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22-year-old Frankie Baker shoots her lover, Allen Britt [aka Albert Britt] in an apartment at 212 Targee Street, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, for cheating on her with another woman, Nellie Bly [aka Alice Pryor]. Britt will die four days later and the incident will become the basis of the song Frankie And Johnny, which has been recorded in over 250 versions by artists including Jimmie Rodgers (The Singing Brakeman), Lead Belly, Big Bill Broonzy, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, Mississippi John Hurt, Charlie Patton, Taj Mahal, Sam Cooke, Lena Horne, Lonnie Donegan, Bob Dylan, Brook Benton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Fats Waller, Van Morrison, Brook Benton, Lindsay Lohan, Jack Johnson and Stevie Wonder.
Blues-jazz vocalist Margaret Webster records You've Got To Give Me Some, for Okeh Records in New York City, USA, with Charlie Green on trumpet, Clarence Williams on piano and Floyd Casey on washboard.
Big Bill Broonzy records Key To The Highway for Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The track also features harmonica virtuoso Bill 'Jazz' Gillum and Washboard Sam.
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen record Isle Of Capri and St. Phillip Street Breakdown for Decca Records in London, England, UK, Europe. Lonnie Donegan plays banjo on this recording session.
Ken Colyer's Jazzmen And Skiffle Group, featuring Chris Barber, Monty Sunshine and Lonnie Donegan, play at The Festival Hall, London, UK.
Having recently left Ken Colyer's Jazzmen And Skiffle Group, jazz trombonist Chris Barber forms his own group, Chris Barber's Jazz band in London, UK.
During an American tour, UK skiffle king Lonnie Donegan is backed by the Johnny Burnette Trio for a show in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
UK skiffle star Lonnie Donegan records his version of the Leadbelly song Bring A Little Water Sylvie, in London, UK.
skiffle king Lonnie Donegan plays at The Empire, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, local teenager Paul McCartney (later of The Beatles) is in the audience, and is inspired to learn to play the guitar.
When British
Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group play at
The Alhambra, Bradford, UK, with Billy Baxter and Mundy And
Earle.
Skiffle Session. It will begin broadcasts six months later.
BBC Radio producer Jimmy Grant proposes a new fifteen to twenty minute series called
The Platters and Lonnie Donegan play the eighth night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
The Platters and Lonnie Donegan play the thirteenth night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
Saturday Skiffle Club, is broadcast for the first time in the UK. The show has a weekly budget of £55. In October 1958 the show will be re-named Saturday Club and extended to two hours.
A new one-hour-long BBC radio show,
Lonnie Donegan stars in the Skiffle Sensation of 1957 Show at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Also on the bill are Chas McDevitt with Nancy Whiskey, The Avon Cities Jazz Band, Bob Cort, and the Cy Laurie Jazz 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.
After his band
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Terry Dene plays at The Granada, Walthamstowe, UK, supported by the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey and Les Hobeaux.
The Rattlesnakes, a skiffle group including Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb [later to become the Bee Gees] have their first professional gig - a ten-minute slot singing Everly Brothers covers - at The Gaumont Cinema, Chorlton, Manchester, UK.
Guitarist George Harrison plays Raunchy during a Quarrymen gig at The Morgue Skiffle Cellar, Liverpool, UK. Harrison and other members of the band will find greater success when they become The Beatles.
The Treniers, The Chas McDevitt Group, The Hedley Ward Trio and Terry Wayne play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK.
The Treniers, The Chas McDevitt Group, The Hedley Ward Trio and Terry Wayne play at The Gaumont, Doncaster, UK.
The Treniers, play at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, with The Hedley Ward Trio, The Chas McDevitt Group and Terry Wayne. [Jerry Lee Lewis was billed to headline but had to pull out when a scandal erupted over his under-age wife.]
Liverpool, UK, skiffle group The Quarrymen play their first live show with new guitarist George Harrison, who will find greater success as a member of The Beatles.
