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• January 5 - Renato Carosone
  Renato Carosone
  
  Renato Carosone was among the greatest figures of Music of Italy scene in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a modern performer of the so-called canzone napoletana, Naples' song tradition....
   and his band start their American tour in Cuba
  Cuba
  
  The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
  .
• January 6 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   makes final appearance on the Ed Sullivan
  Ed Sullivan
  
  Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an United States entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s....
   Show.
• January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool
  Liverpool
  
  Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
  , England
  England
  
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• Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  
  Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
   and Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an United States singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel....
   name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records
  Big Records
  
  Big Records is an independent record label based in Sydney, Australia. It was founded by Paul Paoliello, former Managing Director of Zomba Records' Australasian affiliate from its inception in 1999 in music until it's sale to BMG in 2003 in music....
  . 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
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
   records his songs "Hey Bo Diddley
  Hey Bo Diddley
  
  Hey Bo Diddley is Bo Diddley's 7th single . The B-side "Mona" was covered by The Rolling Stones for their The Rolling Stones in 1964. "Mona" was also recorded by soap opera star Craig McLachlan , reaching #2 in the UK and #3 in Australia in 1990....
  " 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
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   purchases a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee
  Memphis, Tennessee
  
  Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
   and calls it Graceland
• July 6 - John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
   and Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   (The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
  ) first meet at St. Peter's Church
  St. Peter's Church
  
  St. Peter's Church, or variations on that name, may refer to:...
   garden fete in Liverpool
  Liverpool
  
  Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
  , England
  England
  
  native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
  .
• August 5 - American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
   begins its 30 year syndicated run on US network television
• September 19 - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
   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
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
   completes work on West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  .
• American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
   premieres on television.
• The Casals Festival
  Casals Festival
  
  The Casals Festival is a classical music event celebrated every year in San Juan, Puerto Rico in honor of world renowned musician Pablo Casals....
   is founded in Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico
  
  Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
  .
• Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
   stars in his first two Hollywood motion pictures: Bernadine
  Bernadine
  
  Bernadine is an English language Grammatical gender#Personal names given name variant of Bernard, which comes from German language and French language origin....
   and April Love (film)
• Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)
  Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Qué Será, Será)
  
  "Que Sera, Sera " first published in 1956, is a popular music song which was written by the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans songwriting team.The song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much , with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles....
   from 1956's Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
   suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much
  The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)
  
  The Man Who Knew Too Much is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ....
  , wins the Academy Award for Best Song. Sung by Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
   in the film, it proved to be one of her biggest hit records as well.
• When Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  's television show is unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
   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
  Mel Tormé
  
  Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
   and Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  
  Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  , but despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to pick up a national sponsor.
• Gorni Kramer
  Gorni Kramer
  
  Gorni Kramer was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader....
   makes his first appearance on Italian television, in Il Musichiere.
• Maria Callas
  Maria Callas
  
  Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
   is introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis
  Aristotle Onassis
  
  Aristotle Sokratis "Ari"/"Aristo" Onassis was one of the prominent shipping Business magnate of the 20th century. Some sources say he was born in 1900 and later changed his age to 16 so as to avoid deportation from Turkey....
  .

Albums released

• About the Blues
  About the Blues
  
  About the Blues was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog numbers LRP-3043 in 1957 in music and LST-7012 in 1958 in music....
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• After Midnight
  After Midnight (album)
  
  After Midnight is a 1957 Jazz album by Nat King Cole. It peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard charts Pop Albums chart....
   - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• After School Session
  After School Session
  
  After School Session is Chuck Berry's first Album , released in 1957 in music on Chess Records....
   - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• Almendra
  Almendra (album)
  
  Almendra, Aldemaro Romero en Cuba is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1957, under contract with RCA Victor....
   - Aldemaro Romero
  Aldemaro Romero
  
  Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Carabobo State....
  
• Amsterdam Concert
  Amsterdam Concert
  
  Amsterdam Concert is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet recorded in 1957....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
   Quintet
• Anita Sings the Most
  Anita Sings the Most
  
  Anita Sings the Most is a 1957 album by Anita O'Day....
   - Anita O'Day
  Anita O'Day
  
  Anita O'Day was an United States jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said ?When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.?...
  
• April in Paris - Count Basie
  Count Basie
  
  William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
  
• Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
  Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
  
  Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section is a 1957 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones, who at the time were the rhythm section for Miles Davis's quintet....
   - Art Pepper
  Art Pepper
  
  Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an United States alto saxophonist....
  
• At Mister Kelly's
  At Mister Kelly's
  
  At Mister Kelly's is a 1957 live album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan....
   - Sarah Vaughan
  Sarah Vaughan
  
  Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
  
• At Newport
  At Newport (Count Basie album)
  
  At Newport is an album by the Jazz musician Count Basie.Track listing#"Intro"#"Swingin' At The Newport"#"Polka Dots and Moonbeams"...
   - Count Basie
  Count Basie
  
  William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
  
• At the Gate of Horn
  At the Gate of Horn
  
  At the Gate of Horn is the second solo album by United States folk music Odetta, first released in 1957. It was named for the Gate of Horn club in Chicago....
   - Odetta
  Odetta
  
  Odetta Holmes, , known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"....
  
• Bags' Groove
  Bags' Groove
  
  Bags' Groove is a jazz album recorded by Miles Davis in 1954 in music for Prestige Records. Both takes of the title track come from a session on December, 24 1954 ....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• The Beat of My Heart
  The Beat of My Heart
  
  The Beat Of My Heart is a 1957 album by Tony Bennett....
   - Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  
  Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  
• Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean
  Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean
  
  Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1957....
   - Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  
• Bing with a Beat
  Bing With A Beat
  
  Bing With A Beat was Bing Crosby seventh long play album, but his first recorded with RCA Victor.Bing With A Beat is a concept album where all the songs feature "hot" jazz and dixieland arrangements by the bandleader Bob Scobey....
   - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• Birth of the Cool
  Birth of the Cool
  
  Birth of the Cool is an LP album which compiles twelve songs recorded by the Miles Davis nonet for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music, and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• The Big Beat - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• Blossom Dearie
  Blossom Dearie (album)
  
  Blossom Dearie is a 1957 studio album by Blossom Dearie, it was her first recording for Verve Records.This is Dearie's first American solo album....
   - Blossom Dearie
  Blossom Dearie
  
  Blossom Dearie was an United States jazz singer and pianist, often performing in the bebop genre and known for her distinctive girlish voice....
  
• A Blowing Session
  A Blowing Session
  
  A Blowin' Session is an album by jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, recorded and released in 1957 on Blue Note Records.The album is one of the earliest examples of John Coltrane as a sideman....
   - Johnny Griffin
  Johnny Griffin
  
  John Arnold Griffin III was an United States bebop and hard bop tenor saxophonist....
  
• Blue Starr - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• Blue Train
  Blue Train (album)
  
  Blue Train is a jazz album by John Coltrane, recorded on September 15, 1957 at the Van Gelder Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album, as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians and songs entirely of his choosing....
   - John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Blue Trombone
  Blue Trombone
  
  Blue Trombone is an long play by J. J. Johnson. An early example of hard bop, the album features pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Max Roach....
   - J. J. Johnson
• Brilliant Corners
  Brilliant Corners
  
  Brilliant Corners is a 1957 in music album by jazz musician Thelonious Monk. It was his third album for the Riverside Records label and the first, for this label, to include his own compositions....
   - Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Monk
  
  Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
  
• The Cats
  The Cats (album)
  
  The Cats is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
   - John Coltrane
• Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
  Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette
  
  Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette is a 1957 album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette....
   - John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette
  Paul Quinichette
  
  Paul Quinichette was a jazz tenor saxophone musician. He was known as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his uncanny emulation of the breathy style of Lester Young, known as President....
  
• Chet Atkins at Home
  Chet Atkins at Home
  
  Chet Atkins at Home is the title of a recording by United States guitarist Chet Atkins. It contains his clever arrangement of Yankee Doodle played at the same time as Dixie ....
   - Chet Atkins
  Chet Atkins
  
  Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
  
• The "Chirping" Crickets - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
   & The Crickets
  The Crickets
  
  The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
   (debut)
• The Christmas Story - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• Close to You and More - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• A Closer Walk with Thee - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• The Clown
  The Clown (album)
  
  The Clown is an album by Charles Mingus recorded and released in 1957. The follow-up to 1956's Pithecanthropus Erectus , it further established Mingus' reputation as one of jazz music's premiere band leaders....
   - Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  
  Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
  
• Coltrane
  Coltrane (album)
  
  For the 1962 album of the same name by John Coltrane, see Coltrane Coltrane is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. It is also known as First Trane....
   - John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Cookin' - Paul Gonsalves
  Paul Gonsalves
  
  Paul Gonsalves, was an American jazz saxophone.Gonsalves made his name at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival with an arresting, 27-chorus solo in the middle of Duke Ellington's performance of "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" ....
  
• Cookin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
  Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
  
  Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on the 11th of May 1956 and the 26th of October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Criollísima
  Criollísima (album)
  
  Crioll?sima is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1957 , under contract with RCA Victor and distributed by Grabadora Venezolana de Discos....
   - Aldemaro Romero
  Aldemaro Romero
  
  Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Carabobo State....
  
• Dakar
  Dakar (album)
  
  Dakar is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
   - John Coltrane
• Day By Night
  Day by Night
  
  Day by Night was a Doris Day album released on November 11, 1957 by Columbia Records, It was released in two versions, catalog number CL-1053 and CS-8089 , though the stereo version was only released in 1959....
   - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  
• The Dealers
  The Dealers
  
  The Dealers is a 1957 album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Mal Waldron....
   - John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
   & Mal Waldron
  Mal Waldron
  
  Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....
  
• Dedicated to You - The "5" Royales
• Double Play!
  Double Play!
  
  Double Play! is a 1957 jazz album featuring pianists Russ Freeman and Andr? Previn.Together with drummer Shelly Manne, the album includes eight baseball-themed original compositions by Freeman and Previn along with the jazz standard Take Me Out to the Ball Game....
   - Russ Freeman & André Previn
  André Previn
  
  Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
  
• E=MC² - Count Basie
  Count Basie
  
  William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
  
• Ella and Louis Again
  Ella and Louis Again
  
  Ella and Louis Again is a 1957 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. It is the sequel to their 1956 album, Ella and Louis....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
   & Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
  
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook is a 1957 album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Duke Ellington orchestra, focusing on Ellington's songs....
   - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• Elvis' Christmas Album
  Elvis' Christmas Album
  
  Elvis' Christmas Album is the fourth LP album by Elvis Presley on RCA Victor Records, LPM 1951, released in October 1957, and recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood....
   - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• An Evening with Belafonte
  An Evening with Belafonte
  
  An Evening with Belafonte is a studio album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1957....
   - Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  
• Exotica
  Exotica (album)
  
  Exotica is the first album by Martin Denny released in 1957. It contained Denny's most famous song, "Quiet Village", and spawned an entire genre Exotica....
   - Martin Denny
  Martin Denny
  
  Martin Denny was an American piano-player and composer best known as the "father of exotica." In a long career that saw him performing well into his 80s, he toured the world popularizing his brand of lounge music which included exotic percussion, imaginative rearrangements of popular songs, and original songs that celebrated Tiki culture....
  
