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The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.Sunnyland Slim records Blues Baby, Red Headed Woman, Boll Weevil Blues, Frozen Ground and Down The Road, for Tempo-Tone Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. At the same session, he also records I Want My Baby with Muddy Waters on vocals.
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky - A Cowboy Legend by Vaughn Monroe, reaches No1 in the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart in the USA for the first of eleven weeks. Although there were earlier versions of the song, this is the one that brought it to wide public attention, and is also the version that inspired The Doors to write their classic track Riders On The Storm.
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.