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Patricia Lee Ramey is born in Pikeville, Kentucky, USA. She will find success as country-rock singer and recording artist Patty Loveless.
Clyde McPhatter, Mickey And Sylvia, The Channels, The Heartbeats, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Jesse Belvin, The Teenchords and Sil Austin play the sixth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Dickie Valentine experiences throat problems while starring in the pantomime Aladdin, at The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, UK. He is obliged to drop ballads from his performance.
Elvis Presley records That's When Your Heartaches Begin at RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
During their first Australian tour, Bill Haley And His Comets fly from Adelaide to Melbourne. Haley, suffering from a throat infection, is given a shot of penicillin and retires to bed.
Jody Williams [with Willie Dixon on bass] records Lucky Lou for Argo Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The track will be released as the b-side of the single You May under Williams' pseudonym Little Joe Lee. Otis Rush will copy the intro from Lucky Lou for his 1958 Cobra Records track All Your Love [I Miss Loving] and Fleetwood Mac will adapt it to provide the basis of their song Black Magic Woman.

Noah Kaminsky of Brooklyn, New York City, gets a brand new guitar for his sixteenth birthday. It will help him along the road to becoming Neil Diamond.
The Mick Mulligan Band plays the second of two nights in Liverpool, UK, supported by Jimmy Jackson and His Skiffle Group.
Jazz pianist, composer and arranger Cliff Korman is born in New York City, USA.
William MacArthur MacKenzie is born in Dundee, Scotland, UK, Europe. He will find success as Billy Mackenzie of The Associates.
When pianist Winifred Atwell begins a UK tv series, it is estimated that one quarter of the population watches the first show.
Ruby Murray and Ken Platt play at The Gaumont, Doncaster, UK.
Pat Boone makes a live appearance on NBC-tv's Perry Como Show in the USA.
Bill Haley and His Comets are the musical guests on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan Show, recorded in New York City, USA.
The Coasters play the last of three nights at The Broadway Capitol Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, with Faye Adams, Jack Scott, Johnny And Joe, Amos Milburn, Johnny Janis and The Red Prysock Combo.
Elvis Presley is in Culver City, California, USA, preparing for his next MGM film, Jailhouse Rock.
A Sun Records package tour featuring Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson and Johnny Cash plays in Saskatoon, Manitoba, Canada.
The Prisonaires, a group of convicts with a hit single, Just Walkin' In The Rain, are given an award while still serving time in the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets appear live on the tv show Ray Bolger's Washington Square Show in the USA.
The Platters and Lonnie Donegan play the last night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
Production begins on the next Elvis Presley movie, Jailhouse Rock, at the Culver City, California studios of MGM.
Tommy Steele continues with a season at The Dominion, London, UK, supported by Freddie Bell And The Bellboys.
Ivory Joe Hunter plays the fourth night in a week of shows at the Casino Royal, Washington, DC, USA.
The Kingston Trio play the second of two nights at the Purple Onion club, San Francisco, California, USA.
The animated Bugs Bunny musical short What's Opera Doc? is released to cinemas in the USA by Warner Brothers.
After his band The Quarrymen finishes a set at St Peter's Church fete in Woolton, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, John Lennon meets Paul McCartney, his future partner in The Beatles. This meeting will inspire singer-songwriter Steve Forbert to write his song You'd See The Things That I See, which is an attempt to imagine what John Lennon might have been thinking after meeting Paul McCartney.
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Teen crooner Paul Anka's debut single, Diana, is released to radio stations in the USA on ABC Records. (1957)
When Little Richard plays at the Cotton Club, Lubbock, Texas, USA, local singer Buddy Holly is in the audience.
The British film A Touch Of The Sun, starring comedian Frankie Howerd and Irish singing star Ruby Murray is released in Finland.
Charlie Gracie plays at The Gaumont, Southampton, UK, supported by Shirley Bassey and Ted Heath And His Music.
Diana, the debut single by Paul Anka begins a marathon nine weeks at No1 in the UK pop singles chart.
Carol Decker, vocalist with 80s hitmakers T'Pau, is born in Liverpool, UK.
Dinah Washington records the Fats Waller compositions Honeysuckle Rose and Ain't Misbehavin' [I'm Saving My Love For You] at Fine Recording Studios, New York City, USA. The tracks will appear on her Mercury Records album Dinah Washington Sings Fats Waller.
Hugely popular American singer Paul Robeson performs several songs via telephone from a studio in New York City, USA, to an audience of 5,000 people in The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, Wales, UK. At this time, Robeson was, in Pete Seeger's words, "the most blacklisted performer in America", effectively silenced in his home country because of his defiant political stance against racism. The US state department had confiscated his passport, so he could not travel abroad, but he had a devoted audience in Wales who identified with his struggles.
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Louis Armstrong and the All Stars play a benefit concert for the National Tuberculosis Association at the Orpheum Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Newly launched UK rock'n'roller Marty Wilde debuts on the tv show Off The Record.
The Mills Brothers and The Sparkletones are the musical guests on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan Show, recorded in New York City, USA.
Julian Cope is born in Deri, Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He will find fame as leader of Liverpool band The Teardrop Explodes, before going on to a long and varied solo career as a songwriter, performer, producer, recording artist and author.
Around The World by Bing Crosby enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA at No25, but will rise no higher.
Patsy Cline sings Too Many Secrets and Come On In, on US tv's Arthur Godfrey Show.
Mose Allison records Mojo Woman, Town and Carnival for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Songwriter Gretchen Peters is born in Bronxville, New York Sate, USA. She will compose Faith Hill's The Secret Of Life, Martina McBride's Independence Day, Patty Loveless' You Don't Even Know Who I Am and Pam Tillis' Let That Pony Run. She will also pursue a career as a performer in her own right.
Alone [Why Must I Be Alone] by The Shepherd Sisters enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No27. It will peak at No14 during a six-week run on the chart.
The Coasters play the third night of a week at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., USA, with The Hollywood Flames and the Ernie Freeman Combo.
The Crickets, a quartet from Texas which includes Buddy Holly in its line-up, release their debut album, The Chirping Crickets, in the USA on Brunswick Records.
Ray Charles and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, play at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Doo-wop combo The Moonglows record The Ten Commandments of Love for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Hey School Girl, by little known New York City duo Tom And Jerry is released. The song is a flop, but when the pair change their name to Simon And Garfunkel in the mid-sixties, they will become one of the world's top acts.
Gene Vincent And His Blue Caps perform Dance To The Bop on tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the USA.
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