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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.Louis Armstrong And His All-Stars are heard performing Royal Garden Blues, Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Blueberry Hill and Lazy Bones on the Bing Crosby Show (radio) which was recorded several days earlier at the Marines' Memorial Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. This edition of the show also features Peggy Lee.
Benny Goodman And His Band play the final night of two weeks at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Les Paul plays the third night of a week-long engagement at The Crystal Terrace, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs Then I'll Be Happy, I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night, Isn't It Romantic? 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.
The Three Flames, accompanied by Milt Buckner And His Orchestra, record I Don't Want To Take That Chance, [Good-bye] Cornelia Jones, Chewing Gum Mama and Suffer, for MGM Records in WOR Studio, New York City, USA.
Tune Towne Tunes copyrights the unpublished song Happy Pay Off Day, written by singer Jack Holmes of Los Angeles, California, USA. The song will become the subject of a plagiarism lawsuit.
Gene Krupa And His Orchestra play the seventh night of two weeks at Bop City, New York City, USA.
Jazz vocalist Jimmy Scott records Everybody's Somebody's Fool, backed by Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra in New York City, USA.
Michael Cotton, synthesiser player of The Tubes, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Popular vocalist Mario Lanza records Tina Lina at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, for the soundtrack to his next film, The Toast of New Orleans.
Humphrey Lyttelton And His Band record Straight From The Wood for Parlophone Records in London, UK.
Having been accused of being a Communist spy by The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), American government official Alger Hiss is sentenced by a Grand Jury to five years' imprisonment on two counts of perjury, to run concurrently. (The original charge of spying was dropped because of the statute of limitations). The anti-Communist activities of the HUAC will inspire numerous songs, some for and some against. One of the best-known is I'm No Communist (1952) by country singer Carson Robison.