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• January 1 - Blue Suede Shoes
  Blue Suede Shoes
  
  "Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll Standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. The 12-bar blues is considered one of the first rock and roll records and incorporated elements of blues, country music and pop music of the time....
   is released by Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
   on the Sun Records
  Sun Records
  
  Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers....
   label.
• Cameo-Parkway Records
  Cameo-Parkway Records
  
  Cameo and its sister label Parkway were major Philadelphia-based record labels from 1956 through 1967....
   formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  
  Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
   by Kal Mann
  Kal Mann
  
  Kal Mann was an United States lyricist.Born Kalman Cohen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Mann began his career in entertainment as a comedy writer until friend and songwriter Bernie Lowe encouraged him to try writing lyrics for the music industry....
   & Bernie Lowe
  Bernie Lowe
  
  Bernie Lowe was an United States songwriter / record producer / arrangement / pianist and bandleader.Born Bernard Lowenthal in Philadelphia, Lowe started Teen Records and in 1955 was working with Freddie Bell and the Bellboys....
  .
• Foundation of the Korean piano brand Young Chang
  Young Chang
  
  Young Chang is a Korean manufacturer of pianos and industrial wood working machinery, headquartered in Incheon, South Korea. Young Chang also currently holds 50% of the Korean piano market....
  .
• 1^st Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music (see )
• January 26 - Buddy Holly
  Buddy Holly
  
  Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
  's first recording sessions for Decca Records
  Decca Records
  
  Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
   take place in Nashville, Tennessee
  Nashville, Tennessee
  
  Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
  
• Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
   signs with Sun Records
  Sun Records
  
  Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers....
  
• January 27 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  's Single Heartbreak Hotel
  Heartbreak Hotel
  
  "Heartbreak Hotel" is a rock and roll song performed by Elvis Presley, with Bill Black , Scotty Moore , D.J. Fontana , Floyd Cramer and Elvis on rhythm guitar as the main supporting musicians....
   / I Was The One was released. It goes on to be Elvis' 1st #1 hit.
• January 28 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   makes his national television debut on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show
• March 10 - Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  ' single "Blue Suede Shoes" enters the R&B charts, marking the first time a Country music artist has made it on the R&B charts.
• March 22 - Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
   is injured in a car accident near Wilmington, Delaware and spends several months in the hospital. Perkins had been on his way to New York City
  New York City
  
  The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
   to make an appearance on the Ed Sullivan
  Ed Sullivan
  
  Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an United States entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s....
   show.
• March 31 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   films a screen test for Paramount Pictures
  Paramount Pictures
  
  Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
  .
• April 3 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   makes his first appearance on The Milton Berle
  Milton Berle
  
  Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
   Show
• April 6 - Paramount Pictures
  Paramount Pictures
  
  Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
   signs Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   to a three picture deal.
• April 7 - The first regularly scheduled nationally broadcast rock & roll show, Rock 'n Roll Dance Party, with Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  
  Alan Freed , also known as Moondog, was an United States disc-jockey who became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll....
   as host, premieres on the CBS
  CBS
  
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
   Radio Network.
• April 10 - A group of racial segregationists (followers of Asa Earl Carter
  Asa Earl Carter
  
  Asa Earl Carter was an American speechwriter and author. He worked as a speechwriter for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and was founder of the North Alabama Citizens Council and a pro-segregation monthly titled The Southerner....
  ) rush the stage at a Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
   concert in Birmingham, Alabama
  Birmingham, Alabama
  
  Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....
  , but are quickly captured.
• May 2 - For the first time in Billboard magazine history, five singles appear in both the pop and R&B Top Ten charts. They are Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  's "Heatbreak Hotel" (#1 pop, #6 R&B), Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  ' "Blue Suede Shoes" (#4 pop, #3 R&B), Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  's "Long Tall Sally" (#9 pop, #1 R&B), the Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  ' "Magic Touch" (#10 pop, #7 R&B) and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (#7 pop, #4 R&B). Presley's and Perkins' singles also appeared on the country and western Top Ten chart at #1 and #2 respectively
• May 6 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   appears on the Milton Berle
  Milton Berle
  
  Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
   show
• May 24 - First ever Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....
  
• Bo Diddley
  Bo Diddley
  
  Bo Diddley , was an original and influential American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton....
   records his song "Who Do You Love".
• June 3 - Fred Diodati
  Fred Diodati
  
  Fred Diodati is the lead singer of The Four Aces. He has been lead singer since 1956, when he replaced Al Alberts.Diodati was born in Chester, Pennsylvania and attended South Philadelphia High School....
   replaces Al Alberts
  Al Alberts
  
  Al Alberts was a popular music singer and composer.Born Al Albertini in Chester, Pennsylvania, he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania High School, whose alumni included many others who would become famous in show business, such as Joey Bishop, Buddy Greco, Al Martino, Mario Lanza, Chubby Checker, Jack Klugman, Eddie Fisher , Marian An...
   as lead singer of The Four Aces
  The Four Aces
  
  The Four Aces were a pop singing group.The original members were Al Alberts , Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sod" Vaccaro. They all came from Chester, Pennsylvania....
  .
• June 5 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   introduces his new single, "Hound Dog
  Hound Dog (song)
  
  "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country music, and rock and roll in the mid 1950s....
  ", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
• June 26 - Both trumpeter Clifford Brown
  Clifford Brown
  
  Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
   and pianist Richie Powell
  Richie Powell
  
  Richie Powell was an United States bebop jazz piano.Powell was born into a musical family in New York City, and was the younger brother of Bud Powell ....
   are killed in a car accident.
• July 1 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   appears on the Steve Allen
  Steve Allen (comedian)
  
  Steve Allen, born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen , was an United States television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer....
   show
• July 9 - Dick Clark
  Dick Clark (entertainer)
  
  Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark is an American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman; he served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years....
   hosts American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  
  American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
   for the first time
• September 9 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   appears on The Ed Sullivan Show
  The Ed Sullivan Show
  
  The Ed Sullivan Show is an United States television program variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
  .
• Nat King Cole
  Nat King Cole
  
  Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
   becomes the first major black performer to host a variety show on national television. The Nat King Cole Show was first broadcast on November 5, 1956
• December 4 - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  , Jerry Lee Lewis
  Jerry Lee Lewis
  
  Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
  , Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
   and Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
   record together at Sun Studios
  Sun Records
  
  Sun Records is a record label founded in Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, starting operations on March 27 1952. Founded by Sam Phillips, Sun Records was known for giving notable musicians such as Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash their first recording contracts and helping to launch their careers....
   in Memphis, Tennessee
  Memphis, Tennessee
  
  Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
  . The sessions are later released under the name, the "Million Dollar Quartet"
• December 19 - Breaking the record for the highest number of concurrent singles by a single artist, Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   holds 9 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Presley would hold the record until 1964 when the Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   held 14 positions on the chart.
• Pierre Gabaye
  Pierre Gabaye
  
  Pierre Gabaye was a France composer.His musical tuition began at age seven on the piano, and which led him to pursue a career as a pianist and composer in both the classical and jazz spheres....
   wins the Prix de Rome
  Prix de Rome
  
  The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students. It was created in 1663 in France under the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual burse for promising artists who proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest....
   in the Musical Composition category.
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
   gives birth to her first child, at the age of fourteen, interrupting her career as a gospel singer.
• Gene Vincent
  Gene Vincent
  
  Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, rockabilly....
   signs a publishing contract with Bill Lowery
  Bill Lowery
  
  Bill Lowery was born October 21 1924 and died June 8, 2004....
  .
• The Coasters
  The Coasters
  
  The Coasters are a Rhythm and Blues/rock and roll vocal group that had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Beginning with "Searchin'" and "Young Blood ," their most memorable songs were written by the songwriting and producing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller....
  ' recording career begins.
• Bobby Darin
  Bobby Darin
  
