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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.James Moody And His Modernists, with percussionist Chano Pozo, record material for the Blue Note Records album James Moody And His Modernists with Chano Pozo at Apex Studios, New York City, USA. Art Blakey plays drums on the session.
Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae release a new single, My Darling My Darling on Capitol Records in the USA.
A new radio show, Tan Town Jamboree, has its first broadcast on WDIA Radio in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Hosted by Nat D. Williams, the show pioneers the idea of black deejays playing black music aimed specifically at a black audience. B.B. King's appearances on the station, advertising the medicinal cure-all Pepticon, will give his fledgeling career a huge boost.