03-11 - Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Johnny Smith record Moonlight In Vermont
03-21 - First reported Rock and roll riot breaks out at Alan Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. Teenage excitement is blamed for the frenzy.
03-25 - Duke Ellington records The 1952 Seattle Concert.
05-12 - Sauter-Finegan Orchestra records Doodletown Fifers
06-12 - First performance of Leonard Bernstein's chamber opera Trouble in Tahiti at Brandeis University's Festival of the Creative Arts, Bernstein conducting.
06-14 - First performance in USA of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera as translated by Marc Blitzstein at Brandeis University's first Festival of the Creative Arts, with Leonard Bernstein conducting at campus, South Street, Waltham, MA.
06-16 - Ernest Tubb recorded the Top 5 single "Fortunes in Memories"
07-05 - Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call" charted.
07-05 - Delicado recorded by Percy Faith goes to #1 on the US charts for a week.
07-10 - Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded the Top Ten single "Blackberry Boogie"
07-11 - Hank Williams recorded the Top 5 single "Settin' the Woods on Fire" and the #1 singles "Jambalaya" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive".
07-12 - Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart recorded by Vera Lynn begins a run of 9 weeks at #1 on the US charts.
07-14 - "The Eddy Arnold Show" premiered on CBS-TV
07-18 - Kitty Wells' #1 single "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" charted
07-18 - Bill Monroe recorded "In the Pines" and "The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake"
07-19 - Eddy Arnold's #1 single "A Full Time Job" charted.
07-22 - Pee Wee King recorded "The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)" and "Steel Guitar Rag".
07-24 - "High Noon" movie soundtrack released featuring Country Music Hall of Fame member Tex Ritter.
07-26 - Half as Much recorded by Rosemary Clooney begins a run of 3 weeks at #1 on the US charts.
07-29 - Webb Pierce recorded the #1 single "Back Street Affair".
07-31 - Jimmie Osborne recorded "Mama Don't Agree" and "This Evil Life Don't Pay".
08-09 - Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" went No. 1
08-17 - Clyde Moody & Brown's Ferry Four recorded "The Unclouded Day" and "I Feel Like Traveling On"
08-19 - Premiere of Ginastera's ballet "Estancia," in Buenos Aires
08-23 - "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells became the first No. 1 country hit by a woman
08-28 - Brown's Ferry Four recorded "When The Redeemed Are Gathering In"
08-29 - David Tudor gives the premiere of John Cage's 4' 33" in Woodstock, New York
08-29 - Premiere of John Cage "4:33," for any instrument, in Woodstock, N.Y.
08-29 - Delmore Brothers recorded "That Old Train," "The Trail of Time" and two other songs
09-14 - Premiere of Frank Martin's Concerto for Harpsichord, in Venice
10-07 - First edition of Bob Horn's Bandstand is broadcast as a local show from station WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is later renamed American Bandstand and syndicated
