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RCA Records announces that it has re-signed jazzy singing quartet The Ames Brothers to a new five year recording contract.
The Teddy Charles Quartet, with Charles Mingus on bass, record Speak Low, Violetta and other material for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey.
The Squadronnaires Dance Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Edward Lodewijk
The duo Buddy And Bob (Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery), file a new song, I Just Don't Care with their publishers, Ridgeway Music, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Billy Ward And His Dominoes are fulfilling a sixteen-week season at The Sahara, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Les Paul
and Mary Ford appear on the Toast Of The Town Show, broadcast live from New York City, USA, and hosted by Ed
Sullivan.
Big Joe Turner releases a new single, Flip, Flop And Fly, in the USA on Atlantic Records.
Fats Domino plays the second of three nights at the 5-4 Club, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Unchained Melody by Al Hibbler enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA. It will peak at No3 during a nineteen-week run on the chart.
Unchained
Melody by Roy
Hamilton enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA.
It will peak at No6 during a sixteen-week run on the chart.
Blues pianist Champion Jack Dupree records Walking The Blues and Daybreak Blues for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Unchained Melody reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK. The position is achieved by amalgamating sales of versions of the song by Jimmy Young, Al Hibbler and Liberace.
Carmen McRae records You Took Advantage Of Me, My One And Only Love and other tracks for Decca Records in New York City.
On the BBC radio programme Show Band, Cyril Stapleton and Jean Campbell perform Dance With Me Henry.
The Hank Snow All-Star Jamboree, featuring Hank Snow, Mother Maybelle And The Carter Sisters, The Rainbow Ranch Boys, Martha Carson And Her Country Gentlemen, The Davis Sisters (including Skeeter Davis) and The Jimmie Rodgers Show plays in Storey Gymnasium, Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.
Pat Boone enters the Billboard singles chart in the USA with his insipid cover of the Fats Domino track, Ain't That A Shame.
The Harry James Orchestra has a recording session in Los Angeles, California, USA, at which the tracks Jalousie, You Made Me Love You and others are recorded.
Slim Whitman hits No1 in the UK with Rose Marie, and remains there for a record-breaking eleven consecutive weeks.
Johnny Cash records his first version of Folsom Prison Blues at Sun Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Ella Fitzgerald records A Satisfied Mind for Decca Records in New York City, USA.
As a supporting act in the Webb Pierce Package tour, Elvis Presley plays in the Sheffield Community Center, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA. Also on the bill are Johnny Cash and Wanda Jackson.
The Tommy Whittle Quintet records Flamingo, Stars Fell On Alabama, Cherokee, I'll Remember April, You've Done Something To My Heart and A Ghost Of A Chance for Esquire Records in London, UK.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet has a third recording session for the live album Red Hot And Cool in the Basin Street nightclub, New York City, USA.
A Federal District Court judge refuses to order the US State Department to issue a passport to singer Paul Robeson, but implies that one could be issued if Robeson denounces the Communist party. Robeson refuses, and tells reporters, 'Of course I won't sign it. I consider it an invasion of every constitutional liberty I have.'
I Forgot To Remember To Forget/Mystery Train - the final Elvis Presley single on Sun Records - is released in the USA.
Deejay Bob Neal records an interview with Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs record It Won't Be Long for Columbia Records in Bradley Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Blue Star [The Medic Theme] by The Cyril Stapleton Orchestra enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No16. It will peak at No2 during a run of twelve weeks on the chart.
Joe Williams plays live with the Count BasieOrchestra at Birdland, New York City, USA.
Jazz trumpet virtuoso Donald Byrd records Someone To Watch Over Me, Winterset and others, for Savoy Records in the USA.
The Elmo Hope Quartet records Zarou, Georgia On My Mind, Shutout, Yaho and other tracks for the Prestige Records album Hope Meets Foster.
Don't Start Me Talkin' by Sonny Boy Williamson II enters the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA.
Police have to be called in to protect Johnnie Ray from over-enthusiastic fans when he plays a show at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK.
Chuck Berry plays the sixth night of a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Bill Haley and His Comets, Johnnie Ray and LaVern Baker play the fourth night in a five-day run at The Paramount, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
In a package tour called the Lucky Seven Blues Show, Little Willie John, Champion Jack Dupree, Little George Smith and Otis Williams play the fourth night of a week at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
Buddy Holly records Love Me, Don't Come Back Knockin', Moonlight Baby and I Guess I Was Just A Fool, during a recording session at Nesman Studios, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA.
The Cecil Taylor Quartet records its debut album Jazz Advance with producer Tom Wilson for Transition Records in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It will come to be regarded as the first album of a style known variously as New Wave Jazz, avant-garde, free jazz, abstrract jazz and even Anti-jazz.
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