Week of January 15, 1957

Yugoslavia President Tito is invited to visit the White House

by President Eisenhower and he accepts the invitation.

Dep. Soviet Premier V.M. Molotov says the United States is

slandering Russia “by ascribing absurd aggressive plans in

the Near and Middle East to the U.S.S.R.” “Everybody

knows that the whole guilt of the Soviet people consists only

in the fact that it does not conceal its sympathies and good

feelings toward the peoples of this area,” said Molotov in a

radio speech.

The Soviet Union and Communist China jointly condemn President Eisenhower’s

Middle East policy and pledge the people’s of that area “any necessary support”

to avert aggression and interference in their affairs.

It’s cold - A record is set in New York State as the temperature dips to 55-below-

zero at Booneville, in Central New York.

is in New York and is met by hundreds in a warm welcome.

It’s her first visit to the U.S. since her love affair created a

furor here nearly eight years ago.

Actor Errol Flynn wins $3000 on the television quiz show “Big

Surprise.” Flynn identified four methods of navigation as

radar, celestial, dead reckoning and by landmark.

Passing - Music conductor Arturo Toscanini (89). The most

A 14-year-old boy’s plot to extort $500,000 from cowboy star

Roy Rogers collapses. Postal inspectors said the Ohio boy

admitted writing a letter to Rogers last December 22 demanding

he send the $500,000 or be subjected to “moral disgrace” by

the distribution to school children of “altered photographs

showing him in the nude.”

First - Three B-52 bombers fly non-stop around the world, covering 24.325 miles

in 45 hours!

Week of January 15, 1957

Tuesday Night

Television news -

Art Carney says he will terminate his role on the Jackie Gleason show at the end

of this season.

The “Mickey Mouse Club” will be cut from an hour to a half-hour show next fall

when it begins its third season on ABC-TV. A shortage of sponsors and a

dwindling backlog of cartoons prompted the decision, though the series

continues to have strong ratings.

Week of January 15, 1957

Radio news - Jerry Marshall is quitting WNEW radio’s “Make Believe Ballroom” a

cushy job. He has been with the station for 14 years. Will he end-up at another

station? WNEW is the nation’s top DJ and music station.

Week of January 15, 1957

The Big TV Event Of The Week. On NBC-TV Sunday Night.

Week of January 15, 1957

WIND radio Chicago - at 560 on your AM dial, is sold to Westinghouse

Broadcasting Company. Price is $5.3 million. The station is one of the biggest in

Chicago.

Music news -

Fats Domino will appear on the Perry Como TV show February 2.

Country and Western singer Johnny Cash is signed for a series of featured

appearances on Jackie Gleason’s Saturday night CBS-TV show. His first

appearance is this week.

Disneyland Records expects to be a major label this year with a goal of $5 million

in retail sales. Film tracks, the Disneyland and Mickey Mouse Club TV shows and

the widely circulated Mickey Mouse magazine may be expected to plug

Disneyland records throughout the world. See Ad…

Week of January 15, 1957

craze has been a big booster to Chuck Berry’s single “Havana

Moon.”

Top Country & Western -

Singing The Blues - Marty Robbins

There You Go/Train of Love - Johnny Cash

I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash

Crazy Arms - Ray Price

I’ve Got A New Heartache - Ray Price

Searching - Kitty Wells

I’m Tired - Webb Pierce

Sweet Dreams - Faron Young

Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley

Top Rhythm and Blues -

Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino

Blue Monday - Fats Domino

Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe

Hunter

Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill

Doggett

Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia

Jim Dandy - Lavern Baker

Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell

Green Door - Jim Lowe

You Got Me Dizzy - Jimmy Reed

Without Love - Clyde McPhatter

Oh, What A Night - The Dels

Top hits in Britain -

Singing The Blues - Roy Mitchell

Singing The Blues - Tommy Steele

St Therese of the roses - Malcolm Vaughan

Just Walking In The Rain - Johnnie Ray

Cindy, Oh Cindy - Eddie Fisher

Green Door - Frankie Vaughan

True Love - Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly

Hound Dog - Elvis Presley

Week of January 15, 1957

Rip It Up - Bill Haley & The Comets

Woman in Love - Frankie Laine

Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino

Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley

At the movies -