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The Three Flames are playing during a five year engagement at The Bon Soir, New York City, USA.Lloyd Price scores his first Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart hit in the USA, when Just Because enters the chart, where it will peak at No29 during a run of six weeks on the chart. The song's melody is inspired by A Little Word (1956) recorded by fellow New Orleans-based performers, Shirley And Lee. Looking further back, the melody of A Little Word is clearly derived from the aria Caro Nome in the 1851 opera Rigoletto by Verdi
All Shook Up by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on its way to No1 in the USA.
Dave Shand And His Modern Music play at the Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent by Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers enters the UK's singles chart.
Izzy Young opens The Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. His first customers are said to have been Harry Belafonte and Burl Ives.
Jimmy Page, aged 13, makes his first appearance on tv, performing Mama Don't Allow and Cotton Fields with The JG Skiffle Group, on the BBC tv show All Your Own. He will go on to find success as lead guitarist with The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin.
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Heart by Max Bygraves enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No18. It will peak at No14, during a run of eight weeks on the chart.
Heart by Max Bygraves enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No18. It will peak at No14 during a run of eight weeks on the chart.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the sixth night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
All Shook Up by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard US Hot 100 singles chart on its way to No1.
I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent by Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers enters the singles chart in the UK.