06-23 - Eddy Arnold's #1 single "I Wanna Play House with You" charted
06-28 - First performance of Leroy Anderson's Blue Tango. Decca recording session with Anderson conducting. Became No. 1 on Billboard pop chart and received a Gold Record award in 1952 as the first instrumental record to sell over one million copies.
06-29 - First performance of Leroy Anderson's Plink, Plank, Plunk! and Fiddle-Faddle. Anderson conducting on his birthday at a Decca recording session in NYC.
07-11 - Disc jockey and music promoter Alan Freed broadcasts his first Rhythm and blues radio programme from station WJW in Cleveland, Ohio
08-11 - Hank Williams' "Hey, Good Lookin'" went No. 1
08-13 - Webb Pierce recorded four songs, including his first No. 1, "Wondering"
08-15 - Composer Bill Russo records A Recital in New American Music
08-15 - Grandpa Jones recorded "You Done Me Mean And Hateful" and "Fifteen Cents Is All I Got"
08-22 - Hank Snow involved in serious automobile accident in Nashville, Tenn.
08-24 - Vibraphonist Milt Jackson records Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea with pianist John Lewis, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Kenny Clarke
08-30 - Merle Travis recorded four tracks, including "Done Rovin'"
09-11 - September 11 - The Rake's Progress, an opera by Igor Stravinsky with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres in Venice, conducted by the composer
09-11 - Premiere of Stravinsky's opera, "The Rake's Progress," in Venice at the Teatro della Fenice, conducted by the composer; According to Opera America, this is one of the most frequently-produced American operas during the past decade
12-11 - Duke Ellington records The Controversial Suite
