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Billie Holiday and the Count Basie Orchestra play the second night of a week at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA.
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra make a live radio broadcast from the Madhattan Room of the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, USA.
The Joint Is Jumpin' by Fats Waller enters the popular music charts in the USA, where it will peak at No17.
Musicologist Alan
Lomax records one and a half hours of folk songs sung by Jim
Garland, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gelder, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Sarah
Ogan, in New York City, USA, for the Library Of Congress.
Bobby Wynne is born in Lubbock, Texas, USA. As a Western Swing trumpet player and steel guitarist he will play with Bob Wills And The Texas Playboys, The Hank Thompson Band and The Merl Lindsay Band, as well as leading his own band and making a number of recordings.
Actress and singer Gracie Fields makes a personal appearance on stage and sings a number of her songs at the opening of The Granada Cinema, Greenford, UK. In later years, the cinema will be used regularly as a venue for music concerts.