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Joe "Cannonball" Lewis releases a new single, You've Been Honky Tonkin', on Kentucky Records in the USA.
In A Golden Coach reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Dickie Valentine and The Billy Cotton Band.
US music trade magazine Billboard announces that avant-garde composer Moondog (Louis Hardin) has been signed up by Mars Records, owned by jazz band leader Woody Herman.
(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window by Patti Page begins the last of eight weeks at No1 in the Billboard Best Selling Singles chart in the USA.

Eric Silk And His Southern Jazz Band play at a Flood Fund dance in The Savoy Ballroom, Southsea, Portsmouth, UK.
April In Portugal by Freddy Martin on RCA Victor Records enters the Billboard magazine singles chart where it will peak at No15 during a three-week run on the chart.
The Tennessee Drifters release a new single, Boogie Woogie Baby, on Dot Records in the USA.
Joe 'Cannonball' Lewis releases a new single, You've Been Honky Tonkin' on Kentucky Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
The Tennessee Drifters release a new single, Boogie Woogie Baby, on Dot Records in the USA.