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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.Little Jimmy Dickens releases a new single, F-o-o-l-i-s-h M-e on Columbia Records in the USA.
Roy Richards And His Mayfair Music play at The Embassy Ballroom, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
Radio announcer and studio owner Frederick C. Wolf opens radio station WDOK in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Wolf hires young Navy veteran Ken Hamann as an engineer for both the radio and the recording studios. Hamann will become chief engineer of Cleveland Recording in 1956 and will help build the studio into a state-of-the-art recording and mastering facility in which many regional and national hit records will be produced. These include The Outsiders' Time Won't Let Me, The Human Beinz' Nobody But Me, The Lemon Pipers' Green Tambourine, and albums by The James Gang and Grand Funk Railroad.
Comedy country music duo Homer And Jethro come to the end of a run at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the fifty-fourth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Singer Eve Young, later to find greater success as Karen Chandler, opens at The Willows in The Wilmington Club, Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
NBC Radio in the USA presents an adaptation of the movie musical Annie Get Your Gun as part of National Music Week. Joining the film's stars Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern and Keenan Wynn are producer Arthur Freed, director George Sidney and composer Irving Berlin.
The Hy-Lo Trio releases a new single, Hard As Rock - Cold As Ice on London Records in the USA.
Roy Richards And His Mayfair Music play at at The Embassy Ballroom, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
The Jamaica Broadcasting Company takes over the operations of Jamaica's first radio station, ZQI, and will soon re-name it as Radio Jamaica. The station broadcasts news, information and live performances by local artistes.
Billy Eckstine plays at The Copacabana, New York City, USA, standing in for Frank Sinatra who had to cancel dates because of throat problems. Eckstein is doubling the Copa show with a season at Paramount Theatre at the same time!
Comedy country music duo Homer And Jethro come to the end of a run at The Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Country music vocalist Red Kirk releases a new single, It's Rainin' In My Heart on Mercury Records in the USA.
Primo Scala releases a new single, An Old Fashioned Hay Ride on London Records in the USA.
Jimmy Dickens releases a new single, F-o-o-l-i-s-h M-e on Columbia Records in the USA.