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Patti Page, with
Harry Geller's Orchestra, records Would I Love You?, Sentimental Music, Ever True Ever More, You Are The One and Down
The Trail Of Achin' Hearts in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sonny Boy Williamson II Eyesight To The Blind and Crazy About You Baby for Trumpet Records in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Elmore James plays guitar on the tracks.
The Mills Brothers with Tommy Dorsey And His Sentimentalists, record You Know You Belong To Somebody Else and Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone for Decca Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Blues guitarist and vocalist Paul James is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As well as fronting his own band, he will work with Bob Dylan, Bo Diddley, Lightning Hopkins, Sunnyland Slim, Willie DeVille, Robert Gordon and others.
Country music star Jimmy Wakely performs on the Ed Sullivan-hosted CBS-tv variety show Toast Of The Town, which is recorded in New York City, USA. Among the other guests is singer Margaret Truman, the daughter of president Harry S. Truman
Bing Crosby, with John Scott Trotter And His Orchestra, is heard performing You're Just In Love, Autumn Leaves, and May The Good Lord Bless And Keep You, on the Chesterfield Cigarettes Radio Show in the USA.Vincent James is born in St. Mary's, Jamaica, Caribbean. He will find success in the 1970s as a vocalist with the eight piece British soul group Sweet Sensation.
The musical revue Michael Todd's Peep Show closes at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 278 performances.
The Kitsilano Boys' Band plays in Langley High School Auditorium, Langley, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
R'n'b singer 
The musical Guys And Dolls is presented at The 46th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1200 performances.Soul vocalist and lurve-merchant Luther Vandross is born at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, USA.
At the age of 59, celebrated comedienne and torch singer Fanny Brice suffers a massive cerebral hemorrhage and is rushed to Cedars of Lebanaon Hospital, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, where she will die a few days later. (The film Funny Girl is based on the career of Fanny Brice.)
Chuck Ruff, best-known as a drummer with The Edgar Winter Band, is born in Reno, Nevda, USA.
Bing Crosby with The Rhythmaires and John Scott Trotter's Orchestra, is heard performing How High The Moon, On Top Of Old Smokey, Down By The Ohio and Any Town Is Paris When You're Young on The Bing Crosby Chesterfield Radio Show edition No72, in the USA.
A drug abuse inquiry, with public hearings led by Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein, continues in New York City, USA. Singled out for mention during the inquiry are Birdland, The Apollo Theater, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, and Machito.
Judy Garland plays the fourth of seven nights at The Palace Theatre, Manchester, UK.Walter Gable's Orchestra plays at The Ankara, McKeesport, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
The MGM musical film The Belle Of New York, starring Fred Astaire, begins shooting in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Songs in the film are by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer.Singer, lyricist, composer and arranger Karen Young is born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jackie Gleason records What Is A Girl? and What Is A Boy? for Decca Records in New York City, USA. Both tracks are humourous recitations with orchestral accompaniment.
With These Hands by Nelson Eddy And Jo Stafford is the current No1 single in the UK.
Cajun music fiddler and recording artist Harry Choates dies aged 28 from the effects of alcoholism in Austin, Texas, USA. He was known as The Godfather Of Cajun Music.
A contingent of Annapolis midshipmen on a several-day visit is welcomed at a dance in the Memphis Country Club, memphis, Tennessee, USA.
The Count Basie Orchestra plays the first of seven days at Club Oasis, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Train
Kept A-Rollin' is recorded by The Tiny
Bradshaw Band. The song will later migrate to the rock'n'roll
community where it will be covered by numerous bands including
The
Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith.
Hank Williams records I'd Still Want You and three other songs in Castle Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Zoot Sims Quartet records Trotting, It Had To Be You, Swingin' The Blues [Zoot Swings The Blues], Coolin' The Blues, East Of The Sun and I Wonder Who, for Prestige Records in New York City, USA.
Perry Como records It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas, in New York City, USA, for RCA Records.
Doulas Glenn Colvin is born in Fort Lee, Virginia, USA. He will find success as Dee Dee Ramone, bassist and songwriter for The Ramones.
Popular singer Gordon Sumner is born in Wallsend, Tyne And Wear, UK. He will find fame as Sting, singer, songwriter and bass-player of The Police, and as a solo artist.
It's All
In the Game by Tommy Edwards enters the Billboard US Singles Charts, where it will peak at No18.
(Edwards will re-cut the song in stereo in 1958, and reach No1).
Gene Sullivan records Good Gosh Almighty How I Love You, Inflated Love, Walkin' And Talkin' and Would You Forgive Me?, in Castle Studio At The Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra record the George Gershwin composition Rhapsody In Blue for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Graham Bell And His Australian Band record Goanna March, Big walkaboiut, St Louis Blues and other tracks, in London, UK.
The Crane River Jazz Band records Careless Love, The Sheik Of Araby, Sobbin' Blues and Spicy Advice for Melodisc Records in London, UK.
Lucy Ann Polk, with Les Brown And His Band Of Renown, records Let It Be and I'll Never Let You Cry for Coral Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.Roman Bunka is born in Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany, Europe. He will find success as a guitarist and composer, working with Embryo, Fathy Salama, Mal Waldron, Dissidenten, Trilok Gurtu, Charlie Mariano, Mohamed Mounir, Malachi Favors and others.
Actress and singer Dolores Gray and The Princeton Triangle Club are the musical guests on the CBS-tv show Toast Of The Town, hosted by Ed Sullivan, in the USA.The Weavers play the second of two sell-out nights at Town Hall, New York City, USA.
The MGM musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, is released to cinemas in Austria, Europe. Ten songs in the film are composed by Irving Berlin.Jan |