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The Three Flames are playing during a five year engagement at The Bon Soir, New York City, USA.The New York Jazz Quartet, including Herbie Mann on flute
and clarinet, records Adam's Theme, Blue Chips, Skylark, How About
You, Just You, Just Me, Minors Not Allowed, Together You And I, Early Morning Blues and The Song Is You, for Savoy Records in
New York City, USA.
Brenda
Lee records One Step At A Time and Fairyland for Decca Records at
The Pythian Temple Studio, 135 West 70th St., New York City, USA.
Guitarist, musical director, producer, songwriter, singer and recording artist, Jay Stapley is born in Cuckfield, Sussex, UK.
Songwriter Preston Foster, aka Red Foster, signs a publisher's contract with New York-based company Dare Music, by which Dare acquires Foster's song I've Got My Mojo Working.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist Steve Jordan is born in The Bronx, New York City, USA.
Fats Domino holds the first two places in the Billboard US R'n'B charts with Blueberry Hill and Blue Monday.
Fats
Domino's original version of Ain't That A
Shame enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No23
during a two-week run.
In today's edition of Newsweek magazine, Hank Saperstein, owner of merchandising company Special Products Inc., reveals that the first six months of his company's Elvis Presley merchandise licensing deal has resulted in $26m worth of sales.
Louis Jordan And The Tympany Five play at the Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Bo Diddley and Screamin' Jay Hawkins play the fifth night in a week of dates at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
An article in UK pop paper the New Musical Express reports that "it looks like rock'n'roll is on the way out."Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers play the tenth night of two-weeks at the Palladium, London, UK.
The Platters play at the The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, with Ronnie Aldrich And The Squadronaires.
When UK pop star Tommy Steele starts a tour at The Empire, Liverpool, he is horrified to discover that unknown US support act, Freddie Bell and The Bell Boys, are being paid more than he is.
All Shook Up by Elvis Presley begins its second month at No1 in the Billboard singles chart in the USA.
Elvis Presley signs a contract authorising The William Morris Agency to receive payment on his behalf for his appearance in Photoplay Magazine.
Having inhaled a cap from one of his teeth during rehearsals for the film Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley is in Cedars Of Lebanon hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA, having the cap removed from his lung.
The Coasters, The Cleftones, Shirley
And Lee, Bobby
Marchan and Huey 'Piano' Smith play the sixth night of a week at the Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
Frankie Laine plays the eleventh night in a two-week season at the Palladium, London, UK.
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.
Ray Charles, B.B.King, The Drifters, Ruth Brown, Jimmy Reed and others play at Harndon Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Sarah Vaughan is the musical guest on CBS tv’s Ed Sullivan show, recorded in New York City.
B.B. King plays the third night of a week at the Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan, 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.
Bye Bye Love by The Everly Brothers enters the UK Singles chart, where it will peak at No6 during a run of sixteen weeks on the chart.
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Eric Delaney And His Band play at the Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.John Lee Hooker comes to the end of a week of dates at the Club Basin Street, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Howlin' Wolf records I Asked For Water [She Gave Me Gasoline] and The Natchez Burnin', in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a band including Hubert Sumlin and Willie Dixon.
The Biggest Show Of Stars For 1957 plays the second of five nights at The Paramount Theater, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and Clyde McPhatter.
Package tour The Biggest Show Of Stars for 1957, featuring Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Paul Anka, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, The Bobettes, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen, Sam 'The Man' Taylor and Clyde McPhatter plays in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Jackie Wilson appears on US tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
Jackie Wilson appears on tv show Dick Clark's American Bandstand in the USA, performing his new single, Reet Petite.
Thurston
Harris sings Little Bitty Pretty
One on tv show Dick
Clark's American Bandstand in the USA.
One of the first all-female r'n'b groups, The Chantels, record Maybe in a refurbished church in midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA.
It will peak at No2 in the Billboard R'n'B chart.
Milton Allen records Don't Bug Me Baby for RCA Victor Records in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, The session is produced by Chet Akins.
Having recently begun a one-month long tour of South America Bill Haley and His Comets are in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Shepherd
Sisters, best-remembered for their 1957 US Top 20 hit Alone
[Why Must I Be Alone], play the fourth night of a week at The
Copa Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
B.B.King plays the fifth night of a week at the Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan.
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.
My Special Angel by Bobby Helms reaches No1 in the Billboard C+W Best Sellers in Stores Chart in the USA.
Country music singer and songwriter Jimmie Osborne is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his trailer home near Louisville, Kentucky, USA.Alan Freed's Holiday Of Stars show plays at The Paramount, New York City, USA, featuring Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, The Rays, Danny and the Juniors, Paul Anka, Thurston Harris, the Teenagers and Terry Noland.
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