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Jean-Jacques Perrey is born in Paris, France, Europe. Despite countless other innovations and achievements in the field of electronic music, he will become most widely-known as the composer of Baroque Hoedown, heard by millions as the music accompanying the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland and other Disney theme parks.
Jimmy Wilbur Cobb is born in Washington D.C., USA. He will find success as an American jazz drummer, perhaps best-known for his work on the 1959 Miles Davis album Kind Of Blue, but he has also provided propulsion for almost every great name in jazz from John Coltrane to Billie Holiday, Stan Getz and Wes Montgomery.
No Adianta Chorar (No Use Crying) by Heitor dos Prazeres wins the first samba contest to be held in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America.
Jimmy Wilbur Cobb is born in Washington D.C., USA. He will find success as an American jazz drummer, perhaps best-known for his work on the 1959 Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, but he has also provided propulsion for almost every great name in jazz from John Coltrane to Billie Holiday, Stan Getz and Wes Montgomery.