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Morgan Fisher is born in Mayfair, London, UK. He will find success as an idiosyncratic and innovative solo artist, but will also play keyboards for Love Affair, Mott The Hoople, Queen and others.
Prince Nico Mbarga is born in Abakaliki, Nigeria, Africa. He will find international success as leader of the band Rocafil Jazz.
The Three Peppers play the second night of two weeks at Marty Bohn's Nut Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Enjoy Yourself by Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10 during a 19-week run.
Jimmy Dorsey And His Original Dorseyland Jazz Band record Rag Mopp, That's A Plenty, When You Wore A Tulip and Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
The Mary Johnson Davis Gospel Singers record God Is Able, Do You Know Him?, I Need Thee, He Has A Way That's Mighty Sweet and Satisfied With Jesus, in New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records.
Gene Krupa And His Orchestra play the fourth night of two weeks at Bop City, New York City, USA.
Legendary calypsonian Lord Kitchener with Cyril Blake's Calypso Serenaders record The Underground Train and Nora, for Parlophone Records in Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
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Nettles And His Dixie Blue Boys record Push And Pull Boogie, I'm Gettin' It Fixed, Life's Road Of Sorrow and I Hauled Off And
Loved Her, for Mercury
Records in the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Johnny Otis And His Orchestra record Misery, I'm Through, I'm Living O.K., Ain't No Use Beggin' and You're Fine But Not My Kind, for Savoy Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Billy Ficca is born in Delaware, USA. He will find success as a rock drummer working with Television, The Waitresses, The Neon Boys and others.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs The Old Master Painter, When You Awake, S'posin', None But The Lonely Heart, What Is This Thing Called Love? 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.
Country star Slim Whitman plays the ninth night in a two-week season at the London Palladium, London, UK.
During an extensive tour, singing cowboy Gene Autry plays in Norfolk, Virgina, USA.
Johnny Otis And His Orchestra record Cool And Easy, Mistrutin' Blues, Dreamin' Blues and Cupid's Boogie, for Savoy Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Alto saxophonist Sven Arne Domnerus records Cool Boy and Stuffy for Metronome Records in Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the thirty-fifth night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the seventeenth night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Internationally popular singer Mario Lanza is interviewed by Betty Smuser on KGMB Hawaii Radio prior to his concerts at the McKinley auditorium in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Blues vocalist and harmonica player Jazz Gillum records I'm Still Going Down Slow and other tracks during his last recording session for RCA Victor Records in the USA. Largely because of their poor quality, they are not released.
Popular gospel group The Johnson Family Singers make another of their regular appearances on the show Hymn Time on WBT Radio, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. On tonight's broadcast they sing The Lord Is There, We Are Going Down the Valley and Jesus Is Living in Me.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that Federal Artists Agency has filed a $75,000 legal suit against Aladdin Records and Shaw Artists, alleging that they induced blues piano star Amos Milburn to break his five-year contract with Federal, signed just a year earlier.
The highest new entry in Cashbox magazine's chart of the best-selling singles in the USA is Bewitched, entering at No29. This position is achieved by aggregating sales of two versions of the song, one by Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra, Bill Snyder And His Orchestra.
John Burke Shelley is born in St David’s Hospital, Canton, Cardiff, Wales, UK, Europe. He will find success as Burke Shelley, singer, bassist and songwriter with Budgie.
Country vocalist/pianist Moon Mullican records I Was Sorta Wonderin' and Southern Hospitality at King Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the fortieth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
AOR rock guitarist and singe Billy Squier is born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.
Pee Wee King releases a new single, Birmingham Bounce / What, Where And When, on RCA Victor Records in the USA.
Tex Beneke And His Orchestra open for four weeks at Cafe Rouge in the Hotel Statler [aka Hotel Pennsylvania], New York City, USA.
R'n'b pianist Ivory Joe Hunter plays the fifth night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Doris Day, accompanied by Alex Stordahl And His Orchestra, records I'll Be Around in Hollywood, California, USA.
Anson Weeks And His Orchestra play the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, USA.
The musical revue Michael Todd's Peep Show opens at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 278 performances.Frank Sinatra plays the seventh night of a two-week season at The Palladium, London, UK.
Contemporary country music singer and songwriter Rodney Crowell is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
Charlie Kunz, billed as 'Radio's wizard of the piano', plays the first night of a week at The Regal Theatre, St Leonards, UK.
The Jerusalem Gospel Singers record What Manner Of Man Is This and Working On His Cross, for Savoy Records in the USA, but the tracks will not be released.
Peggy Lee records I Cover The Waterfront, I May be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful), What More Can A Woman Do?, Manana and Why Don't You Do Right? at Hollywood Center Studios (aka General Service Studios), 1040 North Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. These recordings were made for television use via syndication - and thus were an early form of music video - usually known as telescriptions.
Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker plays the sixth night of a two-week engagement at The Blue Note Club in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The film Young Man With A Horn [aka Young Man Of Music], opens in cinemas in Denmark. The film, based loosely on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, stars Kirk Douglas as a troubled young jazz trumpeteer, and includes acting roles for popular vocalist Doris Day, and songwiter Hoagy Carmichael.
The musical comedy, Call Me Madam, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman, is playing at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 644 performances.
Jimmy Witherspoon records Once There Lived A Fool and I’m Just A Ladies Man for Modern Records in Los Angeles.
Big John Greer And His Rhythm Rockers release I Want Ya', I Need Ya' on RCA Records in the USA.
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