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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.Freddy Martin And His Orchestra play the fourteenth night of six weeks at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra play the twelfth night of two weeks at The Palomar Club, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The 10" LP Young
Man With A Horn, featuring trumpeter Harry
James and singer Doris Day performing songs from the soundtrack of the movie of the same name
is released by Columbia Records in the USA.
Percy Faith joins Columbia Records in New York City, USA, as an assistant to Mitch Miller, in the post of musical director.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the sixth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Time Magazine runs a feature about the origins of the current popular song Rag Mopp, a hit for Johnnie Lee Wills.
George Towne And His Orchestra play the first night of a three-week stay at The Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely plays the fifth night of two weeks at The Oriental Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the thirty-second night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Rising black American soprano Dorothy Maynor, gives a concert at the Lux Theatre, Bellavista, Panama City, Panama.
Time Magazine runs a feature about the origins of the current popular song Rag Mopp, a hit for The Ames Brothers and Johnnie Lee Wills.
Louis Prima plays the fourth night of two weeks at The Click, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The 10" LP Young Man With A Horn, featuring trumpeter Harry James and singer Doris Day performing songs from the soundtrack of the movie of the same name is released by Columbia Records in the USA.
Bill Monroe releases a new single, Travellin' This Lonesome Road / Can't You Hear Me Callin', on Columbia Records in the USA.
Peggy Lee records They Can't Take That Away From Me, Helpless, Once Around The Moon and Cry Cry Cry for Capitol Records in the USA.
Cyril Blake's Calypso Serenaders record Bulldog Don't Bite Me, Zambo, Calypso Man and Give Me One Dollar for for Parlophone Records in Abbey Road Studios, London, UK.