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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.
Doris Day records the Irving Berlin song The Best Thing For You, the Frank Loesser songs A Bushel And A Peck and I've Never Been In Love Before, and the Jule Styne song You Love Me, for Columbia Records in the USA. Orchestral accompaniment is by The David Rose Orchestra.
Duke Ellington records Perdido, Take The 'A' Train, Oscalypso, Blues For Blanton and Blues No3, for Mercer records in New York City, USA.
Opera stars Robert Merrill and Rise Stevens are recording tracks for the RCA Victor album of songs from the George Gershwin musical Porgy And Bess. The album features no black singers at all despite the fact that the musical was written for a mostly African-American cast.
The Maynard Ferguson Orchestra And Octet records Love Locked Out, Band Ain't Draggin', Take The 'A' Train and Short Wave in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Connie Haines records The Man I Love, Bill and I Must Have That Man for Coral Records in the USA.