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1955
Harry Belafonte begins recording his second LP, Belafonte, for RCA Victor at RCA Victor's Manhattan Center and 24th Street Studios, New York City, USA. It will become the first number one on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, topping the chart for six weeks.
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1955
Maybellene by Chuck Berry enters the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart at No13.
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1955
Stan Wilson records Walter Winchell, Kitch, The Fox and other tracks for the Clef Records album A Recital By Stan Wilson, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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1955
An advance team from Twentieth Century Fox arrives in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA, to begin pre-production work on the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
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1955
Seventeen by Boyd Bennett on King Records rises from No11 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA to No6. On the same day, another version of Seventeen, by Rusty Draper on Mercury Records enters the chart at No24.
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1955
Elvis Presley plays in Bear Stadium, Gladewater, Texas, USA, to an audience of twenty people. While in town, he records a commercial for KSIJ Radio.
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1955
The film Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, starring Jennifer Jones and William Holden, is released to cinemas in the USA. The title song will win an Academy Award as Best Song.
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