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Van Dyke Parks is born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA. He will carve out an extraordinary career as a songwriter, singer, arranger, pianist and record producer, most famously working with The Beach Boys at the peak of their creative powers.
Lead Belly records Bring A Little Water
Sylvie, for Folkways
Records in Asch
Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Bing Crosby's 20-room mansion in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, is destroyed by fire after a short circuit causes a blaze to break out while the family is taking down its Christmas tree.
Latin American dance music by Lud Gluskin is broadcast in tonight's edition of the CBS radio series Hello Americans. The show is normally presented by Orson Welles but he is unable to appear because of illness.
Brian Hopper, guitarist and saxophonist of Soft Machine and The Wilde Flowers is born in Canterbury, Kent, UK.
Michael Zager is born in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He will find success as a record producer, composer, arranger and recording artist.