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Buddy Holly receives a new recording contract from Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee, but he does not sign it. He is keen to break free from the company.
Elvis Presley undergoes his pre-induction army medical at Kennedy Veterans' Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Clyde McPhatter, Mickey And Sylvia, The Channels, The Heartbeats, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Jesse Belvin, The Teenchords and Sil Austin play the fifth night in a week of shows at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Billie Holiday And Her
Orchestra record They Can't Take That Away From Me, Embraceable
You, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off and Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To
You for Verve
Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jody Williams [with Willie Dixon on bass] records Lucky Lou for Argo Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The track will be released as the b-side of the single You May under Williams' pseudonym Little Joe Lee. Otis Rush will copy the intro from Lucky Lou for his 1958 Cobra Records track All Your Love [I Miss Loving] and Fleetwood Mac will adapt it to provide the basis of their song Black Magic Woman.
Elvis Presley records Teddy Bear and One Night Of Sin at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, USA.
Too
Much by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where
it will peak at No1 during a fourteen-week run.
Bo Diddley and Screamin' Jay Hawkins play the third night in a week of dates at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Bo Diddley and Screamin' Jay Hawkins play the fourth night in a week of dates at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the second night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent by Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers enters the UK's singles chart.
The Jazz Couriers, featuring saxophonists Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes, play their first gig, at The Flamingo, Wardour Street, Soho, London, UK.
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the twelfth night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
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 Dell Vikings, The Harptones, The Solitaires, The G Clefs and The Pearls.
Tony Crombie headlines at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The George Hooley Jazz Band.Too Much by Elvis Presley enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No6 during a nine-week run.
Ivory Joe Hunter begins a week of shows at the Casino Royal, Washington, DC, USA.
Liverpool-born Michael Holliday is recorded live for BBC Radio in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. Also on the bill is Lita Roza.
The Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group plays at Wilson Hall, Speke Road, Garston, Liverpool, UK. Their drummer, Richard Starkey, will change his name to Ringo Starr and become the drummer for The Beatles.
Louis Armstrong And His All-Stars play the first of two nights at The Lagoon, Salt Lake City, USA.
Ray Charles spends the first of two days recording the Atlantic Records single, That's Enough at Capitol Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets play at at Indiana Beach Ballroom, Monticello, Indiana, USA.
The Live Wires Skiffle Group records Worried Man Blues and Alabamy Bound at Western Sound Recorders, in The Rendezvous Ballroom, Warrington, England, UK, Europe.
Buddy Holly plays rhythm guitar on a recording session by vocalist Jim Robinson at producer Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico.
The Thelonious Monk Septet records Blues For Tomorrow and Crepuscule With Nellie at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City, USA. The band includes John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins and Art Blakey.
While John Lennon's group The Quarrymen play their debut gig at The Cavern, Liverpool, England, UK, Europe, another future member of The Beatles, Paul McCartney, is at scout camp in Hathersage, Derbyshire.
Jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson plays at The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland, Europe.In Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, a white mob attacks negro children trying to attend the city's Central High School, provoking a rapid response from musicians including Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt and Louis Armstrong who cancels a US State Department-sponsored trip to Russia.
The Kirchin Band plays at The Festival Hall, Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.Tammy reaches No1 in the Cash Box magazine Top 100 Singles Chart in the USA. The position is shared by two versions of the song, one by
Debbie
Reynolds and one by The Ames
Brothers.
Package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars for 1957, featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Spaniels, The Bobettes, Jimmy Bowen and Buddy Knox plays in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Flyin' Saucers Rock n' Roll by Billy Riley and His Little Green Men is released in the USA by Sun Records, featuring Jerry Lee Lewis on piano.
The latest Elvis Presley movie, Jailhouse Rock, is released in the USA by MGM, with a premiere at Lowe's State Theater, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Chuck Berry is the headline act when the Biggest Show Of Stars For 57 package tour plays in the Auditorium, Oakland, California, USA. Other acts on the bill include Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Paul Anka, The Drifters, Clyde McPhatter, LaVern Baker, Frankie Lymon and Buddy Knox.
Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley begins its second week as the No1 single in the Billboard Top 40 Singles Chart in the USA.
Doo wop group The Five Satins plus Don And Dewey and Sonny Knight play the second of two nights in The Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Quarrymen play at New Clubmoor Hall, Broadway, Liverpool, UK. The group includes John Lennon and Paul McCartney, later to form The Beatles.
Little Bitty Pretty One by Thurston Harris enters the Cashbox Top Ten Best Selling Singles chart in the USA at No10.
Radio deejay Al Priddy of KEX in Portland, Oregon, USA, is fired for violating the station's ban against playing Elvis Presley's version of White Christmas, which had been deemed irreligious by the management.
Hey
School Girl, by little known New York City duo Tom And Jerry is
released. The song is a flop, but when the pair change their name
to Simon And
Garfunkel in the mid-sixties, they will become one of the world's top acts.
Don
Gibson records Oh, Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving
You for RCA
Victor Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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