• Gangster of Love
  Gangster of Love
  
  Gangster of Love the debut album for the American blues musician Johnny "Guitar" Watson, whose long career influenced the development of blues, soul music, rhythm & blues, funk, rock music, and rap music....
   - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
• Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
  Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
  
  Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps is an album by Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps. It was originally released in 1957 in music. It was released on the Capitol Records label....
   - Gene Vincent
  Gene Vincent
  
  Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, rockabilly....
  
• Gogi Grant – THE HELEN MORGAN STORY - Gogi Grant
  Gogi Grant
  
  Gogi Grant is an United States of America popular music singer....
  
• Gogi Grant - Suddenly There's Gogi Grant - Gogi Grant
  Gogi Grant
  
  Gogi Grant is an United States of America popular music singer....
  
• Grand Ole Opry's New Star - George Jones
  George Jones
  
  George Glenn Jones , is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....
  
• The Great Ray Charles
  The Great Ray Charles
  
  The Great Ray Charles is Ray Charles' second album for Atlantic Records. Released in 1957. Later CD re-issues often include as a bonus, 6 of 8 tracks from The Genius After Hours....
   - Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  
• Her Nibs - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• Here's Little Richard
  Here's Little Richard
  
  Here's Little Richard is the debut album from Little Richard, released on March 1957. He had scored six Top 40 hits the previous year, some of which were included on this recording....
   - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  
• Hi-Fi in Focus
  Hi-Fi in Focus
  
  Hi-Fi in Focus is the title of a recording by United States guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1957.In the same year, "The Rhythm Rockers " released a single of "Tricky"/"Peanut Vendor"....
   - Chet Atkins
  Chet Atkins
  
  Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
  
• Hymns We Love - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• I Love John Frigo...He Swings
  I Love John Frigo...He Swings
  
  I Love John Frigo...He Swings was the debut album of jazz violinist Johnny Frigo for Mercury Records, though the album was more or less not noticed by the public upon release....
   - Johnny Frigo
  Johnny Frigo
  
  Johnny Frigo was an American jazz violinist and bassist....
   (debut)
• Indigos
  Indigos (album)
  
  Ellington indigos is a 1957 album by Duke Ellington.The stereo CD reissue released by Columbia in 1987 contains a track listing and cover art that is drastically different from the original mono LP....
   - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• In Las Vegas - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• Interplay
  Interplay (album)
  
  Interplay is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
   - John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Jazz by Sun Ra
  Jazz by Sun Ra
  
  Jazz By Sun Ra is the debut album to be released by Sun Ra. The record label for the first pressing says "07-12-56", presumably when it was recorded....
   - Sun Ra
  Sun Ra
  
  Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
  
• Jim Edward, Maxine, and Bonnie Brown
  Jim Edward, Maxine, and Bonnie Brown
  
  Jim Edward, Maxine, and Bonnie Brown is a 1957 album by United States Country music group, the Browns....
   - The Browns
  The Browns
  
  The Browns were an United States family singing group from Sparkman, Arkansas made up of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters, Maxine Brown and Bonnie Brown ....
   (debut)
• A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
  A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
  
  A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra is a Christmas album by United States singer Frank Sinatra, originally released by Capitol Records in 1957....
   - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Julie
  Julie (album)
  
  Julie was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog numbers LRP-3096 in 1957 in music and LST-7004 in 1958 in music....
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• Like Someone in Love - Ella Fitzgerald
• Losers, Weepers - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
  Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
  
  Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson is a 1957 studio album by Louis Armstrong, accompanied by Oscar Peterson. The album was reissued in 1997 on CD with four bonus tracks, recorded at the sessions that produced Ella and Louis Again....
   - Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
   & Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario was a Canada jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends, and was a member of jazz royalty....
  
• Love Is the Thing
  Love Is the Thing
  
  Love Is the Thing is a 1957 album released by United States jazz singer Nat King Cole. It is the first of four collaborations between Cole and influential Arrangement Gordon Jenkins....
   - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• Love Serenade - The Ames Brothers
• Loving You
  Loving You
  
  Loving You is an United States motion picture directed by Hal Kanter, released by Paramount Pictures on July 9, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott , and Wendell Corey....
   (OST) - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Make Love to Me
  Make Love to Me (Julie London album)
  
  Make Love to Me was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3060 as a monophonic recording in 1957 in music, and later in stereo under catalog number LST-7060 in 1959 in music....
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• Mal-2
  Mal-2 (album)
  
  Mal-2 is a 1957 album by jazz musician Mal Waldron....
   - Mal Waldron
  Mal Waldron
  
  Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....
  
• The Man I Love
  The Man I Love (album)
  
  The Man I Love is a 1957 album by Peggy Lee, with an orchestra arranged by Nelson Riddle, and conducted by Frank Sinatra....
   - Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  
  Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
  
• The Many Sides of Toshiko
  The Many Sides of Toshiko
  
  The Many Sides of Toshiko is a jazz piano trio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded in New York in 1957 and released on the Verve Records label....
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  
  is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
  
• Miguel
  Miguel (album)
  
  Miguel is the second album by Dalida. It contains only eight songs, including her big success "Miguel". The songs "Maman, la plus belle du monde", "Quand on n'a que l'amour" and "Tu n'as pas tr?s bon caract?re", continue in a more pop style than her first album....
   - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Miles Ahead
  Miles Ahead
  
  Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis released in 1957. This was the first album after Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil Evans, with whom he would go on to release albums such as Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Mirage
  Mirage (Art Blakey album)
  
  Mirage is a 1957 release by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Savoy records....
   - Art Blakey
  Art Blakey
  
  Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
  
• Moanin' the Blues - Hank Williams
• Monk's Music
  Monk's Music
  
  Monk's Music is a 1957 album by Thelonious Monk's jazz septet. It was recorded in New York on June 26, 1957. The first song "Abide With Me"?a hymn by W....
   - Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Monk
  
  Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
  
• Moondreams
  Moondreams
  
  Moondreams is an album from Dick Haymes, released in 1957, arranged & conducted by Ian Bernard. Concert master of the sessions was Felix Slatkin....
   - Dick Haymes
  Dick Haymes
  
  Dick Haymes was an actor and one of the most popular Singing of the 1940s and early 1950s....
  
• New Tricks
  New Tricks (Album)
  
  New Tricks was Bing Crosby sixth Decca Records long-playing album, but his eighth original LP....
   - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• Newk's Time
  Newk's Time
  
  Newk's Time is an album by Sonny Rollins. It was his debut album for Blue Note Records , released in 1957. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ on September 22, 1957....
   - Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  
• Night at the Village Vanguard
  Night at the Village Vanguard
  
  A Night at the Village Vanguard is an album by Sonny Rollins....
   - Sonny Rollins
• No Count Sarah
  No Count Sarah
  
  No Count Sarah is a 1958 album by the American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan.The title refers to the fact that Vaughan was accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra, but without Basie himself....
   - Sarah Vaughan
  Sarah Vaughan
  
  Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
  
• Now Hear This
  Now Hear This (Hi-Lo's album)
  
  Now Hear This was an LP album by The Hi-Lo's released in 1957 in music by Columbia Records, as catalog number CL-1023.Track listing...
   - The Hi-Lo's
  The Hi-Lo's
  
  The Hi-Lo's were an a cappella quartet formed in 1953. They named themselves the "Hi-Lo's" to emphasize their collective vocal range.The group consisted of:...
  
• Once Over Lightly
  Once Over Lightly
  
  Once Over Lightly is a 1957 in music album by Jo Stafford. On this album she is accompanied by Art Van Damme and his orchestra. Once Over Lightly was released on the Columbia Records label....
   - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
  
• One Dozen Roses - The Mills Brothers
• One O'Clock Jump - Joe Williams
  Joe Williams (jazz singer)
  
  Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues music, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards....
  
• Orgy in Rhythm
  Orgy in Rhythm
  
  Orgy in Rhythm is a 1957 solo jazz album released by Art Blakey for Blue Note Records. It was originally released as two LPs, but, in CD re-issue by Blue Note, was consolidated into a single volume....
   - Art Blakey
  Art Blakey
  
  Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
  
• The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game (album)
  
  The Pajama Game was an album, released August 12, 1957 by Columbia Records, containing songs from The Pajama Game , mostly sung by Doris Day and John Raitt....
   - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  
• Pal Joey
  Pal Joey
  
  Pal Joey is a 1939 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage Pal Joey and 1957 in film motion picture of the same name....
   with Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Pat - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• Pat Boone Sings Irving Berlin - Pat Boone
• Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline (album)
  
  Patsy Cline is a self-titled studio album by American country music singer, Patsy Cline, released on August 5, 1957. This was the debut album by Cline and would be one of three studio albums Cline would record during her lifetime....
   - Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline
  
  Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  
• Please, Please, Please - James Brown
  James Brown
  
  James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
  
• Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess (Armstrong & Fitzgerald album)
  
  Porgy & Bess is a 1957 album by the Jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, and the Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald collaborating on this recording of selections from George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess....
   - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Pretty Baby
  Pretty Baby (album)
  
  Pretty Baby is an album recorded by Dean Martin for Capitol Records during two sessions on January 28 and January 30 1957. The backing orchestration was conducted by Gus Levene....
   - Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  
• Quand on n'a que l'amour
  Quand On n'a Que l'Amour
  
  Quand on n'a que l'amour is a song by Jacques Brel and is one of the most famous songs of Brel, at least in France. It is also the name of the second Jacques Brel album from 1957 ....
   - Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel
  
  Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgium singer-songwriter. The quality and style of his lyrics are highly regarded by many leading critics of popular music....
  
• Ray Charles (or, Hallelujah I Love Her So)
  Ray Charles (or, Hallelujah I Love Her So)
  
  Ray Charles is Ray Charles' 1957 debut album for Atlantic Records. It was re-released as Hallelujah I Love Her So in 1962....
   - Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  
• Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
  Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
  
  Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on 11 May 1956 and 26 October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Ring around Rosie - The Hi-Lo's
  The Hi-Lo's
  
  The Hi-Lo's were an a cappella quartet formed in 1953. They named themselves the "Hi-Lo's" to emphasize their collective vocal range.The group consisted of:...
  
• Rockin' - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• Rockin' the Oldies
  Rockin' the Oldies
  
  Rockin' the Oldies was the fifth album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley and His Comets. Produced by Milt Gabler, the album was released by Decca Records in 1957....
   - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• 'Round About Midnight
  'Round About Midnight
  
  'Round About Midnight is an LP album by jazz musician Miles Davis, named after the Thelonious Monk song "'Round Midnight " released in March 1957 and his debut on Columbia Records, CL 949....
   - Miles Davis
• Sea Shells
  Sea Shells
  
  Sea Shells is a 1957 album by Peggy Lee, recorded in early 1955.The album was possibly thought by her record company to be too esoteric, hence its later release....
   - Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  
  Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
  
• Sing a Song of Basie
  Sing a Song of Basie
  
  Sing a Song of Basie is a 1957 album by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. ...
   - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
  Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
  
  Lambert, Hendricks & Ross was a vocalese trio formed by jazz vocalists Dave Lambert , Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross....
  
• Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue
  Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue (Jill Corey album)
  
  Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue was an LP album made by Jill Corey in 1957 in music, released as catalog number CL 1095 by Columbia Records, reissued as a compact disc on November 25, 2003 by Collectables Records....
   - Jill Corey
  Jill Corey
  
  Jill Corey was a traditional pop music singer.She was born in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, about forty miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The community was mainly devoted to coal mining....
  
