Editing 1952 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[February 26]] – Popular American singer [[Jo Stafford]] marries bandleader/arranger [[Paul Weston]].<ref>{{cite book|title=TV Personalities: Biographical Sketch Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=09gQAAAAIAAJ|year=1954|publisher=TV Personalities|page=13}}</ref>
*[[March 1]] – [[Sun Records]] records its first release in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Reagan Wilson|author2=William R. Ferris|title=Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature-Recreation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlWPAopfSdAC|year=1991|publisher=Anchor Books|isbn=978-0-385-41547-7|page=428}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – ''[[New Musical Express]]'' is launched as a weekly newspaper in the United Kingdom.
*[[March 21]] – First major [[rock and roll]] concert, [[Alan Freed]]'s [[Moondog Coronation Ball]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], United States.
*[[May 31]] – [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] is set up by the government of [[India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sections/drama|title=Drama|website=Sangeet Natak Akademi|access-date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
*c. July – Finnish composer [[Aarre Merikanto]] wins the Olympic hymn competition.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ruth-Esther Hillila|author2=Barbara Blanchard Hong|title=Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUQDFlj1ykkC&pg=PA226|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27728-3|pages=226}}</ref>
*[[August 29]] – [[David Tudor]] gives the premiere of [[John Cage]]'s ''[[4′33″]]'', during which the performer does not play, in [[Woodstock, New York]].
*September – Bill Haley and His Saddlemen change their image to become [[Bill Haley & His Comets]].
*[[October 7]] – First edition of ''[[Bob Horn (broadcaster)|Bob Horn]]'s Bandstand'' is broadcast as a local show from station WFIL-TV in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. It is later renamed ''[[American Bandstand]]'' and syndicated.
*[[November 14]] – The first [[UK Singles Chart]] is published by the ''[[NME|New Musical Express]]'', with [[Al Martino]]'s "[[Here in My Heart]]" as number one.
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**Jazz singer [[Ernesto Bonino]] moves from [[Italy]] to the [[United States]].
**[[Accordionist]] [[John Serry Sr.]] first performs in [[Broadway theatre]] with [[Shirley Booth]] in ''[[The Time of the Cuckoo]]''.