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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.Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the fifty-fifth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Alf Gee And His Music play at The Empress Ballroom, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK. On the same night, The Airspeed Singers give a concert at Wesley Central Hall for the Portsmouth Voluntary Association for the Blind.
Singer Eve Young, later to find greater success as Karen Chandler, plays at The Willows in The Wilmington Club, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
The film Young Man With A Horn [aka Young Man Of Music], opens in cinemas in Sweden. The film, based loosely on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, stars Kirk Douglas as a troubled young jazz trumpeteer, and includes acting roles for popular vocalist Doris Day, and songwiter Hoagy Carmichael.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra play live in Zurich, Switzerland, Europe. The show is recorded and will eventually be released as an LP entitled Live In Zurich, Switzerland.
Popular vocal group The Keynotes sing Oh You Sweet One and Clementine, and Joy Nichols sings Lock, Stock And Barrel on long-running BBC radio show Take It From Here, broadcast from London, UK.
Gospel quartet The Original Chuck Wagon Gang record My Home Sweet Home and A Happy Day, for Columbia Records in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Jazz pianist George Shearing plays at The Town Hall, Philadelphia, Pennylvania, USA. The show was originally scheduled for The Met, but the building was gutted by fire.
Jazz crooner Johnny Hartman with the George Williams Orchestra records Nightingale, Only For You, Six p.m. and Nobody's Got It Better for Apollo Records in New York City, USA.
The Gene Ammons Sextet record Tenor Eleven, Goodbye, You Go To My Head and My Foolish Heart, for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Dinah Shore and Benny Strong And His Orchestra open at The Cocoanut Grove, in the Ambassador Hotel, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. In the crowd on the first night are songwriter Jimmy McHugh and singer Margaret Whiting.
The Lerner and Loewe stage musical Brigadoon opens for its second Broadway run, at The City Centre Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 24 performances.
Jazz vocalese singer, drummer, trombonist and tiple player Leo Watson dies. Watson was perhaps best known as a member of The Spirits of Rhythm.
Edith Piaf records one of her most famous songs, L'Hymne - l'amour, said to be about her unending love for the French boxer Marcel Cerdan who had died in a plane crash in 1949. The song has been recorded in English many times under the title If You Love Me [Really Love Me].
Alan Reid is born in Glasgow, Scotland. He will find success as a founding member of folk music group The Battlefield Band, for which he will sing and play keyboards and guitar.
According to FBI records, folk singer Woody Guthrie attends a meeting of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade at North Lucile Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA. The Brigade is described as a 'sabotage group' and considered to be a pro-Communist organisation.