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January 6, 1958 Danny and the Juniors' "At The Hop" hits #1 for the first of seven weeks. "Hops" are high school dances in America; "sock hops" are those where kids have to take off their shoes so they don't mess up the floor.
January 6, 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" hits #2, where it stays for four weeks before dropping down. It is held out of the top spot all four weeks by "At The Hop" by Danny & the Juniors.
December 30, 1957 Bing Crosby's album Merry Christmas claims the #1 spot from Elvis Presley's Elvis' Christmas Album, but Elvis returns to the top spot a week later.
December 26, 1957 The Champs release "Train to Nowhere," which as the title implies, makes no impact. But DJs love the B-side, a saxy tune called "Tequila." Three months later, it's the #1 song in America.
December 25, 1957 Shane MacGowan is born in Pembury, Kent, England, to Irish parents. In 1982 he forms The Pogues, blending Celtic music with punk. Fittingly, their most famous tune is a Christmas song: "Fairytale of New York."
December 24, 1957 Ian Burden (keyboardist, bass guitarist for The Human League) is born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England.
December 19, 1957 Doug Johnson (keyboardist for Loverboy) is born in New Westminster, British Columbia.
December 16, 1957 Elvis Presley's Elvis' Christmas Album, which includes his cover of "White Christmas," hits #1 in America. It goes on to become the best-selling holiday album of all time.
December 11, 1957 In what remains one of the most shocking celebrity scandals, Jerry Lee Lewis marries 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, who was the daughter of his cousin (and bass player), J.W. Brown. The marriage lasts 14 years but seriously damages Lewis' career.More
December 7, 1957 The movie Jamboree, featuring a scene where Jerry Lee Lewis performs "Great Balls of Fire," debuts in theaters. Also appearing in the film are Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Frankie Avalon and Connie Francis.
December 6, 1957 Elvis Presley visits radio station WDIA in Memphis and meets two of his idols, Little Junior Parker and Bobby Bland.
December 2, 1957 Al Priddy, a disc jockey at the Portland, Oregon, radio station KEX, is fired for playing the Elvis Presley version of "White Christmas," which the station has banned, their program manager saying it "desecrates the Spirit of Christmas and transgresses the composer's intent." The story makes national news, but it turns out to be a brilliant publicity stunt - Priddy is back on the air two weeks later, with the station claiming letters were pouring in to support the DJ. As part of the stunt, Priddy recorded the GM calling in to "fire" him for playing the song and played the conversation on his show before he left.
December 1, 1957 It's a big night on Ed Sullivan Show: Buddy Holly and the Crickets (performing "That'll Be The Day"), Sam Cooke (performing "You Send Me"), and The Rays (performing "Silhouettes") all perform for the first time on national TV.
November 30, 1957 John Ashton (guitarist for The Psychedelic Furs) is born in London, England.
November 24, 1957 Chris Hayes, lead guitarist for Huey Lewis & the News from 1979–2001, is born in Great Lakes, Illinois. He co-writes some of the band's biggest hits, including "I Want A New Drug" and "The Power of Love."
November 17, 1957 Jim Babjak (lead guitarist for The Smithereens) is born in Carteret, New Jersey, where he would meet bandmates Dennis Diken and Mike Mesaros in high school.
November 7, 1957 Drummer John "Jellybean" Benitez is born in South Bronx, New York. Also a songwriter and producer, he works with Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson, among others.
November 5, 1957 David Moyse (guitarist for Air Supply) is born in Adelaide, Australia.
November 3, 1957 CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show accidentally cuts off Sam Cooke mid-song when "You Send Me" isn't given enough time at the end of tonight's show. Sullivan invites the singer back the next month to make up for it.
November 1, 1957 Country singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett is born in Houston, Texas, and is raised in nearby Klein.
October 21, 1957 Steve Lukather (guitarist for Toto) is born in San Fernando Valley, California.
October 18, 1957 The second Frank Sinatra Show debuts on ABC, lasting only one season. The singer's first version of the show lasted two seasons.
October 13, 1957 The Four Preps, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby all appear on a CBS television special to introduce the brand new Edsel automobile.
October 7, 1957 The idea of expanding his gospel album into a Christmas album works out well when Elvis Presley's Elvis' Christmas Album earns pre-orders of 500,000 copies, going Gold before it is even released. It eventually becomes the best-selling Christmas album of all time.
October 3, 1957 ABC premieres The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom variety show, later featured in Michael Moore's documentary Roger and Me. The show features unobjectionable acts like The Four Lads, Ella Fitzgerald and Johnny Mathis; TV Guide says it's "about as exciting as a milkshake with two straws." It runs for three years and helps launch the career of Woody Allen, who is one of the writers.
September 25, 1957 With $600 saved up from working at a gas station and doing maintenance at LSU, Buddy Guy leaves Louisiana and catches a train to Chicago, where he makes his mark in the blues.
September 24, 1957 The movie Mister Rock And Roll, starring the famous disc jockey Alan Freed, debuts in America. In the film, Freed tells the story of Rock and Roll, with performances by Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon and Brook Benton.
September 23, 1957 Buddy Holly's group The Crickets hits #1 in America with "That'll Be The Day." The title comes from something John Wayne says in the movie The Searchers.
September 23, 1957 "Honeycomb" by Jimmie Rodgers (the pop singer, not the country singer born in 1897) hits #1 for the first of four weeks. It's one of the few non-Elvis chart-toppers on 1957.
September 22, 1957 Nick Cave is born in Warracknabeal, Australia, to teacher Colin Cave and librarian Dawn Cave. With his band The Bad Seeds, he releases music of artistic daring starting in 1983 and spanning decades, earning a cadre of appreciative fans while staying safely out of the mainstream.
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