1957 in music

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Elvis Presley in 1957 film "Jailhouse Rock".

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

Events

List of years in music (table)

Bands formed

Albums released

Biggest hit singles

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

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock 1957 United States UK 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 1957 Canada UK 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 1957 United States UK 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 1957 United States UK 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 1957 United States US 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 magazine's charts in 1957.

First week Number of weeks Title Artist
February 9, 1957 3 "Too Much" Elvis Presley
March 2, 1957 4 "Young Love" Tab Hunter
March 30, 1957 1 "Party Doll" Buddy Knox
April 6, 1957 1 "Round and Round" Perry Como
April 13, 1957 8 "All Shook Up" Elvis Presley
June 3, 1957 5 "Love Letters In The Sand" Pat Boone
June 10, 1957 1 "Bernadine" Pat Boone
July 8, 1957 7 "Teddy Bear" Elvis Presley
August 26, 1957 2 "Tammy" Debbie Reynolds
September 9, 1957 1 "Diana" Paul Anka
September 16, 1957 1 "Tammy" Debbie Reynolds
September 23, 1957 1 "That'll Be the Day" The Crickets
September 30, 1957 2 "Honeycomb" Jimmie Rodgers
October 14, 1957 1 "Wake Up Little Susie" The Everly Brothers
October 21, 1957 7 "Jailhouse Rock" Elvis Presley
December 9, 1957 2 "You Send Me" Sam Cooke
December 23, 1957 2 "April Love" Pat Boone

Top hits on record

"That'll Be the Day"

Published popular music

Classical music

Premieres

Sortable table
Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Arnold, Malcolm Horn Concerto No. 2 1957-07-17 United Kingdom Cheltenham (Festival) Brain / Hallé Orchestra – Arnold[2]
Bainton, Edgar Symphony No. 3 1957-03-25 1 Australia Sydney Sydney Symphony – Heinze[3][4]
Barraqué, Jean Piano Sonata 1957-10-28 France Paris 2 Loriod[5]
Berio, Luciano Mutazioni 1957-04-24 Italy Milan Electronic music on tape[6]
Crumb, George Sonata for Solo Cello 1957-03-15 United States Ann Arbor, MI Doppmann[7]
Davies, Peter Maxwell Clarinet Sonata 1957-07-20 West Germany Darmstadt (Ferienkurse) Dobrée, Davies[8]
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus Versuch eines Requiem (Symphony No. 1) 3 1957-06-22 Austria Vienna Rössl-Majdan / Vienna Symphony – Sanzogno[9]
Henze, Hans Werner Maratona, ballet suite 1957-02-08 West Germany Cologne SWF Symphony – Rosbaud[10][11]
Ives, Charles From the Salvation Army (String Quartet No. 1) (1900) 1957-04-24 United States New York City Kohon Quartet [12]
Larsson, Lars-Erik Concertini: No. 4, for Bassoon 1957-12-10 Sweden Gothenburg Rönnerbäck / Gothenburg Radio Orchestra – Staern[13]
Martinu, Bohuslav Piano Sonata 1957-?-? West Germany Düsseldorf Serkin[14]
Matsudaira, Yoritsune Figures sonores 1957-06-01 Switzerland Zurich (ISCM Festival) [unknown orchestra] – Schmid[15]
Nono, Luigi Varianti 1957-10-20 West Germany Donaueschingen (Musiktage) SWF Symphony – Rosbaud[16]
Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony No. 4 (2nd version) (1948) 1957-01-05 4 Soviet Union Moscow USSR State Symphony – Gennady Rozhdestvensky [17]
Rubbra, Edmund Symphony No. 7 1957-10-01 United Kingdom Birmingham City of Birmingham Symphony – Panufnik[18][19]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Piano Concerto No. 2 1957-05-10 Soviet Union Moscow M. Shostakovich / USSR State Symphony – Anosov[20]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Symphony No. 11 ("The Year 1905") 1957-10-30 Soviet Union Moscow USSR State Symphony – Rakhlin[21]
Simpson, Robert Symphony No. 2 1957-07-16 United Kingdom Cheltenham (Festival) Hallé Orchestra – Barbirolli[22]
Stockhausen, Karlheinz Klavierstück XI 1957-04-225 United States New York (Carl Fischer Hall)[23] Tudor[24]
Takemitsu, Toru Requiem for Strings 1957-06-20 Japan Tokyo Tokyo Philharmonic – Ueda[25]
Tubin, Eduard Double Bass Concerto 1957-03-08 Colombia Bogotá Verdaguer / Colombia National Symphony – Roots [26]
Xenakis, Iannis Pithoprakta 1957-03-08 West Germany Munich (Musica Viva) Bavarian Radio Symphony – Scherchen[27]
  • 1 Posthumous premiere.
  • 2 Recording. The Sonata was performed publicly for the first time in concert on April 1967 by Elisabeth Klein in Copenhagen.[28]
  • 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.[29] Originally, the official premiere was given as 28 July 1957, the last day of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, in the Orangerie at Darmstadt, in two versions played by Paul Jacobs. This is now regarded as the European premiere.

Compositions

Karlheinz Stockhausen lecturing on his Klavierstück XI at Darmstadt in July 1957

Opera

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

Awards

Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler at Eurovision 1957

Eurovision Song Contest

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Dennis Brain: A Biography
  3. ↑ The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ IRCAM
  6. ↑ Luciano Berio Study Center
  7. ↑ University of Georgia
  8. ↑ Peter Maxwell Davies official website
  9. ↑ Schott Music
  10. ↑ IRCAM
  11. ↑ Naxos Records
  12. ↑ IRCAM
  13. ↑ Gehrmans Musikförlag
  14. ↑ Martinu's Mysterious Accident: Essays in Honor of Michael Henderson
  15. ↑ La Musica è Vita
  16. ↑ Fondazione Onlus
  17. ↑ HD Tracks
  18. ↑ John Feeney Trust
  19. ↑ A Tune a Day
  20. ↑ Soviet Composers
  21. ↑ Soviet Composers
  22. ↑ The Power of Robert Simpson
  23. ↑ Michael Kurtz, Stockhausen: A Biography, translated by Richard Toop (London: Faber and Faber, 1992): 87–88. ISBN 0-571-14323-7 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-571-17146-0 (pbk).
  24. ↑ Imke Misch and Markus Bandur (eds.), Karlheinz Stockhausen bei den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Darmstadt 1951–1996: Dokumente und Briefe (Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 2001): 147, 166, 169–72. ISBN 3-00-007290-X.
  25. ↑ IRCAM
  26. ↑ Vito Liuzzi, Il Contrabasso or The Classical Double Bass
  27. ↑ Iannis Xenakis memorial website
  28. ↑ University at Buffalo
  29. ↑ "Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück 11", Universal Edition (accessed 3 June 2015).
  30. ↑ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E02E1DE103DE132A05750C0A9639C946692D6CF
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