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Buddy Holly and the Crickets record Peggy Sue, Oh Boy, Listen To Me and I'm Gonna Love You Too, at producer Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico, USA.
Suzie Q by Dale Hawkins, with James Burton on guitar, debuts on the Billboard US Top 40. It will peak at No27, and provide a hit again (No11) for Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968.
International Geophysical Year aka I.G.Y. begins, and will run until December 31, 1958. The year (actually 18 months) is intended to signal a new era of international co-operation being made possible by the end of the Cold War. On his 1982 album The Nightfly, Donald Fagen will include the song I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World), expressing the hopes of a young man in the fifties looking forward to a bright new future for the world.
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