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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.Songwriter, guitarist, film score composer and producer Pablo Manavello is born in Treviso, Italy, Europe.
Frankie Laine and Patti Page play the fifth night in a three-week season at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA.
Country-blues-oriented singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist Paul Wookey is born in Healesville, near Melbourne, Australia.
Jazz great Charlie 'Bird' Parker plays at Birdland, New York City, USA. Also
on the bill on this night is heroin-addicted trumpet virtuoso
Fats
Navarro, but this will prove to be his last public performance.
Within two months Navarro will be dead.
Pat Di Serio is born in Montelongo, Campobasso, Italy, Europe. He will find success as record producer Pat Diserio, working mainly in Canada with disco acts including The Bombers, Kebekelektrik and Bob-a-rela.
George Evans and his 20 Piece Orchestra play at The South Parade Pier, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
Ruby Braff's Six, Edmond Hall, Frankie Newton, Nat Pierce and Mariano's Boptet play in the Jazz Festival on the Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the seventh night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the first of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Louis Jordan And His Orchestra play the third night of a week at The Paramount Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the seventh night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA.
Singing cowboy Gene Autry plays the second of two shows at the Marydale Fete of The Good Samaritan Hospital in The Cincinnati Garden, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the first night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
R'n'b singer Damita Jo records Until The Real Thing Comes Along, Believe Me, Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere and Here I Am for Discovery Records in New York City, USA.
Vic Damone is the musical guest on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan Show [aka Toast Of The Town] in New York City, USA.
Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the first of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.