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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.Johnny Doran, uilleann piper and recording artist, dies in St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. He had been seriously injured two years earlier and never properly recovered from his injuries.
Manuel Corona, one of Cuba's most respected and frequently
recorded composers and troubadours, dies of tuberculosis, destitute
and alone in the back room of a bar on the beach at Marianao, Havana, Cuba.
Jazz vocalist Connie Haines records How Come You Do Me Like You Do? and Ol' Man Mose for Coral Records in the USA.
Hank Williams records My Son Calls Another Man Daddy and three other songs in Castle Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Ralph Christian Mobius is born in Berlin, Germany. He will find fame as Rio Reiser, leader of the influential Ton Stein Scherben, one of the first rock bands to sing in the German language.
A copyright court hearing begins in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Federal judge Michael Igoe hears the case in which music publishers Shapiro-Bernstein are claiming that their song Yancey Special has been infringed by the 1949 hit song Long Gone by Sonny Thompson on Miracle Records.
Actress and singer Carol Channing appears on the cover of the influential Time magazine in the USA. Channing is at this time starring in the Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Ralph Christian Mobius is born in Berlin, Germany, Europe. He will find fame as Rio Reiser, leader of the influential Ton Stein Scherben, one of the first rock bands to sing in the German language.
The soundtrack LP to the smash hit Broadway musical, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, is released on Columbia Records in the USA.
Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra record Coast To Coast, Carambola, Oo-La-La and Honeysuckle Rose for Capitol Records, in New York City, USA.
Johnny Doran, uilleann piper and recording artist, dies in St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. One of the most respected Irish folk pipers of his time, he had been seriously injured two years earlier and never properly recovered from his injuries.
Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra record Coast To Coast, Carambola, Oo-La-La and Honeysuckle Rose for Capitol Records, in New York City, USA.
The Three Peppers play the fifth night of two weeks of shows at Marty Bohn's Nut Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Country singer Hawkshaw Hawkins And His Band play the second night of an engagement at The Roosevelt Hotel, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The soundtrack LP to the smash hit Broadway musical, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, is released on Columbia Records in the USA.
Hank Williams records My Son Calls Another Man Daddy and three other songs in Castle Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.