• Son nom est Dalida - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Songs for Inspiration & Meditation - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
  
• Songs of Scotland - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
  
• Soulville
  Soulville
  
  Soulville is a 1957 album by swing music tenor saxophone Ben Webster, recording a session from October 15 1957 which Webster played with the Oscar Peterson Trio....
   - Ben Webster
  Ben Webster
  
  Benjamin Francis Webster , aka "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential United States jazz tenor saxophone. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young....
  
• The Sounds of Christmas Harmony - The Ames Brothers
• Such Sweet Thunder
  Such Sweet Thunder
  
  Such Sweet Thunder is a Duke Ellington album, released in 1957 ....
   - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• Suddenly It's The Hi-Lo's - The Hi-Lo's
  The Hi-Lo's
  
  The Hi-Lo's were an a cappella quartet formed in 1953. They named themselves the "Hi-Lo's" to emphasize their collective vocal range.The group consisted of:...
  
• Sweet Seventeen - The Ames Brothers
• A Swingin' Affair!
  A Swingin' Affair!
  
  A Swingin' Affair! is a 1957 in music album by Frank Sinatra. It is claimed to be the sequel to Songs for Swingin' Lovers."The Lady Is a Tramp" was bumped from the original album and replaced with "No One Ever Tells You", which had been recorded months earlier....
   - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Swingin' Easy
  Swingin' Easy
  
  Swingin' Easy is a 1957 album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan.On the second chorus of "All of Me " Sarah bops in "a quite extraordinary fashion, covering more than two octaves" "Pennies from Heaven " is taken slower than is usual and Sarah creates a brand new melody the second time around, a kind of descant improvising on the or...
   - Sarah Vaughan
  Sarah Vaughan
  
  Sarah Lois Vaughan was an United States jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century"....
  
• Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
  Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
  
  Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane is a 1957 album by Thelonious Monk. A more extensive collection can be found in "The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings."...
   - Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Monk
  
  Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
   & John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Theory of Art
  Theory of Art (album)
  
  Theory of Art is a 1957 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Bluebird/RCA records.The album is notable in its inclusion of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, who had recently quit the Jazz Messengers, on a rare date with his replacement, tenor saxophonist Johnnie Griffin....
   - Art Blakey
  Art Blakey
  
  Arthur Blakey , born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an United States jazz drummer and bandleader....
  
• There'll Always Be A Christmas - The Ames Brothers
• Tony
  Tony (album)
  
  Tony is a 1957 album by Tony Bennett....
   - Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  
  Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  
• Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport
  Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport
  
  The live album Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport was recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 and released on the Verve Records record label....
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  
  is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
   & Leon Sash
• Trane's Blues
  Trane's Blues
  
  Trane's Blues is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane....
   - John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Traneing In
  Traneing In
  
  Traneing In is a 1957 album by jazz musician John Coltrane. The album was reissued in 2007 as part of the Rudy Van Gelder remasters series....
   - John Coltrane
• Way Out West
  Way Out West (album)
  
  Way Out West is a 1957 album by Sonny Rollins. It is an example of a technique that Sonny Rollins often used called strolling, when he would solo over only the bass and drums with no pianist playing chords....
   - Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  
• We Get Letters
  We Get Letters
  
  We Get Letters was Perry Como Second RCA Victor 12" long-play album. The LP's concept is an album of requests from Como's television show, but forgoing the usual big-band sound of Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers for a small group known as "Como's little Combo", with soft, breezy jazz arrangements....
   - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• The Weavers at Carnegie Hall
  The Weavers at Carnegie Hall
  
  At Carnegie Hall is the second album by The Weavers. The concert was live album at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Christmas Eve 1955. At the time the concert was a come-back for the group following the inclusion of the group on the Hollywood blacklist....
   - The Weavers
  The Weavers
  
  The Weavers were an influential American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs and American ballads, selling millions of records at the height of their popularity....
  
• West Side Story
  West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast)
  
  West Side Story is the 1957 recording of a Broadway theatre production of the musical West Side Story. Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats....
   - Original Broadway Cast
• Wheelin' & Dealin'
  Wheelin' & Dealin' (album)
  
  Wheelin' & Dealin is a 1957 album by jazz musicians Mal Waldron, John Coltrane and Frank Wess....
   - Mal Waldron
  Mal Waldron
  
  Malcolm Earl Waldron was an United States jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.His jazz work was chiefly in the hard bop, post-bebop and free jazz genres....
  , John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
   and Frank Wess
  Frank Wess
  
  Frank Wess is an American jazz musician, who has played saxophone and flute....
  
• Where Are You? - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• The Wildest!
  The Wildest!
  
  The Wildest! is an album by Louis Prima, first 1957 in music. It features singer Keely Smith with saxophonist Sam Butera and the Witnesses. It is considered an innovative mixture of early rock and roll, jump blues and jazz as well as eccentric humor....
   - Louis Prima
  Louis Prima
  
  Louis Prima was an Italian American entertainer, singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Las Vegas, Nevada lounge music in the 1950s, and a pop-...
  
• Winner's Circle
  Winner's Circle
  
  Winner's Circle is a 1957 album by jazz musician Oscar Pettiford.Track listingTrack# "Lazy Afternoon" —# "Not So Sleepy" —...
   - Oscar Pettiford
  Oscar Pettiford
  
  Oscar Pettiford was an United States jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop....
  
• With His Hot and Blue Guitar - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
   (debut)
• World on a String
  World on a String
  
  World on a String is a 1957 album by Henry "Red" Allen....
   - Red Allen
  Red Allen
  
  Henry "Red" Allen was a jazz trumpeter whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong....
  

Biggest hit singles

US No. 1 hit singles

Top hits on record

• "All Shook Up
  All Shook Up
  
  "All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts , staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "An Affair To Remember" - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• "And That Reminds Me
  And That Reminds Me
  
  "And That Reminds Me," also known as "My Heart Reminds Me," is a popular music song.The music was based on the Italy instrumental, "Autumn Concerto," by Camillo Bargoni....
  " - Della Reese
  Della Reese
  
  Della Reese , is an United States actress and singer. She started her career in the late 1950s as a jazz singer, best known for her 1959 hit single "Don't You Know"....
  
• "Almost In Your Arms (Love Theme From Houseboat
  Houseboat
  
  A houseboat is a temporary or permanent dwelling, able to float upon water. Generally, houseboats are tethered to land to provide utilities, but are often capable of operation under their own power....
  ) - Sophia Loren
  Sophia Loren
  
  Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning Italian people film actress. She is widely considered to be the most popular Italian actress of her time and is also famous for being a major international sex symbol....
  
• "April Love" - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Around The World
  Around the World (1956 song)
  
  "Around the World" was the theme tune from the 1956 in film Film Around the World in Eighty Days .It never actually featured with the lyrics in the Around the World in Eighty Days film , but it is the vocal version which has by far become the better known....
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• "Bernadine" - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Black Slacks" - Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones
• "Blue Starr" - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• "Blueberry Hill
  Blueberry Hill (song)
  
  "Blueberry Hill" is a popular song published in 1940 in music. The music was written by Vincent Rose, the lyrics by Al Lewis and Larry Stock. It was recorded six times in 1940....
  " - Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
  
• "Buenas Noches Mi Amor" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Butterfly
  Butterfly (1957 song)
  
  "Butterfly" is a popular music song written by Bernie Lowe and Kal Mann and published in 1957 in music. The song is credited to Anthony September as songwriter in some sources....
  " - Andy Williams
  Andy Williams
  
  Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
  
• "Bye Bye Love" - Everly Brothers
• "Chances Are
  Chances Are (song)
  
  "Chances Are" is a popular music song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was published in 1957 in music. The song was one of a large number of compositions by the Stillman-Allen team that were chart hits in the 1950s....
  " - Johnny Mathis
  Johnny Mathis
  
  Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
  
• "Come Go With Me" - The Dell-Vikings, one of the first integrated groups
• "Crazy Street" - Matys Brothers
  Matys Brothers
  
  The Matys Brothers were a rockabilly musical act made up of the four Matys brothers, and their sister Vera for a time, were born and raised in Chester, Pa....
   (some sources say 1958)
• "Dark Moon
  Dark Moon (song)
  
  "Dark Moon" is a 1957 Country music song by Ned Miller. With its haunting rhythm and forlorn lyrics, it scored on both the country and popular charts in the year of its release....
  " - Gale Storm
  Gale Storm
  
  Josephine Owaissa Cottle , better known as Gale Storm, is an American actress and singer, who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show....
  
• "Deep Purple" - Billy Ward & The Dominoes
• "Diana" - Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  
• "Everyday
  Everyday (Buddy Holly song)
  
  "Everyday" is a song written for Laura Elizabeth Coxon, by Charles Hardin and Norman Petty, recorded as a single by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957 in music and released on September 29, 1957....
  " - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Fascination
  Fascination (song)
  
  "Fascination" is a popular music waltz song with music by F.D. Marchetti and lyrics by Maurice de F?raudy . Published in 1932 in music, it was popularized in the 1957 in film movie, Love in the Afternoon ....
  ", recorded by
• Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• Jane Morgan
  Jane Morgan
  
  Jane Morgan is an United States popular music singing, specializing in traditional pop music....
   & The Troubadors
• "Forbidden Fruit" - Anita Ellis
• "Four Walls" - Jim Reeves
  Jim Reeves
  
  James Travis "Jim" Reeves was an United States singer-songwriter of country western and pop music music....
  
• "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" - Marvin Rainwater
  Marvin Rainwater
  
  Marvin Karlton Rainwater is an United States country music and rockabilly singer, who had a few chart-topper during the late 1950s. His best known hits are "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman"....
  
• "Great Balls Of Fire
  Great Balls of Fire
  
  for the Dolly Parton album see Great Balls of Fire "Great Balls of Fire" is a 1957 in music song written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer....
  " - Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  
• "The Greater Sin" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "Gunfight At the OK Corral" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby" - The Tune Weavers
• "Hey, Schoolgirl" - Tom and Jerry
• "Histoire d'un amour" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Honeycomb
  Honeycomb (song)
  
  "Honeycomb" is a popular music song written by Bob Merrill in 1954 in music. The best-selling version was recorded by Jimmie Rodgers and charted at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1957 in music....
  " - Jimmie Rodgers
  Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)
  
  James Frederick Rodgers is an American singer, sometimes classified as a rock and roll singer, but with a style more typical of folk rock or traditional pop music....
  
• "Hoot Owl" - Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  
  Guy Mitchell was a List of Croatian Americans popular music singer, was successful in his homeland as well in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
• "How High The Moon
  How High the Moon
  
  "How High the Moon" is a jazz standard with lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis . It was first featured in the 1940 Broadway theater revue Two for the Show , where it was sung by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock....
  " - Pat Suzuki
  Pat Suzuki
  
  Pat Suzuki is an United States traditional pop music and actor, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway theatre production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl " in the show....
  
