Editing 1957 in music (section)

==Events==
* [[January 5]] – [[Renato Carosone]] and his band start their American tour in [[Cuba]].
* [[January 6]] – [[Elvis Presley]] makes his final appearance on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''.
* [[January 16]] – [[The Cavern Club]] opens in [[Liverpool]], [[England]], as a [[jazz club]].
* [[February 8]] – [[Bo Diddley]] records his songs "[[Hey! Bo Diddley]]" and "[[Mona (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 1]] – [[The Everly Brothers]] record in Nashville their first single "[[Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers song)|Bye Bye Love]]" for [[Cadence Records]].
* [[March 3]] – The second annual [[Eurovision Song Contest 1957|Eurovision Song Contest]] is staged in [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[West Germany]]. The contest is won by Dutch singer [[Corry Brokken]] with the song ''[[Net als toen]]''.
* [[March 19]] – [[Elvis Presley]] purchases a mansion in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], and calls it [[Graceland]].
* [[March 26]] – [[Ricky Nelson]] records his first three songs.
* [[March 27]] – "[[Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)]]" from 1956's [[Alfred Hitchcock]] suspense film ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' wins the Academy Award for Best Song. Sung by [[Doris Day]] in the film, it proves to be one of her biggest hit records as well.
* [[May 14]] – In Paris, [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] records his ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 4'', with the Orchestre Nationale de la Radiodiffusion Française, for [[EMI]]. Through [[May 21]] the recording sessions continue with ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 7'' and ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 3'' with Manoel Braune, piano.
* [[May 26]] – [[Paul Robeson]], blacklisted at this time from travelling outside the United States, performs a concert from New York City via the new transatlantic telephone line to an audience in [[St Pancras Town Hall]] in London; on October 5 he uses the same means to address the Miners' Eisteddfod at the [[Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl]] in Wales.<ref>{{cite web|title=Let Robeson Sing|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/images/robeson/|publisher=Modern Records Centre|location=University of Warwick|date=2009-01-29|access-date=2019-01-29}}</ref>
* [[June 20]] – [[Tōru Takemitsu]]'s ''Requiem for Strings'' is first performed, by the [[Tokyo Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Toru Takemitsu – Chronology|url=http://www.schott-music.com/shop/persons/featured/toru-takemitsu/vitae/|publisher=[[Schott Music]]|access-date=2013-02-01|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216182859/http://www.schott-music.com/shop/persons/featured/toru-takemitsu/vitae/|archive-date=February 16, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]] of [[The Beatles]] first meet at a garden fete at [[St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool]], England, at which Lennon's [[skiffle]] group, [[The Quarrymen]], is playing (and in the graveyard of which an [[Eleanor Rigby]] is buried).
* [[August 5]] – ''[[American Bandstand]]'' begins its 30-year syndicated run on US network television.
* [[August 7]] – The Quarrymen first play at [[The Cavern Club]] in Liverpool in an interlude spot between jazz bands; when John Lennon starts the group playing Elvis Presley's "[[Don't Be Cruel]]", the club's owner at this time hands him a note reading "Cut out the bloody [[rock 'n roll]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Spitz|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Spitz|year=2005|title=[[The Beatles: The Biography]]|publisher=Little Brown & Company|isbn=978-0-316-80352-6|page=65}}</ref> [[Paul McCartney]] is away from Liverpool at this time at a Boy Scout camp and a family holiday.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul McCartney goes to Scout camp|url=https://www.beatlesbible.com/1957/07/29/paul-mccartney-goes-to-scout-camp/|work=The Beatles Bible|date=July 29, 1957 |access-date=2022-04-25}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Dalida]] is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "[[Bambino (song)|Bambino]]". This year, she is also the first female recording artist to have her own fan club.
* [[September 20]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] dies aged 91 at [[Ainola]], his home in Finland, having completed no significant compositions for thirty years; at the time of his death, a performance of his [[Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius)|Symphony No. 5]] is being given in [[Helsinki]] under the baton of Sir [[Malcolm Sargent]].
* [[September 26]] – [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] première of the musical ''[[West Side Story]]'' at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] (following tryouts in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia beginning in August) with music by [[Leonard Bernstein]] (who a week later is appointed music director of the [[New York Philharmonic]] orchestra) and lyrics by [[Stephen Sondheim]], his Broadway debut. This year also Bernstein conducts the inaugural concert of the [[Mann Auditorium]] in [[Tel Aviv]].
* [[November 25]]–27 – The first two Hollywood motion pictures starring [[Pat Boone]], ''[[Bernardine (film)|Bernadine]]'' and ''[[April Love (film)|April Love]]'', are released.
* [[Paul Simon]] and [[Art Garfunkel]] name themselves [[Tom and Jerry (band)|Tom and Jerry]] and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of [[Big Records]]. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl", backed with "Dancin' Wild", hits #49 on the Billboard pop charts. Garfunkel is Tom Graph (so called because he like to write the pop charts out on graph paper) and Simon is Jerry Landis, a pseudonym he used during his early 1960s solo recordings. They tour for eighteen months before retiring to become college students and then reforming in 1963 as [[Simon & Garfunkel]].
* The [[Casals Festival]] is founded in [[Puerto Rico]].
* When [[Nat King Cole]]'s television show is unable to get a sponsor, [[Frankie Laine]] becomes the first artist to cross TV's color line, becoming the first white artist to appear as a guest, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000. Other top performers follow suit, including [[Mel Tormé]] and [[Tony Bennett]], but, despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to pick up a national sponsor.
* [[Gorni Kramer]] makes his first appearance on Italian television, in ''Il Musichiere''.
* [[Maria Callas]] is introduced to Greek shipping magnate [[Aristotle Onassis]].
* "[[Suíte do Pescador]]" is composed by [[Dorival Caymmi]].
* Actress [[Debbie Reynolds]] earns a gold record for her song [[Tammy (song)|Tammy]], which is the best-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957 in the United States. This song from the motion picture ''[[Tammy and the Bachelor]]'' is also nominated for an Academy Award.