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The musical comedy Wonderful Town, starring Rosalind Russell, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 559 performances.
America's music business bible, Billboard magazine, reports that record companies are ready, five years after first announcing their existence, to begin supplying radio stations with seven-inch diameter 45 r.p.m. singles instead of the old 12-inch 78s.
Riot In Cell Block No 9 by The Robins, produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, is released in the USA. Instead of the usual Robins vocalist, Bobby Nunn, they have substituted Richard Berry. In due course the group will re-name itself The Coasters.