1958 New Years Eve radio and TV features in the first (nationally networked) part of this week’s Phantom Dancer. In the final hour of this week’s show you’ll hear Part 2 of Phantom dancer 1930s-50s Christmas music.

1958 New Years Eve TV in videos from New York, London and Bucharest.  1958 New Years radio from New York and Chicago, including New Years countdowns.

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I’m Greg Poppleton, The Phantom Dancer producer and presenter every week on 107.3 2SER radio Sydney since 1985.

First, Guy Lombardo’s 1958 New Years Eve TV show on WCBS TV New York, 31 Dec 1957…

EVENTS OF 1957

• The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the “Frisbee”.
• The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
• The International Geophysical Year begins.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
• Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches ‘Sputnik 2’. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
• Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
• The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.

Dancing the New Year in. Albert Hall, London, New Year’s Eve 1957-58

EVENTS OF 1958

• The European Economic Community is established.
• ‘Sputnik 1’ falls to Earth from orbit.
• The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
• The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
• Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
• Vertigo (film) named Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
• U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the NASA e.g National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
• Art Kane photographs 57 notable jazz musicians in the black and white group portrait “A Great Day in Harlem” in front of a Brownstone in New York City.
• Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
• The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the Pole of inaccessibility Southern pole of inaccessibility e.g southern pole of inaccessibility.

Welcoming 1958 New Years Eve, on Bucharest TV Romania…

21 DECEMBER PLAY LIST