• "I'm Sorry" - The Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  
• "I'm Walking The Floor Over You" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "It's Not For Me To Say
  It's Not for Me to Say
  
  "It's Not for Me to Say" is a 1957 popular music song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was written for the 1957 in film Film Lizzie starring Eleanor Parker....
  " - Johnny Mathis
  Johnny Mathis
  
  Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
  
• "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
  Kisses Sweeter than Wine (song)
  
  "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" is a popular music love song written by The Weavers in 1950, and a hit for Jimmie Rodgers in 1957 in music and Frankie Vaughan in 1958 in music....
  " - Jimmie Rodgers
  Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)
  
  James Frederick Rodgers is an American singer, sometimes classified as a rock and roll singer, but with a style more typical of folk rock or traditional pop music....
  
• "Last Train to San Fernando" - Johnny Duncan
  Johnny Duncan
  
  Johnny Duncan was a skiffle music celebrity. He was born in the Windrock coal mining camp overlooking the town of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, Tennessee and became a United Kingdom skiffle star in 1957 with the hit record "Last Train to San Fernando",...
   (huge hit in the UK
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  )
• "Little Darlin' " - Diamonds, a parody
  Parody
  
  A parody , in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation....
   cover
  Cover version
  
  In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
   of a rhythm and blues
  Rhythm and blues
  
  Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
   hit
• "The Lonesome Road" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "Starlight" Jack Huddle
  Jack Huddle
  
  Jack Huddle was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter. He performed and recorded with Buddy Holly early in Holly's career....
  
• "Look Homeward, Angel" - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• "Love Letters In The Sand
  Love Letters in the Sand
  
  "Love Letters in the Sand" is a popular music song first published in 1931 in music. The music was written by J. Fred Coots and the lyrics by Nick Kenny and Charles Kenny....
  " - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Loving You" - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Lucille" - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  
• "Maman, la plus belle du monde" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "My Special Angel
  My Special Angel
  
  "My Special Angel" is a popular music song by Jimmy Duncan , published in 1957 in music.The song became a big hit in 1957 in music for Bobby Helms, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
  " - Bobby Helms
  Bobby Helms
  
  Bobby Helms was an United States singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957....
  
• "Not Fade Away" - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Oh Boy
  Oh Boy
  
  Oh Boy may refer to:*Oh Boy! , 1977 album by Brotherhood of Man*Oh, Boy! , a 1917 musical*Oh, Boy! , by Buddy Holly**Oh Boy , a 1975 cover version by Mud...
  " - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Old Cape Cod
  Old Cape Cod
  
  "Old Cape Cod" is a song, written by Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus, and Allan Jeffrey, and published in 1957 in music.The recording by Patti Page was released by Mercury Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 71101; flip side "Wondering ." It first reached the Billboard charts on June 3, 1957....
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• "Party Doll
  Party Doll
  
  "Party Doll" is a 1950s rockabilly song written by Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen. It was performed by Buddy Knox with the Rhythm Orchids and became a hit on the Roulette Records label....
  " - Buddy Knox
  Buddy Knox
  
  Buddy Wayne Knox was an United States singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 rockabilly hit song, "Party Doll".Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas and as a boy learned to play the guitar....
  
• "Peggy Sue
  Peggy Sue
  
  "Peggy Sue" is a rock and roll song written by Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, and Norman Petty, and originally performed, recorded and released as a single by Buddy Holly and the Crickets in early July of 1957 in music....
  " - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Pink Champagne" - The Tyrones
  The Tyrones
  
  The Tyrones were a popular Philadelphia rock and roll group of the 50s run by Tyrone DeNittis and featuring George Lesser that recorded a number of hit songs including "Blast Off" and "I'm Shook" and appeared singing "Blast Off" in the film Let's Rock....
  
• "Quand on n'a que l'amour" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Queen Of The Senior Prom" - The Mills Brothers
• "Raunchy
  Raunchy (song)
  
  "Raunchy" is the name of an United States rock and roll instrumental hit from 1957. It was recorded by Bill Justis and his band in Memphis, Tennessee, and co-written by Justis and Sid Manker....
  " - Bill Justis
  Bill Justis
  
  William E. "Bill" Justis Jr. was an United States pioneer Rock and Roll musician, composer, and musical arranger best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song "Raunchy ."...
  
• "Reet Petite" - Jackie Wilson
  Jackie Wilson
  
  Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was an United States singer. Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul music. Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group, The Dominoes, after going solo in 1957 he went on to record over fifty hit singles over a repertoire that included R&B, pop music, soul mu...
  
• "Remember You're Mine" - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Rock-A-Billy
  Rock-a-Billy (song)
  
  "Rock-a-Billy" is a popular music song by Woody Harris and Eddie V. Deane, published in 1957 in music. The song was popularized by Guy Mitchell in 1957 in music....
  " - Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  
  Guy Mitchell was a List of Croatian Americans popular music singer, was successful in his homeland as well in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
• "Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues" - Brenda Lee
  Brenda Lee
  
  Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  
• "Rock and Roll Music
  Rock and Roll Music
  
  "Rock and Roll Music" is a song written and originally recorded by Chuck Berry which became a hit single in 1957, reaching #8 in the U.S. chart, and was later cover version by many artists, notably The Beatles and The Beach Boys....
  " - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "Round and Round
  Round and Round (Shapiro/Stallman song)
  
  "Round and Round" is a popular song by Joe Shapiro and Lou Stallman published in 1956. A version of the song recorded by Perry Como was a big hit in 1957....
  " - Perry Como
  Perry Como
  
  Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
  
• "Rumble
  Rumble
  
  A rumble is a form of loud white noise which is often created by a random sound wave existing between certain limitation points.In an audio context, rumble refers to a low frequency sound from the bearings inside a turntable....
  " -- Link Wray
  Link Wray
  
  Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an United States rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer.Wray was noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars, as exemplified in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble ", by Link Wray and his Ray Men, which pioneered an overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound, and also for ha...
  , early feedback
  Feedback
  
  Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence the same event/phenomenon in the present or future....
  , only instrumental
  Instrumental
  
  An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
   ever banned
• "Searchin'
  Searchin'
  
  "Searchin" is a song written by Leiber and Stoller specifically for The Coasters. It was released as a Single on Atco Records in March 1957, and topped the List of number-one R&B hits for twelve weeks....
   " - The Coasters
  The Coasters
  
  The Coasters are a Rhythm and Blues/rock and roll vocal group that had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood ," their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting and producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller....
  
• "Shangri-La
  Shangri-La (1946 song)
  
  "Shangri-La" is a popular music song written by Carl Sigman , Matt Malneck, and Robert Maxwell in 1946 in music. The term comes from "Shangri-La," the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon." The term "Shangri-La," especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, and the song is about the joy...
  " - The Four Coins
  The Four Coins
  
  The Four Coins were a popular music vocal group, consisting of Jimmy Gregorakis, George Mantalis, and brothers George and Jack Mahramas. They were all of Greek American heritage and came from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, also known for Perry Como....
  
• "Silent Lips" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "So Rare" - Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent United States jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader....
  
• "Stardust
  Stardust (song)
  
  "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with the lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish.Composition...
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• "Sugar Moon" - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Sugartime" - McGuire Sisters
• "Tammy
  Tammy (song)
  
  "Tammy" is a popular music song. The music was written by Jay Livingston, the lyrics by Ray Evans. The song was published in 1957 in music. The song debuted in the film Tammy and the Bachelor....
  ", recorded by
• The Ames Brothers
• Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  
  Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
  
• "Teddy Bear
  Teddy Bear (song)
  
  " Teddy Bear" is a popular music song. It was written by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe and published in 1957 in music.The song was a US number-one hit for Elvis Presley during the summer of 1957, and his third of the four that he would have that year....
  " - Elvis Presley
• "That'll Be the Day
  That'll Be the Day
  
  "That'll Be the Day" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison and recorded by various artists including The Crickets, The Beatles and Linda Ronstadt....
  " - The Crickets
  The Crickets
  
  The Crickets were a rock & roll band from Lubbock, Texas, formed by singer/songwriter Buddy Holly in the 1950s.Their first hit record was "That'll Be the Day," released in 1957....
  , Buddy Holly's group
• "3:10 To Yuma" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "Too Much
  Too Much (Elvis Presley song)
  
  "Too Much" is a hit song recorded by Elvis Presley. The song was highly popular in early 1957, reaching #1 and #2 on Cashbox and Billboard magazine charts, respectively. It was written by Bernard Weinman & Lee Rosenberg....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Too Young To Have A Broken Heart" - Gayla Peevey
  Gayla Peevey
  
  Gayla Peevey is perhaps best known for her song, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" . A child star from Ponca City, Oklahoma, she was ten years old when she recorded the novelty song, which had been written by John Rox in 1950 in music....
  
• "Treat Me Nice" - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "The Twelfth Of Never" - Johnny Mathis
  Johnny Mathis
  
  Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
  
• "Tu n'as pas très bon caractère" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Tutti Frutti
  Tutti Frutti (song)
  
  "Tutti Frutti" is a song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record in 1955. With its opening cry of "Womp-bomp-a-loom-op-a-womp-bam-boom!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the models for rock and roll itself....
  " - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  
• "Up Above My Head" - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
   and Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "Wake Up Little Susie" - The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
  
  The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
  
• "Walkin' After Midnight
  Walkin' After Midnight
  
  "Walkin' After Midnight" is a song written by Alan Block and Don Hecht. In 1957, Patsy Cline released it as a single. That year Cline auditioned for The Arthur Godfrey Show, and was later accepted....
  " - Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline
  
  Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  
• "When I Fall in Love
  When I Fall in Love (song)
  
  "When I Fall in Love" is a popular song, written by Victor Young and Edward Heyman . It was introduced in the film One Minute to Zero . The song has become a standard, with many artists recording it, though the original hit version was by Doris Day....
  " - Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  
• "White Silver Sands
  White Silver Sands
  
  "White Silver Sands" is a popular song. The words and music were written in 1957 in music by Charles 'Red' Matthews, although partial authorship is also claimed by Gladys Reinhart....
   - Don Rondo
  Don Rondo
  
  Don Rondo was an United States singer of popular music ballads during the mid 1950s known for his distinctive baritone voice. He first became popular following the 1956 release of his rendition of the song Two Different Worlds ....
  
• "Who Needs You" - The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  
  The Four Lads is a Canada male singing quartet. They grew up together in Toronto, Ontario, and were members of St. Michael's Choir School, where they learned to sing....
  
• "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  
• "Why Baby, Why" - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Willie and the Hand Jive" - Johnny Otis
  Johnny Otis
  
  Johnny Otis is an United States blues and rhythm and blues pianist, vibraphonist, drummer, singer, bandleader, and impresario. Otis was one of the most prominent white figures in the history of Rhythm and Blues....
  
• "Witchcraft
  Witchcraft (song)
  
  "Witchcraft" is a popular music song from 1957 composed by Cy Coleman with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. It was released as a single by Frank Sinatra, and reached number twenty in the U.S., spending sixteen weeks on the charts....
  " - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• "Wonderful! Wonderful!
  Wonderful! Wonderful!
  
  "Wonderful! Wonderful!" is a popular music song songwriter by Sherman Edwards, with the lyrics by Ben Raleigh. The song was first published in 1957 in music....
  " - Johnny Mathis
  Johnny Mathis
  
  Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
  
• "You Know How It Is" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "You Send Me" - Sam Cooke
  Sam Cooke
  
  Samuel Cook, better known as Sam Cooke, was an United States gospel music, R&B, soul music, and popular music singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur....
  
