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Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton and others play at the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. [This is the show to which Hank Williams was driving when he died.]Singiong cowboy Roy Rogers is the subject of This Is Your Life on NBC TV in the USA.
Blues guitarist Edward Taylor Jr. plays at The 308 Blues Club, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. 1953
Wonderful Copenhagen, composed by Frank Loesser, enters the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK, where it will peak at No2, thanks to versions recorded by Danny Kaye, Josef Locke and others.
Eric Winstone And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra record I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good in New York City, USA. The band includes Stan Getz on tenor saxophone.
The Sons Of The Pioneers perform Nellie Bly, Sentimental Journey, Stay As Sweet As You Are and other tracks on their Lucky U Ranch radio show in the USA.
Songwriter Taylor Rhodes is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He will play drums for the Earl Scruggs Revue for two years in the late-1970s before going on to write pop hits for Aerosmith and Celine Dion.Vic Lewis, Stanley Black, Harry Gold, Edmundo Ros, Jack Parnell, Freddy Randall, Ivy Benson, Mary Lou Williams, Lita Roza and Ted Heath are among the musical stars giving their services free at a fund-raising Flood Fund Concert in The Stoll Theatre, Kingsway, London, England, UK, Europe.
During a tour of Germany, Europe, under the auspices of the German Jazz Federation, Dizzy Gillespie plays a concert in Frankfurt.
Following a tour of Germany, Europe, The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra returns to the UK.
Jane Froman performs the songs I Feel A Song Coming On, Love In Your Heart, How About You, Man of My Heart and More Than You Know on the CBS tv show USA Canteen, in the USA.
Tennessee Ernie Ford records Hey, Mr. Cotton Picker for Capitol records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Burl Ives records Close The Door Richard, I'm Gonna Sing Your Boat and Left My Gal In The Mountain, at Castle Studio in the Tulane Hotel, 206 8th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.Tony Martin, with Lennie Hayton's orchestra and chorus, records April In Portugal for RCA Victor Records in the USA.
Julie Wilson and Wilbur Evans are starring in a stage version of Rogers And Hammerstein's South Pacific at The Drury Lane Theatre, London, UK.
Elvis Presley perform Til I Waltz Again With You by Teresa Brewer during his performance at the Annual Minstrel Show in Humes High School, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. This is believed to have been his first live performance in front of an audience.
Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton reaches No1 in the Billboard R'N'B singles chart in the USA with Hound Dog, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. A cover version by Elvis Presley will enjoy massive success on the pop singles chart.
Songwriter Peter DeRose dies, aged 53, in New York City, USA. Among his best-remembered songs are Deep Purple, Somebody Loves You, Have You Ever Been Lonely? and Muddy Water.The Spaniels record Baby It's You, Sloppy Drunk, Since I Fell For You and Bounce in Universal Recorders, Chicago, Illinois, USA. They will become the first tracks to be released by Vee-Jay Records.
Frankie Lee Sims records Lucy Mae Blues, Married Woman, Wine And Gin Bounce and Don't Take It Out On Me for Specialty Records in Dallas, Texas, USA.
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, including Chet Baker on trumpet, record Speak Low, Varsity Drag, Half Nelson, Ladybird, Love Me Or Leave Me and Swing House in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jane Froman sings It's A Big Wide Wonderful World, Allez Vous En and Again on the CBS-tv show USA Canteen, in the USA.
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, with Chet Baker on trumpet, plays at The Haig, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jane Froman sings Cockeyed Optimist, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered and It's A Lovely Day, on the CBS-tv show USA Canteen, in the USA.
The romantic MGM movie musical Two Weeks With Love, starring Jane Powell and Ricardo Montalban, is released in Austria, Europe.Liberace, Chandra Kaly and His Dancers and The Al Donahue Orchestra take part in a revue in The Marine Room of the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA .
Gee by
The
Crows is released on Rama Records in the USA, but it does not become a hit until ten months later.
The song will, eventually, become a contender for the title of
First Rock'n'Roll
Song Ever Made.
The musical comedy movie Skirts Ahoy!, starring Esther Williams, Joan Evans and Vivian Blaine, opens at cinemas in Denmark, Europe.Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars play at The Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach, California, USA. The band line-up is Maynard Ferguson on trumpet, Hampton Hawes on piano, Howard Rumsey on bass and Shelly Manne on drums.
Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker plays at The Open Door, a club near Washington Square, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. His band consists of trumpeter Benny Harris, pianists Bud Powell and Al Haig, bassist Charles Mingus, and drummer Art Taylor. The entire show will be released, eventually, as the live album Complete Bird At The Open Door.
Singer Patti Scialfa, who will one day join the E-Street Band and marry Bruce Springsteen, is born in Deal, New Jersey, USA.
Blues guitarist Sticks McGhee [aka Stick McGhee] records Jungle Juice, Dealing From The Bottom, The Wiggle Waggle Woo and I'm Doing All The Time, for King Records in New York City, USA. The tracks also feature James Buchanan on tenor sax, Sir Charles Thompson on piano, Mickey Baker on guitar, Carl Pruitt on bass, and Specs Powell on drums.
Alton Carson is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as blues and jazz singer Big Al Carson.
RCA holds experimental stereophonic recording sessions in The Manhattan Center, New York City, USA, at which Leopold Stokowski conducts performances of Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1 and the waltz from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin.
Frank Sinatra stars as the footloose and frequently unemployed private eye Rocky Fortune in the first episode of his radio series of that name in the USA. This episode is entitled Oyster Shucker.
The Drifters, George Shearing and The Lucky Millinder Orchestra play the first night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Vickie Bowman is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She will find success as Vickie Winans of gospel group The Winans.
The comedy musical film Road To Bali, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, is released to cinemas in Hong Kong, Asia.Louis Armstrong With The Commanders records Zat You, Santa Claus?, Cool Yule, Someday You'll Be Sorry and The Gypsy, for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
Ruth Brown and Willis 'Gator Tail' Jackson play at the Sunset Terrace Ballroom, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Smooth r'n'b pianist Sonny Thompson And His Orchestra record Let's Move for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Billed as 'The Fabulous Blind Singing Star', Ray Charles starts a two-week engagement of three shows nightly, at The Pelican Club, 301 South Rampart St, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Frank Sinatra stars as the footloose and frequently unemployed private eye Rocky Fortune in another episode of his radio series of that name in the USA. This episode is entitled Sister Ellie's Dead.
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