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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.Popular vocalist Mindy Carson plays the thirteenth night of a two-week season at the Thunderbird Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Big band leader Freddie Slack marries his second wife, Joan Greer, aka Jo Ann Greer, the singer in his band.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the thirty-sixth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
David Cassidy, who will become a teen pop idol through his involvement in 70s tv series The Partridge Family, is born in Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital, New York City, USA.An advert for the movie musical Wabash Avenue runs in The Progress, a newspaper in Pennsylvania, USA, hailing its star, Betty Grable, as '...the first lady of rock and roll'.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs A Foggy Day, Rain Or Shine, You'll Always Be Mine, Sunshine Cake, Can I Come In For A Second? and Why Remind Me?, backed by the Skitch Henderson Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Guy Mitchell records Giddy-ap! and Where In The World, with accompaniment by Percy Faith And His Orchestra, for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
Mel Torme, with Ted Herbert And His Orchestra, plays the first of four nights at the King Phillip Ballroom, Wrentham, Massachusetts, 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 Wilhelmina.