  Bobby Darin was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s and early 1960s.Darin performed widely in a range of music genres, including pop, jazz, folk and country....
  's recording career begins
• Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  's musical career begins on Barclay Records
  Barclay Records
  
  Barclay Records is a France record label, which was founded round 1954 in music by Eddie Barclay alias Edouard Ruault. Among the artist in their catalog were Dalida, Mireille Mathieu, Danielle Licari, Charles Aznavour, Noir D?sir, Les Chaussettes Noires, Eddy Mitchell, Hugues Aufray, Henri Salvador, Jacques Brel, The Wild Magnolias, Leo Fer...
   in Europe
  Europe
  
  Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
   as (one of) the first biggest "world pop star" and sex symbol and she is the first artist to have her photo on a single in France. 175 000 copies of her big hits "Bambino" are sold in a few weeks.
• Chrysler Corporation provides an in-car turntable 16? rpm record player with 7-inch ultramicrogroove records in its luxury model, the "Imperial
  Imperial (automobile)
  
  Imperial was the Chrysler Corporation's prestige automobile brand between 1955 and 1975, with a brief reappearance in 1981 through 1983.The Chrysler Imperial had been the company's most luxurious model, and in 1955 when the company decided to introduce a separate luxury brand, Imperial was the natural choice for the nameplate of the ne...
  ". The machine was developed by Peter Carl Goldmark
  Peter Carl Goldmark
  
  Peter Carl Goldmark was a Hungary, United States engineer who, during his time with Columbia Records, was instrumental in developing the LP album microgroove 33-1/3 rpm vinyl Gramophone record, the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single disc for two generations....
   — the man who invented the 33? rpm long playing (LP) record format
• The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
  
  The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
   make their first recording.

Albums released

• The Ames Brothers - The Ames Brothers
• Ames Brothers Concert - The Ames Brothers
• The Ames Brothers With Hugo Winterhalter - The Ames Brothers & Hugo Winterhalter
  Hugo Winterhalter
  
  Hugo Winterhalter was an United States musician.Easy listening arrangement and composer, Winterhalter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania....
  
• Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
  Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings
  
  Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings was Bing Crosby sixth long play album, but the first recorded with Verve Records.This was Bing Crosby first LP with a modern, swinging orchestra in accompaniment....
   - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• Black Coffee
  Black Coffee (album)
  
  Black Coffee is a 1956 studio album by Peggy Lee....
   - Peggy Lee
  Peggy Lee
  
  Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
  
• The Boss of the Blues
  The Boss of the Blues
  
  The Boss of the Blues is a 1956 album by United States blues Blues shouter Big Joe Turner. Originally released on the Atlantic Records label, the album has been reissued many times on cassette and CD by Atlantic, Rhino Records and Collectables Records....
   - Big Joe Turner
  Big Joe Turner
  
  Big Joe Turner was an United States blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri....
  
• Calendar Girl
  Calendar Girl (Julie London album)
  
  Calendar Girl was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number SL-9002 in 1956 in music. In keeping with the title, each of the first twelve tracks had a month in its title, completing the album with a song entitled "Thirteenth Month." Two of the songs were composed especially for this album by London's husband,...
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• Calypso
  Calypso (album)
  
  Calypso is an album by Harry Belafonte, released by RCA Victor in 1956. The CD was released on April 28 1992 . It is the first full-length gramophone record to sell over one million copies ....
   - Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  
  Harold George Belafonte, Jr. is a Jamaican American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful popular singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso music" a title which he was very reluctant to accept for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s....
  
• The Champ - Jimmy Smith
  Jimmy Smith (musician)
  
  Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument. In 2005, Jimmy Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honors that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians....
  
• Chet Baker Sings
  Chet Baker Sings
  
  Chet Baker Sings is an album by jazz musician Chet Baker....
   - Chet Baker
  Chet Baker
  
  Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an United States jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s....
  
• Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
  Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street
  
  Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street is 1956 album by Clifford Brown and the Max Roach quintet ....
   - Clifford Brown
  Clifford Brown
  
  Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
   and Max Roach
  Max Roach
  
  Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
  
• The Complete Porgy and Bess
  The Complete Porgy and Bess
  
  This 1956 recording based on George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess was the second "complete" recording of the opera after the Porgy and Bess recorded several years earlier, and the first recording of the work to feature jazz singers and musicians instead of operatic singers and a classical orchestra....
   - Original Broadway Cast
• Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
  Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
  
  Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album recorded in 1956 by Miles Davis. Two sessions on the 11th of May 1956 and the 26th of October in the same year resulted in four albums?this one, Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
  Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
  
  Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings is a 1956 album by the American jazz and blues singer Joe Williams , with the Count Basie Orchestra....
   - Joe Williams
  Joe Williams (jazz singer)
  
  Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues music, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards....
  
• Day by Day - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  
• Dinner in Colombia
  Dinner in Colombia
  
  Dinner in Colombia is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1956, under contract with RCA Victor....
   - Aldemaro Romero
  Aldemaro Romero
  
  Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Carabobo State....
  
• Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry
  Dinner Music for People Who Aren't Very Hungry
  
  Dinner Music For People Who Aren't Very Hungry - Spike Jones Demonstrates Your Hi-Fi was the first long-playing release by comedic bandleader Spike Jones....
   - Spike Jones
  Spike Jones
  
  Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and ridiculous vocals....
  
• Django
  Django (Modern Jazz Quartet album)
  
  Django is an album by The Modern Jazz Quartet, first released on LP in 1956. The actual sessions for the LP took place in June 1953, December 1954, and January 1955, and were first released on two different ten-inch discs....
   - Modern Jazz Quartet
  Modern Jazz Quartet
  
  The Modern Jazz Quartet was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson , John Lewis , Percy Heath , and Kenny Clarke . Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955....
  
• Do You Remember When? - McGuire Sisters
• The East Side - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• Ella and Louis
  Ella and Louis
  
  Ella and Louis is a 1956 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and the Oscar Peterson....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
  Ella Fitzgerald
  
  Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
   & Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
  
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook is a 1956 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs of Cole Porter....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
• Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook
  
  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook is a 1956 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart....
   - Ella Fitzgerald
• Ellington at Newport
  Ellington at Newport
  
  Ellington at Newport is a 1956 jazz live album by Duke Ellington and his band, recording their historic 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival....
   - Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  
• Elvis
  Elvis (1956 album)
  
  Elvis is the second LP album by Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor Records in monaural, LPM 1382, in October 1956. Recording recording session took place on September 1, September 2, and September 3 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, with one track leftover from the sessions for Presley's Elvis Presley at RCA Records recording studios o...
   - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley (album)
  
  Elvis Presley is the self-titled debut LP album by Elvis Presley released on RCA Victor in monaural, catalogue number LPM 1254, in March 1956....
   - Elvis Presley (debut)
• Exactly Like You
  Exactly Like You (Ames Brothers album)
  
  Exactly Like You was an LP album by The Ames Brothers, released in 1956 in music by RCA Victor Records, as catalog number LPM-1142....
   - The Ames Brothers
• Finger Style Guitar
  Finger Style Guitar
  
  Finger Style Guitar is an album by United States guitarist Chet Atkins.Some references to it spell the title Finger?Style.The original LP consisted of a light rhythm section on the first side and Chet solo on side two....
   - Chet Atkins
  Chet Atkins
  
  Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
  
• Flight to Romance
  Flight to Romance (album)
  
  Flight to Romance is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1956, under contract with RCA Victor....
   - Aldemaro Romero
  Aldemaro Romero
  
  Aldemaro Romero was a Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger and orchestral conductor. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Carabobo State....
  