• "Young Blood" - The Coasters, a two-sided hit with "Searchin"'
• "Young Love", recorded by
• Crew-Cuts
• Tab Hunter
  Tab Hunter
  
  Tab Hunter is an United States actor and singer who appeared in more than 40 major feature films....
  
• Sonny James
  Sonny James
  
  Sonny James is an United States country music singer and songwriter. In 2006, James was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame....
  

Published popular music

• "According To My Heart"     w.m. Gary Walker
• "An Affair To Remember"     w. Harold Adamson & Leo McCarey m. Harry Warren
  Harry Warren
  
  Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
  
• "After School"     w.m. Dick Wolf & Warren Nadel
• "All Shook Up
  All Shook Up
  
  "All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts , staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27....
  "     w.m. Otis Blackwell
  Otis Blackwell
  
  Otis Blackwell was an United States songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced Rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever ", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender " , and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man"....
   & Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "All The Way
  All the Way (song)
  
  "All the Way" is a 1950s popular music song which has since been covered by other artists....
  "     w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
    m. James Van Heusen
  James Van Heusen
  
  Jimmy Van Heusen , was an United States composer. Writing songs for films and television, he won four Academy Award for Best Original Song, and an Emmy....
  
• "Almost Paradise"     m. Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
  
• "Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)
  Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)
  
  "Alone " is a popular music song. The music was written by Morty Craft. Craft owned a record label, and produced the recording by The Shepherd Sisters on that label....
  "     w. Selma Craft m. Morton Craft
• "America"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "April Love"     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   m. Sammy Fain
  Sammy Fain
  
  Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
  
• "Are You Sincere?"     w.m. Wayne Walker
• "At The Hop"     w.m. Artie Singer, Johnny Medora & Dave White
• "Be-Bop Baby"     w.m. Pearl Lenghurst
• "Bernadine"     w.m. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
  
• "Black Slacks"     w.m. Joe Bennett & Jimmy Denton
• "Bony Moronie"     w.m. Larry Williams
  Larry Williams
  
  Larry Williams was an United States rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana. Williams is best known for writing and sound recording and reproduction some rock and roll Traditional pop musics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Short Fat Fannie", "Bony Moronie" a...
  
• "The Book Of Love"     w.m. Warren Davies, George Malone & Charles Patrick
• "Boy On A Dolphin"     w.(Eng) Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   (Greek) Jean Fermanoglou m. Takis Morakis
• "Build Your Love (On A Strong Foundation)"     O. Jones
• "Butterfly
  Butterfly (1957 song)
  
  "Butterfly" is a popular music song written by Bernie Lowe and Kal Mann and published in 1957 in music. The song is credited to Anthony September as songwriter in some sources....
  "     w.m. Anthony September
• "Bye Bye Love
  Bye Bye Love
  
  "Bye Bye Love" is a popular music song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957 in music. It is best known in a debut recording by The Everly Brothers, issued by Cadence Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 1315....
  "     w.m. Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
• "Ca, C'est L'Amour
  Ca, C'est L'amour
  
  "Ca, C'est L'amour" is a popular music song by Cole Porter, published in 1957 in music. It was introduced in the film Les Girls.The recording by Tony Bennett was released by Columbia Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 41032....
  "     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  
• "Catch A Falling Star"     w.m. Lee Pockriss
  Lee Pockriss
  
  Lee Pockriss is an United States songwriter who has written many well-known popular songs and several scores for films and Broadway shows.With Paul Vance he co-wrote "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", recorded in 1960 by Brian Hyland; the Grammy-nominated "Catch a Falling Star", recorded in 1957 by Perry Como; and the 1969...
   & Paul Vance
  Paul Vance
  
  Paul Vance is an United States songwriter.With Lee Pockriss, Vance co-wrote such hits as "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," recorded in 1960 by Brian Hyland and covered by Timmy Mallett under the name Bombalurina in 1990, and "Catch a Falling Star," recorded in 1957 by Perry Como....
  
• "Chances Are
  Chances Are (song)
  
  "Chances Are" is a popular music song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was published in 1957 in music. The song was one of a large number of compositions by the Stillman-Allen team that were chart hits in the 1950s....
  "     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "Chantez, Chantez
  Chantez, Chantez
  
  "Chantez, Chantez" is a popular music song with music was written by Irving Fields and lyrics by Albert Gamse, published in 1957 in music.The best-known version of the song was performed by Dinah Shore....
  "     w. Albert Gamse m. Irving Fields
• "Cocoanut Sweet"     w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  
  Harold Arlen was an United States Jewish composer of popular music.Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook....
  
• "Come Fly With Me"     Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
  , James Van Heusen
  James Van Heusen
  
  Jimmy Van Heusen , was an United States composer. Writing songs for films and television, he won four Academy Award for Best Original Song, and an Emmy....
  
• "Come Go With Me"     w.m. Clarence E. Quick
• "Cool"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "Could This Be Magic"     w.m. Hiram Johnson & Richard Blandon
• "Dark Moon
  Dark Moon (song)
  
  "Dark Moon" is a 1957 Country music song by Ned Miller. With its haunting rhythm and forlorn lyrics, it scored on both the country and popular charts in the year of its release....
  "     w.m. Ned Miller
  Ned Miller
  
  Henry Ned Miller is an American country music artist. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970, he is known primarily for his hit single "From a Jack to a King", a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music, adult contemporary, and Billboard Hot 100 charts....
  
• "The Day The Rains Came"     w.(Eng) Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  
  Carl Sigman was a major United States songwriter....
   (Fr) Pierre Delanoë
  Pierre Delanoë
  
  Pierre Delano? , born Pierre Leroyer, was a France songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and rocker Johnny Hallyday....
   m. Gilbert Bécaud
  Gilbert Bécaud
  
  Gilbert B?caud was a France singer, composer and actor, known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances. His best-known hit record are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love "....
  
• "Diana"     w.m. Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  
  Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  
• "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  
• "Everyday"     Charles Hardin
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  , Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
  
• "Four Walls"     w.m. George Campbell & Marvin Moore
• "From a Jack to a King
  From a Jack to a King
  
  From a Jack to a King is a country music song. Originally a crossover hit for artist Ned Miller, who also wrote "Dark Moon", "A Falling Star", and many other Country songs, the song was later covered by country music artist Ricky Van Shelton in late 1988, becoming Shelton's fourth No....
  " w.m. Ned Miller
  Ned Miller
  
  Henry Ned Miller is an American country music artist. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970, he is known primarily for his hit single "From a Jack to a King", a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music, adult contemporary, and Billboard Hot 100 charts....
  
• "Gee, Officer Krupke"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
   from the musical West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  
• "Gigi
  Gigi
  
  Gigi is a 1944 in literature novella by France writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man who discovers he is in love with and eventually marries her....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe
• "The Girl with the Golden Braids
  The Girl with the Golden Braids
  
  "The Girl with the Golden Braids" is a popular music song. The music was written by Eddie Snyder, the lyrics by Stanley J. Kahan. The song was published in 1957 in music....
  " m. Eddie Snyder w. Stanley J. Kahan
• "Goodnight My Someone"     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  
• "Got-Ta Have Something In The Bank, Frank"     Bob Hilliard
  Bob Hilliard
  
  Bob Hilliard was an United States lyricist, born in New York City....
  , Mort Garson
  Mort Garson
  
  Mort Garson who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was an electronic musician best known for his albums that predominantly feature Moog synthesizers....
  
• "Great Balls Of Fire"     w.m. Jack Hammer & Otis Blackwell
  Otis Blackwell
  
  Otis Blackwell was an United States songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced Rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever ", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender " , and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man"....
  
• "A Handful Of Songs"     Tommy Steele
  Tommy Steele
  
  Tommy Steele Order of the British Empire is an England entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star....
  , Lionel Bart
  Lionel Bart
  
  Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
   & Michael Pratt
• "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby"     w.m. Margo Sylvia & Gilbert Lopez
• "Hey Schoolgirl"     w. Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an United States singer, poet and actor, best known as half of the Grammy Award winning folk music duo Simon & Garfunkel....
   m. Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  
  Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
  
• "Hula Love"     adapted by Buddy Knox
  Buddy Knox
  
  Buddy Wayne Knox was an United States singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 rockabilly hit song, "Party Doll".Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas and as a boy learned to play the guitar....
   from the 1911
  1911 in music
  
  Events*February - Gustav Mahler falls seriously ill with a streptococcal blood infection during the New York concert season. He dies three months later....
   song "My Hula Hula Love"
• "I Can't Stop Loving You"     w.m. Don Gibson
  Don Gibson
  
  Donald Eugene Gibson was an United States songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams " and "I Can't Stop Loving You" and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970's....
  
• "I Feel Pretty"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "I Just Don't Know"     w. Joe Stone m. Robert Allen
• "I Like Your Kind Of Love"     Melvin Endsley
• "I'm Sorry"     w.m. Buck Ram
  Buck Ram
  
  Buck Ram was an United States songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.He was born Samuel Ram to Jewish parents. It has been written that the history of rock and roll could not be written without Buck Ram's contributions....
  
• "In My Own Little Corner"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  
• "In The Middle Of An Island
  In the Middle of an Island
  
  "In the Middle of an Island" is a popular song written by Nick Acquaviva and Ted Varnick and published in 1957 in music.The recording by Tony Bennett was released by Columbia Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 40965....
  "     w.m. Ted Varnick & Nick Acquaviva
  Nick Acquaviva
  
  Nick Aquaviva was an American composer, conductor and string instrumentalist, a student of Serge Koussevitzky and the founder of the New York "Pops" Symphony Orchestra, a 135-member ensemble that selected and performed melodic new works by young composers....
  
• "Island In The Sun"     w.m. Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
   & Irving L. Burgie
• "It's Good To Be Alive"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill
  
  Bob Merrill was an United States songwriter, theatre composer and lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  
• "Ivy Rose"     w.m. Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today....
   & Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born United States songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.Mr. Manning co-wrote many popular songs, among them "Takes Two to Tango," "Fascination" and "Papa Loves Mambo." His works were published in 27 languages and sung by such artists as Perry Como, Jimmy Durante, Kate Smith and other...
  
• "Jailhouse Rock"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Jingle Bell Rock"     w.m. Joseph Beal & James Boothe
• "Joey's Song"     m. Joe Reisman
• "Just Between You And Me"     w.m. Lee Cathy & Jack Keller
• "Just Born"     w.m. Luther Dixon & Billy Dawn Smith
• "Let It Be Me"     w.(Eng) Mann Curtis (Fr) Pierre Delanoë
  Pierre Delanoë
  
  Pierre Delano? , born Pierre Leroyer, was a France songwriter/lyricist who wrote for dozens of singers such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and rocker Johnny Hallyday....
   m. Gilbert Bécaud
  Gilbert Bécaud
  
  Gilbert B?caud was a France singer, composer and actor, known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances. His best-known hit record are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love "....
  
• "Lida Rose"     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  
• "Liechtensteiner Polka"     w.(Eng) Joseph Seener w.m. Edmund Koetscher & Rudi Lindt
• "Lips Of Wine"     w. Shirley Wolfe m. Sy Soloway
• "Little Biscuit"     w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  
  Harold Arlen was an United States Jewish composer of popular music.Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook....
  
