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John Barlow Jarvis, country music songwriter, pianist, session player, and recording artist is born in Pasadena, California, USA.
Sid Phillips And His Band begin broadcasting in a new weekly BBC Light Programme show entitled Every Sunday Afternoon.Jean Campbell, lead vocalist with The Keynotes, holds a birthday party at her flat in London, England, UK, Europe. Guests attending include Pearl Carr, Teddy Johnson, Alma Cogan, Joyce Fraser, Johnny Johnston and Dave Carey.
Elvis Presley goes to the Rainbow Rollerdome in Memphis, Tennessee, where he bumps into fourteen year old Dixie Locke. Afterwards, he drives her home. She will become his girlfriend.
Nat Temple's Band plays at The Town Hall, Wembley, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Church of Scientology is incorporated in California, USA. Numerous songs have been inspired by Scientology, a modern
pseudo-religion, regarded by adherents as a genuine faith and a way of life, but by detractors as a transparently money-grubbing brainwashing cult. Frank Zappa's 1979 song A Token of My Extreme
lampoons Scientology, as does Scientology WTF by MC Lars.
I See The Moon by The Stargazers enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK. It will peak at No1 during a run of fifteen weeks on the chart.
Harry Bence and His 19 Piece Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, near Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.Louis Armstrong records The Whiffenpoof Song, Spooks, Trees and Bye And Bye, in New York City, USA.
Jean Patrick, lead singer of late-70s French disco duo Ottawan, is born on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean.
Guitarist/singer Pat Travers is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will find success in the 70s with The Pat Travers Band.
The euphemistically-titled Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard And The Midniters enters the Billboard R + B Singles chart in the USA.
Elvis Presley and his girlfriend Dixie Locke have Easter Dinner with Elvis's parents in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
B.B.King, The Platters, Johnny Otis, Shirley Gunter, Marvin And Johnny and The Maplighters play to a record-breaking full house at The Savoy Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Popular singing star Guy Mitchell arrives in the UK for his third tour of the nation.
Secret Love by Doris Day reaches No1 on the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The song comes from the soundtrack of the movie Calamity Jane.
Rosemary Clooney releases a new single, Hey There in the USA. It will peak at No1 in the Billboard singles chart.
Daniel Grafton Hill IV is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He will find success as singer and songwriter Dan Hill, best-known for the hits Sometimes When We Touch and Can't We Try? (a duet with Vonda Shepard).
Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra record There Will Never Be Another You, Conversation, You Are Too Beautiful, Here's Pete and Shave And A Haircut for Columbia Records in Hollywood, California, USA.
Ava Barber is born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. She will find success as a country music singer and performer, best-remembered for her many performances on The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1970s and early 1980s.
R. W. Blackwood and Bill Lyles of country and gospel music group The Blackwood Brothers, die in a plane crash near Clanton, Alabama, USA.
Patrick Cusack, later to become Pete Briquette, bassist of the Boomtown Rats, is born in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, Ireland.
Johnny Cash is honourably discharged from the US Air Force in Germany, Europe, with the rank of Staff Sergeant.
The Robins, later to find international fame as The Coasters, play the eleventh night of two weeks at The Trocadero, Hollywood, California, USA.
Sh-Boom by The Crew-Cuts becomes the fastest-moving record to reach the Billboard magazine Top Ten Singles Chart, taking just three weeks from release. The song is a cover of an original version by black r'n'b group The Chords.
R'n'B vocal group The Chords record Zippity Zum, Hold Me Baby and Bless You for Cat Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records, in New York City, USA.
T-Bone Walker plays the third night of a two-week stay at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Witherspoon and Floyd Dixon play the last of three nights as part of a Battle Of The Bands at the Savoy Ballroom, Los Angeles, California, USA.
T-Bone Walker plays the thirteenth night of a two-week stay at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Musical comedy The Boy Friend, with songs by Sandy Wilson, opens at The Royale Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 485 performances. This show marks the Broadway debut of Julie Andrews, and also features English singer Millicent Martin.
Earth Angel, formerly a B-side by doo-wop group The Penguins, begins being re-promoted as an A-side, in the USA on DooTone Records.
R'n'b saxophone star Earl Bostic records Sweet Lorraine in Los Angeles, California, USA. On the same day, Elvis Presley plays at the Silver Slipper, Atlanta, Georgia.
New Orleans group The Hawks record These Blues, It's Too Late Now, School Girl and I Want My Loving Now for Post Records, a subsidiary of Imperial Records.
Jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader Hot Lips Page dies aged 46 in New York City, USA. He had suffered a heart attack seven days earlier, but his death was caused by complications from pneumonia.Earl Bostic plays the first night of two weeks at The Crystal Lounge on Grand River Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Eddie Calvert and Winifred Atwell appear in the Daily Mirror Disc Festival at The Empress Hall, London, UK.
Frank Sinatra signs a recording agreement with Capitol Records about the use of his recordings of White Christmas and The Christmas Waltz in an album entitled Merry Christmas To You.
Nolan Strong And The Diablos play the ninth night of three weeks at The Madison Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Louis Jordan and The Hal Singer Band play the fifth night in a week of shows at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York City, USA.
The Clovers, The Joe Morris Orchestra and Al Savage play the final night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
Kip Hanrahan, jazz percussionist, bandleader and recording artist, is born in The Bronx, New York City, USA.
The Chris Barber Jazz Band plays a live session in London, UK, for the BBC Radio broadcast British Jazz. Songs performed in the session include After You've Gone.
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