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Al Jolson stars in a Kraft Music Hall NBC radio broadcast in the USA, featuring a version of the Noel Coward play Avalon. The cast also includes Oscar Levant, Lou Bring And His Orchestra, Madeleine Carroll and announcer Ken Carpenter.
Russ Morgan And His Orchestra are playing in The Bowman Room at The Biltmore Hotel, New York City, USA.
Buster Bennett And His Orchestra play at The Famous Door, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Singer Evelyn Knight is playing at Ciro's, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
A daughter, Melissa, is born to Dinah Shore and George Montgomery in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles,California, USA.
Blues/jazz guitarist and vocalist Lonnie Johnson records Playing Around in Linden, New Jersey, USA.
The Royal Hawaiian Revue - billed as 'The first all-native Hawaiian revue since Parl Harbour' - is presented at The Playhouse Theatre, Statesville, North Carolina, USA.
The movie musical Till The Clouds Roll By starring Judy Garland, June Allyson, Lena Horne, Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin and others is released to cinemas in Mexico, Central America.
Film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and soundtrack composer John Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York State, USA..
Laurence Gordon 'Corky' Laing is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is best known as the longtime drummer of American hard rock band Mountain.
The New York Times publishes a news item about twenty-eight migrant farm workers who died the previous day when the plane in which they were being deported back to Mexico, crashed at Los Gatos Canyon, 20 miles west of Coalinga, California, USA. When Woody Guthrie reads the report, he will be struck by the fact that none of the Mexicans are named, although the crew of the plane are. Guthrie is then inspired to write his song Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos).
Johnny Doran, uilleann piper and recording artist, is seriously injured when a wall on waste ground near Back Lane in Cornmarket, collapses onto his caravan. One of the most respected Irish folk pipers of his time, he will never properly recover from his injuries and will die two years later.
Howard Bellamy is born in Darby, Florida, USA. Along with sibling David, he will form The Bellamy Brothers and net over 25 hits from 1979-1990, often employing baby-boomer themes and double entendres.
Tommy Dean And His St. Louisians, featuring Pee Wee [The Little Man with the Big Voice] play at The Blue Heaven Theatre Lounge, 742 East 63rd Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Charlie Ventura And His Septet play at the Blue Note, Chicago, Illinois, USA, with Jackie Kane and Roy Kral.
Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Fields And His Quintet and Lee Monti's Tu-Tones play at the State-Lake Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jack Fina And His Orchestra play in The Hotel Claremont, Berkeley, California, USA.
James Leslie Mangrum is born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA. He will find success as Jim Dandy, flambouyant vocalist of hard rock band Black Oak Arkansas.
Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play at The Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA.
Stan Jones composes the song [Ghost] Riders in the Sky : A Cowboy Legend, while he is working for the National Park Service in Death Valley, California, USA. It will become a country and western music standard
Larry Rheinhardt, guitarist with Blues Image and Iron Butterfly, is born in Florida, USA.
The musical Allegro closes at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 315 performances. Songs for the show are written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Popular vocalist Savannah Churchill opens at the Tick-Tock Club, Hollywood, California, USA.
Lynn Annette Ripley is born in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. She will find success in the 1960s as pop hitmaker Twinkle.Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play as part of an AFRS [The Armed Forces Radio Service], radio show, On The Beam, in East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
Sidney Bechet opens at Jazz, Ltd, Chicago, Illinois, where he will maintain a residency for eleven months over the next two-year period. James Marshall Hendrix, later to find international fame as Jimi Hendrix, starts kindergarten at Rainier Vista School, 3100 Alaska St, Seattle, Washington, USA.
James Marshall Hendrix, later to become Jimi Hendrix, starts kindergarten at Rainier Vista School, 3100 Alaska St, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Iain David McGeachy is born in New Malden, Surrey, UK. After a name change to John Martyn he will become one of the best-respected British singer-songwriters of the 1970s.
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Rollie Free achieves the US national motorcycle speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, riding the first British-made Vincent Black Lightning. In 1991, inspired by the bike's mystique, Richard Thompson will compose the song 1952 Vincent Black Lightning.
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Big Bill Campbell, The Ken-Dorvilles, Syd Makin, The Accordeon Girls and others play at The Palace, Leicester, UK.Mark Farner, guitarist/vocalist with Grand Funk Railroad, is born in Flint, Michigan, USA.
Country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion Chris LeDoux is born in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.Christopher John Davison is born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina, South America. He will find success, after moving to the UK, as singer-songwriter Chris De Burgh.
Richie Bull, banjo player of The Kursaal Flyers is born in Corringham, Essex, UK.
A new radio show, Tan Town Jamboree, has its first broadcast on WDIA Radio in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Hosted by Nat D. Williams, the show pioneers the idea of black deejays playing black music aimed specifically at a black audience. B.B. King's appearances on the station, advertising the medicinal cure-all Pepticon, will give his fledgeling career a huge boost.
Chuck Berry, aged 22, marries his girlfriend, Themetta 'Toddy' Suggs, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Rickie Lee Reynolds is born in Manilan, Arkansas, USA. He will find fame as 12-string guitarist for Southern boogie band Black Oak Arkansas.
A giant step in the development of the electric guitar comes as Clarence Leo Fender and Clayton Orr Kauffman, of Fullerton, California, USA, receive a patent for a "Pickup Unit for Instruments".
Jeff Baxter [nicknamed Skunk], lead guitarist with Boston band Ultimate Spinach and also The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, is born in Washington, DC, USA.
Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians record Red Roses For A Blue Lady, for Decca Records in the USA.
The Best-Selling record of 1948 according to the year-end poll in Cashbox Magazine in the USA is My Happiness by Jon and Sondra Steele.
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