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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.Country singer and recording artist Ronnie McDowell is born in Portland, Tennessee, USA.
George Towne And His Orchestra play the thirteenth night of a three-week stay at The Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the eighteenth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band with singer Neva Raphaello play at the London Jazz Club in Mack's Restaurant, 100 Oxford Street, London, UK. Also on the bill is Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band with vocalist George Melly.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that Lee Egalnick of Miracle Records has sold ten masters by Memphis Slim to Egmont Sonderling of the Old Swing-Master label in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Hank Williams appears on the cover of American music trade magazine Billboard to promote his current single Long-Gone Lonesome Blues.
UK music weekly Melody Maker reports that Carroll Gibbons is to give up leading popular jazz group The Savoy Orpheans.
American music trade magazine Billboard reviews the new album At The Piano by Erroll Garner, declaring that it, 'should find favour with collectors as well as those in pursuit of piano stuff suitable for cocktail hour spins.'
The Four Winds And The Seven Seas by Bing Crosby and The Sammy Kaye Orchestra reaches No1 in the Australian Top 20 Singles chart.
Ronald Dean McDowell is born in Fountain Head, Tennessee, USA. He will find success as country music singer Ronnie McDowell, scoring more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts, with two of them reaching No1.
Mabel Scott, with Milt Buckner on piano, records Fine Fine Baby, Have You Ever
Watched Love Die, Baseball Boogie and I Found My Baby, for King Records in
Nola Studios, New York City, USA. (strong>
Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band with singer Neva Raphaello play at the London Jazz Club in Mack's Restaurant, 100 Oxford Street, London, UK. Also on the bill is Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band with vocalist George Melly.
Steve Gould, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of prog-rock band Rare Bird is born in Battersea, London, UK.
Pianist Cy Walter performs Hoagy Carmichael's classic Star Dust during a Voice Of The Army radio broadcast hosted by Carmichael himself.
Ronald Dean McDowell is born in Fountain Head, Tennessee, USA. He will find success as country music singer Ronnie McDowell, scoring more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts, with two of them reaching No1.
Chuck Greenberg is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success with his band Shadowfax in the early 70s, develop a strong career as a record producer, and then develop the first electronic wind instrument, The Lyricon.
Entering at No28, Peter Cottontail is the highest new entry in the Cashbox Magazine chart of the week's best-selling singles in the USA. The position is reached by consolidating the sale of two competing versions, one by Gene Autry and one by Mervin Shiner
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the twenty-sixth night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.