, UK.
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers play the eleventh night of a two-week season at McKie's Disc Jockey Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
In her first solo recording session for Columbia
Records in New York City, USA, Barbra Streisand records Lover Come
Back To Me, Happy Days
Are Here Again, Right As The Rain and When The Sun Comes Out.
The Beatles travel from
Liverpool, UK, to the TWW [Television Wales and West] Television
Centre on Bath Road, Bristol, to mime to their debut single, Love Me Do, on the ITV television show Discs A Gogo.


The comedy movie What's New Pussycat is released in the UK. The film's soundtrack song, What's New Pussycat, composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, will be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in a Movie. The film's soundtrack also features Manfred Mann performing My Little Red Book.


William Bell, backed by Booker T And The MG's, records Everybody Loves A Winner, It's Happening All Over and You're Such A Sweet Thing for Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.


Manfred Mann release a new single, The Mighty Quinn, written by Bob Dylan, in the UK on Fontana Records. It will reach No1 on 14 February.

Small Faces and Chicken Shack play at The Star Hotel, Croydon, England, UK, Europe.
The

Booker T And The MG's, It's A Beautiful Day and Tim Buckley play the first of three nights at the Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jim Morrison of The Doors, along with poet Michael McClure, holds a poetry reading at Sacramento State College, California, USA.


Yes play at Mothers, Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe, supported by May Blitz.

On their Get Me A Ladder Tour, Emerson, Lake And Palmer play at The Palais De Sport, Caen, France, Europe.
Style Council play the second of three nights at Wembley Arena, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Black Britain.
They
On his first All Starr Band tour, Ringo Starr plays the second of two nights at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, Long Island, New York State, USA. The band includes Billy Preston, Dr. John, Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Jim Keltner, Nils Lofgren, Clarence Clemons and Rick Danko.
Ringo Starr comes to the end of his first All Starr Band tour with a show in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band includes Billy Preston, Dr. John, Joe Walsh, Levon Helm, Jim Keltner, Nils Lofgren, Clarence Clemons and Rick Danko.


Blues guitarist and singer Little Smokey
Smothers dies aged 71, of natural causes, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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