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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.
Orrin Tucker And His Orchestra play during a month at The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Mamoru Fujisawa is born in Nagano, Japan. He will find success as filmscore composer Joe Hisaishi, writing music for over 100 films.
Voice actor Mel Blanc [aka The Man Of 1000 Voices] records vocal overdubs for the children's album Woody Woodpecker's Picnic, at Capitol Records' studios on Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California, USA.
Singer Margaret Truman performs a concert at Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA. The daughter of US
President Harry S. Truman, she is under contract to RCA
Records. Washington Post music critic Paul Hume reviews the show, saying, "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a
pleasant voice of little size and fair quality...(she) cannot sing
very well...is flat a good deal of the time - more last night than
at any time we have heard her in past years."
Bing Crosby and Judy Garland perform Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, These Lush Moments, Blue Boy and Boise, Idaho, on The Bing Crosby Show on CBS radio in the USA, On her own, Garland performs Rock-A-Bye Your Baby [With a Dixie Melody]