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The MGM movie musical Pagan Love Song is released to cinemas in France and Finland, Europe. Starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel, the movie features songs by Harry Warren and Arthur Freed.
Frankie
Laine and Jo
Stafford release a new single, Let's Have A Party / Hambone on
Columbia Records in the USA.
Billy Bunn And His Buddies release That's When Your Heataches Begin on RCA Victor Records in the USA.
The film soundtrack, An American In Paris, by Gene Kelly and Georges Guetary, remains at No1 in the Billboard Best-Selling Pop Albums Chart in the USA, but Top Pops by pianist Frankie Carle makes a major jump into the Top Ten, entering at No4.
Sarah Vaughan and The Jackie Davis Trio are playing during a two week engagement at The Blue Note, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Music trade magazine Billboard in the USA reports that texan songwriter and Columbia Records recording artist Floyd Tillman has left Southern And Peer International publishers and moved to Hill And Range.
The Famous Ward Singers record That's Enough For Me, I'm Holding On, This Little Light Of Mine and He Delivered Me, for Savoy Records in New York City, USA.
In a front page headline story in Melody Maker, British bandleader Harry Gold declares that 'antiquated' laws governing musical performances on Sundays in the UK should be abolished.
Donnie Van Zandt, vocalist, guitarist and founder-member of southern-fried rock band .38 Special is born in Jacksonville, Florida.
Guys And Dolls is playing during its seventeenth week at The Shubert Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Wynonie Harris, Larry Darnell and Annie Laurie are playing during a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.Lena Horne comes to the end of a week of shows at The Empire, Liverpool, UK, with Jack Parnell And His Music Makers.
Charlie Parker, accompanied by Gene Carter's Orchestra plays the third of four nights at Tootie's Mayfair, Jackson County, Missouri, USA.
Charlie Parker, accompanied by The James "Rev" Beasley Combo plays the first of eleven nights at El Capitan, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Bandleader Eddy Howard takes time out from his current tour of one-nighters to attend the annual local juke box operators' outing in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Roy Acuff appears on the cover of prestigious current affairs magazine Newsweek in the USA.August Darnell is born, he will make a name for himself and it will be Kid Creole, leader of The Coconuts.
Al Martino and Les Paul And Mary Ford play the third of four nights at Michigan State Fair, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Precocious eight-year-old Gladys Knight forms her first singing group, after putting on an impromptu show at her brother Bubba's tenth birthday party.
The movie musical An American In Paris, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant and Charles Guetary, opens at cinemas in Italy, Europe.The Ronnie Scott Quintet records Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Love Me Or Leave Me, Scott's Expedition and Avalon in London for Karlo Krahmer's Esquire Records.
Lee Bell records Beatin' Out The Boogie [On The Mississippi Mud], Get Ready With Those Tears, Let Me Love You and I Get The Biggest Thrill for RCA Victor Records in the USA.
Lloyd Price records What's The Matter Now and If Crying Was Murder at Universal Recorders, Hollywood, California, USA.
Hank Williams marries his second wife, Billie Jean Jones, in
Minden, Louisiana, USA.
Hank Williams and his new wife Billie Jean Jones repeat their
wedding vows twice for the paying public at shows Williams is
performing at the Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Hank Williams is admitted to hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, suffering acute alcohol intoxication. On the same day, Bernard Edwards, bassist with Chic, is born in Greensville, North Carolina.
Hoagy Carmichael, with Frank De Vol and His Orchestra, is heard performing I Never Knew on the syndicated radio show Guest Star in the USA.
Five Long Years by blues pianist and vocalist Eddie Boyd becomes the Billboard R'n'B National Best Sellers No1 Single in the USA.
The first UK popular music chart, the Top Twelve, is published in the pop paper NME (New Musical Express). Artists on the chart, compiled from sales at twenty major record stores, include Al Martino at No1 with Here In My Heart, plus Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Max Bygraves and, with no less than three entries, Vera Lynn.
The term "The Beat Generation" is first seen in print in a feature by John Clellon Holmes in the New York Times magazine. The term will come to be the defining phrase by which the hip youth and creative individuals of the 1950s will come to be known.
Steven King is born in New York City, USA. He will find success as a virtuoso, award-winning fingerstyle guitar player and recording artist.
Downbeat magazine features popular crossover vocalist Mario Lanza on its cover beneath the headline "Lanza - Is He Washed Up?"
Joe Farmer's Inglewood Orchestra plays at The Harvest Moon Ball, Hiawatha Field House, West Seattle, Washington, USA.
Rosco Gordon releases a new single, Too Many Women / Wise To You Baby, on Duke Records in the USA.
Hank Locklin records Golden Wristwatch, Alone At A Table For Two, Picking Sweethearts and I Like To Play With Your Kisses, in Castle Studio, The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Billboard magazine reports that Jo Stafford is achieving her biggest record sales ever. Her recent version of Jambalaya has sold over 588,000 copies, You Belong To Me has topped over 650,000, and Keep It A Secret has passed the 250,000 sales mark, giving a total of 1,488,000 discs sold in a five month period.
The Harry James Orchestra is playing during four weeks at Cocoanut Grove, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
In his year-end statement, David Sarnoff, Chairman of RCA, hails the newly-developed transistor as a scientific marvel which is likely to revolutionise electronics and communications.
Once popular left-wing political singer-songwriter Gaston Montehus dies, all but forgotten, in Paris, France, Europe. He was the writer of such notable songs as Gloire au 17ème and La Butte Rouge.Jan |