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Talking About My Baby by The
Impressions is the highest new entry in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA, entering
at No70.
Cliff Richard is in the Canary Islands, Spain, Europe, continuing with the filming of his next movie, Wonderful Life.
The
Crystals perform Little Boy on weekly tv pop show American
Bandstand in the USA. Also on the show is Freddy
Cannon.
America's first discotheque, The Whisky A-Go-Go, is opened by entrepreneur Elmer Valentine on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, USA. The first live act is Johnny Rivers. It will become one of the hippest clubs in America.
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Hooka Tooka by Chubby Checker enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No17.
The Yardbirds, featuring guitarist Eric Clapton, play at the Star Hotel, Croydon, UK.
Rod and the Cortinas play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, supported by The Strangers.
Roger
Miller records Dang Me and Chug-a-lug
for Smash
Records, in their Quonset Hut studio in Music Row, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Club Noreik, Tottenham, London, England, UK, Europe.
Bern Elliot And The Fenmen play at
Louie Louie by
The
Kingsmen reaches No1 in Cash Box magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.

The Beatles Christmas Show comes to the end of its run at The Astoria, Finsbury Park, London, UK.
The
Supremes have their first Top 30 singles chart entry in the USA
when the Holland/Dozier/Holland composition When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes, reaches
No23.
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Jan
And Dean record The New Girl In School, in United/Western Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, for Liberty
Records.
Music trade magazine Billboard in the USA publishes its first country album chart, showing Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash at No1.