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Ventures new single, Ram-Bunk-Shush, enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA where it will peak at No29.
Quincy Jones And His Orchestra record Strike Up The Band in Fine Recording Studios, New York City, USA, for Mercury Records.
The registered office of the Australian Record Company (ARC) moves from 29 Bligh Street to 11-19 Hargrave Street, East Sydney, Australia. The company will soon begin to record local pop talent.
Quincy Jones And His Orchestra record Mack The Knife, Under Paris Skies and other tracks for Mercury Records in Fine Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Ray Charles plays at Springfield Auditorium, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He is also seen performing Georgia On My Mind on NBC-tv's Perry Como Show.
The Panama Jazz Band and The Big Three play at Liverpool Jazz Society in The Iron Door Club, Liverpool, UK.
Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, on The Swinging Blue Genes' Guest Night. (The Swinging Blue Genes will find international success after changing their name to The Swinging Blue Jeans.)
The highest new entry in this week's CashBox magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA is Theme From My Three Sons by Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra, entering at No78.
Gene Vincent breaks out of his current tour of UK ballrooms to begin an eight-day visit to South Africa.
Jazz trumpeter Jonah Jones is playing at The Embers, New York City, USA, during a six-week engagement.
Connie Francis plays the fifteenth night of three weeks at The Sahara Hotel And Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Dante (of Dante And The Evergreens) and Dean Barlow are the musical guests on popular tv series American Bandstand at W-fil Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin records Gloomy Sunday, No More and Don't Explain in New York City, USA, for his Riverside Records album White Gardenia.
Jean Shepard and Hawkshaw Hawkins play at Ted Smith's Circle Ranch, Muskegon, Michigan, USA.
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Aretha Franklin plays the twentieth night in a three week season at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.The Beatles support Mr. Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band on the MV Royal Iris as it cruises along the Mersey in Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, on the first of four Riverboat Shuffles.
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Bobby Vee plays the first of three nights at The Civic Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Bobby Vee And The Crickets record Peggy Sue, Bo Diddley, Lucille and other tracks at United Recorders, 6050 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Louise Groody, a musical comedy star of several movies including Hit The Deck, dies aged 64, at her summer home in Canadensis, Pennsylvania, USA, after a long battle with cancer.
Country performer and entrepreneur Hank Snow begins a legal suit against his former partner, Col Tom Parker, in an attempt to receive a percentage of the earnings of Elvis Presley.
Elvis Presley offers his services to raise money for victims of recent floods in Louisiana, USA.
Hal Willis, with producer Shelby Singleton, records I Love You (Around The World) and Bayou Pierre, in Bradley Film and Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The band for the session features guitarists Jerry Kennedy and Kelso Herston, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and pianist Ray Stevens.
John Leyton, Rita Tushingham and Leila Williams are the jurors on BBC tv record-rating show Juke Box Jury, hosted by David Jacobs, in London, England, UK, Europe.
John Garvey and the University of Illinois Jazz Band play at The Illini Union Ballroom, University Of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Jazz trombonist-composer Curtis Fuller records Stockholm, for Impulse Records in New York City, USA. It will appear on his albumSoul Trombone.
The Big Three and The Undertakers play at The Orrell Parl Ballroom, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
It is announced that UK pop idol John Leyton is set to star in three upcoming movies.
Laurence Cottle is born in Swansea, Wales, UK, Europe. He will find acclaim as a jazz and rock bass player and music composer, working with Black Sabbath, Brian Eno, Eric Clapton and many others.Sam Cooke records Twistin' The Night Away at RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. The band on the session features Earl Palmer (drums), Tommy Tedesco, Clifton White (guitar), Red Callender (bass), Ed Beal (piano), Jackie Kelso, John Ewing, Jewell Grant (saxophones) and Stuart Williamson (trumpet), most of whom were Wrecking Crew stalwarts.
The Christmas No1 single in the UK is Tower Of Strength by Frankie Vaughan. The song is composed by Burt Bacharach and Bob Hilliard.
David Ede and The Rabin Band, Nat Gonella, Barbara Kay, Colin Day, Ray Pilgrim, The Hound Dogs, Arthur Greenslade And His Swingin' Piano, Groovin' Don Sanford, Rockin' Rex Morris, The Razz-Ma-Tazzers appear on BBC Light Programme radio show Go Man Go in London, England, UK, Europe.Jan |