1957 in music

Dalida, awarded a gold record in 1957

1 Events
2 Albums released
3 Biggest hit singles
4 US No. 1 hit singles
5 Top hits on record
6 Published popular music
7 Classical music
8 Opera
9 Musical theater
10 Musical films
11 Births
12 Deaths
13 Awards
- 13.1 Eurovision Song Contest

Events

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January 5 - Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba.
January 6 - Elvis Presley makes final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, England
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl", backed with "Dancin' Wild", hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts. Garfunkel was Tom Graph (so called because he like to write the pop charts out on graph paper) and Simon was Jerry Landis, a pseudonym he used during his early 1960s solo recordings. They toured for eighteen months before retiring to become college students and then reforming in 1963 as Simon and Garfunkel.
February 8 - Bo Diddley records his songs "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Mona" (aka "I Need You Baby").
March - Chicago's Cardinal Stritch bans all rock and roll and rhythm and blues music from Catholic-run schools, saying that "its rhythms encourage young people to behave in a hedonistic manner."
March 19 - Elvis Presley purchases a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and calls it Graceland
July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet at St. Peter's Church garden fete in Liverpool, England.
August 5 - American Bandstand begins its 30 year syndicated run on US network television
September 19 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino". That year, she's also the first female recording artist to have her own fan club.
Leonard Bernstein completes work on West Side Story.
American Bandstand premieres on television.
The Casals Festival is founded in Puerto Rico.
Pat Boone stars in his first two Hollywood motion pictures: Bernadine and April Love (film)
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) from 1956's Alfred Hitchcock suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, wins the Academy Award for Best Song. Sung by Doris Day in the film, it proved to be one of her biggest hit records as well.
When Nat King Cole's television show is unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine becomes the first artist to cross TV's color line. Becoming the first white artist to appear as a guest, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000.00 as Cole's sustainer show only paid scale. Other top performers followed suit, including Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett, but despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to pick up a national sponsor.
Jerry Lee Lewis' musical career begins
Patsy Cline's musical career begins.
Jerry Butler's musical career begins
Gorni Kramer debuts on Italian television
Maria Callas is introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

Albums released

About the Blues - Julie London
The Big Beat - Johnnie Ray
Blossom Dearie (Album) - Blossom Dearie
Bing With A Beat - Bing Crosby
Blue Starr - Kay Starr
Blue Train (album) - John Coltrane
The Christmas Story - Bing Crosby
Close to You and More - Frank Sinatra
A Closer Walk With Thee - Pat Boone
Coltrane - John Coltrane
Day By Night - Doris Day
Ella and Louis Again - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook - Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington
Ella at the Opera House - Ella Fitzgerald
Like Someone in Love - Ella Fitzgerald
Porgy and Bess - Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong
Elvis' Christmas Album - Elvis Presley
Gogi Grant – THE HELEN MORGAN STORY - Gogi Grant
Gogi Grant - Suddenly There's Gogi Grant - Gogi Grant
Her Nibs - Georgia Gibbs
Here's Little Richard - Little Richard
Hymns We Love - Pat Boone
Patsy Cline - Patsy Cline
In Las Vegas - Johnnie Ray
A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra
Julie - Julie London
Losers, Weepers - Kay Starr
Love Serenade - The Ames Brothers
Loving You - Elvis Presley
Make Love to Me - Julie London
Miguel - Dalida
Moanin' The Blues - Hank Williams
Now Hear This - The Hi-Lo's
Once Over Lightly - Jo Stafford
One Dozen Roses - The Mills Brothers
The Pajama Game - Doris Day
Pal Joey with Frank Sinatra
Pat - Pat Boone
Pat Boone Sings Irving Berlin - Pat Boone
Please, Please, Please - James Brown
Ring Around Rosie - The Hi-Lo's
Rockin' - Frankie Laine
Rockin' the Oldies - Bill Haley & His Comets
Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue - Jill Corey
Son nom est Dalida - Dalida
Songs for Inspiration & Meditation - Jo Stafford
Songs of Scotland - Jo Stafford
The Sounds of Christmas Harmony - The Ames Brothers
Suddenly It's The Hi-Lo's - The Hi-Lo's
Sweet Seventeen - The Ames Brothers
A Swingin' Affair! - Frank Sinatra
There'll Always Be A Christmas - The Ames Brothers
We Get Letters - Perry Como
Where Are You? - Frank Sinatra
The Wildest! - Louis Prima

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1957.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries 1 Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock1957 UK 1 - Jan 1958, US BB 1 - Oct 1957, US BB 1 of 1957, Canada 1 - Oct 1957, DDD 1 of 1957, POP 1 of 1957, Europe 2 of the 1950s, Scrobulate 2 of rockabilly, RYM 3 of 1957, Holland 5 - Jan 1974, France 10 - Dec 1971, US CashBox 11 of 1957, South Africa 11 of 1958, AFI 21, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1957, Party 54 of 1999, Italy 60 of 1958, Rolling Stone 67, Acclaimed 192, Belgium 214 of all time 2 Paul Anka Diana1957 UK 1 - Aug 1957, US BB 1 - Jul 1957, Canada 1 - Jul 1957, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Jun 1957, Italy 2 of 1958, Poland 9 - Apr 1989, US CashBox 13 of 1957, US BB 14 of 1956, POP 14 of 1956, Europe 17 of the 1950s, RYM 17 of 1957, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1957, DDD 36 of 1957 3 Elvis Presley All Shook Up1957 UK 1 - Jun 1957, US BB 1 - Apr 1957, Canada 1 - May 1957, RYM 5 of 1957, US CashBox 8 of 1957, DDD 11 of 1957, Scrobulate 12 of rock & roll, US BB 13 of 1957, POP 13 of 1957, Holland 33 - Jan 2005, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1957, Europe 78 of the 1950s, Party 179 of 2007, Rolling Stone 352, Acclaimed 835 4 Jerry Lee Lewis Great Balls of Fire1957 UK 1 - Dec 1957, RYM 1 of 1957, US BB 2 - Dec 1957, Canada 2 - Dec 1957, DDD 5 of 1957, US BB 14 of 1958, POP 14 of 1958, South Africa 15 of 1958, Holland 27 - Sep 1989, Scrobulate 63 of oldies, RIAA 64, Europe 76 of the 1950s, Acclaimed 86, Rolling Stone 96, Party 242 of 1999 5 Danny & The Juniors At the Hop1957 US BB 1 - Dec 1957, Canada 1 - Dec 1957, UK 3 - Jan 1958, US BB 3 of 1958, POP 3 of 1958, South Africa 6 of 1958, US CashBox 10 of 1958, RYM 11 of 1957, DDD 21 of 1957, Europe 73 of the 1950s, RIAA 250, Acclaimed 728

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