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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.Broadway Open House, network television's first late-night comedy-variety series, makes its first broadcast live on NBC tv in the USA. This pioneering late-night variety series, hosted by Jerry Lester, will mix celebrity guests, music performances and sketches.
Two major bluesmen, The Reverend Gary Davis and Pink Anderson are among the artists playing at the Virginia State Fair in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Their perfomances are recorded by Paul Clayton and will be released by Riverside Records.
Country music singer and guitarist Ernest Tubb releases Throw Your Love My Way / Give Me A Little Old Fashioned Love on Decca Records in the USA.
Pete Zorn is born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA. He will carve out an acclaimed career as a multi-instrumentalist, perhaps best known as a longstanding member of Richard Thompson's touring band.
Popular vocalist Mario Lanza records O Holy Night, Addio Alla Madre, The Virgin's Slumber Song, Parmi Veder Le Lagrime and Cielo E Mar, for RCA Victor Records at Republic Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Maureen Reillette Jackson is born in Gary, Indiana, USA, to the Jackson family who will come to dominate popular music in the 70s. She will find some success as singer Rebbie Jackson starting in 1984.Louis Jordan And His Orchestra play the fourth night in a week at The Regal, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Frankie Laine and Patti Page play the thirteenth night in a three-week season at The Paramount Theater, New York City, USA.
Felix Mendelssohn And His Hawaiian Serenaders, with Frankie Vaughan play at The Empire, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.
Village Barn, the first country music program on American network television, transmits its final edition live from The Village Barn, a country music nightclub in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Kevin Dempsey, guitarist of folk-swing group Dando Shaft, is born in Coventry, West Midlands, UK.
Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the ninth night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Blues singer and guitarist Pink Anderson plays at the Virginia State Fair in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. His perfomance of songs including Greasy Greens, Every Day In The Week and I've Got Mine, is recorded by Paul Clayton and will be released by Riverside Records. Also on the bill is the Reverend Gary Davis, who is also recorded for the same LP.
Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the ninth of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the ninth of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Country music singer and guitarist Ernest Tubb releases Throw Your Love My Way / Give Me A Little Old Fashioned Love on Decca Records in the USA.
Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the fifteenth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA.
The film Young Man With A Horn [aka Young Man Of Music], opens in cinemas in the United Kingdom. The film, based loosely on the life of Bix Beiderbecke, stars Kirk Douglas as a troubled young jazz trumpeteer, and includes acting roles for popular vocalist Doris Day, and songwiter Hoagy Carmichael.
Time magazine reports that Remington Records, Inc. has announced the production of popular records for 99?, and classical records for $1.49 and $1.99, respectively for 10 and 12" records. This is seen by some observers as the start of a mid-price war in the record business in the USA.
Leslie Caron is signed to appear with Gene Kelly in the MGM movie musical An American In Paris, which features music by George Gershwin.