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Bandleader and MCA recording artist Jimmy Ellyn plays the seventh of twelve nights at The Indiana Roof, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Lee Hays, and others found the organisation People's Songs in New York City, USA, to "create, promote, and distribute songs of labor and the American people."
The Armed Forces Radio Service's New Year's Radio Dancing Party is broadcast throughout the USA from 11.00pm for the next two hours. The show's all-star line-up - recorded live in venues from coast to coast - includes Count Basie And His Orchestra from New York City; Les Brown And His Band Of Renown from the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City; Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra from the Club Zanzibar, New York City; Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians [performing Auld Lang Syne] from the Grill Room, Hotel Roosevelt, NYC; Freddy Martin And His Orchestra from The Coconut Grove, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles; Harry James And His Music Makers from Hollywood; Carmen Cavallaro, His Piano And Orchestra from Ciro's, Hollywood, California; Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra from San Diego, California, featuring Charlie Shavers; Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra from the Casino Gardens, Ocean Park, California; Artie Shaw And His Orchestra from California, featuring Roy Eldridge; Woody Herman And His Orchestra from the Meadowbrook Ballroom, Cedar Grove, New Jersey; Henry King And His Orchestra from The Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, featuring Joe Sudy; Stan Kenton And His Orchestra from the Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, featuring June Christy; Louis Prima And His Orchestra from Salt Lake City; Benny Goodman And His Orchestra from Boston, Massachusetts, featuring Red Norvo and Slam Stewart; Duke Ellington And His Orchestra from Evansville, Indiana.
Much-loved jazz and blues nightclub, The Rhumboogie Cafe, at 343 East 55th Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA, closes for six months as a result of a fire.
Bunk Johnson's Band plays at Stuyvesant Casino, Second Avenue, New York City, USA.