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Elvis Presley - billed as 'The Folk Music Fireball' - and Johnny Cash play at The Von Theater, Booneville, Texas, USA.
Elvis Presley [billed as The Folk Music Fireball] and Johnny Cash play at The Von Theater, Booneville, Texas, USA.
The Clifford Brown / Max Roach Quintet records Gertrude's Bounce, Junior's Arrival [Step Lightly] and Powell's Prances for EmArcy Records in New York City, USA.
Pearl Bailey and Al Hibbler are the musical guests on CBS tv's Ed Sullivan show, recorded in New York City, USA.
B.B. King plays at The Cafe Royale, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA, supported by Ike And Tina Turner. Tickets in advance cost $1.50, or $2.00 on the door)
Robert B. Rivkin is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He will find success as drummer and record producer Bobby Z, best known as a member of Prince's band.
Elvis Presley buys a Harley Davidson KHK model motor bike at a price of $1143.00 from Harley-Davidson of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.British music weekly the NME [New Musical Express] notes that less than a year after taking over as manager of the Parlophone label in London, UK, record producer George Martin has placed three discs in the Top 20 Singles Chart at the same time - Eve Boswell's Pickin' A Chicken, Dick James' Robin Hood and Eamonn Andrews' The Shifting Whispering Sands.
Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley enters the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA at No68.
The Carl Perkins version of Blue Suede Shoes enters the US R'n'B charts, making him the first country artist to do so.
Bobby Draper releases a new single, Rockin' Daddy/I've Got A Woman, on Mercury Records in the USA.
Elvis Presley spends the last of three days screen-testing for film producer Hal Wallis at Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California, USA.
Camille Howard records Rock'n'Roll Mama at Universal Recording, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Vee-Jay Records.
My September Love by David Whitfield peaks at No3 in the Popular Singles Chart in the UK, during a 24-week run on the chart.
Returning to the UK after a tour of the USA, popular bandleader and recording artist Ted Heath confidently predicts that, "Rock'n'roll is mainly performed by coloured artists for coloured people and is therefore unlikely to prove popular here."Hot Diggity [Dog Ziggity Boom] by Perry Como enters the UK Popular Singles Chart at No15. It will peak at No4 during a thirteen-week run on the chart.
Popular young singer Brenda Lee gets her first recording deal when she is signed to Decca Records in the USA by A + R man Paul Cohen.
Dizzy Gillespie records Stella By Starlight and other tracks at Coastal Recording, New York City, USA.
John Lee Hooker records Done Got Tired, Stop Talking, Time And A Half, and Lonely Blues, for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.R'n'B pianist Bill Doggett records his classic Honky
Tonk for King Records in
New York City, USA. This is widely considered to be the first
rock'n'roll instrumental hit.
The Joe Harriott Quartet records Blues Original and My Heart Belongs To Daddy for MGM Records in London, UK. The band line-up features Joe Harriott (alto sax), Johnny Weed (piano), Major Holley (bass) and Phil Seamen (drums).
Fats Domino, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, The Harptones, Joe Turner, The Cleftones and The Penguins play the third of nine days as part of Alan Freed's Second Anniversary Rock And Roll Show at the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Fats Domino, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, The Harptones, Joe Turner, The Cleftones and The Penguins play the fifth of nine days as part of Alan Freed's Second Anniversary Rock And Roll Show at the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Elvis Presley records an extra verse for the song Poor Boy, at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, USA. The song will appear in his film, Love Me Tender.
Webb Pierce releases a new single, Teenage Boogie/I'm Really Glad You Hurt Me, in the USA on Decca Records.
Bill Haley And His Comets play the last of three nights at the North Carolina State Fair, Castonia, North Carolina, USA.
Frank Weir And His Orchestra play at The Festival Hall, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, UK, Europe.Little Richard plays in The Armory, Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA, supported by Johnny Fuller and Dolly Cooper.
Billy Ward And His Dominoes play the fourth night of a week at Zardi's Jazzland, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bill Haley And His Comets play the last of three nights at the New Jersey State Fair, Trenton, New Jersey, USA.
Fats Domino plays the fifth night of a week at Casino Royal, Washington, D.C., USA.
In The Still Of The Night by legendary doo-wop r'n'b band The Five Satins enters the Billboard Top 40 singles chart in the USA, where it will peak at No24. Nevertheless, it will go on to become a genre classic, and eventually achieve multi-platinum sales.
R'n'b pianist Bill Doggett records Peacock Alley and Blue Largo for King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Joe Williams, Emmett Berry, Aaron Bell, Vic Dickenson, Marlowe Morris, Bobby Henderson and Bobby Donaldson record the live album A Night At Count Basie's, at The Count Basie Club, New York City, USA.
Jimmy Rogers records If It Ain't Me [Who Are You Thinking Of], with Big Walter Horton on harmonica, Otis Spann on piano and Willie Dixon on bass, in Chicago, IIlinois, USA, for Chess Records.
Duke Ellington's Orchestra and Billie Holiday appear outside the Hotel Theresa, Harlem, New York City, USA, at a US Presidential rally for the Eisenhower/Nixon Campaign.
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Walking In The Rain by Johnnie Ray reaches No1 in
the Popular Singles Chart in the UK.
The Cadillacs, Bo Diddley, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Debutants, The Dells, The Chips, The Schoolboys, Robert And Johnny and The Heartbeats play the fourth of seven nights as part of Dr Jive's Rhythm'n'Blues Revue at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Jimmy Cavallo And The Houserockers play at The Apollo Theater, Harlem, New York City, USA.
Eddy Bond And the Stompers play at the Bethel Springs High School Auditorium, Bethel Springs, Tennessee, supported by Jerry Lee Lewis.
UK popular music newspaper Melody Maker reports that American bandleader and recording artist Earl Bostic has recovered from his recent heart attack.
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