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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.
Gene Krupa And His Orchestra play the first night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs The Old Master Painter, When You Awake, S'posin', None But The Lonely Heart, What Is This Thing Called Love? and Bye, Bye, Baby, backed by the Jeff Alexander Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the third night of two weeks at Ciro's, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the eighth night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
During an extensive national tour, singing cowboy Gene Autry plays in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Country star Slim Whitman plays the eighth night in a two-week season at the London Palladium, London, UK.
Popular vocalist Mario Lanza records Boom Biddy Boom Boom at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for the soundtrack to his next film, The Toast of New Orleans.
Country blues guitarist Smokey Hogg records The Way You Treat Me and You're Gonna Look Like A Monkey, for Modern Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Influential reggae producer Bertram Brown is born in Greenwich Farm, West Kingston, Jamaica.
Sonny Til And The Orioles record You Are My First Love, If It's To Be, I Wonder When and Everything They Said Came True for Jubilee Records in New York City, USA. The session makes use of violins - a first for an r'n'b recording - long before The Platters and The Drifters introduced strings to their recordings.
The Sonny Stitt Quartet records Avalon, Later, Ain't Misbehavin', Mean To Me and Stairway To The Stars during sessions for the Prestige Records album, Kaleidoscope in New York City, USA.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs The Old Master Painter, When You Awake, S'posin', None But The Lonely Heart, What Is This Thing Called Love? and Bye, Bye, Baby, backed by the Jeff Alexander Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Arsenio Rodriguez Y Su Conjunto De Estellas play at El Teatro Triboro, El Barrio, New York City, USA.
Rickey Medlocke is born in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. he will find success guitarist and singer for the southern rock bands Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Gene Krupa And His Orchestra the first night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.