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Woody Herman's Woodchoppers begin a week-long engagement at The Crystal Terrace, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy by country music star Red Foley reaches No1 in the Billboard Country And Western Records chart in the USA, where it will remain for twelve weeks.
British music weekly Melody Maker reports that pioneering female jazz saxophonist Kathleen Stobart is forming her own 'technical' modern orchestra.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs This Can't Be Love, You're Awful, The One I Love and Ol' Man River, backed by the Jeff Alexander Orchestra, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
During an extensive national tour, singing cowboy Gene Autry plays in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
The Count Basie Sextet plays the fourteenth night of a six-week engagement at The Brass Rail, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz vocalist Billy Eckstine plays the last night of two weeks at Ciro's, San Francisco, California, USA.Bing Crosby is heard singing the songs Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, Quicksilver, Enjoy Yourself, The Little Gray House and Whispering Hope on the The Chesterfield Show show, broadcast from San Francisco, California, USA. Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires also appear in the show.
Frank Sinatra is heard performing the songs The Old Master Painter, Sunshine Cake, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! and Lullaby Of Broadway, on the NBC radio show Light Up Time, sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes in the USA.
Entering at No25, The Third Man Theme [aka The Harry Lime Theme] is the highest new entry in the Cashbox magazine chart of the best-selling singles in the USA. The placing includes sales of versions of the song by Anton Karas and Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians.
Red
Foley attends a promotional stunt for his current single, Chattanoogie
Shoe Shine Boy, on Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Twenty thousand people gather to witness a competition between
eighty shoe shiners. The winner, fifteen-year old 'Bo' McCann, wins
a trip to New York City. Foley sings the song for the assembled
throng.
Blues-oriented one-man-band and recording artist Steve White is born in New York City, USA.
Willie Holiday releases a new single, I've Played This Town, on Peacock Records in the USA.
Singing cowboy Jimmy Wakely plays the ninth night of two weeks at The Oriental Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
George Towne And His Orchestra play the twelfth night of a three-week stay at The Deshler-Wallick Hotel, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Mabel Scott, with Milt Buckner on piano, records Fine Fine Baby, Have You Ever
Watched Love Die, Baseball Boogie and I Found My Baby, for King Records in
Nola Studios, New York City, USA. (strong>
The first stage production of the musical play Ninotchka by George S. Kaufman opens in Paris, France, Europe, starring Sophie Desmarets and Henri Guisal. The play will become the basis of the musical film Silk Stockings, with songs by Cole Porter, starring Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire.
The Lee Konitz Quintet records Ice Cream Konitz, Rebecca, You Go To My Head and Palo Alto, for Prestige Records in New York City, USA.
Eddie Duchin And His Orchestra play the thirty-ninth night of a season at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA, that will run until May 10th.
Admiral Records vocalist Bobby Colt opens at Chez Ami, Buffalo, New York State, USA.
Spike Jones And His Music Depreciation Revue play at The Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Bandleader and keyboardist Ted Fio Rito opens at The Balinese Room, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Doris Day is the guest artist on The Bob Hope Show, sponsored by Lux Soap on NBC radio in the USA.
The MGM musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, is premiered in the USA. Ten songs in the film are composed by Irving Berlin.Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the sixth night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the third of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz drummer and bandleader Ray McKinley plays the first of two nights at Louann's, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Hank Williams records Honky Tonk Blues and They'll
Never Take Her Love From Me in Castle Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Percy
Mayfield records Please Send Me Someone To Love and Strange
Things Happening for Specialty
Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mick Moody, guitarist of heavy metal band Whitesnake is born in Middlesborough, North Yorkshire, UK.
The Gold Rock Gospel Singers record How Sweet He Is and Jesus I'll Never Forget for Savoy Records in the USA, but the tracks will not be released.
The musical revue Michael Todd's Peep Show is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 278 performances.
Gospel star 
Mayor James B. Hynes bans portraits of politically-active singing star Paul Robeson from being exhibited in public buildings anywhere in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Simon John Breckenridge Nicol is born in Muswell Hill, North
London, UK. He will find success as Simon
Nicol, electric folk guitarist, singer and co-founder of
Fairport Convention.
The Weavers, including Pete Seeger, record Lonesome Traveller and So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh) in Decca Recording Studio, Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th Street, for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
Lowell Fulson And His Orchestra, featuring Ray Charles, play at The Elks Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA.Dizzy Gillespie plays at The Elks Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA. His band includes John Coltrane.
The musical comedy, Call Me Madam, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman, is playing at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 644 performances.Dennis Provisor, lead vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter with The Grass Roots between 1969 and 1971, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Orrin Tucker And His Orchestra open for a month at The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Martha Johnson is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She will find success as a pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for the 1980s new wave band Martha And The Muffins.
The tv show Cavalcade of Bands in the USA features The Stan Kenton Orchestra with Teresa Brewer on vocals, plus band members including Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Bud Shank, Art Pepper and Shelly Manne. The show also features the presentation of the Downbeat Magazine Awards.
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