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Louis Armstrong, Victoria Meyerinck and The Kessler Twins are the featured guests on The Danny Kaye Show on CBS-tv in the USA.


The Doors play the fourth of five nights at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA.
TV show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Neil Diamond performing Cherry Cherry and I've Got A Feeling, plus The Electric Prunes performing I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night.
The Grateful Dead, Junior Wells' Chicago Blues Band, and The Doors play the second of three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA.
Richard Willis Hawley is born in Sheffield, UK. He will find success as guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer Richard Hawley, first with The Longpigs, then as a member of Pulp before going on to an acclaimed solo career.
A news item in UK newspaper Daily Mail reports that, "There are
4000 holes in the road in Blackburn Lancashire, one twenty-sixth of
a hole per person, according to a council survey. If Blackburn is
typical then there are over two million holes in Britain's roads
and 300,000 in London." The feature inspires the line about "4,000
holes in Blackburn, Lancashire" in The Beatles song, A Day In The Life.

First generation San Francisco hippy band Big Brother And The Holding Company play the first of three nights at the Soul City Club, Dallas, Texas, USA.

Loretta Lynn scores her first No1 in the Billboard Country Singles Chart in the USA with Don't Come Home A'Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind).

At The 9th Annual Grammy Awards, held in four separate venues in Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville and New York City, USA, Goin' Out Of My Head by Wes Montgomery wins the Grammy as Best Instrumental Jazz Performance.
Salisbury-based band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich enter the UK pop singles chart with Touch Me, Touch Me, which will peak at No13.
Velvet Underground release their debut album, The Velvet Underground And Nico, in the USA. The album is clad in an Andy Warhol-designed cover which features a peelable banana. For more about Andy Warhol, try this link.
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The Charlatans and Quicksilver Messenger Service, play the second of two nights at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA.
Paul McCartney of The Beatles flies from Denver, Colorado, USA, to Los Angeles in a Lear Jet owned by Frank Sinatra. On arrival in LA, he visits the home of John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papas, where he strums and sings On Top Of Old Smokey with Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. While in Los Angeles, McCartney is invited to join the advisory board which is planning the Monterey Pop Festival. McCartney's first recommendation is to book the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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A. Pennebaker's Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look Back premieres at the Presidio Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Kingston Trio play the second of six nights at The Melodyland Theatre, Anaheim, California, USA.
Tammy Wynette records I Don't Wanna Play House and Soakin' Wet with producer Billy Sherrill in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.


Big Brother And The Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service play in the Western Front, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Monkees, Jimi Hendrix throws down his guitar and quits the tour at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens, New York State, USA.
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The Flower Pot Men release a new single, Let's Go To San Francisco, in the UK on Deram Records.

Moby Grape play the last of three nights at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California, USA. There is some evidence that they also played the first of four nights at The Avalon on this day, but given the rivalry between gig promoters Bill Graham and Chet Helms, this remains debatable.
Quicksilver Messenger Service play the third of four nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by The Other Half.




Big Brother And The Holding Company play the first of two nights at The Ark, Sausalito, California, USA.
The Who appear on a new UK tv show, Twice A Fortnight, and also on the BBC radio show Saturday Club.


The Doors, Chuck Berry and Salvation play the first of three nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
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