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Gimmick song The Purple People Eater by actor/singer Sheb Wooley, reaches No1 in the USA, and remains there for six weeks.
Tommy Edwards records his second version of It's All In The Game at Metropolitan Studios, New York City, USA. At the same session he records Please Love Me Forever and Love Is All We Need.
Jerry Lee Lewis takes a full page ad in Billboard to explain his side of the recent scandal involving his re-marriage to his cousin/child-bride, Myra Gale.
Having been bought from the tiny independent Standard Records, In the Still Of The Night by The Five Satins is released on Ember Records in the USA.
Mercury Records announces that it is stopping production of 78rpm records. [On The Platters recent No1 his single, Twilight Time, 98.2% of sales were on 45rpm discs, and a mere 1.8% on 78rpm.]
Tommy Edwards records his second version of It's All In the Game at Metropolitan Studios, New York City, USA. At the same session he records Please Love Me Forever and Love Is All We Need.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets enter the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart with Rave On, which will peak at No37.