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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.
Opera singers Robert Merrill and Rise Stevens record tracks for an LP of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy And Bess, for RCA Victor Records in the USA. Intriguingly, the album features no black singers at all, despite the opera having been written for an African-American cast.
The film Young Man With A Horn [aka Young Man Of Music], opens in cinemas in West Germany, Europe. The film, based loosely on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, stars Kirk Douglas as a troubled young jazz trumpeteer, and includes acting roles for popular vocalist Doris Day, and songwiter Hoagy Carmichael.
Don Drummond leaves school in Kingston, Jamaica, in the Caribbean, to join The Colony Club Orchestra, but will find greater acclaim as a founder member and trombone player of The Skatalites.
Margaret Whiting with an orchestra conducted by Frank De Vol records The Best Thing For You, I've Never Been In Love Before and The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young), for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California, USA,
Perry Como, with Mitchell
Ayres' Orchestra and Betty Hutton, records the Frank Loesser composition A Bushel And A
Peck in RCA's Studio 2, New York City, USA.