May 2 – For the first time in Billboard magazine history, five singles appear in both the pop and R&B Top Ten charts.May – Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, a CBS Radio Sunday evening program on the air since 1940 (except for a hiatus from 1942 to 1945), ends its run.April 22 – The 2i's Coffee Bar opens in Old Compton Street, Soho, London its basement rapidly becomes a pioneering venue for rock & roll music in Britain, Tommy Steele being resident from July.April 10 – A group of racial segregationists (followers of Asa Earl Carter) rush the stage at a Nat King Cole concert in Birmingham, Alabama, but are quickly captured.April 6 – Paramount Pictures signs Elvis Presley to a three-picture deal.April 3 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Milton Berle Show.March 31 – Elvis Presley films a screen test for Paramount Pictures.March 26 – Colonel Tom Parker formally becomes Elvis Presley's manager.March 24 – The first regularly scheduled nationally broadcast rock & roll show, Rock 'n Roll Dance Party, with Alan Freed as host, premières on the CBS Radio Network.March 22 – Carl Perkins is injured in a car accident near Wilmington, Delaware, on his way to New York City to make an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.March 21 – World première of Heitor Villa-Lobos's Eleventh Symphony, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch, at Carnegie Hall in New York City.March 10 – Carl Perkins' single " Blue Suede Shoes" enters the R&B charts, the first time a country music artist has made it on the R&B charts.March – The Coasters' recording career begins, with "Turtle Dovin'".February 11 – Henry Barraud's Concertino for Piano and Winds receives its world-première performance by Eugene List and members of the New York Chamber Ensemble in New York City.February 3 – The Symphony of the Air, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, gives the world première of Robert Moevs's Fourteen Variations for Orchestra (composed in 1952) in New York.January 28 – Elvis Presley makes his national television debut on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.January 27 – Elvis Presley's single " Heartbreak Hotel" / "I Was the One" is released.Buddy Holly's first recording sessions for Decca Records take place in Nashville, Tennessee.The North American premiere of Carlos Chávez's Third Symphony is given by the New York Philharmonic conducted by the composer.January 3 – Bach: The Goldberg Variations, Glenn Gould's debut solo piano recording, is released by Columbia Records in the United States it sells 40,000 copies by 1960.This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1956.
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