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Music trade magazine Billboard reports that the Berkline Company has begun manufacturing a product called a 'Stereolounger' which is essentially a padded reclining chair with an integrated Lear Jet 8-track tape cartridge system - control unit in the arm and speakers in the wings. The system is priced at $239.
During a North American tour, The Yardbirds spend a well-earned rest day in Seattle, Washington, USA.
At Capitol Records HQ in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, The Beach Boys are presented by company MD Voyle Gilmore with three gold discs for the albums Surfer Girl, Surfin' USA and Beach Boys Today!
Elvis Presley celebrates his 31st birthday with a private screening of the film It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at The Memphian Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
A new musical, The MAD Show, opens off-
Earl Hines And His Orchestra record Black And Tan Fantasy, You Can Depend On Me, Hash Brown and other tracks for Impulse Records in New York City, USA.
Jody Miller, with Steve Douglas as producer, records We're Gonna Let The Good Times Roll, You're My Favourite Everything and I'm Making Room in Capitol Recording Studio, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Petula Clark is recording tracks in Pye Studios, London, England, UK, Europe. Among the session players in the studio is guitarist John McLaughlin.
Lyricist Fred Wise dies aged 50 in New York City, USA, the city of his birth. He is perhaps best-remembered as co-writer of the lyrics to the 1948 song "A — You're Adorable" with Buddy Kaye and Sid Lippman. He subsequently wrote many of the songs sung by Elvis Presley in his movies.
Pianist Bobby Timmons records the album The Soul Man for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Love have two recording sessions in Los Angeles, California, USA, starting at four in the afternoon, for their first album. They cut their Elektra Records debut single, My Little Red Book (composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David), plus You I'll Be Following. Pink Floyd's manager Peter Jenner will hear My Little Red Book while on a visit to California, and will subsequently attempt to sing the guitar riff to Pink Floyd, whose leader Syd Barrett will attempt to copy Jenner's singing. Barrett's interpretation will become the basic riff of the 1967 Pink Floyd track Interstellar Overdrive.
The Herd, The Notes and Karl Stuart And The Profile play at The California Ballroom, Dunstable, England, UK.
The Astronauts play the last of three nights at Dave Hull's Hull abaloo, 6230 Sunset, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Move play at The Marquee in London, England, UK, for the first time, as support to Gary Farr and the T-Bones.Having just supervised the final mix of his album Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan flies out from Los Angeles to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he will begin a two-month long world tour.
The Blues Project play the sixth of nine nights at The Cafe Au Go Go, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.Count Basie and his Orchestra begin three days of recording songs by The Beatles for the album Basie's Beatle Bag at Sunset Recorders, Hollywood, California.
Jefferson Airplane play at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Neil Diamond plays at The Rollarena, San Leandro, California, USA, supported by The Spyders and The Harbinger Complex.
Jac Holzman of Elektra Records returns for the third time to see The Doors supporting Love at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA. Afterwards, The Doors go on to play a late night show at The Hullabaloo, West Hollywood, California, USA.
Gerry And The Pacemakers play at The Aquarium, Great Yarmouth, UK, supported by The Karl Denver Trio, The Silkie and Billy Fury.
The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The New Tweedy Brothers play the second of two nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.Big Brother And The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, play the first of two nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA. Quicksilver Messenger Service are also on the bill.
Allen Ginsberg reads poetry and Sopwith Camel perform in concert at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Percy Sledge performing Love Me Like You Mean It, plus The Knickerbockers performing Soul and Inspiration and Stick With Me.
Thomas Gabriel Fischer is born in Zurich, Switzerland, Europe. He will become best known as guitarist in heavy rock band Apollyon Sun.Controversial stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, whose success was great enough that he recorded several LPs, dies aged 40 in his bathroom in Los Angeles, California, USA. The official cause of death is given as "acute morphine poisoning caused by an accidental overdose."
Bobby Darin records If I Were A Carpenter in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Kinks latest single, Sunny Afternoon, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No14.
Lightnin' Hopkins, The Jim Kweskin Jug Band and Memphis Slim play the first of ten nights at The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, California, USA.ABC-TV show Where The Action Is features a live recording session with Buffalo Springfield during which they are seen taping their next single.
The Musicians Union in the UK declares itself to be opposed to BBC Radio continuously broadcasting pop music.
Big Brother And The Holding Company play the third of six nights at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA.
Jefferson Airplane record In The Morning, for their second LP, Surrealistic Pillow, in Studio B, RCA's Music Canter Of The World, 6363 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA. Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead plays guitar on this track.
Hugh Gibb, father of The Bee Gees, sends their Australian singles along with a letter to Robert Stigwood of NEMS in the UK, advising him that the group is coming to England to look for a recording contract.
The Who play in a "Big Beat Session" at The Winter Gardens, Malvern, England, UK, Europe. Tickets cost 7/6d, for which the promoter apologises, saying, "We regret the high admission price, but a fab group commands fab fees."Jan |