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The Kinks, Unit 4+2, The Pretty Things and The Roulettes appear on the UK's Radio Luxembourg show Ready, Steady, Radio!

US tv rock show Where The Action Is features The Wonder Who (actually The Four Seasons) performing Don't Think Twice It's Alright and Ben E. King singing Stand By Me.


Get Out Of My Life, Woman by Lee Dorsey is the highest new entry in the Cashbox chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering at No79.

The Beatles single Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out is released in Argentina, South America, on Odeon Pops Records.



Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich release a new single, Hold Tight, in the UK. It will peak at No4.




Bob Dylan plays the second of two nights at the Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia.
Influential American music trade publication The Gavin Report accuses the songs Eight Miles High by The Byrds and Rainy Day Women Nos12 And 35 by Bob Dylan of encouraging the use of drugs, stating, 'In our opinion, these records imply encouragement and/or approval of the use of marijuana or LSD. We cannot conscientiously recommend such records for airplay.'

Buffy Sainte-Marie and Spider John Koerner play at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.
When A Man
Loves A Woman by Percy Sledge enters the UK Pop Singles Chart where it will peak at No4 during a
seventeen-week run on the chart. After hearing the song, Gary
Brooker of Procol Harum will
be inspired to write a similarly styled ballad, to words by
lyricist Keith Reid, using a Bach organ melody for the backing. The
song will be called A Whiter Shade Of
Pale.
In London, England, UK, Europe, for two Royal Albert Hall gigs, Bob Dylan is filmed by D. A. Pennebaker during an early morning limo cruise around Hyde Park with John Lennon.
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Soul-jazz-blues organist Lonnie Smith records Lonnie's Blues, Keep Talkin', What Do You Think?, Bright Eyes and Minor Truth for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.


The First Central Park Music festival continues in Central Park, New York City, USA, with acts including The Blues Project, Jimmy Reed and The Dirty Shames.
Eddie Wolfgramm is born in Torrance, California. One of nineteen Wolfgramm siblings, he will play saxophone and percussion in the family's successful gospel/soul/pop group The Jets.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play the first of three nights at the IDES Hall, Pescadero, California, USA.

First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And the Holding Company, including Janis Joplin, play the twenty-sixth night in four weeks of dates at Mother Blues, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Gerry and the Pacemakers enter the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart with Girl On A Swing, which will peak at No28 during a four-week run.
British jazz trumpeter Ken Colyer plays at the Auditorium Maximum, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany.

First generation San Francisco hippy band Jefferson Airplane play the fourteenth of fifteen nights at the Whisky A-Go-Go, West Hollywood, California, USA, supported by The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother And the Holding Co., and Congress of Wonders play the first of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Sparrow (later to become Steppenwolf) play the second of two nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA. Also on the bill are the Sons Of Champlin and The Youngbloods.

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