• Fontessa
  Fontessa
  
  Fontessa is a 1956 album by the Modern Jazz Quartet released on Atlantic Records. It was the first of their albums released on Atlantic....
   - Modern Jazz Quartet
  Modern Jazz Quartet
  
  The Modern Jazz Quartet was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson , John Lewis , Percy Heath , and Kenny Clarke . Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955....
  
• For Musicians Only
  For Musicians Only
  
  For Musicians Only is a 1956 jazz album by Stan Getz incorporating bebop influences....
   - Stan Getz
  Stan Getz
  
  Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
  
• The Four Aces - The Four Aces
  The Four Aces
  
  The Four Aces were a pop singing group.The original members were Al Alberts , Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sod" Vaccaro. They all came from Chester, Pennsylvania....
  
• Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
  Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
  
  Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color is a 1956 album of tone poems composed by eight notable mid-20th century Hollywood arrangers, with each composition based on the poetry of Norman Sickel....
   - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• Frankie Laine & The Four Lads - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• A Girl Named Jo - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
  
• The Hi-Fi Nightingale
  The Hi-Fi Nightingale
  
  The Hi-Fi Nightingale is an album from Caterina Valente. Released in US .This album includes her big hits Malague?a and The Breeze and I....
   - Caterina Valente
  Caterina Valente
  
  Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italy artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown....
  
• High Society
  High Society (1956 album)
  
  High Society is a 1956 soundtrack album, featuring Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Grace Kelly. This was Crosby's fourth long playing album, and his first recorded with Capitol Records....
   - Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong & Celeste Holm
  Celeste Holm
  
  Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
  
• High Step
  High Step
  
  High Step is a jazz album by bassist Paul Chambers and tenor saxophone John Coltrane....
   - Paul Chambers
  Paul Chambers
  
  Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
   and John Coltrane
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Holding Hands at Midnight - Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore
  
  Dinah Shore was an United States singer, actress, and Celebrity. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo succe...
  
• Howdy! - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• Improvisations
  Improvisations (Stéphane Grappelli album)
  
  Improvisations is a jazz album recorded in 1956, in Paris, by St?phane Grappelli , Maurice Vander , Pierre Michelot and Baptist "Mac Kac" Reiles ....
   - Stéphane Grappelli
  Stéphane Grappelli
  
  St?phane Grappelli was a French people jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first of all-string jazz bands....
  
• In the Land of Hi Fi - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• Informal Jazz
  Informal Jazz
  
  Informal Jazz is a 1956 album by jazz musician Elmo Hope...
   - Elmo Hope
  Elmo Hope
  
  St. Elmo Sylvester Hope was an United States jazz pianist, performing chiefly in the bebop and hard bop genres. His highly individual piano-playing and, especially, his compositions have led a few enthusiasts and critics such as David H....
  
• Kay Starr Country - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• The Lark in the Morning
  The Lark in the Morning (album)
  
  The Lark in the Morning is an album by Liam Clancy, Tommy Makem, Family and Friends.It has the distinction of being the first album-length recording of Irish music to be recorded in Ireland....
   - Liam Clancy
  Liam Clancy
  
  William 'Liam' Clancy is an Ireland folk singer. With his brothers Tom Clancy , and Patrick Clancy, as well as Tommy Makem, he was part of the popular group The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem....
   and Tommy Makem
  Tommy Makem
  
  Thomas 'Tommy' Makem was an internationally celebrated Ireland folk music musician, artist, poet and storyteller, best known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem....
  
• Latin Kick - Cal Tjader
  Cal Tjader
  
  Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death....
  
• Lennie Tristano
  Lennie Tristano (album)
  
  Lennie Tristano, also known as Tristano, is a 1956 album by Lennie Tristano, the project of blindness Jazz bebop pianist Lennie Tristano....
   - Lennie Tristano
  Lennie Tristano
  
  Leonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist and composer. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous originality and dazzling work as an improviser have long been appreciated by knowledgable jazz fans; in addition, his work as a jazz edu...
  
• Let There Be Love
  Let There Be Love (Joni James 1956 album)
  
  Let There Be Love was Joni James' first album, released by MGM Records in 1956 in music. It was issued both as an LP album record and a set of three extended play 45rpm records ....
   - Joni James
  Joni James
  
  Joni James is an United States singer of traditional pop music....
  
• Listen To The Hi-Lo's - The Hi-Lo's
  The Hi-Lo's
  
  The Hi-Lo's were an a cappella quartet formed in 1953. They named themselves the "Hi-Lo's" to emphasize their collective vocal range.The group consisted of:...
  
• Lonely Girl
  Lonely Girl (Julie London album)
  
  Lonely Girl was an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3012 as a monophonic recording in 1956 in music, and later in stereo under catalog number LST-7029 in 1959 in music....
   - Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  
• Love Songs Sung - Dinah Shore
  Dinah Shore
  
  Dinah Shore was an United States singer, actress, and Celebrity. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo succe...
  
• Love's Old Sweet Song - The Ames Brothers
• Lullaby Time - Bing Crosby
• Manhattan Tower - Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Jenkins
  
  Gordon Hill Jenkins was an United States arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements....
  
• Manhattan Tower
  Manhattan Tower (Patti Page album)
  
  Manhattan Tower was a Patti Page LP album, issued by Mercury Records as catalog number MG-20226 in 1956 in music. It is her version of Gordon Jenkins' popular 1948/1956 Manhattan Tower suite....
   - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• Mating Call
  Mating Call
  
  Mating Call is a 1956 album by jazz musician Tadd Dameron .Track listing# "Mating Call" ? 5:57# "Gnid" ? 5:07# "Soultrane" ? 5:24...
   - Tadd Dameron
  Tadd Dameron
  
  Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron was an United States jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. Dexter Gordon called Dameron the "romanticist" of the bop movement while reviewer Scott Yanow write that Dameron was the, "definitive arranger/composer of the bop era"....
  
• Max Roach Plus Four
  Max Roach Plus Four
  
  Max Roach + 4 is an long play recorded by jazz drummer Max Roach, which featured Kenny Dorham on trumpet, Sonny Rollins on tenor sax, Ray Bryant on piano, and George Morrow on bass....
   - Max Roach
  Max Roach
  
  Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
  
• Miles Davis with Horns
  Miles Davis with Horns
  
  Miles Davis with Horns is an album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released in 1956. It was recorded on January 17, 1951 and February 19, 1953 ....
   - Miles Davis
  Miles Davis
  
  Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
  
• Music and Memories - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady (album)
  
  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 theatre....
   - Shelly Manne
  Shelly Manne
  
  Shelly Manne , born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American Jazz drumming. Most frequently associated with West coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, Swing music, bebop, avant-garde jazz and Jazz fusion, as well as contributing to the musical background of...
   & His Friends
• New Jazz Conceptions
  New Jazz Conceptions
  
  New Jazz Conceptions is the debut album as leader by jazz musician Bill Evans, released in 1956 .Producer Orrin Keepnews of Riverside Records first determined to record Evans after hearing a tape of Evans' playing....
   - Bill Evans
  Bill Evans
  
  William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
  
• Nursery Days
  Nursery Days
  
  Nursery Days is the second set from a collection of children's songs by Woody Guthrie. First released in 1956, a remastered recording was issued by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 1991....
   - Woody Guthrie
  Woody Guthrie
  
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an United States singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, Traditional music and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
  
• Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
  Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues
  
  Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues is the debut solo album by United States folk music Odetta, first released in 1956.Like much of Odetta's early work, Ballads and Blues combines folk music songs with blues covers....
   - Odetta
  Odetta
  
  Odetta Holmes, , known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement"....
  
