Random selection from around 8,800 Facts
Click to filter results
The Three Sounds are in Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, recording tracks for their Mercury Records album Three Moods.
Dusty Springfield, The Searchers, Bobby Vee, Tony Jackson And The Vibrations, Heinz and The Zombies play at The Town Hall, Birmingham, UK.
The Beatles are seen on the UK tv show Thank Your Lucky Stars, miming to Ticket To Ride, Yes It Is and Eight Days A Week. The show also features The Animals, The Drifters, Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones and Peter And Gordon.
Marianne Faithfull releases a new single, This Little Bird, on Decca Records in the UK. On the same day, in a somewhat bizarre marketing decision, The Nashville Teens release their new single, also a version of This Little Bird, and also on Decca Records in the UK. The song is composed by John D. Loudermilk.
B.B. King's album Live At The Regal, recorded in Chicago, Illinois, USA, enters the Billboard albums chart in the USA, where it will peak at No6.
Jazz guitar virtuoso Wes Montgomery records My Thing, Bumpin' and My One And Only Love at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Kitty Wells records A Woman Half My Age, Meanwhile Down At Joe's and other tracks at Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, with Owen Bradley as producer. At the same session, she also records We'll Stick Together with Johnny Wright.
The 
In Jakarta, Indonesia, Asia, leaders of the Koes Bersaudara dance band are arrested on charges of subversion, for playing songs by The Beatles.
Doris Troy and Paddy, Klaus And Gibson play an afternoon show at Notre Dame Hall, Leicester Square, London, England, UK.
Harry Belafonte opens for twelve days at The Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California, USA.
Johnny Mathis, The Young Americans and Woody Allen play the last of seven nights at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs performing Wooly Bully and Every Woman I Know plus Mel Carter performing The Richest Man Alive and Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me.
Following five consecutive No1 hits, The Supremes enter the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with Nothing But Heartaches, which will peak disappointingly at No11.
Read More
The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays at Stratford Music Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
The Times reports that The Beatles publishing company Northern Songs, having predicted a profit of £550,000 for the previous year, has in fact made £621,000.
The Paupers play at The Under 21 club, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with David Clayton-Thomas And The Shays.
The Who's stage gear is stolen from their van, which is parked outside Battersea Dogs Home in London, England, UK, but that night they play a show at The Spa Royal Hotel, Bridlington.
The Yardbirds, The Box Tops and The Gants play in Clearpool, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. On the same day, they also play at Skateland Frayser in Memphis.
Dizzy Gillespie And His Quintet play during a season in The Penthouse at The Playboy Club, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with singer Millicent Brown and Johnny Janis.
The Beach Boys play at The National Guard Armory, Washington DC, USA, supported by The El Corals and Little Wimpy And The New Bedford Set.
The Silkie release a new single in the UK, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, written and produced by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles.
The Beach Boys play at The Empire Stadium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with Charlie Rich, The Castaways and The Chessmen.
Everybody Loves A Clown by Gary Lewis And The Playboys rises from No85 to No42 in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA. It will peak at No4.
Johnny Cash is arrested at the Mexican border by US customs officers, after being caught in possession of one thousand amphetamine pills.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features The Vejtables performing I Still Love You. Peter And Gordon appear on the same show.
Freddie And The Dreamers leave the UK, flying to the USA for a month of gigs and tv appearances.
Dusty Springfield, The Dave Clark Five and Frank Ifield perform in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II on the Royal Variety Performance in The London Palladium, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Sir Douglas Quintet play the late show at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, supported by Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band.Billboard magazine reports that Arthur Wilkinson And His Orchestra have released an EP, Beatle-Cracker Ballet, in the UK, which consists of songs by The Beatles played in the style of Tchaikovsky. A complete LP of songs in the same style is said to be in the pipeline.
The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The Young Rascals record a version of the song Good Lovin' for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA, but this version will remain unreleased.
The
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Dee Dee Sharp performing Mashed Potato Time. Johnny Tillotson is also on the show.
Peter And Gordon play the fourth night of a week at The Fiesta, Stockton, England, UK, Europe.
The Who play at The Ricky-Tick Club, held in the Plaza Ballroom, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK, Europe. Viv Prince of The Pretty Things stands in again for Keith Moon, who has collapsed. Support band is The Herd.
The Nashville Teens play at The Dreamland Ballroom, Margate, Kent, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Pentads.Jan |