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The Brian Auger Trinity play at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, UK.
The Rolling Stones play the second of two nights at Manufacturer's Auditorium, Agricultural Hall, Sydney, Australia.
Jazz pianist, composer and arranger Arthur Schutt dies in San Francisco, California, USA. In an extensive career, he had played with Arthur Schutt And His Orchestra, Eddie Lang's Orchestra, Joe Venuti And His New Yorkers, Joe Venuti's Blue Four, Miff Mole's Molers, Roger Wolfe Kahn And His Orchestra, The Charleston Chasers, The Dorsey Brothers And Their New Dynamiks and Tom Dorsey And His Novelty Orchestra
The Rolling Stones play at the Town Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand, Oceania.
Marianne Faithfull releases a new single, Come And Stay With Me, on Decca Records in the UK. The song is composed by Jackie De Shannon.
Judy Garland performs the first night of a week at the O'Keefe Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Singer-songwriter Peter La Farge writes to Moe Asch, head of Folkways Records in New York City, USA, thanking him for sending copies of The Town Hall Concert LP.
Irish blues band Them, featuring Van Morrison on vocals, play in Swindon, Wiltshire, UK.
The highest new entry in Cash Box magazine chart of the 100 best-selling singles in the USA is Tired Of Waiting For You by The Kinks, entering at No62.
I Know A Place by Petula Clark enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No3.
Ray Davies of The Kinks files papers to create Ray Davies (Entertainment) Ltd., which will manage his songwriting income, not only from Kinks releases but from an increasing number of other artists. In the evening a launch party is held for The Honeycombs' latest single, a cover of the Ray Davies composition Something Better Beginning.
The Beach Boys, Billy Joe Royal, The Teardrops, The Contenders, The Casinos and Kenny Price play at Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
She's About A Mover by The Sir Douglas Quintet enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA.
The Drifters play the third night of a six-day season at the Buckingham Club, Manchester, UK.
Gene Pitney, Bobby Goldsboro, The Bill Black Combo and Gary Lewis And The Playboys play in a WDRC Big D Big Show in Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
The Who record a version of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere for BBC Radio at the Aeolian Hall, Studio 2, London, England, UK. Later they play at The Majestic, Reading.
The Spencer Davis Group plays at The Club Noreik, Tottenham, North London, UK.
Joan Baez has a photographic session with top fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon in New York City, USA.
Billy J. Kramer and Edmund Hockridge are playing at The North Pier, Blackpool, England, UK.
Global earnings for EMI's record division for the year ended on this date are stated as $17,379,600, of which 62% was earned by the company's 32 subsidiaries operating outside of the UK.
The album Beatles VI by The Beatles reaches No1 in the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA for the first of six weeks.
Herman's Hermits play in The Top Rank, Doncaster, UK, at a dance for Doncaster Rovers football team.
Judy Garland breaks the venue's record for the longest standing ovation when she plays at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, New York City, USA.
The Yardbirds play at Queen's Ballroom, Cleveleys, England, UK.
Cliff Richard and The Shadows begin a European tour in Frejus, France, Europe.
The Sir Douglas Quintet release a new single, The Tracker, in the UK on London Records.
The Four Seasons play the third of seven nights in the Marine Ballroom, The Steel Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Ross And The Majestics are appearing at The Charade A Go Go discotheque, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz vocalist Irene Reid, backed by The Bert Keyes Orchestra, records The Funny Thing About It and Even If You Don't Mean It for Verve Records in New York City, USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is features James Brown performing I Got You (I Feel Good) and Joey Paige performing Goodnight, My Love.
It is reported in the UK music press that The Animals have left EMI and signed to Decca Records in the UK. They will begin recording for Decca in the spring of 1966 - when their contract with independent record producer Mickie Most runs out.
The Who record a Dutch tv show at Studio Bellevue, Hilversum, The Netherlands, Europe.
The Moody Blues play at The Country Club, Kirklevington, England, UK, Europe.
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Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
Andrew Hill records the album Compulsion!!!!! for Blue Note Records in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
P.J. Proby and The Walker Brothers play at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, England, UK, Europe.
The Yardbirds play at The Marquee, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe.
Joan Baez plays at The Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK, Europe. Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, attends the gig.
The New York Art Quartet plays a live set for a radio broadcast in the Concert Hall of the Radio House, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane of The Small Faces are attacked and injured by skinheads in Loughton, Essex, England, UK, Europe.
The Yardbirds play at The Big Apple, Munich, Germany, Europe.
Them release a new single, Mystic Eyes, in the UK on Decca Records. The song is written by their vocalist, Van Morrison.
On his weekly series, The Dean Martin Show, on NBC-tv in the USA, Dean Martin sings Don Gibson's Blue Blue Day. Tony Bennett also appears on this edition of the show.
Ornette Coleman plays at Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany, Europe.
The Supremes play at The Winter Formal, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. This is their first appearance on a campus.
Jean Shepard, with Marvin Hughes as producer, records Dirt Under His Feet, Day To Day, Outstanding In Your Field and Your Name's Become A Houshold Word, in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bob Dylan plays at the Community Concourse Theater, San Diego, California, USA.
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