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Alan Freed's two-week long Rock'n'Roll Holiday Jubilee comes to an end at the Academy of Music, New York City, USA, featuring Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra, Lavern Baker, Teddy Randazzo And the Three Chuckles, Richard Barrett and the Valentines, Boyd Bennett And The Rockets, Earl Carroll And The Cadillacs, The Bonnie Sisters, Gloria Mann, James Sheppard And The Heartbeats, The Wrens and Don Cherry.
Bernard Sumner is born in Manchester, UK. He will find success as the guitarist in Joy Division and guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer with New Order.
Kenny Baker and Friends record Time's A Wastin', Three Little Words and Blues For John, for Nixa Records in London, UK.
British music weekly the NME [New Musical Express] notes that less than a year after taking over as manager of the Parlophone label in London, UK, record producer George Martin has placed three discs in the Top 20 Singles Chart at the same time - Eve Boswell's Pickin' A Chicken, Dick James' Robin Hood and Eamonn Andrews' The Shifting Whispering Sands.
It's Almost Tomorrow by The Dreamweavers enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No16. It will peak at No1 during a run of eighteen weeks on the chart.
Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins makes its debut on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart in the USA at No28.
The Four Lads record Standing On the Corner for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.
My September Love by David Whitfield enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No19. It will peak at No3 during a 24-week run on the chart.
Tennessee Ernie Ford releases the album This Lusty Land, in the USA on Capitol Records.
The Ronnie Scott Orchestra plays at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, UK, Europe.Elvis Presley returns to the Dorsey Brothers tv show in New York City, USA, after just one month, performing Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel. On the same day, I Was The One by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard US Best-Selling Singles chart, where it will peak at No19 during a ten-week run.
Having been deposed for one week by Kay Starr's Rock And Roll Waltz, Les Baxter returns to No1 in the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with The Poor People Of Paris.
Elvis Presley arrives at The Mount Vernon, a floating palace of entertainment with its own live band and ballroom, on the Potomac River in Washington DC, USA, to perform a concert during a cruise. The vessel, however had recently blown a steam pressure valve, so had to remain at the pier. Nevertheless, Elvis plays a three hour show.
Elvis Presley spends the first of three days screen-testing for film producer Hal Wallis at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, USA. During the test Presley will perform two scenes from The Rainmaker and will lip-sync to Blue Suede Shoes. Wallis' partner, Joe Hazen, comments, "As a straight actor, the guy has great potentialities."
Elvis Presley makes a live appearance on the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ruth Brown, Little Willie John, The Clovers, The Cadillacs, The Turbans, The Sweethearts, Al Jackson and Joe Medlin with Choker Campbell And His Big Band, play in the Rhythm'n'Blues Of 1956 package tour at the National Guard Armory, Washington, DC, USA.
Gene Vincent begins a recording session at Owen
Bradley's Nashville, Tennessee, USA, studio, at which he records Be-Bop-A-Lula, Race With The Devil, I Sure Miss You and Woman Love.
Gene Vincent begins a recording session at Owen Bradley's Nashville, Tennessee, studio, at which he records Be-Bop-A-Lula, Race With The Devil, I Sure Miss You and Woman Love.
The Ink Spots appear on UK tv show Sunday Night At The London Palladium, but are criticised in the music press for relying entirely on old hits.
The Johnny
Burnette Trio record their first tracks for Coral Records, including Tear
It Up, Midnight Train and
Shattered
Dreams at the Pythian Temple Studio, New York City, USA.
Filming begins on the Columbia Pictures movie musical Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! starring Perez Prado, Stephen Dunne, The Mary Kaye Trio, Helen Grayco, Luis Arcaraz And His Orchestra, Lucerto Bárcenas and Manny López And His Orchestra.Vee Jay Records of Chicago, Illinois, USA, signs Sonny Til And The Orioles to a recording contract.
My September Love by David Whitfield peaks at No3 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a 24-week run on the chart.Elvis Presley's cover version of the Carl Perkins song Blue Suede Shoes is released in the UK on RCA Records.
R'n'B pianist Bill Doggett records his classic Honky
Tonk for King Records in
New York City, USA. This is widely considered to be the first
rock'n'roll instrumental hit.
Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry enters the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA.
I'm In Love Again by Fats Domino on Imperial Records reaches No1 on the Billboard R'n'B singles chart in the USA and No3 on the pop chart.
R'n'b vocal group Artie Wilkins and The Palms record Going Home To My Baby, Traveling Blues and others at Boulevard Studios, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The Blues Jubilee at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA, features Fats Domino, Clyde McPhatter, The Coasters, The Six Teens, The Teen Queens, The Turks and Oscar McLollie.
Sun Records of Memphis, Tennessee, releases four new singles in the USA, as follows : Malcolm Yelvington - Rockin With My Baby, Sonny Burgess - Red Headed Woman, The Rhythm Rockers - Fiddle Bop and Carl Perkins - I'm Sorry I'm Not Sorry.
British comedy team The Goons (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe) record a rock'n'roll parody, Bloodnock's Rock And Roll Call, for Decca Records in London.
Big Jay McNeely plays the fifth night in a week long residency at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Ruth Brown plays the second night in a week of shows at The Palms Club, Hallendale, Florida USA.
Fats Domino, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, The Harptones, Joe Turner, The Cleftones and The Penguins play the first of nine days as part of Alan Freed's Second Anniversary Rock And Roll Show at the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City.
Soul vocalist Jaki Graham, best-known for her duets with David Grant, is born in Birmingham, UK
Louis Jordan plays the third night of a week at the Flame Show Bar in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
R'n'b pianist Bill Doggett records Leaps And Bounds for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Rockabilly artist Glen Glenn records No-One Dear But You, It Rains Rain and A Hundred Years From Now, at the Garrison Recording Studio, Long Beach, California, USA.
Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps play the fourth night of a week at the Casino Royal, Washington DC, USA.
Guitar Slim plays the fifth night of a week at The Palms Club, Hallendale, Florida, USA.
The Maddox Brothers And Rose release a new single, The Death Of Rock And Roll in the USA, on Columbia Records.
Roy Milton plays the third night of a week at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Joe Mauldin, who will become one of Buddy Holly's group The Crickets, buys an upright acoustic double-bass from Delahunty's Horn Shop, Lubbock, Texas.
The F.B.I. office in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, sends a coded teletype message to F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, stating that "Colonel Carl E. Heustis, chief of Police, Louisville, Kentucky, this day advised that Elvis Presley and Bill Haley and his Comets, rivals for the attention of quote rock and roll unquote fans, are simultaneously booked for appearances at the Jefferson County Armoury and the Kentucky State Fairground Exposition Center November 25 next. Colonel Heustis advised he has received information that there have been riots at Jersey City, New Jersey, Asbury Park, New Jersey, Santa Cruz, Santa Jose, California, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. and Jacksonville, Florida, as a result of such simultaneous appearances. Riots reportedly resulted in many thousands of dollars property damage. Colonel Heustis requested information from this bureau regarding any such riots in an effort to prevent such recurrences here."
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