Terry Dene, Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band, Johnny Duncan and his Blue Grass Boys and Russell Quaye's City Ramblers appear on UK radio show Saturday Club.
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Terry Dene, Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band, Johnny Duncan And His Blue Grass Boys and Russell Quaye's City Ramblers appear on UK radio show Saturday Club.
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The second day of the The Newport Folk Festival takes place in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Acts appearing at the two-day event include Odetta, Pete Seeger, Tommy Clancy, Earl Scruggs, John Jacob Niles, Jean Ricthie, Ed McCurdy, Joan Baez and The New Lost City Ramblers.
Chas McDevitt Group, featuring Shirley Douglas, plays in the Big Beat Dance Of 1959 at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, England, UK, Europe, supported by Vince Taylor, Leroy Powell and The Beatnicks.
The
In Liverpool, UK, skiffle group The Quarrymen audition for the Carroll Levis Search For A Star tv show, and change their name
to Johnny
and the Moondogs. After a couple of further name changes, they
will become The
Beatles.
Adam Faith, Bert Weedon, Wally Whyton, Lorie Mann, The Trebletones and Tommy Sanderson are the musical guests appearing live on the BBC Light Programme show Easy Beat, hosted by Brian Matthew, and recorded in The Playhouse Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Elizabeth Cotten, Jean Ritchie, The Greenbriar Boys and The New Lost City Ramblers play at 13 Astor Place, New York City, USA.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows play at The Gaumont, Bradford, UK, supported by The Brook Brothers, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Hunters and Dave Sampson.

Billy Fury And The Blue Flames, Valerie Masters, The Karl Denver Trio, The Allisons, Bobby Angelo And The Tuxedos, Tommy Sanderson And The Sandmen and Bob Wallis And His Storyville Jazzmen are the musical guests on the BBC Light Programme radio show Saturday Club in London, England, UK, Europe.
Gene Vincent, Johnny Kidd And The Pirates, Johnny Duncan And The Bluegrass Boys, Jess Conrad and Sounds Incorporated play at The Adelphi, West Bromwich, England, UK, Europe. The show is promoted by Don Arden.
Swinging Blue Jeans) and Gerry And The Pacemakers play an evening show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The
Danny Williams, Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, The Viscounts, Rose Brennan, Ray Pilgrim, Arthur Greenslade And The Gee-Men,
Tommy Sanderson And The Sandmen and Bob Wallis And His Storyville Jazzmen provide the live music on the BBC Light Programme radio show Saturday Club, from London, England, UK, Eujrope.
Swinging Blue Jeans], The Searchers and Eric Allandale's New Orleans Knights play an evening show at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
The Swinging Blue Genes [later to become The
Chubby Checker, The Brook Brothers, The Kestrels, Susan Singer, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Gary Edwards Combo, The
Semi-Tones and The Red Price Orchestra play in The Twist Spectacular at The Odeon, Leeds, UK.
Chubby Checker, The Brook Brothers, The Kestrels, Susan Singer, Chas McDevitt And Shirley Douglas, The Gary Edwards Combo, The Semi-Tones and The Red Price Orchestra play at the ABC, Hull, UK.
Billy Fury, Eden Kane, Karl Denver, Joe Brown And The Bruvvers, The Allisons, Tommy Bruce, Chas McDevitt And Nancy Whiskey, Peter Jay And The Jaywalkers, Dave Sampson, The Viscounts, Gordon Peters and Terry Hale play at The Empire Theatre, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe.
St. Louis Jimmy records Going Down Slow in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Spivey Records. His backing band consists of Willie Dixon, Homesick James, Washboard Sam and Evans Spencer.
Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames play at The Flamingo Club, Soho, London, England, UK, Europe. Support is by The Tridents, featuring future rock guitar hero Jeff Beck, who then go on to an all-nighter at Ken Colyer's Studio 51, Soho, London.
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