• "The Little Blue Man"     w.m. Fred Ebb & Paul Klein
• "Little Darlin' "     w.m. Maurice Williams
  The Zodiacs
  
  Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs was a singing band , active in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Originally The Charms, the band changed its name to The Gladiolas in 1957 and The Excellos in 1958, before finally settling on The Zodiacs in 1959....
  
• "Loving You"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Lucille"     w.m. Richard Penniman & Albert Collins
• "Magic Moments
  Magic Moments
  
  "Magic Moments" is a popular music song with music was songwriter by Burt Bacharach, the lyrics by Hal David, one of the first compositions by that duo....
  "     w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  
• "Mama Look A Booboo"     w.m. Lord Melody
• "Marching Along To The Blues"     w.m. Mel Green
• "Marian The Librarian"     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  
• "Mean Woman Blues"      w.m. Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius
  
  Claude Demetrius was an African American songwriter.two decades, Claude Demetrius made a reasonably good living but in 1956 his income would change dramatically after he began writing for Gladys Music, Inc.....
  
• "Mi Casa, Su Casa"     w.m. Al Hoffman & Dick Manning
• "Moonlight Swim"     w. Sylvia Dee m. Ben Weisman
• "Mr Lee"     w.m. Heather Dixon, Helen Gathers, Emma Ruth Pought, Laura Webb & Jannie Pought
• "My Heart Reminds Me" (aka "And That Reminds Me
  And That Reminds Me
  
  "And That Reminds Me," also known as "My Heart Reminds Me," is a popular music song.The music was based on the Italy instrumental, "Autumn Concerto," by Camillo Bargoni....
  ")     w. (Eng) Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Camillo Bargoni
• "My Little Baby"     w.m. Joe Shapiro and Lou Stallman
• "My Special Angel
  My Special Angel
  
  "My Special Angel" is a popular music song by Jimmy Duncan , published in 1957 in music.The song became a big hit in 1957 in music for Bobby Helms, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
  "     w.m. Jimmy Duncan
  Jimmy Duncan (songwriter)
  
  Jimmy Duncan is an United States songwriter, singer, composer, author, arranger and producer, best known for his song "My Special Angel."He was born in Houston, Texas....
  
• "My White Knight"     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  
• "Napoleon"     w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  
  Harold Arlen was an United States Jewish composer of popular music.Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook....
  
• "A New-Fangled Tango"     w. Matt Dubey m. Harold Carr
• "Ninety-Nine Ways"     w.m. Anthony September
• "Oh Boy!"     w.m. Sunny West, Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
   & Bill Tilghman
• "Oh, Lonesome Me"     w.m. Don Gibson
  Don Gibson
  
  Donald Eugene Gibson was an United States songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams " and "I Can't Stop Loving You" and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970's....
  
• "Old Cape Cod
  Old Cape Cod
  
  "Old Cape Cod" is a song, written by Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus, and Allan Jeffrey, and published in 1957 in music.The recording by Patti Page was released by Mercury Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 71101; flip side "Wondering ." It first reached the Billboard charts on June 3, 1957....
  "     w.m. Claire Rothrock, Milt Yakus & Allan Jeffrey
• "One Hand, One Heart"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "Party Doll
  Party Doll
  
  "Party Doll" is a 1950s rockabilly song written by Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen. It was performed by Buddy Knox with the Rhythm Orchids and became a hit on the Roulette Records label....
  "     w.m. Jimmy Bowen & Buddy Knox
  Buddy Knox
  
  Buddy Wayne Knox was an United States singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 rockabilly hit song, "Party Doll".Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas and as a boy learned to play the guitar....
  
• "Passing Strangers
  Passing Strangers (1957 song)
  
  "Passing Strangers" is a popular song, written in 1957 in music by Mel Mitchell and Stanley Applebaum. The song was recorded that year as a duet by Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan, and gave them a minor hit in the United States, where the song reached #82 on the Billboard Charts....
  "     Mel Mitchell, Stanley Applebaum
• "Peggy Sue"     w.m. Jerry Allison, Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
   & Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  
• "Pretend You Don't See Her"     w.m. Steve Allen
  Steve Allen (comedian)
  
  Steve Allen, born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen , was an United States television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer....
  
• "Proceed With Caution"     Wilson Stone
• "Promise Her Anything"     w.m. Roy Alfred
• "The Pub With No Beer"     w.m. Gordon Parsons
• "Put A Light In The Window"     w. Rhoda Roberts m. Kenny Jacobson
• "Rainbow"     w.m. Russ Hamilton
• "Raunchy"     m. William E. Justis Jr
  Bill Justis
  
  William E. "Bill" Justis Jr. was an United States pioneer Rock and Roll musician, composer, and musical arranger best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song "Raunchy ."...
   & Sidney Manker
• "Reet Petite"     T. Carlo, Berry Gordy
  Berry Gordy
  
  Berry Gordy, Jr. is an United States record producer, and the founder of the Motown record label and its many subsidiaries....
  
• "Remember You're Mine"     Bernie Lowe, Kal Mann
• "Rock And Roll Music"      w.m. Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "Rock-A-Billy
  Rock-a-Billy (song)
  
  "Rock-a-Billy" is a popular music song by Woody Harris and Eddie V. Deane, published in 1957 in music. The song was popularized by Guy Mitchell in 1957 in music....
  "     w.m. Woody Harris & Eddie V. Deane
• "Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me"     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  
• "Santa, Bring My Baby Back (To Me)"     w.m. Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius
  
  Claude Demetrius was an African American songwriter.two decades, Claude Demetrius made a reasonably good living but in 1956 his income would change dramatically after he began writing for Gladys Music, Inc.....
   & Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
  
• "Sayonara"     w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  
  Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  
• "School Day"     w.m. Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "Searchin' "     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Send For Me"     w.m. Ollie Jones
• "Seventy-Six Trombones
  Seventy-Six Trombones
  
  "Seventy Six Trombones" is the signature song from the 1957 musical play The Music Man, written by Meredith Willson. The song also appeared in The Music Man and 2003 TV movie adaptations....
  "     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  
• "She Was Only Seventeen"     w.m. Marty Robbins
  Marty Robbins
  
  Martin David Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.One of the most popular and successful United States Country music singers of his era, Robbins' songs were often eclectic, touching notably on an array of world music....
  
• "Shiralee"     w.m. Tommy Steele
  Tommy Steele
  
  Tommy Steele Order of the British Empire is an England entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock 'n' roll star....
  
• "Short Fat Fanny"     Larry Williams
  Larry Williams
  
  Larry Williams was an United States rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana. Williams is best known for writing and sound recording and reproduction some rock and roll Traditional pop musics from 1957 to 1959 for Specialty Records, including "Short Fat Fannie", "Bony Moronie" a...
  
• "Silhouettes"     w.m. Frank Slay & Bob Crewe
• "Something's Coming"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "Somewhere"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  , Introduced by Reri Grist
  Reri Grist
  
  Reri Grist is an United States coloratura soprano, one of the pioneer African-American singers to enjoy a major international career in opera....
   in the musical West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
  
• "The Song Of Raintree County"     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   & Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  
  Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
  
• "The Story Of My Life"     w. Hal David
  Hal David
  
  Hal David is an United States lyricist and songwriter. His elder brother, Mack David, was also a lyricist and songwriter. David is best known for his words and music that were written along with musician, composer and singer, Burt Bacharach....
   m. Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  
  Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
  
• "The Stroll"     w.m. Nancy Lee & Clyde Otis
• "Tammy
  Tammy (song)
  
  "Tammy" is a popular music song. The music was written by Jay Livingston, the lyrics by Ray Evans. The song was published in 1957 in music. The song debuted in the film Tammy and the Bachelor....
  "     w. Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  
  Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
   m. Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an United States songwriter. He was a partner in a composer and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films....
  . Introduced by Debbie Reynolds
  Debbie Reynolds
  
  Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
   in the film Tammy and the Bachelor
  Tammy and the Bachelor
  
  Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy . It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tammy Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen in an early role as Peter Brent....
  
• "Teddy Bear
  Teddy Bear (song)
  
  " Teddy Bear" is a popular music song. It was written by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe and published in 1957 in music.The song was a US number-one hit for Elvis Presley during the summer of 1957, and his third of the four that he would have that year....
  "     w.m. Kal Mann
  Kal Mann
  
  Kal Mann was an United States lyricist.Born Kalman Cohen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Mann began his career in entertainment as a comedy writer until friend and songwriter Bernie Lowe encouraged him to try writing lyrics for the music industry....
   & Bernie Lowe
  Bernie Lowe
  
  Bernie Lowe was an United States songwriter / record producer / arrangement / pianist and bandleader.Born Bernard Lowenthal in Philadelphia, Lowe started Teen Records and in 1955 was working with Freddie Bell and the Bellboys....
  . Introduced by Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   in the film Loving You
  Loving You
  
  Loving You is an United States motion picture directed by Hal Kanter, released by Paramount Pictures on July 9, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott , and Wendell Corey....
  
• "Tele Vee Shun"     Stan Freberg
  Stan Freberg
  
  Stanley Victor Freberg is an United States author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer, and advertising creative director....
  
• "Ten Minutes Ago"     w. Oscar Hammerstein II
  Oscar Hammerstein II
  
  Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  
• "That'll Be The Day"     w.m. Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  , Norman Petty
  Norman Petty
  
  Norman Petty was an United States musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer of the Southwestern United States who helped shape modern popular music, including pop music and rock music....
   & Jerry Allison
• "Till
  Till (song)
  
  "Till" is a popular music song with music by Charles Danvers . The original French lyrics were written by Pierre Buisson, and the English lyrics by Carl Sigman....
  "     w.m. Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  
  Carl Sigman was a major United States songwriter....
  , Charles Sananes & Pierre Buisson
• "Till There Was You
  Till There Was You
  
  "Till There Was You" is a song written by Meredith Willson for his 1957 musical play The Music Man, and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version....
  "     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  . Introduced by Robert Preston
  Robert Preston (actor)
  
  Robert Preston was an award-winning United States stage and film actor....
   and Barbara Cook
  Barbara Cook
  
  Barbara Cook is a Tony Award winning United States singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway theatre musical theatre Candide and The Music Man among others....
   in the musical The Music Man
  The Music Man
  
  The Music Man is a musical theatre with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey....
  
• "Tonight"     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   & Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "Tonite, Tonite"     W. Nobles
• "Treat Me Nice"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Trouble (In River City)"     w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  . Introduced by Robert Preston
  Robert Preston (actor)
  
  Robert Preston was an award-winning United States stage and film actor....
   in the musical The Music Man
  The Music Man
  
  The Music Man is a musical theatre with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey....
  .
• "The Twelfth Of Never"     adapt. (folk song) w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   m. Jerry Livingston
• "Twenty-Six Miles"     w.m. Bruce Bell & Glen Larson
• "A Very Special Love"     w.m. Robert Allen
• "Wake Up Little Susie
  Wake Up Little Susie
  
  "Wake Up Little Susie" is a popular song written by Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957 in music.The song is best known in a recording by The Everly Brothers, issued by Cadence Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 1337....
  "     w.m. Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
• "Walking Along
  Walking Along
  
  "Walking Along" is a 1957 in music doo wop song written by Sam Weiss and Winston Willis. The song was recorded by The Solitaires and gave the group its biggest selling and best remembered hit on the Billboard Charts....
  "     Sam Weiss, Winston Willis
• "White Silver Sands
  White Silver Sands
  
  "White Silver Sands" is a popular song. The words and music were written in 1957 in music by Charles 'Red' Matthews, although partial authorship is also claimed by Gladys Reinhart....
  "     w.m. Charles G. Matthews & Gladys Reinhardt
• "A White Sport Coat
  A White Sport Coat
  
  A White Sport Coat was a 1957 in music rock and roll song with words and music both written by Marty Robbins.Robbins is said to have had the inspiration for the song while driving from a motel to a venue in Ohio where he was due to perform that evening....
  "     w.m. Marty Robbins
  Marty Robbins
  
  Martin David Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.One of the most popular and successful United States Country music singers of his era, Robbins' songs were often eclectic, touching notably on an array of world music....
  
