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Sammy Davis Jr records This Little Girl Of Mine, Mess Around, There Is No Greater Love and Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You, in the USA.
Count Basie And His Orchestra play at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Gene Vincent, supported by Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, plays at the Granada, Walthamstow, UK.
A new musical, Free And Easy, written by Harold Arlen and orchestrated by Quincy Jones, opens in Paris, France.
The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling pop singles in the USA is Let It Be Me by The Everly Brothers, entering at No77.
Bobby Rydell and Dale Hawkins appear on tv's Dick Clark Show, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury, Joe Brown and Georgie Fame, play at the Guildhall, Southampton, UK.
What Do You Want To Make Thos Eyes At Me For? Emile Ford reaches No1 in the UK's Record Retailer hit singles chart.
Dinah Washington plays the eighth night of two weeks of dates at Fack's No2, San Francisco, California, USA.
The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling US pop singles is Lady Luck by Lloyd Price entering at No70.
US deejay/promoter Alan Freed's week-long revue spends its second day at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York, featuring Bo Diddley, Big Maybelle, Jo Ann Campbell, Bobby Day, The Cadillacs, and The Wheels.
The Biggest Show Of Stars 1960 Winter Edition package tour plays at The Mosque, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Acts on the bill include Freddy Cannon, Clyde McPhatter, The Clovers, Bobby Rydell, Johnny And The Hurricanes, The Isley Brothers, The Crests, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Sammy Turner and Linda Laurie.
Jazz pianist Bud Powell records Perdido and Idaho, in Paris, France, Europe, for his album Bud In Paris.
Paul Robeson begins a 32 date tour of the UK, which includes appearances at nuclear disarmament rallies.
Gene McDaniels continues with his two week season at The Arctic Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jazz saxophonist and recording artist Chris Klich is born in La Mesa, California, USA.
The soundtrack album for the smash hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie, is recorded at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio, New York City, USA. Dick Van Dyke and Dick Gautier are the principal vocalists, and the best-known songs from the show are Put On A Happy Face, One Last Kiss and A Lot Of Livin' To Do.
Bobby Darin plays the fifth night in a week of shows at The Cloister Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Popular vocalist Jimmy Clanton plays the fifth of six nights at the Jolla Club, Tucson, Arizona, supported by Roy Orbison.
The
Platters play the eleventh night of a two week engagement at
Fack's II Club, San
Francisco, California, USA.
He'll Have To Stay by Jeanne Black reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
Fats Domino releases a new single, Walking To New Orleans, in the USA. It will be his last Top Ten pop hit.
When Patsy Cline appears at the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, wearing a clinging blouse and gold lame trousers, her attire causes asensation, and she is firmly told to stick to dresses.
Jackie Wilson, supported by Dion And The Belmonts, Elmore James, and The Vibrations, plays the fourth of seven nights at The Regal, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Evelyn 'Champagne' King, r'n'b and disco vocalist, is born in The Bronx, New York City, USA.
The Oscar Pettiford Sextet, led by legendary jazz bassist Oscar Pettiford, plays in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
At his first RCA
Records session in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Roger Miller records You
Don't Want My Love. The song will subsequently be re-named In The
Summertime.
The Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Johnny Griffin Quintet records Pull My Coat, Abundance and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
The
Drifters and Clyde
McPhatter play the fourth night of a week at the The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Let's Think About Livin' by Bob Luman reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
The Dexter Gordon Sextet records Home Run, Lovely Lisa and other tracks in United Western Recording Studios, Los Angeles,California, USA, for Jazzland Records.
Rockabilly vocalist Wanda
Jackson plays the ninth night of two weeks at The Golden
Nugget Casino, Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Save The Last Dance For Me by The Drifters tops the Billboard US Singles Chart for the first of three weeks. On the same day, an American music paper reports that Dion and the Belmonts have 'ankled one another's scene'. In plain English, they have split up. Dion will replace The Belmonts with The Del-Satins.
Package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars For '60, featuring Brenda Lee, Duane Eddy, Fabian, Chubby Checker, Freddy Cannon and Bill Black's Combo, plays at The Municipal Auditorium, Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
Cherry Wainer releases her debut single, Happy Like A Bell!, on Columbia Records inthe UK. The song has the unusual distinction of having been composed by UK pop idol Cliff Richard.
The Al Casey Quartet records Blue Moon, Dancing In The Dark and other tracks for Moodsville Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Jazz and blues saxophonist Sax Mallard posts an indefinite contract, on the Local 208 musicians' union list, with Casa Madrid, a favoured hangout of The Mob, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rockabilly vocalist Wanda Jackson plays the twelfth night of a six-week season at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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