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Liverpool-born hitmaker Frankie Vaughan enters the UK singles chart with Man On Fire/Wanderin' Eyes, which will peak at No6 during a twelve-week run.
Jackie Wilson appears on tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the USA, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
The space race begins as the Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite. Weighing 83.6kg, Sputnik 1 was about the size of a beach ball and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. The event also triggered the imagination of many songwriters, first of whom was probably Jerry Engler with his song Sputnik, but there were others including Sputniks And Mutniks, Sputnik Baby, Sputnik Dance and Satellite Baby.
The space race begins as the Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite. Weighing 83.6kg, Sputnik 1 was about the size of a beach ball and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. The event also triggered the imaginations of many songwriters and artists, first of whom was probably rockabilly vocalist Skip Stanley with Satellite Baby (1956), but there were others including Sputnik Baby by Roosevelt Sykes (1957), Sputnik Dance (1958) by The Equadors and Jerry Engler with Sputnik (Satellite Girl) (1958).
Liverpool-born hitmaker Frankie Vaughan enters the UK singles chart with Man On Fire/Wanderin' Eyes, which will peak at No6 during a twelve-week run.
UK weekly music newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] announces the results of its 1957 popularity poll, showing Pat Boone as the World's Outstanding Male Singer, with Elvis Presley second. On the same day, Jackie Wilson appears on US tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
Jackie Wilson appears on US tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
Liverpool-born hitmaker Frankie Vaughan enters the UK singles chart with Man On Fire/Wanderin' Eyes, which will peak at No6 during a twelve-week run.
Dinah Washington records the Fats Waller compositions Everybody Loves My Baby and Black And Blue, at Fine Recording Studios, New York City, USA. The tracks will appear on her Mercury Records album Dinah Washington Sings Fats Waller.
UK weekly music newspaper the NME (New Musical Express) announces the results of its 1957 popularity poll, showing Pat Boone as the World's Outstanding Male Singer, with Elvis Presley second. On the same day, Jackie Wilson appears on US tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
Party by Elvis Presley enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No2 during a fifteen-week run.