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I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone by Elvis Presley on HMV Records enters the UK Pop Singles Chart, where it will peak at No21 during a three-week run.
Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley becomes the first single ever to go straight to No1 in the UK pop singles chart.
Eight-times Grammy Award-winning, multi-Platinum rhythm and blues and soul singer and songwriter Anita Baker is born in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Wanda Jackson appears on ABC-tv's Country Music Jubilee show in Springfield, Missouri, USA.
In the wake of his marriage to 13-year-old second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis is divorced by his present wife, Jane Mitcham.
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Wray's influential guitar instrumental, Rumble, is released in the USA on Cadence
Records. The innovative dirty and distorted sound of the guitar
is allegedly the result of Wray punching a hole in his loudspeaker.
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.
Fats Domino, The Dells, The Spaniels and The Flamingos play at the Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Twilight Time by The Platters reaches No1 in the US Top 40 singles chart. Over 98% of sales of the record are on the new 45rpm format, hammering another nail into the coffin of the old 78s. On the same day, Mike Barson, keyboard player for Madness, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Peggy Lee records Fever in Studio B, Capitol Tower, 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, Los
Angeles, California, USA. The song, written by Otis
Blackwell and Eddie
Cooley, and first recorded by Little
Willie John, will become Lee's best-known hit, widely
considered the definitive version. At the same session, Lee also
records Things Are Swingin', Lullaby In Rhythm and You're Getting
To Be A Habit Me.
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.
A new entertainment programme, The Black And White Minstrel Show, begins on BBC tv in the UK. It will become hugely popular but will eventually be banned because of accusations that the concept - white entertainers in blackface makeup - is racist.
A teen idol in the making, Fabian releases his debut single, I'm In Love, in the USA.
Young performer Stephen Marriott wins a talent competition in the Uncle Ken Show at Jaywick Sands in the UK. He will go on to find fame as Steve Marriott of the Small Faces and Humble Pie.Frank Sinatra records Blues In The Night and One For My Baby at Capitol Records Studio A, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Johnny Tillotson records Dreamy Eyes, his first release for Cadence Records, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Larry Williams releases a new single, Peaches And Cream, on Specialty Records in the USA.
Ruth Brown, The Moonglows and The Kodaks, play the first night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Ruth Brown, The Moonglows and The Kodaks, play the sixth night of a week at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Package tour the Biggest Show Of Stars for 1958 plays at the State Theater, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, featuring Dion And The Belmonts, Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Clyde McPhatter, Frankie Avalon, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Olympics, The Elegants and The Danleers.
Female rock'n'roller Alis Lesley plays the last night of two weeks at Chez Emile, Quebec, Montreal, Canada.Ray Charles records the Atlantic Records single, [Night Time Is] The Right Time at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York City, USA.
Tommy Sands, Connie Francis and The Diamonds play the first of three nights in the Civic Auditorium, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Move It by Cliff Richard peaks at No3 in the Record Mirror UK Top 20 singles chart.
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The Coasters play at the Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, California, USA, with Sugar Pie and Pee Wee plus Johnny Fuller.
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.
Dakota Staton records Idaho and No Moon At All in New York City, USA, for Capitol Records.
The Benny Golson Quintet records Strut Time, Cry A Blue Tear and other tracks at Nola Sound Studios, New York City, USA.
The Kingston Trio appear on NBC-tv's The Milton Berle Kraft Music Hall in the USA.
The Gene Krupa Band records the album Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements, for Verve Records in the USA.
High Class Baby by Cliff Richard with The Drifters enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No7.
UK weekly pop paper the New
Musical Express [NME] reports that Lonnie
Donegan, The Kingston
Trio and Rikki Price all
have newly released versions of Tom
Dooley, leading to a battle for the best placing in the singles
chart.
Norrie Paramor And The Big Ben Banjo Band, The Vic Ash Sextet, Chris Barber's Jazz Band, The John Dankworth Orchestra, The Ray Ellington Quartet, The Denny Boyce Orchestra, Ted Heath And His Music, The Jazz Couriers featuring Ronnie Scott and Tubby Hayes, The Jazzmakers, The Tony Kinsey Quintet, Humphrey Lyttelton And His Band, The Oscar Rabin Orchestra and Edmundo Ros And His Orchestra, play in The Jazz Jamboree at The Gaumont State Theatre, Kilburn, London, UK.
Liverpool-born teen idol Billy Fury makes his first recording, Maybe Tomorrow, for Decca Records in London, UK.
Ray Charles releases a new single, The Right Time, on Atlantic Records in the USA.
Tetsuya Komuro, vocalist of popular Japanese recording group Globe, is born in Tokyo, Japan.
British pop singer Adam Faith, having been dropped by HMV Records, has returned to his job as a film editor for The Rank Organisation.
The instrumental Topsy
(Parts 1 And 2), by jazz drummer Cozy
Cole, enters the UK Popular Singles Chart where it will peak at
No29 during a one-week run. The track is a new version of a former
hit for Benny Goodman.
The second day of deejay Alan Freed's ten day long Christmas Rock'n'Roll Spectacular takes place at Loew'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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