• On Hand - The Hi-Lo's
• On the Sunny Side of the Street
  On the Sunny Side of the Street (Four Lads album)
  
  On the Sunny Side of the Street was an LP album by The Four Lads released by Columbia Records as catalog number CL 912 in 1956 in music, containing mostly popular standard songs....
   - The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  
  The Four Lads is a Canada male singing quartet. They grew up together in Toronto, Ontario, and were members of St. Michael's Choir School, where they learned to sing....
  
• Page Three - Easy Listening
  Page Three - Easy Listening
  
  Page Three - Easy Listening was a Patti Page LP album, issued by Mercury Records as catalog number MG-20097....
   - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• Pat Boone - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
  Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day
  
  Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day is a 1956 album by Anita O'Day....
   - Anita O'Day
  Anita O'Day
  
  Anita O'Day was an United States jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said ?When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.?...
  
• Pithecanthropus Erectus - Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  
  Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
  
• Playboys
  Playboys (1956 album)
  
  Playboys is a 1956 jazz album featuring trumpeter Chet Baker and saxophonist Art Pepper. The album was the third collaboration between Pepper and Baker, following the successes of The Route and Chet Baker Big Band....
   - Chet Baker
  Chet Baker
  
  Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an United States jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s....
   and Art Pepper
  Art Pepper
  
  Art Pepper , born Arthur Edward Pepper, Jr., was an United States alto saxophonist....
  
• Rock 'n' Roll Stage Show
  Rock 'n' Roll Stage Show
  
  Rock 'n' Roll Stage Show was the fourth album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley and His Comets. Released by Decca Records in August 1956 it was the group's first album to include new, as opposed to previously-released material....
   - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Rock, Rock, Rock - Various Artists
• 'Round about Midnight
  'Round About Midnight
  
  'Round About Midnight is an LP album by jazz musician Miles Davis, named after the Thelonious Monk song "'Round Midnight " released in March 1957 and his debut on Columbia Records, CL 949....
   - Miles Davis
• Saxophone Colossus
  Saxophone Colossus
  
  Saxophone Colossus is one of Sonny Rollins' most acclaimed albums. Recorded and released in 1956, it is widely considered the masterpiece of his mid-1950s series of recordings for Prestige....
   - Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  
• Shillelaghs and Shamrocks - Bing Crosby
• Singin' And Swingin' - The Mills Brothers
• Ski Trails
  Ski Trails
  
  Ski Trails is a 1956 in music album by Jo Stafford. Many of the songs have a winter theme....
   - Jo Stafford
  Jo Stafford
  
  Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
  
• Son nom est Dalida
  Son nom est Dalida
  
  Very first album from French singer Dalida, containing her first hit single, "Bambino", and her first song released on a record, "Madona". Her style here is really more exotic than pop, which will change for her futur 50s-60s albums....
   - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• Song Favorites - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• Songs by Kay Starr - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• Songs for Swingin' Lovers
  Songs for Swingin' Lovers
  
  Songs For Swingin' Lovers! is an album by Frank Sinatra, recorded in the KHJ Studios, Hollywood. released in 1956.It took an alternative tack after In the Wee Small Hours, recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance in the vein of Songs For Young Lovers and Swing Easy....
   - Frank Sinatra
• Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around
  Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around
  
  Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around was Bing Crosby fifth Decca Records long play album, recorded and originally released in 1956....
   - Bing Crosby
• Songs of Faith
  Songs of Faith
  
  Songs of Faith is Aretha Franklin's debut album....
   - Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
  
• Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child
  Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child
  
  Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child is a collection of children's music by folk singer Woody Guthrie. Recorded in 1947 and first released in 1956, a remastered recording was issued by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 1991....
   - Woody Guthrie
  Woody Guthrie
  
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an United States singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, Traditional music and children's songs, ballads and improvised works....
  
• Squeeze Play
  Squeeze play
  
  Squeeze play may refer to:In sports and games:* Squeeze play , a sacrifice bunt with a runner on third and fewer than two outs* Squeeze play , a play that forces an opponent to discard a vital card...
   - John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr.
  
  John Serry, Sr. was a distinguished concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist and music educator who achieved prominence through his live performances on the Columbia Broadcasting System network....
  
• Swingin' with Her Nibs - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• Swingin' with Kay Starr - Kay Starr
• Tenor Conclave
  Tenor Conclave
  
  Tenor Conclave is a 1956 jazz album, originally credited to the "Prestige All Stars". Subsequent issues have generally been under John Coltrane's or Hank Mobley's names....
   - Prestige All Stars
  John Coltrane
  
  John William Coltrane was an United States jazz saxophonist and composer.Starting in bebop and hard bop, Coltrane later pioneered free jazz. He influenced generations of other musicians, and remains one of the most significant tenor saxophonists in jazz history....
  
• Tenor Madness
  Tenor Madness
  
  Tenor Madness is an album by Sonny Rollins. ...
   - Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is an United States jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20....
  
• This Is Anita
  This Is Anita
  
  This is Anita is a 1955 album by Anita O'Day.It was the first in a series of albums recorded by O'Day for the newly inaugurated Verve Records....
   - Anita O'Day
  Anita O'Day
  
  Anita O'Day was an United States jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said ?When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.?...
  
• This Is Sinatra!
  This Is Sinatra!
  
  This Is Sinatra! is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1956.This is the first collection of Sinatra's singles and B-sides with Nelson Riddle....
   - Frank Sinatra
• Toshiko - Her Trio, Her Quartet
  Toshiko - Her Trio, Her Quartet
  
  Toshiko - Her Trio, Her Quartet is a jazz album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in New York City in 1956 and released on the Storyville record label....
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  
  is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
  
• The Toshiko Trio
  The Toshiko Trio
  
  The Toshiko Trio is a jazz record album recorded in 1956 in New York City and released on the Storyville record label. It is the second studio recording of pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi - not to be confused with her 1983 Toshiba East World album, Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio ....
   - Toshiko Akiyoshi
  Toshiko Akiyoshi
  
  is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
  
• Two For Tonight - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  
• Under Glass - The Hi-Lo's
• The Unique Thelonious Monk
  The Unique Thelonious Monk
  
  The Unique Thelonious Monk is a 1956 album from Thelonious Monk, his second for Riverside Records and like his Riverside debut, is made up of standards....
   - Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Monk
  
  Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
  
• Venezuelan Fiesta
  Venezuelan Fiesta (album)
  
  Venezuelan Fiesta is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1956 , under contract with RCA Victor....
   - Aldemaro Romero
• Whims of Chambers
  Whims Of Chambers
  
  Whims Of Chambers is a jazz album by bassist Paul Chambers....
   - Paul Chambers
  Paul Chambers
  
  Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. was one of the most influential jazz double basss of the 20th century. A prominent figure in many rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time, int...
  
• Work Time
  Work Time
  
  Work Time is a 1956 jazz album by tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins for the Prestige Records label. The album cover pictured to the right looks much the same as the original LP, minus the purple border....
   - Sonny Rollins
• You Go to My Head
  You Go to My Head (album)
  
  You Go to My Head was a Patti Page LP album, issued by Mercury Records as catalog number MG-20098 in 1956 in music.The album was reissued, combined with the 1956 in music Patti Page album Manhattan Tower , in compact disc format, by Sepia Records on September 4, 2007....
   - Patti Page

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• "(Heigh, Ho) Addison Road
  Addison Road
  
  Addison Road is a Christian alternative pop music/rock music band from Dallas, Texas. The band was signed to INO Records in 2007 and released their self-titled debut album, Addison Road , on March 18, 2008....
  " - The Eisenhowers
• "Ain't Got No Home" - Clarence Frogman Henry
• "All the Way
  All the Way (song)
  
  "All the Way" is a 1950s popular music song which has since been covered by other artists....
  " - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• "I Walk the Line
  I Walk the Line
  
  "I Walk the Line" is a song written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. A I Walk the Line drama of the same name, starring Gregory Peck, featured a soundtrack of Johnny Cash songs including the title song....
  " - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• "Allegheny Moon
  Allegheny Moon
  
  Allegheny Moon is a popular music song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1956 in music.The song is best known in a 1956 in music recording by Patti Page....
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• "And This Is My Beloved
  And This Is My Beloved
  
  "And This Is My Beloved" is a popular music song.It was from the 1953 musical theater Kismet and is credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest ....
  " - Mario Lanza
  Mario Lanza
  
  Mario Lanza was an United States tenor and Hollywood film star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s.His lirico spinto Voice type was considered by his admirers to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film The Great Caruso....
  
