Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men took “Hard Luck Blues” to No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Best Sellers list. Brown had also written Wynonie Harris’s 1948 hit “Good Rockin’ Tonight,” a song often seen as an early rock-and-roll marker and later recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954.

The Platters, B.B. King and Johnny Otis headed a sold-out Savoy Ballroom bill in Hollywood, demonstrating R&B’s formidable concert draw in Los Angeles.

Pat Boone appeared on Newsweek’s cover. The accompanying piece framed teenagers as turning away from “musical delinquents”; by then Boone had put 18 records in Billboard’s Top 40, including four No. 1s.

The Highwaymen’s million-selling “Michael (Row the Boat Ashore)” led Cashbox. The group’s five Wesleyan University students followed it with “Cotton Fields” the next year, then split in 1964 after 12 straight non-charting singles.

The Beatles opened their first U.S. tour at San Francisco’s 17,000-capacity Cow Palace, more than six months after their first Ed Sullivan appearance. Their 33-minute show ended with an ambulance escape after fans surrounded the limousine; journalist Ivor Davis traveled with the tour and later wrote The Beatles and Me on Tour.

In Memphis, amid the backlash to John Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus” comment, the Beatles received an anonymous threat that one or more of them would be shot onstage. A firecracker landed during “If I Needed Someone”; they finished it at a reportedly faster pace and completed the set.

Sandy Posey recorded MGM follow-up “Single Girl” at Fred Foster Sound Studio in Nashville. Like “Born A Woman,” it reached No. 12 on the U.S. Hot 100; it peaked at No. 15 in Britain.

Ringo and Maureen Starr welcomed son Jason at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in Hammersmith, London. That same day, the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” began its one-week stay at No. 1 in America before Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe” replaced it.

Capitol issued the Beach Boys’ Stack-o-Tracks, built from 15 instrumental backing tracks. It became their first album to miss both U.S. and U.K. charts, went out of print for about 20 years, and later returned on CD in 1990 and 2001 without the original vinyl booklet.

Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and Stephen Stills appeared on The Dick Cavett Show. Often called “The Woodstock Show,” the episode featured artists and audience members arriving directly from the festival.

NBC premiered The Midnight Special, announced by Wolfman Jack. War performed its million-selling U.S. hit “Slippin’ Into Darkness” on the opening program.

Chicago’s Chicago V began a nine-week run atop Billboard’s album chart. It started a sequence of five consecutive No. 1 LPs for the band, including Greatest Hits; the million-selling “Saturday in the Park” reached No. 3.

Rita Coolidge married Kris Kristofferson in Malibu. They divorced in 1980, but during the marriage Coolidge landed five Top 40 singles, including No. 2 “Higher and Higher” and No. 7 “We’re All Alone.”

After nine weeks at No. 1 in the U.K., John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s “You’re the One That I Want” was displaced by the Commodores’ “Three Times a Lady.” With two million British sales, it still ranked fifth among the country’s biggest-selling singles in 2013.

Kenny Loggins entered the Hot 100 with “Whenever I Call You Friend,” his first solo Top 40 hit after three with Jim Messina. The duet with Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks climbed to No. 5 and stayed on the chart 15 weeks; Loggins would have 14 solo Top 40 entries.

Dorsey Burnette died of a heart attack at 46. His 1960 “There Was a Tall Oak Tree” had reached No. 23, and after his pop run faded in 1969 he placed 15 songs on Billboard’s country chart.

Alice Cooper could not perform after a long opening-act delay at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand. Fans damaged and threw folding chairs, causing an estimated $20,000–$25,000 in losses; 31 people were arrested.

For the jukebox’s centennial, the Amusement and Music Operators Association named Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” and Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” the most-played songs of the preceding 100 years.

Fleetwood Mac released the live Reprise album The Dance. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and sold one million copies in eight weeks, pairing familiar live favorites with new songs from the principal writers, including two by Lindsey Buckingham.

Priscilla Presley won $75,000 in a defamation case against a man who alleged a pre-Elvis affair. The allegation had been a key source for Suzanne Finstad’s controversial Child Bride biography; Presley said the judgment vindicated her.

Betty Everett, 61, was found dead at her Beloit, Wisconsin home after worsening heart problems. Best known for the 1964 No. 6 “The Shoop Shoop Song,” she later had notable Hot 100 success with No. 5 “Let It Be Me” (1964) and No. 26 “There’ll Come a Time” (1969).

Dublin unveiled a bronze statue of Thin Lizzy singer Phil Lynott. Former bandmates Gary Moore, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham attended.

Wayne Wadhams, 61, keyboardist and lead singer of the Fifth Estate on 1967’s No. 11 “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” died. He was also a respected author and longtime Berklee professor who helped create its Music Production and Engineering program.

Manuela Gomez Ruiz’s family formally sought dismissal of its case against Santa Monica’s Marian Medical Center. It concerned allegations that Ruiz, 73, was denied critical care after a heart attack when Michael Jackson arrived there with flu-like symptoms during his 2005 trial; Jackson had already been removed from the suit in April.

Richie Havens’s ashes were scattered by plane over the original Woodstock site. The festival’s first performer, remembered for “Freedom,” had died of a heart attack that April at 72.

Barry Gibb announced his first solo album of new material, In the Now, for October 7. He co-wrote all 12 tracks with sons Stephen and Ashley Gibb.

Canned Heat founding bassist Larry Taylor died at 77 after a 12-year battle with cancer. He played the band’s landmark Monterey Pop (1967) and Woodstock (1969) sets and appears on “Going Up the Country” and “On the Road Again.”