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Music History Events: Recordings

May 21, 1957 Paul Anka records "Diana."

May 6, 1957 Chuck Berry records "Rock And Roll Music."

April 30, 1957 Elvis Presley records "Jailhouse Rock" and "Young And Beautiful."

April 26, 1957 Larry Williams records "Short Fat Fannie."

March 7, 1957 The Tune Weavers record "Happy Happy Birthday Baby."

March 1, 1957 The Everly Brothers sign with Cadence Records and record "Bye Bye Love," establishing their signature sound: acoustic guitars and Appalachian harmonies over a rock beat.

February 25, 1957 Buddy Holly records "That'll Be The Day" with his band The Crickets at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. In September, it will hit #1 in the US.

February 2, 1957 Dale Hawkins records "Susie Q."

January 16, 1957 Little Richard records "Lucille."

January 4, 1957 Louis Jordan records "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out."

January 3, 1957 Fats Domino records "I'm Walking."

December 4, 1956 At Sun Studio in Memphis, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis jam together on a few tunes. Johnny Cash shows up later to get in the picture and complete what becomes known as the "Million Dollar Quartet."

November 7, 1956 Ferlin Husky records "Gone."

October 17, 1956 Mickey & Sylvia record "Love Is Strange," a song written by Bo Diddley. It comes back around in 1987 when it's used in the movie Dirty Dancing.

October 15, 1956 Little Richard records "Good Golly Miss Molly."

August 24, 1956 Elvis Presley records the ballad "Love Me Tender" on a soundstage in Hollywood where he's filming the movie of the same name.

July 30, 1956 11-year-old Brenda Lee records her first single, "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," at Owen Bradley Studio in Nashville.

June 29, 1956 Johnnie Ray records "Just Walkin' In The Rain."

June 16, 1956 Bill Doggett records "Honky Tonk."

May 1, 1956 Little Willie John records "Fever."

April 11, 1956 Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps record "Be-Bop-a-Lula."

April 2, 1956 Johnny Cash records "I Walk The Line" at Sun Studio in Memphis. His label boss, Sam Phillips, has him speed up the tempo, which is a good call: The song becomes Cash's first #1 Country hit.

February 19, 1956 The Platters record "Magic Touch."

February 12, 1956 "Screamin'" Jay Hawkins records "I Put A Spell On You."

February 10, 1956 Little Richard records "Long Tall Sally."

January 30, 1956 Billy Lee Riley records "Red Hot."

December 23, 1955 Fats Domino records "My Blue Heaven" at J&M Studios in New Orleans.

December 19, 1955 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" two days after writing the song.

December 12, 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets record "See You Later Alligator."

November 9, 1955 The Everly Brothers, recently signed to Columbia as a country act, cut their first tracks in a studio lodged in Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel. The four recordings, which take only 22 minutes to lay down, yield no hits, and the duo is soon dropped from the label.