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[Why Must I Be Alone] reaches No1 in the Sheet Music Sales
Chart in the UK. This position is achieved by amalgamating sales of
two versions of the song, one by Petula Clark and the other by Shepherd
Sisters.
Country music singing star Bobby Helms plays at Ralph Hicks' Jubilee Ballroom, Baldwin Park, California, USA.
Ferlin Husky records The Kingdom Of Love, Don't Walk Away and other tracks at Capitol Recording Studios, 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Everly Brothers tour plays in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Other acts on the tour include Paul Anka, Buddy Holly And The Crickets, The Rays, Royal Teens, Danny And The Juniors, The Hollywood Flames, Mello-Kings, Shepherd Sisters, Margie Rayburn, and The Tuneweavers.
Little Richard enters the Oakwood Theological College, Huntsville, Alabama, to study as an ordained Seventh Day Adventist minister.
The Story Of My Life by Michael Holliday reaches No1 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a fifteen-week run on the chart. The song is written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
Wee Willie Harris, The Southlanders, The Vagabonds, Les Hobeaux Skiffle Group, Tony Crombie and The Most Brothers play at The Gaumont, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. The Most Brothers include Mickie Most, who will go on to become one of the UK's top record producers in the 60s, working with The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Lulu, Duncan Browne and many others.
Nicholas David Kershaw is born in Bristol, UK. He will achieve success in the 1980s as singer and songwriter Nik Kershaw.
Buddy Holly and The Crickets play at the City Hall, Sheffield, UK, supported by The Montanas, The Tanner Sisters, Gary Miller and Ronnie Keene And his Orchestra. Des O'Connor is the compere.
Ella Fitzgerald records the Irving Berlin compositions I Used To Be Color Blind, You Can Have Him, How's Chances' and No Strings for the album Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, USA.
Buddy Holly and The Crickets play at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester, UK, supported by The Montanas, The Tanner Sisters, Gary Miller and Ronnie Keene And his Orchestra. Des O'Connor is the compere.
Having been a semi-invalid since falling onto the New York City subway tracks in 1943, American songwriter W.C. Handy, known as 'the father of the blues', dies of pneumonia, aged 84.
At Columbia Records studios on 30th Street, New York City, USA, the Duke Ellington Band records The Lady In Red, Alice Blue Gown and Satin Doll.
The compilation album Johnny's Greatest Hits by Johnny Mathis, becomes the first greatest hits LP to enter the Billboard Albums Chart in the USA, where it will remain for almost nine and a half years. This record will not be broken until 1982 when it is overtaken by Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon.
Lita Roza appears on the BBC tv show Show Band Parade, with Cyril Stapleton, in the UK.
When aspiring UK rock'n'roll combo The Drifters play at the 2is coffee bar in Soho, London, England, UK, Europe, they are seen by dance hall manager Harry Greatorex, who books the group to play a show in Ripley, near Nottingham, and suggests that they change their name. They will, in due course, become Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
Saxophone star Earl Bostic records Stairway To The Stars and C Jam Blues in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Saxophone star Earl Bostic records Stairway To The Stars and C Jam Blues in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jerry Lee Lewis takes a full page ad in Billboard to explain his side of the recent scandal involving his re-marriage to his cousin/child-bride, Myra Gale.
Tommy Edwards records his second version of It's All In The Game at Metropolitan Studios, New York City, USA. At the same session he records Please Love Me Forever and Love Is All We Need.
Stairway Of Love by Michael Holliday peaks at No3 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a thirteen-week stay on the chart.
Frank Sinatra performs a benefit concert at the Sporting Club, Monaco, for the United Nations Fund for Refugee Children, with an orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones.
Dickie Valentine and Lita Roza appear on the BBC tv show Free And Easy, in the UK.
Clyde McPhatter releases a new single A Lover's Question, on Atlantic Records in the USA.
Vic Lewis And His Orchestra, featuring Irma Logan, play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, England, UK, Europe.Lloyd Price, Little Anthony And The Imperials, The Five Satins and The Olympics play the first noght of a week-long engagement at The Howard Theater, Washington, DC, USA.
R'n'b vocal group The Five Royales record their next two singles, Don't Let It Be In Vain and The Real Thing at King Records studios, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Ruth Brown, The Moonglows and The Kodaks, play the first night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Van Norman, bass player of instrumental group The Champs dies in an auto accident near Anaheim, California, USA.
R'n'b vocalist and Theron Label recording artist Byllye Williams dies of cancer of the cervix, in the County
Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Connie Francis records My Happiness at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, USA.
The Collins Kids appear on popular US tv show the Town Hall Party, recorded in Compton, California, USA. singing Make Him Behave, Chantilly Lace and Shake, Rattle And Roll.
One Night/I Got Stung by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Best-Selling Singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No4 during a fourteen-week run.
Johnny Cash goes on the road for a week with The Collins Kids, opening tonight in Sweetwater, Texas, USA.
The Paramount Pictures musical St. Louis Blues is released to cinemas in Finland, Europe, with a cast featuring such jazz, blues and gospel greats as Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Eartha Kit, Pearl Bailey, Mahalia Jackson and Barney Bigard.
Eddie Cochran, Frankie Avalon, Little Anthony And The Imperials, Connie Francis and others play on a special edition of US tv's Dick Clark Show, celebrating the host's 29th birthday.
The fourth day of deejay Alan Freed's ten-day long Christmas Rock'n'Roll Spectacular is held at Lowe's Theater, New York City, USA, starring Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Dion, Jackie Wilson, The Everly Brothers, Johnnie Ray, Frankie Avalon and The Moonglows.
The seventh day of deejay Alan Freed's ten-day long Christmas Rock'n'Roll Spectacular takes place at Lowe's Theater, New York City, USA, starring Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Dion, Jackie Wilson, The Everly Brothers, Johnnie Ray, Frankie Avalon and The Moonglows.
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