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The musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with music by Jule Styne, and starring Carol Channing, is presented at The Ziegfeld Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 740 performances.Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the thirty-third night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
George Towne And His Orchestra play the twentieth night of a three-week stay at The Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that Federal Artists Agency has filed a $75,000 legal suit against Aladdin Records and Shaw Artists, alleging that they induced blues piano star Amos Milburn to break his five-year contract with Federal, signed just a year earlier.
Popular vocalist Johnny Desmond records The Picnic Song for MGM Records in the USA. It will reach No20 in the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA.
Norman Loade's Midnight Follies play for dancing for the Portsmouth North British Legion in St Saviour's Hall Stamshaw, Portsmouth, UK.
William Lee Currie is born in Huddersfield, UK. He will find success as multi-instrumentalist Billy Currie of Ultravox.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the twenty-fifth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Singing cowboy Gene Autry is heard in another edition of his weekly Melody Ranch Radio Show, broadcast from the CBS Studio C in Hollywood, California, USA.
UK weekly music paper Melody Maker carries the front page news that Duke Ellington And His Orchestra are on their way by boat from the USA to the UK.
Popular vocalist Mindy Carson plays the third night of a two-week season at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Audrey Williams [wife of Hank Williams] records Honky Tonkin' and three other songs, in Castle Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The highest new entry in Cashbox magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA is Sentimental Me by The Ames Brothers, entering at No20.
During a visit to his home town of Ammanford in Wales, popular British singer Donald Peers signs autographs for fans.