• "Any Way You Want Me
  Any Way You Want Me
  
  Any Way You Want Me is the re-issue title of Fresh Water, the 1972 debut album by Australian rock and blues singer Alison McCallum....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Bambino" - Dalida
  Dalida
  
  Dalida was an Italy singer born and grown up in Egypt who lived most of her life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc....
  
• "Be-Bop-A-Lula
  Be-Bop-A-Lula
  
  "Be-Bop-A-Lula" is a rock 'n' roll song first recorded in 1956 by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps....
  " - Gene Vincent
  Gene Vincent
  
  Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, rockabilly....
   and His Blue Caps
• "Blue Suede Shoes
  Blue Suede Shoes
  
  "Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll Standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. The 12-bar blues is considered one of the first rock and roll records and incorporated elements of blues, country music and pop music of the time....
  " - Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  
• "Blueberry Hill
  Blueberry Hill (song)
  
  "Blueberry Hill" is a popular song published in 1940 in music. The music was written by Vincent Rose, the lyrics by Al Lewis and Larry Stock. It was recorded six times in 1940....
  " - Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
  
• "Can I Steal a Little Love" - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• "Che bambola" - Fred Buscaglione
  Fred Buscaglione
  
  Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione was an Italy singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona - the character he played both in his songs and his movies - was of a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women....
  (Italy
  Italy
  
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  )
• "Don't Be Cruel
  Don't Be Cruel
  
  "Don't Be Cruel" was originally the A side of RCA single 47-6604, with "Hound Dog " on the B-side, although both sides became chart-toppers, RCA reissuing the single in later decades as double A-side....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Don't Forbid Me
  Don't Forbid Me
  
  "Don't Forbid Me" is a popular music song by Charles Singleton, that was a #1 hit for Pat Boone in 1957. The song was also recorded by Elvis Presley....
  " - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Glad Rag Doll
  Glad Rag Doll
  
  Glad Rag Doll is a 1928 song composed by Milton Ager with lyrics by Jack Yellen and Dan Dougherty. It was Ager and Yellen?s first movie theme song, written for the motion picture of the same name starring Dolores Costello....
  " - Kay Starr
  Kay Starr
  
  Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  
• "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" - Patience and Prudence
  Patience and Prudence
  
  Patience and Prudence were two sibling who were a young singing act in the 1950s....
  
• "The Great Pretender
  The Great Pretender
  
  "The Great Pretender" is a popular song recorded by The Platters and released as a single on November 3, 1955. The words and music were created by Buck Ram, the Platters' manager and producer who was a successful songwriter before moving into producing and management....
  " - The Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  
• "The Green Door" - Jim Lowe
  Jim Lowe
  
  Jim Lowe and graduate of the University of Missouri?Columbia, sang "The Green Door", the chart-topper hit record of 1956 in the United States. A million seller and music recording sales certification recipient, "Green Door" was songwriter by Marvin Moore and Bob Davie ....
  
• "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "Happiness Street
  Happiness Street (Corner Sunshine Square)
  
  "Happiness Street " is a popular music song written by Edward White and Mack Wolfson and published in 1955 in music.The recording by Georgia Gibbs was released by Mercury Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 70920....
  " recorded by
• Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• Tony Bennett
  Tony Bennett
  
  Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  
• "Heartbreak Hotel
  Heartbreak Hotel
  
  "Heartbreak Hotel" is a rock and roll song performed by Elvis Presley, with Bill Black , Scotty Moore , D.J. Fontana , Floyd Cramer and Elvis on rhythm guitar as the main supporting musicians....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Hell Hath No Fury
  Hell Hath No Fury
  
  Hell Hath No Fury is the critically acclaimed second album of Virginia hip hop music duo Clipse, released on November 28, 2006 in Ireland and on December 7, 2006 in the U.S....
  " - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "Hey! Jealous Lover" - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• "Hound Dog
  Hound Dog (song)
  
  "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country music, and rock and roll in the mid 1950s....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• "I Almost Lost My Mind
  I Almost Lost My Mind
  
  "I Almost Lost My Mind" is a popular music song. It was written by Ivory Joe Hunter and was published in 1950 in music. Hunter's recording of the song was a #1 hit on the R&B charts in that year....
  " - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
  
  "I Got It Bad " is a popular music and jazz standard, by Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster....
  " - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "I Remember You
  I Remember You (1941 song)
  
  "I Remember You" is a popular music song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941 in music....
  " - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  
• "I Want to Be Loved" - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
  I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
  
  "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" is a popular song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff, and most famously performed by Elvis Presley....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "I Was the One" - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "I'll Be Home
  I'll Be Home
  
  "I'll Be Home" is a 1956 in music popular song that was a hit for singer Pat Boone. It was written by Ferdinand Washington and Stan Lewis and produced by Randy Wood....
  " - Pat Boone
  Pat Boone
  
  Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  
• "Innamorata
  Innamorata
  
  "Innamorata" is a song written in 1955 in music. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Jack Brooks .It was written for the 1955 in film Martin and Lewis film, Artists and Models....
  " - Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  
• "It's Almost Tomorrow
  It's Almost Tomorrow
  
  "It's Almost Tomorrow" is a 1955 popular music song with music by Gene Adkinson and lyrics by Wade Buff. The song was actually written in 1953, when Adkinson and Buff were in high school....
  " - The Dream Weavers
  The Dream Weavers
  
  The Dream Weavers was a popular music, vocal group, famous in the 1950s, formed at the University of Florida by Gene Adkinson and Wade Buff ....
  
• "I've Got You Under My Skin
  I've Got You Under My Skin
  
  "I've Got You Under My Skin" is a song by Cole Porter.I've Got You Under My Skin may also refer to:* I've Got You Under My Skin , a 1998 episode of the television series Charmed...
  " - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  
• "Ivory Tower
  Ivory Tower (1956 song)
  
  "Ivory Tower" is a popular music song written by Jack Fulton and Lois Steele. Popular versions by Cathy Carr and Gale Storm, and a rhythm & blues version by Otis Williams all received major popularity in 1956 in music....
  " - Cathy Carr
  Cathy Carr
  
  Cathy Carr was a popular music singer.She was born Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano in the New York, New York borough of The Bronx. As a child, she appeared on The Horn & Hardart Children's Hour, a television show locally aired in New York, sponsored by Horn & Hardart, a cafeteria chain which had locations in New York and Philadelphi...
  
• "Just Walkin' in the Rain
  Just Walkin' in the Rain
  
  "Just Walkin' in the Rain" is a popular song. It was written in 1952 by Johnny Bragg and Robert Riley, two prisoners at Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, Tennessee, after a comment made by Bragg as the pair crossed the courtyard while it was raining....
  " - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• "Lonesome Road" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "Long Tall Sally
  Long Tall Sally
  
  "Long Tall Sally" is a rock and roll 12-bar blues song written by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Enotris Johnson and Richard Penniman , recorded by Little Richard and released March 1956 on the Specialty Records label....
  " - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  
• "Lotus Blossom" - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• "Love Is a Golden Ring" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
   & The Easy Riders
  The Easy Riders (American band)
  
  The Easy Riders were a U.S. folk music band that operated from 1956 to 1959, consisting of Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller . Their career was guided by Mitch Miller, who had them under contract for Columbia Records....
  
