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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.The Walt Disney animated movie Cinderella [subtitled A Love Story With Music] goes on general release in the USA. The film includes the songs A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.
Emilio Estefan, husband of Gloria Estefan and keyboard player of Miami Sound Machine, is born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Entering at No25, The Third Man Theme [aka The Harry Lime Theme] is the highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA. The placing includes sales of versions of the song by Anton Karas and Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the twenty-third night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Entering at No25, The Third Man Theme [aka The Harry Lime Theme] is the highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA. The placing includes sales of versions of the song by Anton Karas and Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians.
Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the fifth night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
R'n'b keyboardist and singer Jimmy McCracklin releases a new single, Beer Drinking Woman/Up And Down Blues on Modern Records in The USA.
Theodore R. Duncan of North Hollywood, California, USA, files Patent No. 2,647,427 for a type of musical children's book. Each book includes a story but also contains a musical box which plays melodies to accompany the story.
R'n'b keyboardist and singer Jimmy McCracklin releases a new single, Beer Drinking Woman/Up And Down Blues on Modern Records in The USA.Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra play the third night of two weeks at The Palomar Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Red
Foley attends a promotional stunt for his current single, Chattanoogie
Shoe Shine Boy, on Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Twenty thousand people gather to witness a competition between
eighty shoe shiners. The winner, fifteen-year old 'Bo' McCann, wins
a trip to New York City. Foley sings the song for the assembled
throng.
Carlos Daniel Ayala is born. He will change his name to Carlos Guitarlos and find critical success as guitarist with Los Angeles-based blues outfit Top Jimmy And The Rhythm Pigs before relocating to San Francisco, California, USA, and scraping a living as a street busker on the corner of 16th and Mission. In 2003, he will stage a dramatic comeback with his album Straight From The Heart.
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, including Bob Osborne, record four songs including Pain In My Heart for Cozy Records of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.