- In 1957: In the U.S.A. Elvis Presley's All Shook Up was Billboard's #1 Hit of the year.
- In 1957: In the U.S.A. Elvis Presley's All Shook Up was Billboard's #1 Hit of the year.
- In 1957: Average yearly wages were $4,550.00 ($39,000.00 in 2016 dollars). Average monthly rent was $90.00 ($771 in 2016 dollars), and you could buy a house for $20,000 ($ 171,428 in 2016 money).....
- A gallon of milk cost $1.00 (more than $8.00 in today’s money!). Gasoline was $0.24 a gallon ($2.06 in 2016 inflation adjusted dollars). A loaf of bread cost $.19; a postage stamp: $.03 ($ 1.63 and $0.26, respectively, in 2016 money).
- In 1957: Vanna White (game show host), Gloria Estefan (pop singer), Osama bin Laden, and Daniel Day-Lewis, were born. Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louis B. Mayer, Oliver Hardy, and Humphrey Bogart died.
- In 1957: Elvis Presley made his final appearance on the The Ed Sullivan Show.
- In 1957: Time Magazine's Man of the Year was Nikita Khrushchev.
- In 1957: The Cavern Club opened in Liverpool, England, as a jazz club.
- In 1957: Maryland’s Mary Leona Gage was initially crowned Miss USA. But soon after she was stripped of her title for having broken several eligibility rules, ...
- including lying about her age (she was 18, not 21 as she had claimed), and she was a twice-married mother of two children. The title and the associated prize package automatically passed to the 1st runner-up, Charlotte Sheffield of Utah.
- In 1957: Chicago's Cardinal Stritch banned all rock & roll and R&B music from Catholic-run schools, saying that "its rhythms encourage young people to behave in a hedonistic manner."
- From 1952-1957 Kent cigarettes used asbestos filters. They were marketed as offering “the greatest health protection in the history of cigarettes.”
- In 1957: In Nashville the Everly Brothers recorded their first single "Bye Bye Love" for Cadence Records.
- In 1957: Out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA, 1,500 were FBI informants.
- In 1957: In Memphis, Tennessee Elvis Presley purchased a mansion, and called it Graceland.
- In 1957: Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley’s most successful film, earned $8.6 million at the time and ranking number 5 of Elvis Presley’s top-earning films. ...
- ...Jailhouse Rock premiered at Loews State Theater in Memphis on October 17, but Elvis did not attend because he was still devastated by the death, three months earlier, of his co-star, Judy Tyler. ...
- She and her husband were victims of a Los Angeles freeway traffic accident.
- As a teenager Judy Tyler had been a regualr (1950 - 1953) on the Howdy Doody TV show in the role of Princess Summerfall Winterspring.
- In 1957: At a garden fete at St. Peter's Church, Liverpool, England where John Lennon's skiffle group, The Quarrymen, was playing, Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time.
- In 1957: American Bandstand began its 30-year syndicated run on US network television.
- In 1957: When13 year old Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame, appeared on a British talent show, he was asked what he wanted to do after schooling. Page said "I want to do biological research and find a cure for cancer".
- In 1957: Naming themselves Tom and Jerry, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel began their recording career by signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl", backed with "Dancin' Wild", ...
- ... was a hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts. Garfunkel was Tom Graph (so called because he liked to write the pop charts out on graph paper), and Simon was Jerry Landis, a pseudonym he used during his early 1960s solo recordings.
- They toured for eighteen months before retiring to become college students and then reforming in 1963 as Simon & Garfunkel.
- In 1957: When Nat King Cole's television show was unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine became the first artist to cross TV's color line, becoming the first white artist to appear as a guest, and ...
- ... 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 failed to pick up a national sponsor.
- In 1957: Actress Debbie Reynolds earned a gold record for her song “Tammy”, later nominated for an Academy Award, it became the best-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957 in the United States.
