1957 in music

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• Pat Boone stars in his first two Hollywood motion pictures: Bernadine and April Love
• Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Será, Será), from 1956's Alfred Hitchcock suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, wins the Academy Award for Best Song. Sung by Doris Day in the film, it proved to be one of her biggest hit records as well.
• 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, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000.00 as Coles sustainer show only paid scale. Other top performers followed suit, including Mel Torme and Tony Bennett, but despite an increase in ratings, the show still failed to pick up a national sponsor.
• January 5 - Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba.
• January 6 - Elvis Presley makes final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
• January 8 - Elvis Presley takes the army pre-induction exam in Memphis, Tennessee and passes
• January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, England
• Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl," backed with "Dancin' Wild," hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts. Garfunkel was Tom Graph (so called because he like 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 and Garfunkel.
• March 19 - Elvis Presley purchases a mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and calls it Graceland
• July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet at St. Peter's Church garden fete in Liverpool, England.
• August 5 - American Bandstand begins its 30 year syndicated run on US network television
• September 19 - Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino". That year, she's also the first female recording artist to have her own fan club.
• Leonard Bernstein completes work on West Side Story.
• American Bandstand premieres on television.
• Jerry Lee Lewis' musical career begins
• Jerry Butler's musical career begins
• Gorni Kramer debuts on Italian television