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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 movie Saturday's Hero opens in New York City, USA, and features songs including Loyal Sons of Psi Gamma, by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin; The Canteen Song and Jackson Fight Song by Paul Mertz and Morris Stoloff and Hail Jackson U by Paul Mertz.
The current No1 single in the UK, based on sheet music sales, is Too Young, based on the combined sales of versions by Nat King Cole and Jimmy Young.
Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys record Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Brown Skin Gal, Sittin' On Top Of The World and other tracks at Radio Recorders, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Harold Madison, Jr. is born. He will find a measure of celebrity in the late 1970s in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, under the name of Mr. Butch, being seen often in the streets near Berklee College Of Music, playing a Fender Stratocaster guitar and/or an autoharp.
Ronald Frankau, a saucy comedian and recording artist who started in cabaret and made his way into radio and films, dies at Eastbourne, Sussex, UK.
Because Of You by Tony Bennett is the current No1 song in the Billboard Magazine Singles Chart in the USA.
Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music record Cocoanut Grove and Rustic Dance for Coral Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.