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Bandleader and keyboardist Ted Fio Rito opens at The Balinese Room, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Tom McDermott and Carlos Vaccaro are playing at The Cloverleaf Club, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.Louis Jordan plays the sixth night in a week of shows at The Showboat, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chris
Montez records Let's Dance with producer Jim Lee for Monogram
Records in Los Angeles, California, USA. (1962)
The Mann-Hugg Blues Band [later to become Manfred Mann] plays at Ealing Jazz Club, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Chuck Berry, The Moody Blues, The Graham Bond Organisation and Long John Baldry play at The Odeon, Glasgow, Scotland.
The Animals, The Small Faces, Tommy Quickly, The Soulmates and Beryl Marsden play in The Odeon, Colchester, England, UK, Europe
The Small Faces record an appearance on UK tv show Crackerjack, to be broadcast two days later. In the evening, the band plays at The Cellar Club, Kingston-On-Thames, England, UK, Europe.
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames, supported by Peter B's Looners, play at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe. The Looners include guitarist Peter Green and drummer Mick Fleetwood, both of whom will become founder-members of Fleetwood Mac.
Jazz alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges and organist Wild Bill Davis are recording tracks for their Verve Records LP Blue Pyramid in New York City, USA.
The Small Faces play two gigs in one day - one in Hackney and the other in Stratford, both of which are in London, England, UK, Europe.
An advert in UK pop weekly Melody Maker seeks three musicians to play lead guitar, organ and bass, "for a new project with Y. Rascals/Dylan type sound". The group will call themselves Procol Harum.
Traffic play at a record company convention in Grenoble, France, Europe.
There is a bomb scare when The Doors, The Sunshine Company and Hamilton Street Car play at the Arizona Veterans' Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The audience leaves the venue, but the show is resumed and goes ahead without further incident.
The Rob Hoeke R'n'B Group enters the Dutch Singles Chart with Drinking On My Bed on Philips Records. It will peak at No11 during a run of nine weeks on the chart in the Netherlands.
On a tour to promote their new single, Born To Be Wild, Steppenwolf play the last of three nights at La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.The Doors, The Shaggs and Genetic Dryft play at The District Fairgrounds, Fresno, California, USA.
UK pop weekly the NME [New Musical Express] reports that the Robert Stigwood Organisation (which manages Cream, The Bee Gees and others) has acquired a £150,000 interest in Rik Gunnell Management, which looks after Alan Price, Georgie Fame, Fleetwood Mac and others.
Jimmy McGriff records Blue Juice (aka Hi-Heel Sneakers) and Take The A Train in New York City, USA.
The Zombies release a new single, Friends Of Mine, on CBS Records in the UK.
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When Eric Burdon and The Blues Image play at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, they are joined onstage by Jim Morrison, vocalist of The Doors.
A three-day long International Pop And Blues Festival begins in Essen, Germany, Europe. Over the next three days there will be performances by Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, The Nice and The Pretty Things.
The Soft Machine play the first of two nights at Berlin University, Berlin, West Germany, Europe.
The Doors play at The State Fair, Dallas, Texas, USA, where they gross $29,790.00.
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Emerson, Lake And Palmer are awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. for sales of their fourth studio album, Brain Salad Surgery in the USA.
The Stranglers headline The Rainbow, London, England, UK, Europe. During the set by support band Joy Division, their singer Ian Curtis suffers an epileptic fit.
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Rushton Moreve, the original bass guitarist for Steppenwolf, dies, aged 32, in an automobile accident in Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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The Spencer Davis Group plays at The Twin Towns Services Club, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania.
The sixth Terrastock Festival, promoted and organised by Melksham-based music journalist/entrepreneur Phil McMullen, begins in Providence, Rhode Island. Artists appearing today, the first of the festival's
three nights, include The Green Pajamas, Major Stars, Bardo Pond, St. Joan and Sharron Kraus.
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