• "Love Me Tender
  Love Me Tender (song)
  
  "Love Me Tender" is a song sung by Elvis Presley, to the tune of "Aura Lee" , a sentimental American Civil War ballad with music by George R. Poulton and words by W.W....
  " - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "(You've Got) The Magic Touch" - The Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  
• "Mama from the Train
  Mama from the Train
  
  "Mama From the Train" also known as Mama From the Train is a popular music song. written by Irving Gordon and published in 1956 in music....
  " - Patti Page
  Patti Page
  
  Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  
• "The Man That Got Away
  The Man that Got Away
  
  "The Man that Got Away" is a popular music song, published in 1953 in music and was written for the 1954 in film version of the movie A Star Is Born . The music was written by Harold Arlen, and the lyrics by Ira Gershwin....
  " - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "Memories Are Made Of This
  Memories Are Made of This
  
  "Memories Are Made of This" is a popular music song written by Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, and Frank Miller in 1955 in music.History...
  " - Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  
• "My Blue Heaven
  My Blue Heaven (song)
  
  "My Blue Heaven" is a popular music song. The music was written by Walter Donaldson, the lyrics by George Whiting.The song was published in 1927 in music and became a huge 1928 hit for crooner Gene Austin, when its was charted for 26 weeks, stayed at #1 for 13, and sold over five million copies....
  " - Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
  
• "My Prayer
  My Prayer
  
  "My Prayer" is a 1939 popular music song with music by the famous salon violinist Georges Boulanger and lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy. It was originally written by Boulanger with the title "Avant de Mourir" in 1926 in music....
  " - The Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  
• "No, Not Much
  No, Not Much
  
  "No, Not Much" is a popular music song published in 1955 in music. The music was written by Robert Allen , the lyrics by Jimmy Arnold not Al Stillman....
  " - The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  
  The Four Lads is a Canada male singing quartet. They grew up together in Toronto, Ontario, and were members of St. Michael's Choir School, where they learned to sing....
  
• "On the Road to Mandalay" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "On the Street Where You Live
  On the Street Where You Live
  
  "On the Street Where You Live" is a song from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady . The song later garnered great popularity as a single release....
  " - Vic Damone
  Vic Damone
  
  Vic Damone is an United States singer and entertainer....
  
• "Picnic" - The McGuire Sisters
  The McGuire Sisters
  
  The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in United States popular music. The group was composed of three sisters; Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire ....
  
• "Rock Right" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "Roll Over Beethoven
  Roll Over Beethoven
  
  "Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 hit single by Chuck Berry originally released on Chess Records, with "Drifting Heart" as the b-side. The lyrics of the song mention rock and roll and the desire for rhythm and blues to replace classical music....
  " - Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "See You Later Alligator
  See You Later Alligator
  
  "See You Later, Alligator" is the title of an iconic rock and roll song of the 1950s.Originally entitled "Later Alligator," the song, based on a 12-bar blues chord structure , was written by Louisiana songwriter Robert Charles Guidry and first recorded by him under his professional name "Bobby Charles" in 1955....
  " - Bill Haley and His Comets
• "Shake a Hand" - Johnnie Ray
  Johnnie Ray
  
  John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
  
• "Singing the Blues
  Singing the Blues
  
  "Singing the Blues" is a popular music song. It was written by Melvin Endsley and was published in 1956 in music.The best-known recording of the song, released in October 1956 by Guy Mitchell, spent 9 weeks at #1 on the Billboard magazine chart from December 8, 1956 in music - February 2, 1957 in music, despite competition from rival versio...
  " - Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  
  Guy Mitchell was a List of Croatian Americans popular music singer, was successful in his homeland as well in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
• "Standing on the Corner
  Standing on the Corner (show tune)
  
  "Standing on the Corner" is a popular music song written by Jimmy Arnold and Frank Loesser and published in 1956 in music. It was introduced by Shorty Long, Alan Gilbert, John Henson, and Roy Lazarus in the Broadway theatre musical theater, The Most Happy Fella....
  " - The Four Lads
  The Four Lads
  
  The Four Lads is a Canada male singing quartet. They grew up together in Toronto, Ontario, and were members of St. Michael's Choir School, where they learned to sing....
  
• "Suddenly There's a Valley
  Suddenly There's a Valley
  
  "Suddenly There's a Valley" is a popular music song.It was written by Chuck Meyer and Biff Jones and published in 1956 in music.The song was a major hit for Gogi Grant in 1955 in music....
  " - Gogi Grant
  Gogi Grant
  
  Gogi Grant is an United States of America popular music singer....
  
• "Sweet Old Fashioned Girl" - Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  
  Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
  
• "A Tear Fell
  A Tear Fell
  
  "A Tear Fell" is a popular music song. It was written by Eugene Randolph and Dorian Burton and released in 1956 in music.The best-known version of the song was recorded by Teresa Brewer the same year, peaking at #2 in the British charts....
  " - Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  
  Teresa Brewer was an United States pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle at the age of 76....
  
• "Tonight You Belong to Me
  Tonight You Belong to Me (song)
  
  "Tonight You Belong to Me" is a American popular music, written in 1926 by lyricist Billy Rose and music writer Lee David. It was recorded in 1927 in music by Gene Austin, although the first ever recording was by Irving Kaufman in 1926 in music on Banner Records....
  " - Patience and Prudence
  Patience and Prudence
  
  Patience and Prudence were two sibling who were a young singing act in the 1950s....
  
• "Tra La La" - Georgia Gibbs
  Georgia Gibbs
  
  Georgia Gibbs was an American singer, most pop music in the 1950s....
  
• "Tutti-Frutti
  Tutti Frutti (song)
  
  "Tutti Frutti" is a song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record in 1955. With its opening cry of "Womp-bomp-a-loom-op-a-womp-bam-boom!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the models for rock and roll itself....
  " - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  
• "Walk Hand in Hand
  Walk Hand in Hand
  
  "Walk Hand in Hand" is a popular music song by Johnny Cowell, published in 1956 in music.The biggest-selling version recorded of the song was sung by Tony Martin , reaching #10 on the United States Billboard charts in 1956 in music....
  " - Tony Martin
  Tony Martin (entertainer)
  
  Tony Martin is an United States actor and traditional pop music singer....
  
• "The Wayward Wind
  The Wayward Wind
  
  "The Wayward Wind" is a country music song written by Stan Lebowsky and Herb Newman.In 1956 in music versions were recorded by Gogi Grant, Tex Ritter, and Jimmy Young , of which Grant's was the biggest seller in the United States and Ritter's in the United Kingdom....
  " - Gogi Grant
  Gogi Grant
  
  Gogi Grant is an United States of America popular music singer....
  
• "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)
  Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Qué Será, Será)
  
  "Que Sera, Sera " first published in 1956, is a popular music song which was written by the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans songwriting team.The song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much , with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles....
  " - Doris Day
  Doris Day
  
  Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  
• "Why Do Fools Fall in Love
  Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)
  
  Why Do Fools Fall in Love is a song that was originally a hit for early New York City-based rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers in 1956 in music....
  " - The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon
  Frankie Lymon
  
  Franklin Joseph "Frankie" Lymon was an African-American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll musical group called The Teenagers....
  
• "Without Him" - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
  
• "You Don't Know Me
  You Don't Know Me
  
  "You Don't Know Me" is a song written by Cindy Walker and Eddy Arnold in 1955 in music and recorded by Arnold that year. The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at #14 on the pop chart....
  " - Jerry Vale
  Jerry Vale
  
  Jerry Vale is an United States singer....
  

