Feb 7, 1957

Jim Reeves records "Four Walls" during the evening at the RCA Studios in Nashville

Feb 9, 1957

Johnny Cash and The Casuals, featuring Buzz Cason, play the Nashville High School Beauty Contest at the Litton High gymansium

Feb 13, 1957

Doris King is born in Nashville, Tennessee. She joins the female vocal quartet The Girls Next Door, who make a Top 10 appearance for Mary Tyler Moore's MTM label with 1986's "Slow Boat To China"

Feb 15, 1957

Webb Pierce records "Honky Tonk Song" and "Someday" in Nashville during an afternoon session at the Bradley Recording Studio

Feb 19, 1957

Webb Pierce quits the Grand Ole Opry for the second time in two years. The Opry chides his "unwillingness to conform"; Pierce says he's tired of paying to play on the Opry, and of the Opry's parent company using his likeness to sell insurance policies

Feb 21, 1957

Webb Pierce leaves Nashville for Los Angeles, where he films scenes for "Buffalo Gun," co-starring Carl Smith and Marty Robbins

Feb 23, 1957

Porter Wagoner joins the Grand Ole Opry

Feb 25, 1957

Don Gibson holds his first RCA recording session with producer Chet Atkins at the Methodist Television, Radio and Film Commission on McGavock Street in Nashville

Feb 28, 1957

Kitty Wells records "Three Ways (To Love You)" and "Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down" at Nashville's Bradley Film & Recording Studio

Mar 1, 1957

The Everly Brothers record "Bye Bye Love" and "I Wonder If I Care As Much" at the Methodist Television, Radio and Film Commission in Nashville