Top 10 Albums 1957

My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and
lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick
Loewe.
Blue Train is a jazz album by John Coltrane,
recorded on September 15, 1957 at the Van Gelder
Studio. It is considered Coltrane's first solo album,
as it is the first he recorded featuring musicians
and songs entirely of his choosing.

Elvis' Christmas Album is the fourth
album by Elvis Presley on RCA
Victor Records, LPM 1951, released
in October 1957, and recorded at
Radio Recorders in Hollywood.
Love Is the Thing is a 1957 album released
by American jazz vocalist Nat King Cole. It
is the first of four collaborations between
Cole and influential arranger Gordon
Jenkins.

West Side Story is the soundtrack to the
1961 film West Side Story. Released in
1961, the soundtrack spent 54 weeks at #1
on Billboard's album charts, giving it the
longest run at #1 of any album in history
Loving You is the third album by Elvis Presley,
issued on RCA Victor Records in mono, LPM
1515, in July 1957. It spent ten weeks at #1 on
the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart.

A Swingin' Affair! is a 1957 album
by Frank Sinatra. It is claimed to be
the sequel to Songs for Swingin'
Lovers.
Brilliant Corners is a 1957 album by jazz
musician Thelonious Monk. Because of its
historical significance the album was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in
1999.

Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis
released in 1957. This was the first album after
Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil
Evans, with whom he would go on to release
albums such as Porgy and Bess and Sketches
of Spain.
My Fair Lady, recorded by "Shelly Manne & His
Friends" and released in 1956 by Contemporary
Records, is the first album ever made consisting
entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single
Broadway musical. It was an instant hit and
became one of the best-selling jazz albums of its
day.

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