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The Dream Weavers are the musical guests on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan Show, recorded in New York City, USA.
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby record Well Did You Evah for Capitol Records in Capitol Studio A, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
British music weekly the NME [New Musical Express] notes that less than a year after taking over as manager of the Parlophone label in London, UK, record producer George Martin has placed three discs in the Top 20 Singles Chart at the same time - Eve Boswell's Pickin' A Chicken, Dick James' Robin Hood and Eamonn Andrews' The Shifting Whispering Sands.
Ray Humphreys And His Orchestra with "Singing Star" Mavis Jones play at Bootle Town Hall, Bootle, Liverpool, UK.
In UK pop newspaper the NME [New Musical Express], Geoffrey Everitt reviews Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel with the words "... if you appreciate good singing, I don't suppose you'll manage to hear this all the way through."
Big Joe Turner records Corrine Corrina for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
Frank Sinatra records Don't Like Goodbyes, at Capitol Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA, with orchestral accompaniment directed by Nelson Riddle.
Julie Andrews opens in My Fair Lady, which will become the longest running Broadway musical up to its time, continuing for 2,717 performances.
Bill
Haley And His Comets record Blue Comet Blues, Calling All
Comets and Choo Choo Ch'Boogie for Decca Records at
The Pythian Temple Studio, 135 West 70th Street, New York City, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald records Night And Day, The End Of A Beautiful Friendship, You're The Top, I Concentrate On You, I Had To Find Out For Myself and Let's Do It for Verve Records at Capitol Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Asa Carter of the North Alabama White Citizens' Council, announces that rock'n'roll, which he regards as an 'immoral' music, is a plot hatched by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. With this in mind, he begins a campaign to get radio stations to ban rock'n'roll records.
No Other Love by Ronnie Hilton reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK.
Elvis Presley's cover version of the Carl Perkins song Blue Suede Shoes is released in the UK on RCA Records.
Chuck Berry plays the fifth of six nights at the Rock And Roll Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Twenty-five fans are hospitalised after fights break out at a rock'n'roll concert by Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers in The Convention Center, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
Ruby Murray opens in the summer show Light Up The Town at The Hippodrome, Brighton, UK.
Louis Armstrong And His All-Stars play the first of four non-consecutive nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, USA.
UK skiffle star Lonnie Donegan records his version of the Leadbelly song Bring A Little Water Sylvie and Dead Or Alive, in London, UK.
The Ravens release a new single, Kneel And Pray on Argo Records [a subsidiary of Chess Records] in the USA.
Jazz guitar virtuoso Barney Kessel And His Orchestra record Makin' Whoopee, Fascinating Rhythm and other tracks in Los Angeles, California, for Contemporary Records.
Janis Martin releases a new single, My Boy Elvis on RCA Victor Records in the USA.
The Miles Davis Quintet records All Of You and other tracks at Columbia Records studios in New York City.
Bill Haley And His Comets play the last of three nights at the North Carolina State Fair, Castonia, North Carolina, USA.
Lloyd Price plays the second night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington DC, USA, supported by Mickey And Sylvia.
When Little Willie John, Big Joe Turner, Big Jay McNeely and The Five Keys play at The Greystone, Detroit, Michigan, USA, Dinah Washington makes a guest appearance.
Billy Ward And His Dominoes play the second night of a week at Zardi's Jazzland, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Guitar Slim plays the third night of a week at The Palms Club, Hallendale, Florida, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets play the second of three nights at the New Jersey State Fair, Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
Freddie Randall (aka Freddy Randall) And His Band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe.
Songwriter Preston Foster, aka Red Foster, files a claim to copyright as author of his song I've Got My Mojo Working. The song will provide a major hit for Muddy Waters and will become the subject of a long drawn out copyright dispute.
Scarlet Starnes, The Swans and The Dewey Bush Trio play at The Hines Farm Blues Club, Swanton, Ohio, USA.
The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield, and with music by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, The Platters, Gene Vincent and others, goes on general release in the USA.
Movie musical
Dinah Washington records Makin' Whoopee at Mercury Sound Studio, New York City, USA. The track is arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.
American music trade magazine Billboard reports that impresario Norman Granz has recently signed Woody Herman to a new three-year contract, and has also signed a deal with veteran New Orleans jazz trombonist Kid Ory.
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No19 during a four-week run.
Johnny Dankworth And His Orchestra, with Cleo Laine on vocals, play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
UK popular music newspaper Melody Maker reports that American bandleader and recording artist Earl Bostic has recovered from his recent heart attack.
UK popular music newspaper Melody Maker reports that US bandleader and recording artist Earl Bostic has recovered from his recent heart attack.
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