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Despite their leader suffering from a fever, Bill Haley and The Comets play the second of two nights in The Tivoli Theatre, Adelaide, Australia.
Lita Roza appears on the ATV show Saturday Spectacular, with Peter Sellers, in the UK.
Louis Prima And His Orchestra record When You're Smiling/The Sheik Of Araby, for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
At Chess Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Chuck Berry records School Days, Deep Feeling, La Juanda and Blue Feeling.
Judy Garland records Little Girl Blue, I Get The Blues When It Rains, How About Me and Me And My Shadow, in Capitol Records Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. the tracks comprise the first studio session for her third Capitol album, Alone.
Bo Diddley records Hey! Bo Diddley and Mona for Chess/Checker Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Both songs feature variations of the famed Bo Diddley guitar riff, also known as The Hambone. The riff will subsequently be adopted and adapted by countless other artists from Buddy Holly (Not Fade Away, 1957) to Bruce Springsteen (She's The One, 1975) and The Smiths (How Soon Is Now, 1985).
Young Love by Tab Hunter enters the Popular Singles Chart in the UK at No12. It will peak at No1 during a run of eighteen weeks on the chart.
When Bill Haley and His Comets play at the Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, UK, the audience includes a future member of The Beatles - Paul McCartney.
Bing Crosby records tracks for the Decca Records album New Tricks, accompanied by The Buddy Cole Trio.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the second night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
Dick Clark's Saturday Night Show on US tv features The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and Paul Anka.
Alan Freed's Easter Jubilee opens at the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA. New acts Charlie Gracie, Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen join Freed's roster of established black stars, including Bo Diddley, The Cleftones, Bobby Marchan, The Del-Vikings [aka The Dell Vikings], The Harptones, The Solitaires, The G Clefs and The Pearls.
All Shook Up becomes Elvis Presley's sixth release to reach No1 in the Billboard US Top 40 singles chart.
Butterfly by Andy Williams enters the UK Popular Singles Chart at No29. It will peak at No1 during a sixteen-week run on the chart.
Recording sessions begin at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, for the soundtrack to the upcoming Elvis Presley movie, Jailhouse Rock. On this day, the title track is recorded.
Elvis Presley records You're So Square [Baby I Don't Care] at MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA, during sessions for the soundtrack of the film Jailhouse Rock.
A Sun Records package tour featuring Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wanda Jackson and Johnny Cash plays in Billings, Montana.
Frankie Laine plays the third night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
Les Brown And His Band Of Renown, featuring Jo-Ann Greer, Butch Stone and Stumpy Brown, play the second of three nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets play at at Indiana Beach Ballroom, Monticello, Indiana, USA.
Amateur skiffle group The Quarrymen perform from the back of a lorry in Roseberry St, Liverpool, UK. Their guitarist is John Lennon, later to form The Beatles.
The Chet Baker Quartet, Anita O'Day and Johnnie 'Scat' Davis play the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The International Geophysical Year aka I.G.Y. begins, and will run until December 31, 1958. The year (actually 18 months) is intended to signal a new era of international co-operation being made possible by the end of the Cold War. On his 1982 album The Nightfly, Donald Fagen will include the song I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World), expressing the hopes of a young man in the fifties looking forward to a bright new future for the world.
The film These Dangerous Years, starring Liverpool-born hitmaker Frankie Vaughan, is premiered in his home town.
Chuck Berry plays at Sparrow's Beach, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, with Ray Charles And His Orchestra.
Clyde McPhatter, Buddy Holly And The Crickets, Otis Rush and The Cadillacs play the third night of a one-week residency at The Royal Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Love Letters In The Sand by Pat Boone reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales Chart in the UK.
Harry Secombe and Billie Anthony open in the revue Rocking The Town at The Hippodrome, Bristol, UK.
The Coasters enter the UK singles chart for the first time, with Searchin', which will peak at No30.
UK weekly music newspaper the NME [New Musical Express] announces the results of its 1957 popularity poll, showing Pat Boone as the World's Outstanding Male Singer, with Elvis Presley second. On the same day, Jackie Wilson appears on US tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
The annual Texas Prison Rodeo begins at Texas State Prison, Huntsville, Texas, USA. Among the performers appearing at the rodeo is Johnny Cash.
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Frankie Vaughan begins a week of shows at The Empire, Glasgow, Scotland, supported by The Fraser Hayes Four and Eddie Arnold.
Karl Wallinger is born in Prestatyn, Wales. He will find success as a singer, guitarist and songwriter with The Waterboys and World Party.
Liverpool-born hitmaker Frankie Vaughan enters the UK singles chart with Milord, which will peak at No34 during a six-week run.
Having recently begun a one-month long tour of South America, Bill Haley and His Comets are in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Mose Allison records Mojo Woman, Town and Carnival for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Mose Allison records Mojo Woman, Town and Carnival for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.
Cliff Richard And The Shadows, The Dallas Boys, Cherry Wainer, Al Sa xon, Peter Elliott, Roy Young, The Landes Brothers, The Tommy Allen Beat Boys and Tony Marsh play during six nights at The Gaumont State Theatre, Kilburn, London, England, UK, Europe.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Brangwyn Hall, Cardiff, Wales, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.Doo-wop combo The Moonglows record The Ten Commandments of Love for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Doo-wop combo The
Moonglows record The Ten Commandments
of Love for Chess Records in
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays at The Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UK, with Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Ottilie Patterson.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, The Del Vikings and The Four Lads play in The Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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