1955 in music
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- January 1 - RCA victor announces a marketing plan called "Operation TNT." The label drops the list price on LP's from $5.95 to $3.98, EP's from $4.95 to $2.98, 45 EP's from $1.58 to $1.49 and 45's from $1.16 to $.89. Other record labels follow RCA's lead and begin to drop prices as well.
- January 14 - In New York City, Alan Freed produces the first rock and roll concert.
- February 26 - For the first time since they were introduced in 1949, 45 rpm discs begin to outsell the old standard 78s
- Kay Starr leaves Capitol to sign with RCA
- The Patti Page Show premieres on NBC
- The Frankie Laine Show premieres on CBS
- March 7 - Carl Perkins' single "Blue Suede Shoes" enters the R&B charts, marking the first time a Country music artist has made it on the R&B charts.
- March 15 - Colonel Tom Parker becomes Elvis Presley's manager
- March 19 - The film Blackboard Jungle premieres in New York City. The film features Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" over the opening credits -- the first use of a rock and roll song in a major film. This event causes a groundswell of sales for the recording and is credited with helping to launch in earnest the Rock and Roll Era.
- July 9 - "Rock Around the Clock" becomes the first Rock and roll single to reach Number One on the American charts
- September 26 - "America's Sweethearts," Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds marry.
- Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's musical careers begin as they copyright a song, "The Girl For Me," with the Library of Congress and begin singing together as a duo while still in high school in New York, New York.
- Johnny Cash's musical career begins
- Patsy Cline's musical career begins
- Eddie Cochran's musical career begins
- Little Richard's musical career begins
- John Coltrane's musical career begins
- Al Green's musical career begins
- Clyde McPhatter launches a solo career
- Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno meet and start their songwriting partnership
- Italian singers Natalino Otto and Flo Sandon's wed
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