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Stanley Black And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.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 Too Many Husbands.
Jazz vocalist Jo Lennard is still recovering in Boston General Hospital, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe from severe injuries sustained when the coach carrying Mick Mulligan And His Magnolia Jazz Band crashed near Boston a year earlier.
The original version of Shake
Rattle And Roll is recorded by Big Joe
Turner in New York City, USA, for Atlantic Records. At the same
session he records Well All Right.
Faron Young records If You Ain't Lovin' (You Ain't Livin') and If That's The Fashion for Capitol Records in Castle Studio, Tulane Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
The Squadronnaires Dance Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Stanard Ridgway is born in Barstow, California, USA. He is best known as Stan Ridgway, the original lead singer of the band Wall of Voodoo.
Duke Ellington is playing at The Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.B.B.King, The Platters, Johnny Otis, Shirley Gunter, Marvin And Johnny and The Maplighters play to a record-breaking full house at The Savoy Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Louis Jordan and The Robins play at The Trocadera, Los Angeles, California, USA. Two members of The Robins will go on to form The Coasters.Louis Jordan and the Robins play at the Trocadera, Los Angeles, for the last of ten nights.
Elvis Presley fails an audition to play with the house band, Eddie Bond and The Stompers, at the Hi Hat Club, Memphis, Tennessee, and is told he'll never make it as a singer.
Harry Parry And His All-Star Radio Rhythm Band play at the Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.Puerto Rican American songwriter, composer, guitarist and singer Julian Hernandez is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.
At the Pythian Temple studios in New York City, USA, Bill Haley and His Comets record Shake, Rattle and Roll plus A.B.C.Boogie. Their version of Shake, Rattle And Roll has its lyrics radically changed because the original by Big Joe Turner is considered too risqu
Singer Roosevelt Wright with The Billy Tate Band records Bayou Blues, Tia Juana Boogie, Johnnie Mae and Saratoga Stomp for Savoy Records in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The group includes pianist Huey 'Piano' Smith, with drums supplied by the legendary Earl Palmer. None of the tracks will be released.
Danny Cedrone, the session guitarist who played the scintillating solo on Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets, dies when he falls down a flight of stairs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
The Benny Carter Quartet records Moonglow, My One And Only Love, Our Love Is Here To Stay, This Can't Be Love, Tenderly, Unforgettable, Ruby and Moon Song, for Norgran Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Eddie Fisher plays the seventh night of a ten-night season at Cocoanut Grove, The Ambassador Hotel, Hollywood, California, USA.
Sid Phillips And His Band play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.
Sun Records of Memphis, Tennessee, USA, releases That's All Right/Blue Moon Of Kentucky on SUN209 as Elvis Presley's first single.
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The Robins, later to find international fame as The Coasters, play the eighth night of two weeks at The Trocadero, Hollywood, California, USA.
R'n'b/doo-wop group The
Castelles release a new single, Over A Cup Of Coffee, on
Grand
Records in the USA.
R'n'B vocal group The Chords record Zippity Zum, Hold Me Baby and Bless You for Cat Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records, in New York City, USA.
Thelonious Monk And His All-Stars play at The Open Door Club, New York City, USA.
Martin Slavin's Vibrachords record Sweet Georgia Brown, I Surrender Dear, Crazy Rhythm and After You've Gone for Esquire Records in London, UK. The band includes Keith Bird [cl], Martin Slavin [vib], Dill Jones [p], Archie Slavin [g], Joe Muddel [b] and Roy Cooper [d].
Jazz pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines, supported by r'n'b vocal group The Chords, plays the second night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
Jazz pianist Earl 'Fatha' Hines, supported by r'n'b vocal group The Chords, plays the fourth night in a week of shows at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
T-Bone Walker plays the third night of a two-week stay at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
The Lovett Sisters record Little Dirty Face, Bacon And Eggs, Come Home To Me and Mexican Polka, at Jim Beck Studio, 1914 Forest Avenue, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Guitar Slim, Muddy Waters, The Flairs, The Jewels, Marvin And Johnny, Chuck Higgins, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, The Platters and The Robins, later to become The Coasters, play in The Gene Norman Show at The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Torch singer Libby Holman opens with her one-person show, Blues, Ballads And Sin-Songs, at The Bijou Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for twelve performances.
That's All Right, Mama, the first single by Elvis Presley, hits the Top Ten in the Nashville and New Orleans markets, giving Elvis his first hit outside of Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The song is a cover of an r'n'b original by Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup.
Marlene Dietrich plays the last night of three weeks at The Congo Room in The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas. Nevada, USA.
On the Louisiana Hayride radio show in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, Elvis Presley does a commercial for Southern Made Doughnuts.
Eddie Calvert and Winifred Atwell appear in the Daily Mirror Disc Festival at The Empress Hall, London, UK.
Earl Bostic plays the third night of two weeks at The Crystal Lounge on Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Dave Brubeck becomes the second jazz musician ever to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. The first was Louis Armstrong.
Earl Bostic plays the twelfth night of two weeks at The Crystal Lounge on Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Louis Jordan and The Hal Singer Band play the sixth night in a week of shows at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Earl Bostic plays the thirteenth night of two weeks at The Crystal Lounge on Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
New York Supreme court rules that Alan Freed, a deejay for WINS Radio, New York City, USA, can no longer call his show ,'The Moondog Rock And Roll Party', because the blind street composer Louis 'Moondog' Hardin has established that Freed stole the name from him. That night, at P.J.Moriarty's restaurant on Broadway, Freed tells colleagues that he now plans to copyright the term "rock and roll'.
Elvis Presley's debut
single, Blue
Moon Of Kentucky, enters the regional singles chart in Houston, Texas, USA, at No9.
The Feldman Swing Club, said to have been Britain's first jazz club, closes in London, England, UK, Europe. Started in 1942 by the father of jazz pianist Victor Feldman to showcase his talents, artists appearing at the club over the years included Django Reinhardt, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.
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