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The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.Bing Crosby, with Victor Schoen And His Orchestra, records the Cole Porter compositions So In Love and Why Can't You Behave? for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Billie Holiday plays the first of six shows at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Joy Nichols sings A Little Bird and vocal group The Keynotes sing The Lady From 29 Palms, on the BBC radio show Take It From Here in the UK.
The Snowflakes with vocalist Art Brown, record Wind In My Sails for RCA Records in New York City, USA.
Academic Professor Carl Sauer, founder of the New South Wales
Junior Orchestra And Choir, is reported in Australia's Barrier
Miner newspaper as stating that jazz and swing music are on the way out. "These kinds of music
certainly are not taking Sydeney's youth away from serous musical
work." Professor Sauer's opinion is said to be based on sales
figures given to him by music warehouses.
Frank Sinatra and The Phil Moore Four record If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon and Kisses And Tears for Columbia Records in Hollywood, California.
Frank Sinatra and The Phil Moore Four record If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon and Kisses And Tears for Columbia Records in Hollywood, California, USA.
Peter Farrelly, bass, guitar and lead vocals with prog rock band Fruupp is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
Billie Holiday plays the first of six shows at the Palomar Supper Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Big Bill Broonzy And His Fat
Four record [I'm A] Wonderin' Man, I Love My Whiskey, You've Been
Mistreating Me Baby, I Stay Blue All The Time and Water Coast Blues
for Mercury
Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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.