This is the first of the 50s years where I actually knew enough songs for it to warrent a top 13 on its own merit.
A lot of these classics have stood the test and time and are still played on the radio six decades later.
Others featured in movies like “That’ll Be the Day” and appear again and again in any show set in the fifties.
1. Peggy Lee – Fever – 08-58 – Capitol
2. Big Bopper – Chantilly Lace – 10-58 – Mercury
3. Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode – 05-58 – Chess
4. The Platters – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes – 12-58 – Mercury
5. Perry Como – Catch A Falling Star/Magic Moments – 02-58 – RCA
6. The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream – 05-58 – Cadence
7. The Teddy Bears – To Know Him Is To Love Him – 10-58 – Dore
8. Tommy Edwards – It’s All In The Game – 09-58 – MGM
9. The Champs – Tequila – 03-58 – Challenge
10. The Coasters – Yakety Yak – 06-58 – Atco
11. Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues – 09-58 – Liberty
12. The Crickets [with Buddy Holly] – Oh Boy! – 01-58 – Brunswick
13. Connie Francis – Who’s Sorry Now – 03-58 – MGM
And a few bubbling under:
Elvis Presley – One Night – 11-58 – RCA
Ricky Nelson – Poor Little Fool – 07-58 – Imperial
Conway Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe – 10-58 – MGM
Little Richard – Good Golly, Miss Molly – 03-58 – Specialty
The McGuire Sisters – Sugartime – 01-58 – Coral
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