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Rockabilly vocalist Wanda Jackson plays the twenty-second night of a six-week season at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
On a promotional tour in support of his novelty single Baby Sittin' Boogie, Buzz Clifford visits deejays and other music business contacts in New York City, USA.Rockabilly vocalist Wanda Jackson plays the twenty-fourth night of a six-week season at the Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
A new musical, Showgirl, written by Charles Gaynor and starring Carol Channing opens at The Eugene O'Neill Theater, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The Everly Brothers release a new single, Walk Right Back/Ebony Eyes in the USA on Warner Brothers Records.
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Jazz vibraharpist Dave Pike records tracks for his Riverside Records album It's Time For Dave Pike, in New York City, USA.
Chuck Berry plays the fourth of six nights at The Glass Bucket, Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean.The highest new entry in this week's Cash Box magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA is Find Another Girl by Jerry Butler entering at No76.
John Coltrane, Miriam Makeba, Oscar Brown Jr., and Machito's Band play the fifth night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Susan Boyle is born in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK, Europe. She will find international acclaim after appearing in the UK tv talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2009.
Tony Bennett records Dancing In The Dark, Stella By Starlight and other tracks at Columbia Records' studio, 30th Street, New York City, USA.
The Swinging Blue Genes, later to find success as The Swinging Blue Jeans, play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Elvis Presley continues with studio-based filming for the movie Blue Hawaii, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Barbra Streisand plays the seventeenth night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.
Wheels by Billy Vaughn reaches No1 in the German Popular Singles Chart in Germany, Europe.
Barbra Streisand plays the twenty-first night in a month-long engagement at The Bon Soir Club, New York City, USA.
The Don Friedman Trio records the impressionistic jazz piano album A Day In The City, for Riverside Records in New York City, USA.
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Stan Getz and The Hershey Key Orchestra record I Remember When, Her and other tracks in Webster Hall, New York City, USA, for Verve Records.
Landa Records artist Johnny Madara appears on popular daily tv series American Bandstand in W-Fil Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Blackwood Brothers Quartet plays a live show in Oak Hill, West Virginia, USA.
Aretha Franklin plays the eighteenth night in a three week season at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Popular singer and songwriter Frank Gari plays at The Town Casino, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
Jim Reeves And His Blue Boys play a live concert in The Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Bob Dylan continues in a two-week residency at Gerde's Folk City, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, supporting the Greenbriar Boys. Dylan's photograph is taken on this night, and a print will hang on the club's wall for many years.
While in New York City, USA, on a business trip, Lonnie Donegan and his manager Cyril Berlin are staying at The Hotel Plaza.Ferlin Husky, Smiley Wilson, Norma Jean, George Morgan, Eamon Napier And The Plainsmen and Leon McAuliff And His Cimarron Boys play a live show in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Judy Garland sings at the TaySachs Dinner honouring Tony Bennett as Man Of The Year in the Waldorf Hotel, New York City, USA.
Ruth Brown, The Vibrations, Jimmy Jones, The Sensations, Joe Turner, The Clovers, Little Anthony, David Ruffin and Arthur Prysock play the third night in a week of shows at the Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Package tour A Star Spangled Night arrives at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, starring Billy Fury, Eden Kane, The Karl Denver Trio, The Allisons, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Dave Sampson and Gordon Peters. The tour is promoted by impresario Larry Parnes.
Mike Daniels And His Delta Jazzmen with Doreen Beatty and Mike Peters, plus The Florida Jazzmen perform live on the BBC Light Programme Radio Show Jazz Club, broadcast live from London, England, UK, Europe.
John Leyton, Al Saxon, Anita Harris, Carter-Lewis, The Ted Taylor Four with Jo Marney, Tommy Sanderson And The Sandmen
and Gerry Brown's Jazzmen provide live music on the BBC Light Orogramme radio show Saturday Club in London, England, UK, Europe.
Ernest V. Stoneman, with Mike Seeger on banjo, records Stoney's Waltz, Bile 'Em Cabbage Down, All I Got's Gone, The Wreck Of The Number Nine, The Great Reaping Day and I'm Alone, All Alone for Folkways Records in Carmody Hill, Maryland, USA.
Moon River by Jerry Butler reaches No1 in the Lever Hit Parade singles chart in New Zealand, Oceania, for the first of two weeks.
US Army private James Marshall Hendrix [Jimi Hendrix] takes a photograph as he jumps from a plane, and another just before landing, at the 101st Airborn Division jump school, Fort Campbell, Kentucky,USA.The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The Swinging Blue Jeans] plus Johnny Sandon And The Searchers play an evening show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
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