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At Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy, Europe, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar as the year's most-played artist on juke boxes.
Surf-guitar innovators Dick Dale And The Del-Tones play at The Harmony Park Ballroom, Anaheim, California, USA.
Tim Kelly, guitarist of heavy rock band Slaughter, is born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
Vee-Jay Records send lacquers of Please Please Me and Ask Me Why by The Beatles to Audio Matrix, Inc., in the Bronx, New York City, USA, to prepare the metal parts necessary to manufacture a 45rpm single for release in the USA.
The Joe Pass Quartet records Days Of Wine And Roses, But Beautiful and other tracks at Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Benny Goodman plays at Stamford High School, Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
Dionne Warwick releases her debut LP, Presenting Dionne Warwick, produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, on Scepter Records in the USA.
The Kingston Trio play at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows begin a UK tour with a date at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe
The Swinging Blue Genes [later to find success as The Swinging Blue Jeans] and The Merseybeats play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
Jazz saxophonist Bill Barron records the Leonard Bernstein/Steven Sondheim compositions America, Tonight, One Hand One Heart and Gee Officer Krupke, in Gotham Studios, New York City for Dauntless Records. The tracks will appear on the album West Side Story Bossa Nova.
Carole King releases a new single, He's A Bad Boy, on Dimension Records in the USA.
Country vocalist Bill Anderson records From A Jack To A King, Little Band Of Gold, Restless and Happiness at Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent and Heinz Burt play at The City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard reaches No1 in the Canadian pop singles chart.
Jet Harris And Tony Meehan play at The Granada, Derby, England, UK, Europe.
Adam Faith plays the third night in a week of shows at The Palace, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
The Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers, later to become Manfred Mann, record Why Should We Not, Brother Jack and Without You as part of their 'commercial test' at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark, The Crystals, The Drifters, Little Esther Phillips, Solomon Burke, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Thunder, Little Julius High and The Upsetters Band play at The Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Dave Brubeck plays at St. John Terrell's Music Circus, Lambertville, New Jersey, USA.
The Beach Boys' second album, Surfin' USA, peaks at No2 in the Billboard magazine album chart in the USA.
Victor Borge plays at The Convention Hall, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
Singer and actress Patrice Wymore plays at The Bon Vivant, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Soul vocalist Doris Troy records Time in New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records.
The Associated Press reports that Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret, the co-star in his fifteenth movie, Viva Las Vegas, are having a love affair.
The Rolling Stones record Bye Bye Johnny [written by Chuck Berry] and You Better Move On [written by Arthur Alexander], at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, England, UK, Europe.
Roy Orbison releases a new single, Mean Woman Blues, on Monument Records in the USA.
The Searchers play at Wallington Public Hall, Croydon, England, UK
The Rolling Stones' second UK single, Poison Ivy / Fortune Teller, was scheduled for release on this date, but it was withdrawn.
The Marauders play at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
The Beatles record the last three editions of BBC radio series Pop Go The Beatles, in Aeolian Hall, London, England, UK, Europe.
King Curtis plays the second night of two weeks of shows at Birdland, New York City, USA.
Gene Pitney plays at The Brooklyn Fox, New York City, USA, with Frankie Avalon.
Former hat-check girl at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, Cilla Black releases her first single, a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles', called Love Of The Loved. She also makes her debut appearance on popular tv show Ready, Steady, Go!.
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays at Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Page 7 and The Angels are the musical guests on tonight's adition of the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-tv in the USA.
Margie Singleton records Old Records for Mercury Records at Bradley Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Singleton also joins Faron Young to cut Keeping Up With The Joneses.
Peter, Paul And Mary enter the UK Singles Chart with Blowin' In The Wind. The song will prove a major hit and will introduce the name of its composer, Bob Dylan, to a much wider audience.
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Gerry And The Pacemakers, Del Shannon, Jet Harris And Tony Meehan, The Bachelors, Duffy Power, Cilla Black, Bryan Burdon and The Blue Diamonds play at The City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
The album Christmas With Coniff by Ray Coniff is awarded a Gold Disc in the USA by the R.I.A.A.
Paul Revere And The Raiders release a new single, Louie Louie, in the USA on Columbia Records.
At a rhythm'n'blues night in The Place, Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK, Europe, fifteen year old Steve Winwood (later of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith) encounters his first Hammond B3 organ, and can't keep his hands off it.
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English girl group The Caravelles appear on UK tv quiz show Double Your Money.
Johnny Burnette plays at The Whitehall, East Grinstead, England, UK, Europe, with The Rebounds.
The Detours play at The Oldfield Hotel, Greenford, London, England, UK, Europe. The group will find greater success after evolving to become The Who.
Don Gibson, with a band including Chet Atkins and Velma Smith [gtrs], Junior Huskey [bass], William Ackerman [drums], Jerry Smith [piano] and The Jordanaires, records Do You Know My Jesus, If I Can help Somebody and other tracks in RCA Victor Studio, 1611 Hawkins Street, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Shirelles, Duane Eddy and Gene Vincent play at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe.
Adam Faith, The Roulettes and Jackie Trent are playing during six nights at The New Theatre, Oxford, England, UK, Europe.
Martha And The Vandellas record A Tear For The Girl in Hitsville U.S.A. Studio A, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
British tv show Thank Your Lucky Stars has an all-Merseyside special edition, hosted by Bob Wooler, deejay of The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe. The Beatles perform I Want To Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, Twist And Shout and She Loves You. The show also features Cilla Black, The Searchers, Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, The Breakaways, Gerry And The Pacemakers, Billy Butler, Tommy Quickly and Janice Nicholls.
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