Top R&B and Country hits on record

• "Blue Suede Shoes
  Blue Suede Shoes
  
  "Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll Standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. The 12-bar blues is considered one of the first rock and roll records and incorporated elements of blues, country music and pop music of the time....
  " - Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
  
• "In the Still of the Night" - Five Satins
• "I've Loved And Lost Again" - Patsy Cline
  Patsy Cline
  
  Patsy Cline was an United States country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s....
  
• "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  
  "Jambalaya " is a song credited to United States country music singer Hank Williams that was first released in 1952. Named for a Louisiana Creole cuisine and Cajun cuisine, jambalaya, it spawned numerous cover versions and has since achieved popularity in a number of music genres....
  " - Brenda Lee
  Brenda Lee
  
  Brenda Lee is an United States country music-pop music singer popular during the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s she had more US charted hits than any other female and only three male singers or groups ....
  
• "My Pink Cadillac" - Hal Willis
  Hal Willis
  
  Hal Willis is a Canada country singer, living in Nashville Tennessee USA. He was born Leonald Gauthier in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec on July 15, 1933....
  
• "Ooby Dooby" - Roy Orbison
  Roy Orbison
  
  Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
  
• "I Walk the Line
  I Walk the Line
  
  "I Walk the Line" is a song written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. A I Walk the Line drama of the same name, starring Gregory Peck, featured a soundtrack of Johnny Cash songs including the title song....
  " - Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  

Published popular music

• "11th Hour Melody"     w. Carl Sigman
  Carl Sigman
  
  Carl Sigman was a major United States songwriter....
   m. King Palmer
• "Abbondanza"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "After The Lights Go Down Low
  After the Lights Go Down Low (song)
  
  "After The Lights Go Down Low" is a popular music song songwriter by Phil Belmonte, Allen White and Leroy C. Lovett and Music publisher in 1956 in music....
  "     w.m. Alan White & Leroy Lovett
• "Ain't Got No Home"     w.m. Clarence Henry
• "Allegheny Moon
  Allegheny Moon
  
  Allegheny Moon is a popular music song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1956 in music.The song is best known in a 1956 in music recording by Patti Page....
  "     w.m. Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today....
   & Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born United States songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.Mr. Manning co-wrote many popular songs, among them "Takes Two to Tango," "Fascination" and "Papa Loves Mambo." His works were published in 27 languages and sung by such artists as Perry Como, Jimmy Durante, Kate Smith and other...
  
• "Anastasia"     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   m. Alfred Newman
  Alfred Newman
  
  Alfred Newman was a major United States composer of music for films.He received 45 Academy Awards nominations, making him the second most nominated composer-arranger in the history of the Academy Awards, behind John Williams ....
  
• "Anyway You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)"     w.m. Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
   & Cliff Owens
• "Around the World
  Around the World (1956 song)
  
  "Around the World" was the theme tune from the 1956 in film Film Around the World in Eighty Days .It never actually featured with the lyrics in the Around the World in Eighty Days film , but it is the vocal version which has by far become the better known....
  "     w. Harold Adamson
  Harold Adamson
  
  For the Toronto Police Chief see Harold Adamson Harold Adamson was an United States lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s....
   m. Victor Young
  Victor Young
  
  Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
  
• "The Banana Boat Song"     trad arr. Alan Arkin
  Alan Arkin
  
  Alan Wolf Arkin is an American Academy Award-winning actor, Film director, and musician. He is best-known for starring in such films as: Catch-22 ; The In-Laws ; Edward Scissorhands; The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming; Glengarry Glen Ross ; and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award fo...
  , Bob Carey & Erik Darling
• "Be-Bop-A-Lula
  Be-Bop-A-Lula
  
  "Be-Bop-A-Lula" is a rock 'n' roll song first recorded in 1956 by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps....
  "     w.m. Tex Davis & Gene Vincent
  Gene Vincent
  
  Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and, especially, rockabilly....
  
• "Bells Are Ringing"     w. Betty Comden
  Betty Comden
  
  Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
   & Adolph Green
  Adolph Green
  
  Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  
• "The Best of All Possible Worlds"     w. Richard Wilbur m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "Big D
  Big D (song)
  
  "Big D" is a song about Dallas, Texas written by Frank Loesser in 1956 in music for the musical theater The Most Happy Fella. It repeatedly spells out the name of Dallas with the refrain: Big D, little A, double L, A, S....
  "     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "The Birds And The Bees
  (The Same Thing Happens With) The Birds and the Bees
  
  " The Birds and the Bees" is a popular music song, written by Harry Warren and Mack David and published in 1956 in music. It was written for the musical film, The Birds and the Bees and has been recorded by a number of singers, including Barbara Lyon....
  "     Mack David
  Mack David
  
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
  , Harry Warren
  Harry Warren
  
  Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
  
• "Bloodnock's Rock And Roll Call"     T. Carbone
• "Bluebottle Blues"     Spike Milligan
  Spike Milligan
  
  Terence Alan Patrick Se?n Milligan KBE , known as Spike Milligan, was an England-Ireland comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright....
  , Carbone
• "Bo Weevil"     w.m. Dave Bartholomew & Antoine "Fats" Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
  
• "Boppin' The Blues"     w.m. Carl Perkins
  Carl Perkins
  
  Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
   & Howard Griffin
• "Born To Be With You
  Born to Be with You (song)
  
  "Born to Be with You" is a popular music song written by Don Robertson . It was published in 1956 in music.The biggest hit version was by The Chordettes in 1956 in music. Sonny James revived the song as a Number one country hit in the 1960s....
  "     w.m. Don Robertson
• "Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  Brown Eyed Handsome Man
  
  "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" is a rock and roll song by Chuck Berry, which was originally released in 1956 as the B side to "Too Much Monkey Business"....
  "     Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "The Bus Stop Song
  The Bus Stop Song
  
  "The Bus Stop Song" is a popular music song. The title references the Bus Stop in which it was introduced.It was written by Ken Darby in 1956 in music....
  " (aka "A Paper Of Pins")     w.m. Ken Darby
• "Can I Steal A Little Love"     w.m. Phil Tuminello
• "Canadian Sunset
  Canadian Sunset
  
  "Canadian Sunset" is a popular song. An instrumental version by Hugo Winterhalter and the writer Eddie Heywood reached #2 on the Billboard magazine chart in 1956 in music....
  "     w. Norman Gimbel
  Norman Gimbel
  
  Norman Gimbel is an United States lyricist of pop songs and movie themes whose nearly-sixty-year career includes such titles as "Sway ", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Meditation " and "I Will Wait for You", along with Academy Award and Grammy Award wins....
   m. Eddie Heywood
  Eddie Heywood
  
  Eddie Heywood was a jazz pianist who became very popular in the 1940s. His father, Eddie Heyward, Sr. was also a jazz musician from the 1920s. Heywood, Jr....
  
