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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 Billboard's 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.^[1]
December 11 — Jerry Lee Lewis secretly weds his second cousin, Myra Gale Brown, in Hernando, Tennessee.^[2]

Top hits of the year

Number one hits

United States

(as certified by Billboard)

Date	Single name	Artist	Wks. No.1	Notes
February 2	Young Love	Sonny James	9	^[A] Also reached Number One on the Billboard Pop Chart.
March 2	There You Go	Johnny Cash	5	^[2]
April 6	Gone	Ferlin Husky	10	^[1] Husky's first Number One since "A Dear John Letter in 1953.
May 13	All Shook Up	Elvis Presley	1	Also reached Number One on the Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
May 20	A White Sport Coat	Marty Robbins	5
May 20	Honky Tonk Song	Webb Pierce	1	^[B]
May 27	Four Walls	Jim Reeves	8	^[2] Reeves' first Number One since "Bimbo" in 1954.
July 15	Bye Bye Love	The Everly Brothers	7	^[A]
August 5	(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear	Elvis Presley	1	Also reached Number One on the Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
September 9	Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin On	Jerry Lee Lewis	2	^[A] Also reached Number One on the Billboard R&B chart.
September 16	Fraulein	Bobby Helms	4	^{[2], [A]}
September 16	My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You	Ray Price	4	^[2]
October 14	Wake Up Little Susie	The Everly Brothers	8	^[2] Also reached Number One on the Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
December 2	Jailhouse Rock	Elvis Presley	1	Also reached Number One on the Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
December 9	My Special Angel	Bobby Helms	4	^[B]

Notes

1^ No. 1 song of the year, as determined by Billboard.
2^ Song dropped from No. 1 and later returned to top spot.
A^ First Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.
B^ Last Billboard No. 1 hit for that artist.

Note: Several songs were simultaneous No. 1 hits on the separate "Most Played C&W in Juke Boxes," "Most Played C&W by Jockeys" and "C&W Best Sellers in Stores" charts.

Other major hits

US	Single	Artist
3	Am I Losing You	Jim Reeves
9	The Auctioneer	Leroy Van Dyke
7	Bye Bye Love	Webb Pierce
10	Don't Stop the Music	George Jones
2	A Fallen Star	Jimmy C. Newman
8	A Fallen Star	Ferlin Husky
9	First Date, First Kiss, First Love	Sonny James
7	For Rent (One Empty Heart)	Sonny James
4	Geisha Girl	Hank Locklin
3	Gonna Find Me a Bluebird	Marvin Rainwater
3	Holiday for Love	Webb Pierce
3	Home of the Blues	Johnny Cash
7	Honeycomb	Jimmie Rodgers
7	I Can't Quit (I've Gone Too Far)	Marty Robbins
4	I Heard the Bluebirds Sing	The Browns
5	I Miss You Already (And You're Not Even Gone)	Faron Young
10	(I'll Always Be Your) Fraulein	Kitty Wells
3	I'm Tired	Webb Pierce
6	Kisses Sweeter than Wine	Jimmie Rodgers
3	Knee Deep in the Blues	Marty Robbins
7	Missing You	Webb Pierce
8	Mister Love	Ernest Tubb and The Wilburn Brothers
8	My Arms Are a House	Hank Snow
9	Next in Line	Johnny Cash
8	Oh, So Many Years	Kitty Wells and Webb Pierce
12	On My Mind Again	Billy Walker
8	Playing for Keeps	Elvis Presley
6	Repenting	Kitty Wells
7	Stolen Moments	Hank Snow
8	Talkin' to the Blues	Jim Lowe
4	Tangled Mind	Hank Snow
7	Three Ways (To Love You)	Kitty Wells
3	Too Much	Elvis Presley
7	Train of Love	Johnny Cash
9	Two Shadows On Your Window	Jim Reeves
2	Walkin' After Midnight	Patsy Cline
2	Why, Why	Carl Smith
9	The Woman I Need	Johnny Horton
10	Yearning	George Jones and Jeanette Hicks
7	You Done Me Wrong	Ray Price
6	You're the Reason I'm in Love	Sonny James

Top new album releases

Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar – Johnny Cash (Sun) debut album

Births

January 4 — Patty Loveless, top female vocalist of the late 1980s and 1990s, thanks to her voice combining bluegrass, blues and rock.
February 19 — Lorianne Crook, radio and television personality, one half of Crook & Chase.
April 12 — Vince Gill, top male vocalist and prominent member of the new traditionalist movement of the late 1980s/1990s.
May 2 — Mark Sissel, lead guitarist from the Western Underground.
July 24 — Pam Tillis, daughter of Mel Tillis and popular female vocalist of the 1990s.
July 27 – Bill Engvall, comedian and member of Blue Collar Comedy with Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White
August 22 — Holly Dunn, female star and artist who helped popularize country music during the late 1980s/early 1990s (died 2016).
November 1 — Lyle Lovett, alternative country star.

Deaths

March 24 — Carson Robison, 66, early C&W singer-songwriter.

References

^ 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
^ Rolling Stone Rock Almanac, p. 33.