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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.Doris Day records Enjoy Yourself and I Said My Pajamas [And Put On My Pray'rs] for Columbia Records in the USA.
Jinx Dawson is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She will achieve a measure of success after forming the influential occult-rock band Coven in Chicago during the late 1960s. Coven is said to have been the band which introduced the hand gesture known as the Sign Of The Horns to heavy rock.
The Willy Andresen Quintet records Riffin' In F for Harmoni Records in Oslo, Norway, Europe.
Enjoy Yourself by Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10 during a 19-week run.
Columbia Records vocalist Herb Jeffries plays the second night of two weeks at The Shelbourne Lounge, New York City, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald begins a week of shows at The Earle Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy by country music star Red Foley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No1 during a fifteen-week run.
Songwriter Eddie Kilfeather dies in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is best-remembered as a composer and arranger who worked on Columbia Pictures' animated features.
The Three Peppers play the ninth night of two weeks of shows at Marty Bohn's Nut Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Doris Day records Enjoy Yourself and I Said My Pajamas [And Put On My Pray'rs] for Columbia Records in the USA.
Electric guitar innovator Leo Fender applies for a patent for a 'combination pickup and bridge assembly' - a new improvement to his range of guitars.