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Tom Jones plays during a week of cabaret appearances in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Freddy Cannon performing Palisades Park and The Vibrations performing My Girl Sloopy.
TV rock show Where The Action Is in the USA features Jackie Lee performing Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide and The Statler Brothers performing Flowers On The Wall.
In Los Angeles, California, USA, Joan Baez writes a two-page letter to her friend Wendy Hanson, the personal assistant of Brian Epstein (manager of The Beatles) in London, England, UK, Europe. The letter, which includes details of Baez' recent romantic life, will not be posted until Jan 12.
Bobby Goldsboro releases a new single, It's Too Late, on United Artists Records in the USA. It will spend eight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 23, and will also reach No.5 on Canada's RPM 100.
Today's edition of UK pop newspaper The New Musical Express includes a feature noting that 1965 was the best chart year ever for British artists internationally. It saw the most British artists topping the worldwide charts, including The Rolling Stones, The Seekers, The Beatles, The Animals and Sandie Shaw.
Andy Warhol stages Up Tight, an event featuring some of his films together with live music by The Velvet Underground and Nico at the annual banquet of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, New York City, USA.
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Gail Wynters, with producer Harvin Hughes, records Who Do You Think You're Fooling and Every Time I See You Again in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Riot Squad play at Church Elm, Church Elm Lane, Dagenham, Greater London, England, UK, Europe. Lee Dorsey appears on UK tv pop show Ready, Steady, Go. He also makes live appearances at The In Place, Marylebone, London, England, UK, Europe, at The Roaring 20s Club, London, and at The Flamingo, Soho, London.
Jefferson Airplane play at The Kitsilano Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with the Tom Northcott Trio.
Having viewed a shortened and recut 16mm version of the pilot show for The Monkees, NBC-tv decides to pick the series up for broadcast.
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Christian country music singer-songwriter Wes King is born in Winder, Georgia, USA.
The second night of the three day long Trips Festival is held at Longshoremen's Hall in San Francisco, featuring the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Loading Zone, Chinese New Years' Lion Dancers and Drum and Bugle Corps, Stroboscopic Trampoline, and Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.The Harry South Big Band records Costa Fortuna, Last Orders, Afterthought and Alone Together, for Mercury Records in London.
Michelle by The Beatles reaches No1 in the pop singles chart, Tio i topp, in Sweden, Europe.
During their Winter Concert Tour, Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass are playing in Spokane, Washington, USA.
The Kinks play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by That Group.Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich play at the Gaumont, Ipswich, UK, supporting Gene Pitney.
Pharmacist Joe Fuchs pleads guilty to conspiring with Allman Brothers Band roadie Scooter Herring to supply drugs to Greg Allman.
Matt Monro flies from the UK to the USA for twelve weeks of engagements, during which he will perform live in San Francisco, New Orleans, Los Angeles and New York City..Jesse Fuller plays the first of five nights at the Questing Beast, Berkeley, California, supported by Lynne Hughes.
The Beatles film a promo clip for Paperback Writer in the grounds of Chiswick House, London, UK with director Tony Bramwell.
the cover of Life magazine in the USA features Angela Lansbury's latest hit Nick Drake, a student at Marlborough College, wins the junior 100 yards race at the Wiltshire Championships. Drake will become an influential singer-songwriter in the 70s.
The Who play at Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Merseys and Max Wall.Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich play at The ABC, Great Yarmouth, England, UK, Europe.
Bob Dylan's latest single, I Want You, enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA where it will peak at No20.
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Rockabilly vocalist Wanda Jackson records Fire Ball Mail and Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello in the USA.
The Kinks latest single, Sunny Afternoon, enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No14.
The Charlatans and Country Joe And The Fish play at Hayward Skate Arena, Hayward, California, USA.
John Lennon of The Beatles continues filming in Celle, Germany, Europe, for the movie How I Won The War.
First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And the Holding Company, including Janis Joplin, play the twenty-second night in a month of dates at Mother Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Howlin' Wolf and Big Brother and the Holding Company play the second of two nights in the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Clarence Carter records Tell Daddy at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA. (It will become a major hit in 1967 when it is re-recorded by Etta James as Tell Mama.)
The members of San Francisco band Moby Grape each sign an addendum to their individual management agreements with manager Matthew Katz in which they relinquish their right to use the band name unless they have the consent of Katz. This will cause considerable problems for the band in later years.
The Beatles start recording the album that will become Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at Blaises Club, London, UK, where they are seen by Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwhistle and Jeff Beck.
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