• "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"     w.m. Dave Williams & Sunny David
• "Whole Lotta Woman"     w.m. Marvin Rainwater
  Marvin Rainwater
  
  Marvin Karlton Rainwater is an United States country music and rockabilly singer, who had a few chart-topper during the late 1950s. His best known hits are "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman"....
  
• "Why Baby Why"     w.m. Luther Dixon & Larry Harrison
• "Why Don't They Understand?"     Jack Fishman, Joe Henderson
• "Wild Is The Wind"     w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  
  Ned Washington was an United States lyricist....
   m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Tiomkin
  
  Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
  
• "Wind In The Willows"     Wecht, Singer, Singer
• "Witchcraft
  Witchcraft (song)
  
  "Witchcraft" is a popular music song from 1957 composed by Cy Coleman with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. It was released as a single by Frank Sinatra, and reached number twenty in the U.S., spending sixteen weeks on the charts....
  "     w. Carolyn Leigh
  Carolyn Leigh
  
  Carolyn Leigh was an United States lyricist for Broadway theatre, movies, and popular songs....
   m. Cy Coleman
  Cy Coleman
  
  For the fictional principal Seymour Kaufman, see Room 222.Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist....
  
• "Wonderful! Wonderful!
  Wonderful! Wonderful!
  
  "Wonderful! Wonderful!" is a popular music song songwriter by Sherman Edwards, with the lyrics by Ben Raleigh. The song was first published in 1957 in music....
  "     w. Ben Raleigh m. Sherman Edwards
• "Yellow Bird"     w.m. Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith & Norman Luboff
  Norman Luboff
  
  Norman Luboff was an United States arrangement and choir.Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was taught piano as a child and was part of his high school Choir....
  
• "Yes Tonight, Josephine"     w.m. Winfield Scott & Dorothy Goodman
• "You Need Hands"     w.m. Roy Irwin
• "You Send Me"     w.m. L. C. Cooke

Classical music

• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  
  Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
   - Orchestral Variations
• Pierre Gabaye
  Pierre Gabaye
  
  Pierre Gabaye was a France composer.His musical tuition began at age seven on the piano, and which led him to pursue a career as a pianist and composer in both the classical and jazz spheres....
   - Boutade
• László Lajtha
  László Lajtha
  
  L?szl? Lajtha was a Hungary composer, ethnomusicologist and Conducting....
   - Symphony No. 7. "Revolution" (A tribute to the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 against the Soviet suppression)
• Walter Piston
  Walter Piston
  
  Walter Hamor Piston Jr. was an American composer and music theorist....
   - Viola Concerto
• Hilding Rosenberg
  Hilding Rosenberg
  
  Hilding Rosenberg , was the first Sweden modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in Swedish 20th century classical music.Born in Bosj?kloster, he was an organist, concert pianist and music teacher until 1915, when he began studying at the Stockholm Conservatory under Ernst Ellberg....
   - String Quartets nos. 8 - 12
• Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  
  Edmund Rubbra was a United Kingdom composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras....
   - Seventh Symphony
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
   - Symphony No. 11 G minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905"
  Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)
  
  The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957....
  
• Toru Takemitsu
  Toru Takemitsu
  
  was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Though largely self-taught, Takemitsu is recognised for his skill in the subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre, drawing from a wide range of influences, including jazz, popular music, avant-garde procedures and traditional Japanese music, in a harmonic idiom la...
   - Requiem
• Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  
  Mieczyslaw Weinberg was an important USSR composer of Poland-Jewish origin.He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust....
   - Symphony no. 4
• Malcolm Williamson
  Malcolm Williamson
  
  Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson Order of Australia , Order of the British Empire was an Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 to 2003....
  
• A Vision of Beasts and Gods, song-cycle for high voice & piano
• Santiago de Espada
  Santiago de Espada
  
  Santiago de Espada is a overture by the Australian composer and 19th Master of the Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson ....
  , overture
  Overture
  
  Overture in music is the instrumental introduction to a dramatic, choir or, occasionally, Musical composition. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn began to use the term to refer to instrumental, programmatic works that presaged genres such as the symphonic poem....
   for orchestra
• Symphony No. 1 - Elevamini, for orchestra

Opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

• Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
   - Vanessa
• John Eaton
  John Eaton
  
  John Henry Eaton was an United States politician and ambassador from Tennessee who served as United States Senate and as United States Secretary of War in the administration of Andrew Jackson....
   - Ma Barker
• Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinu
  
  Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
   - The Greek Passion
  The Greek Passion
  
  The Greek Passion or Christ Recrucified is a 1948 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis....
  
• Douglas Moore - Gallantry
• Ildebrando Pizzetti
  Ildebrando Pizzetti
  
  Ildebrando Pizzetti was an Italy composer of classical music.Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi and Gian Francesco Malipiero....
   - Assassinio nella Cattedrale
• Francis Poulenc
  Francis Poulenc
  
  Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
   - Dialogues of the Carmelites
  Dialogues of the Carmelites
  
  Dialogues of the Carmelites , is an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc. In 1953, M. Valcarenghi approached Poulenc to commission a ballet for La Scala in Milan; when Poulenc found the proposed subject uninspiring, Valcarenghi suggested instead the screenplay by Georges Bernanos, based on the novella Die Letzte am Schafott , by Ge...
   (Dialogues des Carmelites)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time....
   - Daughter of the Clouds

Musical theater

• Bells Are Ringing     London production
• Brigadoon
  Brigadoon
  
  Brigadoon is a Musical theater with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.It tells the story of a mysterious Scotland village that appears for only one day every hundred years, though to the villagers, the passing of each century seems no longer than one night....
   (Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   and Frederick Loewe) — Broadway revival
• Damn Yankees
  Damn Yankees
  
  Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross . The story is a Works based on Faust of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball....
   (Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  
  Richard Adler is an United States lyricist, composer and Theatrical producer of several Broadway theatre shows.Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist....
   and Jerry Ross
  Jerry Ross (composer)
  
  Jerry Ross was an United States lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories....
  ) — London production
• Harmony Close London production opened at the Lyric, Hammersmith on April 17.
• The Music Man
  The Music Man
  
  The Music Man is a musical theatre with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey....
   (Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  
  Robert Meredith Willson was an United States composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright. He is best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway theatre musical The Music Man, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1958....
  ) opened at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   on December 19, 1957 and ran for 1375 performances.
• New Girl In Town
  New Girl in Town
  
  New Girl in Town is a musical theatre with a book by George Abbott and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 gloomy play Anna Christie, about a prostitute who tries to live down her past....
   — Broadway production
• West Side Story
  West Side Story
  
  West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
   (Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  ) — Broadway production
• Zuleika
  Zuleika
  
  Zuleika is a musical theatre with music by Peter Tranchell and book and lyrics by James Ferman. The musical is based on the 1911 novel, Zuleika Dobson, by Max Beerbohm....
   — London production, Saville Theatre
  Saville Theatre
  
  The Saville Theatre is a former West End theatre at 135 Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. The theatre opened in 1931, and became a music venue during the 1960s, finally being converted to a cinema in 1970....
  

Musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

• Funny Face
  Funny Face
  
  Funny Face is an United States musical film released in 1957 in film in Technicolor, with assorted songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin....
  
• Les Girls
  Les Girls
  
  Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 in film comedy film Musical film made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C....
   starring Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
  , Mitzi Gaynor
  Mitzi Gaynor
  
  Mitzi Gaynor is an United States actress, singer, and dancer....
   and Kay Kendall
  Kay Kendall
  
  Kay Kendall was a Golden Globe Award-winning England actress....
  
• Loving You
  Loving You
  
  Loving You is an United States motion picture directed by Hal Kanter, released by Paramount Pictures on July 9, 1957. The film stars Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott , and Wendell Corey....
   released July 9 starring Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  .
• The Pajama Game
  The Pajama Game (film)
  
  The article is about the 1957 film. For other uses see The Pajama Game .The Pajama Game is a 1957 musical film based on the stage musical of the same name....
   starring Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
   and John Raitt
  John Raitt
  
  John Emmett Raitt was a star of the musical theater and stage.Raitt was born in Santa Ana, California. He got his start in theatre as a high school student at Fullerton High School in Fullerton, California....
  
• Pal Joey
  Pal Joey (film)
  
  Pal Joey is a 1957 film, loosely adapted from the Pal Joey ; it stars Rita Hayworth , Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. The director is George Sidney and the choreographer is Hermes Pan ....
   starring Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  , Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth
  
  Rita Hayworth , was an American actress who attained fame during the 1940s not only as one of the era's top musical stars, but also as the era's defining sex symbol, most notably in the 1946 film Gilda....
   and Kim Novak
  Kim Novak
  
  Kim Novak is an United States actor who was one of her nation's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ....
  
• Silk Stockings
  Silk Stockings (film)
  
  Silk Stockings is a 1957 in film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film remake of Ninotchka. It was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starred Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse....
  , featuring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  
  Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
   and Cyd Charisse
  Cyd Charisse
  
  Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s....
  

Births

• January 4 - Patty Loveless
  Patty Loveless
  
  Patty Loveless is an United States country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in 1987 with her first, self-titled album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and Bluegrass music genres....
  
• January 23 - Earl Falconer
  Earl Falconer
  
  Earl Falconer is a United Kingdom Bass guitar player and singer, currently working with the British reggae band UB40.He attended St. Benedict's junior school and Mosely Road School Of Art....
  , UB40
• January 27 - Janick Gers
  Janick Gers
  
  Janick Robert Gers is one of three current guitarists in the English band Iron Maiden and a songwriter for the band. His father, Boleslaw, was an officer of the Polish Navy....
  , Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  
  Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
  
• February 2 - Tony Butler
  Tony Butler
  
  Tony Butler is a Birmingham based UK sports broadcaster and one of the first stars of local radio in Britain, known for a distinctive Brummie accent and sometimes controversial style....
  , Big Country
  Big Country
  
  Big Country were a Rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following....
  
• February 19 - Falco
  Falco (musician)
  
  Johann H?lzel , better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian rap music, Pop music and rock music musician and had four #1 Hits - "Der Kommissar ," "Rock Me Amadeus," "Jeanny," and "Coming Home ." He is the first and so far only artist to score a #1 Hit in the U.S....
  , classical and rock musician
• February 27 - Adrian Smith
  Adrian Smith
  
  Adrian Smith is an English guitarist and one of three guitarists/songwriters in the British band Iron Maiden. He also sings backing vocals on some songs, along with Steve Harris ....
  , musician, Iron Maiden
  Iron Maiden
  
  Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
  
• February 28
• Phil Gould
  Phil Gould (musician)
  
  Philip Gabriel Gould, also known as Phil Gould is a United Kingdom professional drummer from the Isle of Wight in southern England. With singer Mark King , he was one of the founding members of the band , Level 42....
  , drummer, Level 42
  Level 42
  
  Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
  
• Cindy Wilson
  Cindy Wilson
  
  Cynthia Leigh Wilson is a founding member of New Wave music rock band The B-52's. She began her career as a luncheonette waitress in her home state of Georgia ....
  , The B-52's
  The B-52's
  
  The B-52's originated as a New Wave music rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular Beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone of the B-52 Stratofortress of the same name....
  
