The Wonder Years : 1957

1. Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day
2. Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
3. Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
4. Dale Hawkins - Susie Q
5. Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
6. The Bobbettes - Mr Lee
7. Chuck Berry - Rock And Roll Music
8. Larry Williams - Bony Moronie
9. The Del Vikings - Come Go With Me
10. Don Gibson - Oh Lonesome Me
11. Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock
12. Eydie Gorme - Too Close For Comfort
13. Sam Cooke - You Send Me
14. Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One
15. Brenda Lee - Dynamite
16. Little Richard - Tutti Frutti
17. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
18. Johnny Mathis - Wonderful! Wonderful!
19. Anita O'Day & Oscar Peterson - Old Devil Moon
20. Mickey & Sylvia - Love Is Strange
21. Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
22. Billie Holiday - One For My Baby
23. Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
24. Miles Davis - Budo
25. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool. Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity. Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record fifth world drivers championship, including his fourth consecutive championship (also a record); these two records would endure for nearly half a century.

The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road went on sale. Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK, opened. Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety. The Piña Colada was invented by Ramon Marrero, a bartender at Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton.

We said Hello to Spike Lee, Shane McGowan, Sid Vicious, Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Buscemi, Nick Cave & Billy Bragg.

We said Goodbye to Humphrey Bogart, Eliot Ness, Oliver Hardy, Louis B Mayer & Judy Tyler.

1957