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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1957. ==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 ''Billboards 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.〔''Rolling Stone'' Rock Almanac: The Chronicles of Rock & Roll," Collier Books, MacMillan Publishing Co., New York and London, 1983, p. 33. ISBN 0-02-081320-1〕 * December 11 — Jerry Lee Lewis secretly weds his second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in Hernando, Tennessee.〔''Rolling Stone'' Rock Almanac, p. 33.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1957 in country music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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