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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.T-Bone Walker records Strollin' With Bones, The Sun Went Down and Glamor Girl in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Imperial Records.
Al Morgan plays the eighth night of two weeks at The Lookout House, Covington, Kentucky, USA.
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the thirty-seventh night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Popular vocalist Mindy Carson plays the seventh night of a two-week season at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Stage composer Kurt Weill is buried in Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York City, USA. His best-known works, including The Threepenny Opera, which included the popular ballad Mack The Knife, were written in collaboration with Bertold Brecht.
Blues singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and recording artist Paul Oscher is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Blues singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and recording artist Paul Oscher is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. strong>
Stage composer Kurt Weill is buried in Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York City, USA. His best-known works, including The Threepenny Opera, which included the jazz standard Mack The Knife, were written in collaboration with Bertold Brecht.
Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires record songs including Music! Music! Music!, Candy And Cake, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes and Dear Old Girl at the Convention of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, in the Chicago Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The songs are transmitted as part of the radio programme Bing Crosby's All Star Chesterfield Show.
Agnetha Faltskog is born in Jonkoping, Sweden, Europe. She will find international fame as vocalist Agnetha of Abba.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs If I Knew You Were Coming, Try A Little Tenderness, My Foolish Heart and The Song Is You, backed by the Skitch Henderson Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Jazz cornettist Doc Evans records I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter, Pack Up Your Troubles, Copenhagen, Missouri Waltz, When It's Sleepy Time Down South and Panama in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
T-Bone Walker records Strollin' With Bones, The Sun Went Down and Glamor Girl in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Imperial Records.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the twenty-ninth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs If I Knew You Were Coming, Try A Little Tenderness, My Foolish Heart and The Song Is You, backed by the Skitch Henderson Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
At the end of tonight's edition of Richard Diamond, Private Detective on NBC Radio in the USA, the show's actor/singer star Dick Powell sings Bye Bye Baby.
Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires record songs including Music! Music! Music!, Candy And Cake, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes and Dear Old Girl at the Convention of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, in the The Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The songs are transmitted as part of the radio programme Bing Crosby's All Star Chesterfield Show.
R'n'b vocalist Helen Marina with vocalist and bandleader Otis Ducker records Talkative Baby and Do Me A Favor for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
T-Bone Walker records Strollin' With Bones, The Sun Went Down and Glamor Girl in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Imperial Records.