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Tommy Christian And His Orchestra are playing during a three-month engagement at The Mounds Country Club, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, operated by the notorious St. Louis gangster William Patrick 'Bow Wow' McQuillan.
RCA boss David Sarnoff unveils blueprints for a new corporate headquarters in a "giant Fifth Avenue amusement enterprise". When completed, it will be known as Radio City Music Hall.
The No1 song in the USA on this day is Tip-Toe Through The Tulips on Brunswick Records by Nick Lucas.
Ronaldo Boscoli is born in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, South America. he will become an influential figure in bossa nova music as a producer of musical shows, manager and composer of such songs as Sente (Feel), Lobo Bobo (Silly Wolf), Saudade Fez um Samba (Longing Made a Samba) and O Barquinho.
RCA boss David Sarnoff unveils blueprints for a new corporate headquarters in a "giant Fifth Avenue amusement enterprise". When completed, it will be known as Radio City Music Hall.
Elmon Wright is born in the USA. He will find success as a jazz trumpeter, working with Dizzy Gillespie's first big band, Roy Eldridge, Earl Bostic, Buddy Rich and others.
The No1 song in the USA on this day is Tiptoe Through The Tulips on Brunswick Records by Nick Lucas.
Jazz cornet virtuoso Bix Beiderbecke spends the fourteenth of 36 nights in the Keeley Institute, Dwight, Illinois, USA, being treated for delerium tremens caused by his heavy drinking.
The East Texas Serenaders record Dream Shadows, Babe, Meadow
Brook Waltz, Three In One Two-Step, McKinney Waltz and Before I
Grew Up to Love You in Dallas, Texas, USA for Brunswick
Records.