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Elvis Presley in 1957 film "Jailhouse Rock". Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock 1957.jpg
Elvis Presley in 1957 film "Jailhouse Rock".

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1957.

Contents

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Bands formed

Albums released

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1957. [6]

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

US No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of US Billboard 's charts in 1957.

First weekNumber of weeksTitleArtist
February 9, 19573"Too Much" Elvis Presley
March 2, 19574"Young Love" Tab Hunter
March 30, 19571"Party Doll" Buddy Knox
April 6, 19571"Round and Round" Perry Como
April 13, 19578"All Shook Up" Elvis Presley
June 3, 19575"Love Letters in the Sand" Pat Boone
June 10, 19571"Bernardine" Pat Boone
July 8, 19577"Teddy Bear" Elvis Presley
August 26, 19572"Tammy" Debbie Reynolds
September 9, 19571"Diana" Paul Anka
September 16, 19571"Tammy" Debbie Reynolds
September 23, 19571"That'll Be the Day" The Crickets
September 30, 19572"Honeycomb" Jimmie Rodgers
October 14, 19571"Wake Up Little Susie" The Everly Brothers
October 21, 19577"Jailhouse Rock" Elvis Presley
December 9, 19572"You Send Me" Sam Cooke
December 23, 19572"April Love" Pat Boone

Top hits on record

Classical music

Premieres

ComposerCompositionDateLocationPerformers
Arnold, Malcolm Horn Concerto No. 2 1957-07-17 Cheltenham Music Festival, UK Brain / Hallé Orchestra – Arnold [7]
Bainton, Edgar Symphony No. 3 1957-03-25 [a] Sydney, Australia Sydney Symphony – Heinze [8] [9]
Barraqué, Jean Piano Sonata 1957-10-28Paris [b] Loriod [11]
Berio, Luciano Mutazioni 1957-04-24Milan, ItalyElectronic music on tape [12]
Crumb, George Sonata for Solo Cello 1957-03-15Ann Arbor, Michigan Doppmann [13]
Davies, Peter Maxwell Clarinet Sonata 1957-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Dobrée, Davies [14]
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus Versuch eines Requiem (Symphony No. 1) [c] 1957-06-22Vienna, Austria Rössl-Majdan / Vienna Symphony – Sanzogno [15]
Henze, Hans Werner Maratona , ballet suite1957-02-08Cologne, Germany SWF Symphony – Rosbaud [16] [17]
Ives, Charles From the Salvation Army (String Quartet No. 1) (1900)1957-04-24New York City Kohon Quartet [18]
Larsson, Lars-Erik Concertini: No. 4, for Bassoon 1957-12-10Gothenburg, Sweden Rönnerbäck / Gothenburg Radio Orchestra – Staern [19]
Martinů, Bohuslav Piano Sonata 1957–?-?Düsseldorf, Germany Serkin [20]
Matsudaira, Yoritsune Figures sonores 1957-06-01Zürich, Switzerland (ISCM Festival)[unknown orchestra] – Schmid [21]
Nono, Luigi Varianti 1957-10-20Donaueschingen, Germany (Musiktage) SWF Symphony – Rosbaud [22]
Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony No. 4 (2nd version) (1948)1957-01-05 [d] Moscow USSR State Symphony – Gennady Rozhdestvensky [23]
Rubbra, Edmund Symphony No. 7 1957-10-01Birmingham, UK City of Birmingham Symphony – Panufnik [24] [25]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Piano Concerto No. 2 1957-05-10Moscow M. Shostakovich / USSR State Symphony – Anosov [26]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Symphony No. 11 ("The Year 1905") 1957-10-30Moscow USSR State Symphony – Rakhlin [26]
Simpson, Robert Symphony No. 2 1957-07-16 Cheltenham Music Festival, UK Hallé Orchestra – Barbirolli [27]
Stockhausen, Karlheinz Klavierstück XI 1957-04-22 [e] New York (Carl Fischer Hall) [29] Tudor [30]
Stravinsky, Igor Agon 1957-12-01Los Angeles Robert Craft
Takemitsu, Tōru Requiem for Strings 1957-06-20Tokyo Tokyo Philharmonic – Ueda [31]
Tubin, Eduard Double Bass Concerto 1957-03-08Bogotá, Colombia Verdaguer / Colombia National Symphony – Roots [32]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor Piano Concerto No. 3 1957-08-24 Theatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro Arnaldo Estrella  [ pt; ru ] / Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira – Carvalho [33]
Xenakis, Iannis Pithoprakta 1957-03-08 Musica Viva (Munich)  [ de ] Bavarian Radio Symphony – Scherchen [34]
  1. ↑ Posthumous premiere
  2. ↑ Recording. The Sonata was performed publicly for the first time in concert in April 1967 by Elisabeth Klein in Copenhagen. [10]
  3. ↑ Revision of a cantata composed in 1938 and premiered in 1948. Until then Miserae had been Hartmann's Symphony No. 1.
  4. ↑ Concert premiere. The Symphony had been previously recorded by the BBC Symphony conducted by Adrian Boult in March 1950 for a radio broadcast.
  5. ↑ In two versions. Unofficial premiere, given at the time without permission, but now acknowledged by the publisher. [28] Originally, the official premiere was given as 28 July 1957, the last day of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, in the Darmstadt orangerie, in two versions played by Paul Jacobs. This is now regarded as the European premiere.

Compositions

Karlheinz Stockhausen lecturing on his Klavierstuck XI at Darmstadter Ferienkurse in July 1957 Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F004566-0002, Darmstadt, Internationaler Kurs fur neue Musik.jpg

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