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Lawrence Welk And His Orchestra play at The Palladium, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Tommy James And The Shondells release a new single, I Think We're Alone Now, on Roulette Records in the USA. It will peak at No4 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Count Basie And His Orchestra record Just In Time, On The Street Where You Live and other tracks for the album Broadway - Basie's Way.
The Move play at the The City
Hall, Salisbury, supported by The Soul Foundation. Roy Wood of The Move will go on
to great success with two more bands, Wizzard and The
Electric Light Orchestra.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band play the last of three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by the Charles Lloyd Quartet.
Country Joe And The Fish finish recording Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine, Bass Strings, The Masked Marauder and Porpoise Mouth for their debut LP, Electric Music For The Mind And Body, at Sierra Sound Laboratories, Berkeley, California, USA.Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play at the Teatro Sistina, Rome, Italy, Europe.
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, The Wes Montgomery Quartette and The Young-Holt Trio play the second of four nights during The Spring Jazz Festival at Leo's Casino, Euclid Quad Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
John Popper is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He will find success as a songwriter, singer and harmonica virtuoso, best-known as frontman of the band Blues Traveler.
The Beatles start work on With A Little Help From My Friends in EMI Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK, Europe. They also add sound effects to Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite.
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Champion Jack Dupree spends the first of two days recording tracks for Decca Records in London, UK. Tracks recorded over the two days include Right Now and Troubles.
I'm A Man by The Spencer Davis Group enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10 during a seven-week run on the chart.
The Bee Gees release their debut single, New York Mining Disaster 1941 on Polydor Records in the UK.
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The Shevelles play at The RamJam Club, Brixton Road, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Pretty Things and The All Night Workers play at The RamJam Club, Brixton Road, London, England, UK, Europe. The Who, Cream, Crispian St. Peters and The Merseybeats play at The Dome, Brighton, England, UK.
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Jazz trumpeter Charlie Margulis dies in Little Falls, Minnesota, USA. In a long career he worked with Artie Shaw And His Orchestra, Eddie Lang's Orchestra, Enoch Light And The Light Brigade, Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra and The Dorsey Brothers, as well as running his own group, Charles Margulis And His Orchestra And Chorus.Buffalo Springfield play the second of three nights at The Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA, supported by The Steve Miller Blues Band and Freedom Highway.
Peter And Gordon, Vince Hill, Dougie Arthur, Tony Craine, Rosanella, The Milltones and Bob Miller And His Millermen appear on BBC Radio show Parade Of The Pops, recorded live in London, England, UK, Europe. The show is introduced by Denny Piercy.
The Cream play a charity appeal gig at the Royal Agricultural College, Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Yardbirds and The Mindbenders. Eric Clapton of The Cream was, of course, formerly the guitarist for The Yardbirds. At this stage, however, he had been replaced by revered session player Jimmy Page, who would subsequently re-name the group The New Yardbirds and then, Led Zeppelin.
The Sparrow (later to become Steppenwolf) play at The Matrix, San Francisco, California, USA. A recording of tonight's concert will be released in 1969 as Early Steppenwolf.A Mother's Day, Benefit Reading for Levy and Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and The Fugs, including Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg is held at Strosacker Hall on Case Tech's Campus, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Jimi Hendrix Experience play at the Falkoner Centret Sports Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Society's Child, an inter-racial love song by young singer-songwriter Janis Ian enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No14.
Jazz saxophone giant John Coltrane dies at the age of 41. On the same night, Jimi Hendrix goes to see The Seeds' gig at the Electric Circus, New York City, USA.The Free Spirits [including guitar virtuoso Larry Coryell] play the first of five nights at The Ambassador Theater, Washington DC, USA.
The Charles Lloyd
Quintet and the West Coast Natural Gas Co., play the second of four nights at
the Avalon
Ballroom, San
Francisco, California, USA.
Otis Redding and Carla Thomas appear as the King And Queen of The 37th Annual Bud Billiken Day Parade in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Herbie Goins and The Night Timers play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, supported by The Satin Dolls and The Bothers Bung.
Los Angeles-based pop magazine KRLA Beat reports that Florence Ballard has left The Supremes 'for reasons of ill health' and has been hospitalised at The Ford Medical Centre in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Ballard has been replaced by Cindy Birdsong of Patti LaBelle And The Bluebelles.The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band plays the tenth of thirteen nights at Doug Weston's Troubadour Club, Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA. Also on the bill is The Sunshine Company.
The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour bus reaches Taunton, Somerset, England, UK, Europe. The travels of the bus and its passengers are being filmed for a tv special.Vanilla Fudge play the first of three nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, supported by the Charles Lloyd Quartet.
Guy Lombardo And His Orchestra play in The Chase Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Last Waltz by Engelbert Humperdinck reaches No1 in the Australian pop singles chart.
Canned Heat, Lothar And The Hand People, and All Men Joy play the second of three nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Berkeley-based band Country Joe And The Fish play the second of two nights at Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, USA.
The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Soul Survivors and The Pickle Brothers play at Penn Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
John Mayall is in recording studios in London, UK, for the first of two days, working on the tracks Jenny and Picture On The Wall, with Peter Green on guitar.
Engelbert Humperdinck is appearing in a season as Robinson Crusoe in pantomime at The Palladium Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Charles River Valley Boys play the first of two nights at 
Ed Ames is playing during a three-week engagement at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Jazz trumpeter Harry James marries former Las Vegas showgirl Joan Boyd (more than twenty years his junior) at The Fun Room, Harold's, Reno, Nevada, USA.Chuck Berry, Big Brother And the Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service play the first of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA.
The first night of the all-night Psychedelicamania happening takes place at The Roundhouse, London, featuring Geno Washington And The Ram Jam Band supported by The Cream and The Alan Bown Set.
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