• March 12 - Marlon Jackson
  Marlon Jackson
  
  For the similarly named American football player, see Marlin Jackson.Marlon David Jackson is an American singer, former member of The Jackson 5, and older brother of American pop music Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
  , The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  
  The Jackson 5 was a two-time Grammy Award-nominated American popular music Jackson family Musical ensemble from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally co...
  
• March 21 - John Whitfield
  John Whitfield (conductor)
  
  John Whitfield is a British musician and conductor from Darlington, England. Whitfield was educated at Chetham?s School of Music and Keble College, Oxford....
  , conductor
• March 26 - Paul Morley
  Paul Morley
  
  Paul Morley is an England journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful and relatively notorious periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications....
  , music journalist
• April 12 - Vince Gill
  Vince Gill
  
  Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an United States neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a vocalist and musician have placed him in hig...
  
• April 16, Michael Quarles - Classical and Rock Musician
• May 2 - Markus Stockhausen
  Markus Stockhausen
  
  Markus Pirol Stockhausen is a Germany trumpeter and composer.He is the son of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. He was born in Cologne. At age four he appeared as "child at play" in his father's theatre piece Originals ....
  , trumpeter and composer
• May 10 - Sid Vicious
  Sid Vicious
  
  Sid Vicious was an England musician best known as the former bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols....
  , punk musician
• May 18 - Michael Cretu
  Michael Cretu
  
  Mihai Cretu, also known as Michael Cretu or Curly M.C. , is a Romanian musician best known as the creator of the Enigma project.He has worked with many producers, musicians, and artists in his long career....
  , musician
• May 27 - Siouxsie Sioux
  Siouxsie Sioux
  
  Susan Janet Ballion , better known by her stage name, Siouxsie Sioux , is a singer, best known as the vocalist of Siouxsie & the Banshees between 1976 and 1996, and of its splinter group The Creatures....
  , Siouxsie & the Banshees
  Siouxsie & the Banshees
  
  Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British Rock music band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members....
  
• June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
  Jamaaladeen Tacuma
  
  Jamaaladeen Tacuma is an United States free jazz bassist born in Hempstead , New York, perhaps best known for his albums as bandleader on the Gramavision label and for his work with Ornette Coleman during the 1970s and 1980s ....
  
• June 22 - Gary Beers
  Gary Beers
  
  Garry Gary Beers is the bassist for rock music band , INXS....
  , INXS
  INXS
  
  INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
  
• June 26 - Patty Smyth
  Patty Smyth
  
  Patty Smyth is an US rock and roll musician. She first enjoyed mainstream success in 1982 as lead singer of the band Scandal . That band's self-titled debut release became Columbia Records' biggest selling Gramophone records....
  
• July 3 - Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  
  Laura Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actor of Irish American ancestry. She is best known for her Top-10 hit "Self Control" , her biggest hit from the Platinum album of the same name....
  
• July 30 - Christopher Miller, known as Rat Scabies
  Rat Scabies
  
  Christopher Millar , better known by his showbiz name Rat Scabies, is a musician best known for his tenure as the drummer for The Damned....
  , drummer
• August 18 - Ron Strykert
  Ron Strykert
  
  Ron Strykert is an Australian guitarist, known for playing Guitar for the reggae inspired 1980s band , Men at Work.Strykert co-founded Men at Work with Colin Hay as an acoustic music duet in 1979, regularly performing at the Cricketer's Arms Hotel in Richmond, Victoria, Victoria ....
  , Men at Work
  Men at Work
  
  Men at Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock music band which achieved international success in the 1980s. They are the only Australian artists to have a #1 album and single simultaneously in the United States ....
  
• August 21 - Budgie
  Budgie (drummer)
  
  Peter Edward Clarke, , better known as Budgie, is an England drummer. He began his career with the Spitfire Boys and Big in Japan but didn't record with these bands....
  , Siouxsie & the Banshees
  Siouxsie & the Banshees
  
  Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British Rock music band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members....
  
• August 31 - Glenn Tilbrook
  Glenn Tilbrook
  
  Glenn Tilbrook is the lead singer and guitarist of the England group Squeeze, a power pop band formed in the mid-1970s. He generally wrote the music for Squeeze, while his writing partner, Chris Difford, wrote the lyrics....
  , Squeeze
  Squeeze
  
  Squeeze are an England musical ensemble that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the New Wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording successfully in the 1980s and 1990s....
  
• August 31 - Gina Schock
  Gina Schock
  
  Gina Schock is best known as the drummer in the all-girl Punk rock/pop music musical band, The Go-Go's.Schock's career began as drummer for Edie and the Eggs, a band assembled to feature the John Waters star Edith Massey....
  , The Go-Go's
  The Go-Go's
  
  The Go-Go?s are an all-female American Pop music band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-women band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
  
• September 1 - Gloria Estefan
  Gloria Estefan
  
  Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
  , singer
• September 1 - Jon Moss
  Jon Moss
  
  Jon Moss is the former drummer for the band Culture Club, London , Adam and the Ants, The Nipple Erectors and The Damned.He was in a relationship with Culture Club's lead singer Boy George....
  , London
  London
  
  London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
  , Culture Club
  Culture Club
  
  Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
  
• September 22 - Johnette Napolitano
  Johnette Napolitano
  
  Johnette Napolitano is an United States singer, songwriter and bassist best known as the lead vocalist/songwriter and bassist for the alternative rock group Concrete Blonde....
  , Concrete Blonde
  Concrete Blonde
  
  Concrete Blonde is an alternative rock band based in the United States. They were initially active from the early 1980s to 1995, and reunited in 2001....
  
• September 22 - Nick Cave
  Nick Cave
  
  Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, Painting, and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984 in music, who have become critically acclaimed for their fascination with American roots music....
  
• October 5 - Lee Thompson
  Lee Jay Thompson
  
  Lee Jay Thompson , nicknamed Kix or El Thommo, is an English people musician, best known as the saxophonist and songwriter of the Two Tone band , Madness ....
  , Madness
  Madness (band)
  
  Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
  
• October 7 - Michael W. Smith
  Michael W. Smith
  
  Michael W. Smith is a Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian Music, and he has achieved considerable success in the mainstream music industry as well....
  
• October 19 - Karl Wallinger
  Karl Wallinger
  
  Karl Wallinger is a Welsh people musician....
  , World Party
  World Party
  
  World Party is a United Kingdom pop music / alternative rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its multi-talented only member, Karl Wallinger....
  
• October 21 - Steve Lukather
  Steve Lukather
  
  Steve "Luke" Lukather is an United States Grammy Award winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, Arrangement, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto ....
  , Toto
  Toto (band)
  
  Toto was an United States Rock music Rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's Toto , released in 1978, which immediately brought the band into the mainstream rock spectrum of the time....
  
• October 21 - Julian Cope
  Julian Cope
  
  Julian Cope is a British Rock music musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, and poet who came to prominence in 1978 as the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes....
  , singer
• October 3 - Kelly Marie
  Kelly Marie
  
  Kelly Marie is a Great Britain disco singer. Her biggest hit was "Feels Like I'm in Love", a chart-topper hit record in the United Kingdom in 1980....
  , singer
• October 28 - Stephen Morris
  Stephen Morris
  
  Stephen Paul David Morris is a musician in the Manchester based Rock music Musical ensemble New Order. Although he is primarily a percussion instrument, he also plays keyboard instrument....
  , New Order
  New Order
  
  New Order are an English alternative rock/electronic band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris . New Order was formed in the wake of the demise of their previous group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis....
  
• November 1 - Lyle Lovett
  Lyle Lovett
  
  Lyle Pearce Lovett is an United States singer-songwriter and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded thirteen albums and released 21 singles to date, including his highest entry, the #10 chart hit on the U.S....
  
• November 5 - Mike Score
  Mike Score
  
  Mike Score is the keyboardist and singing for the 1980s New Wave music band , A Flock of Seagulls....
  , A Flock of Seagulls
  A Flock of Seagulls
  
  A Flock of Seagulls are a British Grammy Award winning band originally formed by brothers Mike Score and Ali Score , with Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds ....
  
• November 8 - Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson
  
  Porl Thompson is an English people musician best known for his work with The Cure....
  , The Cure
  The Cure
  
  The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
  
• November 24 - Chris Hayes
  Chris Hayes (musician)
  
  Christopher John Hayes is an American musician known as the former guitarist for the Grammy award winning and Academy award nominated band Huey Lewis and the News....
  , Huey Lewis and the News
• December 6 - Bob Drake
  Bob Drake (musician)
  
  Bob Drake is an American avant-garde musician. He was a founding member of avant-prog band Thinking Plague in the early 1980s, and later in 5uu's and The Science Group , and Hail ....
  , avant-garde musician
• December 9
• Donny Osmond
  Donny Osmond
  
  Donald Clark "Donny" Osmond is an United States singer, musician, actor and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk show and game show host, record producer, race car driver, and author....
  , singer
• Steve Taylor
  Steve Taylor
  
  Roland Stephen Taylor , is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and film director....
  , singer, record producer
• December 10 - Paul Hardcastle
  Paul Hardcastle
  
  Paul Hardcastle is an English composer and musician, specializing in the synthesizer....
  
• December 12 - Sheila E.
  Sheila E.
  
  Sheila Escovedo , known by her stage name Sheila E., is an United States musician, perhaps best known for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr....
  
• December 20
• Billy Bragg
  Billy Bragg
  
  Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an England musician who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs....
  , singer, songwriter
• Anita Baker
  Anita Baker
  
  Anita Baker is an American rhythm and blues and soul music singer-songwriter. To date, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards, and has earned four platinum albums and three gold albums to her credit....
  , singer
• Anna Vissi
  Anna Vissi
  
  Anna Vissi is a Greek Cypriots-Greeks singer, famous mainly in Greece and her home country Cyprus; with notable international success within the European Community, the United States and elsewhere....
  , singer
• December 22 - Tsai Chin
  Tsai Chin (singer)
  
  Tsai Chin is a popular music and folk music singer from Taiwan . She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Minnan Minnan and is known for her naturally magnetic rich vocals and witty persona....
  , singer
• December 25 - Shane MacGowan
  Shane MacGowan
  
  Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan is an Irish people musician and singer best known as the original singer and songwriter of The Pogues. His voice has been described by Jools Holland as a voice that touches the heart and soul....
  , The Pogues
  The Pogues
  
  The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan....
  
• date unknown
• Charles Roland Berry
  Charles Roland Berry
  
  Charles Roland Berry is an American composer. He studied music history and music composition at the University of California with and Peter Racine Fricker....
  , composer
• Poly Styrene
  Poly Styrene
  
  Poly Styrene is the stage name of Marian Joan Elliott Said, singer in the England punk rock band X-Ray Spex....
  , punk musician

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Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....