Events in Music
- Jan 6 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
- Jan 27 Leonard Bernstein's musical "Peter Pan", starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 320 performances
- Jan 29 "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances
- Feb 3 "Victor Borge Show" debuts on NBC TV
- Feb 10 "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg, a parody of daytime soap operas which had only two voices repeating each other's names, peaks at #21 in the USA
- Feb 24 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
- Feb 25 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden, NYC, after 278 performances
- Mar 10 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
- Mar 25 5th Tony Awards: "Guys & Dolls" (musical) and "The Rose Tattoo" (play) win
- Mar 27 Frank Sinatra records "I'm a Fool to Want You"
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John MellencampMusicians Married in 1951
- Jan 8 American actor Burgess Meredith (43) weds Swedish-American ballerina Kaja Sundsten
- Apr 3 Actress and singer Doris Day (29) marries producer Martin Melcher (35) in Burbank, California
- Jul 31 Musician Ray Charles (20) weds Eileen Williams in Georgia
Musicians Divorces in 1951
- Oct 29 Singer and actor Frank Sinatra and 1st wife Nancy (Barbato) divorce due to infidelity after 12 years of marriage
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Arnold Schoenberg
Mildred Bailey
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