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1957 in country music

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

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Events

  • April — Jimmy Dean hosts his first nationally televised series, a 30-minute daytime variety series airing on CBS named The Jimmy Dean Show. The show has a prime-time run from June to September (as a summer replacement series); the daytime show will run until 1958. This is the first of three country music-oriented series bearing Dean's name and hosting duties.
  • June 24 — Billboard terminates its "Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes" chart, leaving just the "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" and "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" charts to gauge a song's popularity.
  • November 4 — The Nos. 1 and 2 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and Billboard's R&B and country charts are identical: Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" and the Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie." In addition, the No. 6 hit on the Hot 100 and R&B charts — Jimmie Rodgers' "Honeycomb" — is also climbing the country chart.
  • December 11 — Jerry Lee Lewis secretly weds his second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in Hernando, Tennessee.

    • United States

    (as certified by Billboard)

    Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes," "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" and "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" charts.

    Top new album releases

  • Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar - Johnny Cash (Sun) debut album

    • Births

  • January 4 — Patty Loveless, top female vocalist of the late 1980s and 1990s, thanks to her voice combining bluegrass, blues and rock.
  • February 19 — Lorianne Crook, radio and television personality, one half of Crook & Chase.
  • April 12 — Vince Gill, top male vocalist and prominent member of the new traditionalist movement of the late 1980s/1990s.
  • May 2 — Mark Sissel, lead guitarist from the Western Underground.
  • July 24 — Pam Tillis, daughter of Mel Tillis and popular female vocalist of the 1990s.
  • July 27 - Bill Engvall, comedian and member of Blue Collar Comedy with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White
  • August 22 — Holly Dunn, female star and artist who helped popularize country music during the late 1980s/early 1990s (died 2016).
  • November 1 — Lyle Lovett, alternative country star.

    • Deaths

  • March 24 — Carson Robison, 66, early C&W singer-songwriter.
  • Country Music Association

    • References

    1957 in country music Wikipedia
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