Radio

WLS Radio begins broadcasting in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The station will become famous as the home of the popular country music show, The National Barn Dance.

Popular radio group The Billy McGinty Cowboy Band plays the fourth night of two weeks at the Orpheum Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Fiddler Mazy Todd, a frequent sideman to Uncle Dave Macon, introduces his own string trio on the WSM Barn Dance radio show in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Herman Parker Jr is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as blues vocalist and harmonica virtuoso Little Junior Parker

Popular vocalist Kate Smith performs the 1918 Irving Berlin song God Bless America for the first time ever, on her Armistice Day radio show in the USA. The song will become a hugely popular American patriotic anthem, but its sentiments will so anger folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie that he will write This Land Is Your Land as a riposte.

Benny Goodman And His Orchestra play on the CBS network's Camel Caravan radio show in Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Bing Crosby stars in the radio show, Bing Crosby Presents, broadcast live from the Crosby-owned Del Mar Turf Club, between Los Angeles and San Diego, California, USA, with John Scott Trotter and His Frying Pan Eight.

St. George's Hall, Langham Place, London, England, UK, is severely damaged by incendiary bombs dropped by German bombers. The venue was, for many years, home to variety performances broadcast by the BBC.

The Ina Ray Hutton Orchestra plays in Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA. The concert is broadcast on The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands, a fifteen minute radio series on the ABC Network in the USA, sponsored by Coca Cola.

Sentimental Me by The Ames Brothers reaches No1 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA.

Charlie Kunz, billed as 'Radio's wizard of the piano', plays the second night of a week at The Regal Theatre, St Leonards, UK.

Hank Williams performs Nobody's Lonesome For Me and Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet on the fifteen minute long Mother

When Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and Slim Gaillard play at Birdland, New York City, USA, the show is broadcast live on radio.

Vaughn Monroe performs The Chocolate Choo Choo on the Vaughn Monroe Show in a radio broadcast from New York City, USA.

The Bing Crosby Show, sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes, is broadcast in the USA by the CBS network. Artists appearing are Bing Crosby, John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, Helen O'Connell, The Bell Sisters and Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires. The first tune performed on this edition of the show is The Blacksmith Blues.

Dick Clark passes an audition to join the staff of WFIL Radio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Clark will go on to host the tv show American Bandstand and become one of the most powerful entrepreneurs in the music business.

It is reported that a recent survey of music-buying habits in Southern California, USA, has revealed that a substantial proportion of jazz, blues and r'n'b records are now being bought by "Spanish and mixed-nationality" buyers whereas they were previously bought almost exclusively by Negro buyers. This change is attributed to the fact that several prominent radio deejays including Hunter Hancock (KFVD), Joe Aadams (KOWL) and Gene Norman (KLAC) are now playing this type of music to their audiences. Deejay and shop owner John Dolphin of KGFJ reports that about 40% of his retail business now comes from white buyers.

Wanted by Perry Como spends its second week at No1 in the Cashbox Magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA.

Vocalist Helen Carr records the LP ...Down In The Depths On The 90th Floor [named after the Cole Porter song of that title], for Bethlehem Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.

A new thirty minute BBC Radio series called Skiffle Session broadcasts its first show in the UK with a weekly budget of

The Beatles play the twenty-sixth night of a lengthy residency at The Kaiserkeller, Hamburg, Germany.

Elvis Presley begins rehearsals at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, USA, on songs for the upcoming movie Blue Hawaii.

The Coasters, The Isley Brothers and Betty Carter play the fifth night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra record Mack The Knife, Jump For Joy and other tracks at Bell Sound Studio, New York City, USA.

On The Edge, a 'radio ballad' about teenagers in England and Scotland, created using music by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger, has its first broadcast on the BBC Home Service in the UK.

The Wes Montgomery Trio records the Miles Davis composition Freddie Freeloader, for Riverside Records in Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA.

Muntz tv store in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, stages a folk music Hootenanny at their shop, starring Texas Bill Strength, Chil Hilman, The Actions, Jack Curtis And The Westerners and others. The show is broadcast live by KTCR Radio.

The Searchers begin a weekly radio series on Radio Luxembourg in the UK.

The Top Ten Singles on WMFJ 1450 AM Radio in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, is as follows :
1. The Beatles - She Loves You
2. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
3. The Beatles - Please Please Me
4. The Beatles - Twist And Shout
5. The Four Seasons - Dawn (Go Away)
6. The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun, Fun
7. Al Hirt - Java
8. Elvis Presley - Kissin' Cousins / It Hurts Me
9. Louis Armstrong - Hello, Dolly!
10. Al Martino - I Love You More And More Every Day

The Hollies appear on UK radio show Easy Beat, along with Acker Bilk and Sheila Southern.

Do You Believe in Magic, as a joint entry for the Lovin' Spoonful and The Pack, from Calne, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, peaks at No22 in the Radio London Top 40 singles chart. The track is produced by legendary UK producer Mickie Most.

John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles go to the offices of NEMS Enterprises in London, England, UK, Europe, where they are interviewed by deejay Brian Matthew for the UK radio show Pop Profile.

John Fahey plays at Mother's, Birmingham, England, UK, Europe. DJ for the evening is John Peel.

Desmond Dekker and Millie Small play live on Ed Stewart's BBC Radio Show in London, UK.

The Cure record a John Peel Session for the BBC at Maida Vale Studios in London, England, UK, Europe.

20-year-old Martin Hall performs his composition Inskription, using only vocals, tape recorders, violins, sound modulators and echo machines in the concert hall of National Danish Radio, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. The performance is still regarded as a highpoint in Danish avant-garde music.

State Radio play at The Borderline, London, England, UK.

Vocalist Phil Vane of Extreme Noise Terror dies aged 46, because of a cerebrovascular accident, in his sleep .

Joel Madden of Good Charlotte buys himself a new guitar and posts a Tweet stating, "AWESOME DAY! I just got my dream guitar! The Jackson Browne signature acoustic for @gibsonguitar Worth every penny! I'm so excited to play."

Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon of The Beatles, receives an honorary degree at Pratt Institute graduation ceremony in Radio City Music Hall, New York City, USA.