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Bill Haley And His Comets play at Brooklyn High School, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Also on the bill are Elvis Presley and Pat Boone. Presley is paid $350 for a twenty minute set, and the event is filmed for a teen movie, The Pied Piper Of Cleveland. The movie never materialises.
Harry Belafonte records The Banana Boat Song for RCA Records in Webster Hall, New York City, USA. Although widely regarded as the song that launched the calypso craze, it is in fact in the Jamaican mento style.