• "Chain Gang
  Chain Gang (song)
  
  "Chain Gang" is the name of a song written and recorded by Sam Cooke. When released as a single in 1960 in music, the song performed very well, reaching #2 in the United States Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, and #9 in the United Kingdom....
  "     w.m. Sol Quasha & Herb Yakus
• "Cindy, Oh Cindy
  Cindy, Oh Cindy
  
  "Cindy, Oh Cindy" is a song written by Robert V. Barron and Burt Long.The song was originally recorded in 1956 in music by Vince Martin and The Tarriers, and quickly cover version by Eddie Fisher ....
  "     w.m. Bob Barron
  Robert V. Barron
  
  Robert V. Barron was an American actor best known as the supervising director and the voice of Admiral Donald Hayes in Robotech . He is also known for playing the role of Abraham Lincoln in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure in 1989....
   & Burt Long
• "Don't Be Cruel
  Don't Be Cruel
  
  "Don't Be Cruel" was originally the A side of RCA single 47-6604, with "Hound Dog " on the B-side, although both sides became chart-toppers, RCA reissuing the single in later decades as double A-side....
  "     w.m. Otis Blackwell
  Otis Blackwell
  
  Otis Blackwell was an United States songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced Rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever ", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender " , and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man"....
   & Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Don't Forbid Me
  Don't Forbid Me
  
  "Don't Forbid Me" is a popular music song by Charles Singleton, that was a #1 hit for Pat Boone in 1957. The song was also recorded by Elvis Presley....
  "     w.m. Charles Singleton
• "Eddie My Love
  Eddie My Love
  
  "Eddie My Love" is a 1956 in music doo wop song which was written by Aaron Collins.Collins wrote the song for his sisters, Betty and Rosie, members of the group The Teen Queens....
  "     A. Collins, M. Davis, S. Ling
• "Fever
  Fever (1956 song)
  
  "Fever" is a song credited to Eddie Cooley and "John Davenport" . The song was a rhythm and blues hit for Little Willie John that crossed over and became a pop standard after being transformed, with additional lyrics, by Peggy Lee....
  "     w.m. Eddie Cooley & John Davenport
  Otis Blackwell
  
  Otis Blackwell was an United States songwriter, singer, and pianist whose work significantly influenced Rock and roll. His compositions include Little Willie John's "Fever ", Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" and "Breathless", Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel", "All Shook Up" and "Return to Sender " , and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man"....
  
• "Flying Saucer
  Flying saucer
  
  Flying saucer is the name given to a type of unidentified flying object with a disc- or saucer-shaped body, usually described as silver or metallic, occasionally reported as covered with running lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly either alone or in tight formations with other similar craft, and exhibiting...
  "     w. Bill Buchanan & Dickie Goodman
  Dickie Goodman
  
  Dickie Goodman is considered one of the earliest proponents of sampling in music, through a series of "break-in" records he created from 1956 to 1986....
  
• "Fools Fall In Love"     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Friendly Persuasion
  Friendly Persuasion (song)
  
  "Friendly Persuasion" is a popular music song with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. It was published in 1956 in music and appeared in the 1956 Friendly Persuasion ....
  "     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Tiomkin
  
  Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
  
• "The Garden of Eden
  The Garden of Eden (1956 song)
  
  "The Garden of Eden" is a 1956 in music song, the words and music of which were written by Dennise Haas Norwood.One of the most popular versions was recorded by the singer Frankie Vaughan, and gave him his first #1 hit in the United Kingdom in early 1957 in music....
  "     w.m. Dennise Haas Norwood
• "Get Me to the Church on Time
  Get Me to the Church on Time
  
  "Get Me to the Church on Time" is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Stanley Holloway
  Stanley Holloway
  
  Stanley Augustus Holloway was an England actor and entertainer famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
   and also performed by Holloway in the 1964
  1964 in music
  
  Events*January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.*January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show....
   film.
• "Glendora
  Glendora (song)
  
  "Glendora" is a popular music song written by Ray Stanley and published in 1956 in music. It was recorded on May 8, 1956 by Perry Como. It was released by RCA Victor in the United States and by RCA in France ; it was released in the United Kingdom by HMV ....
  "     w.m. Ray Stanley
• "Glitter and Be Gay
  Glitter and Be Gay
  
  Glitter and Be Gay is an aria from the operetta Candide , sung by the character of Cunegonde. It was written by Leonard Bernstein and Richard Wilbur....
  "     w. Richard Wilbut m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "The Gnu
  The Gnu
  
  "The Gnu" is a humorous song about a talking wildebeest by Flanders and Swann.The song plays on silent letters in words such as "gnu", "know" and "who", and adds initial Voiced velar plosives to various other words....
  "     Michael Flanders
  Michael Flanders
  
  Michael Henry Flanders Order of the British Empire, was an England actor, Broadcast journalism, and writer and performer of Novelty song. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the double act Flanders and Swann....
   & Donald Swann
  Donald Swann
  
  Donald Ibrah?m Swann was a United Kingdom composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing Novelty song with Michael Flanders ....
  
• "Good Golly, Miss Molly
  Good Golly, Miss Molly
  
  "Good Golly Miss Molly" is a hit rock 'n' roll song first recorded in 1956 by the American musician Little Richard. The song, a 12-bar blues, was written by John Marascalco and producer Robert Blackwell....
  "     w.m. John Marascalco & Robert Blackwell
• "Goodnight My Love
  Goodnight My Love (1956 song)
  
  "Goodnight My Love" is a popular music song written by John Marascalco and George Motola in 1956 in music.It has been recorded by many singers....
  "     G. Motola, J. Marascalco
• "The Green Door"     w. Marvin Moore m. Bob Davie
  Bob Davie (songwriter)
  
  Bob Davie is an orchestra leader, piano, and composer of popular music.He composed the song "The Green Door," and led the orchestra which backed Jim Lowe on the best-selling version of the song in 1956 in music....
  
• "Happy To Make Your Acquaintance"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "The Happy Whistler"     m. Don Robertson
• "Heartbreak Hotel
  Heartbreak Hotel
  
  "Heartbreak Hotel" is a rock and roll song performed by Elvis Presley, with Bill Black , Scotty Moore , D.J. Fontana , Floyd Cramer and Elvis on rhythm guitar as the main supporting musicians....
  "     w.m. Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden & Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• "Hey! Jealous Lover"     w.m. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
  , Kay Twomey & Bee Walker
• "High Society Calypso"     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  
• "The Hippopotamus
  The Hippopotamus
  
  The Hippopotamus is a novel by Stephen Fry, first published in 1994....
  "     Michael Flanders
  Michael Flanders
  
  Michael Henry Flanders Order of the British Empire, was an England actor, Broadcast journalism, and writer and performer of Novelty song. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the double act Flanders and Swann....
   & Donald Swann
  Donald Swann
  
  Donald Ibrah?m Swann was a United Kingdom composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing Novelty song with Michael Flanders ....
  
• "Honky Tonk
  Honky tonk
  
  A honky tonk is a type of bar with musical entertainment that is common in the Southwestern United States and Southern United States United States....
  "     w. Henry Glover m. Bill Doggett
  Bill Doggett
  
  William Ballard Doggett was an United States jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother, a church pianist, introduced him to music when he was 9 years old....
  , Billy Butler, Shep Shephard
  Shep Shephard
  
  Berisford "Shep" Shepherd is an American jazz musician.Shepherd's parents were from the West Indies. His father took a job working on the Panama Canal and sent his pregnant wife to Philadelphia; Shep Shepherd was born en route, in Honduras, and despite his Caribbean background grew up in a largely Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia....
   & Clifford Scott
• "Hot Diggity
  Hot Diggity
  
  "Hot Diggity " is an American popular music song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning. Published in 1956 in music, it was recorded by Perry Como and went to #1 on the Billboard pop music chart later that year....
  "     w. m.(adapt) Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today....
   & Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born United States songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.Mr. Manning co-wrote many popular songs, among them "Takes Two to Tango," "Fascination" and "Papa Loves Mambo." His works were published in 27 languages and sung by such artists as Perry Como, Jimmy Durante, Kate Smith and other...
  
• "A House With Love In It
  A House with Love in It
  
  "A House with Love in It" is a popular music song composed by Sid Lippman with lyrics by Sylvia Dee. The song was published in 1956 in music.The recording by The Four Lads was released by Columbia Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 40736....
  "     w. Sylvia Dee m. Sid Lippman
• "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know(1)"     w. Carolyn Leigh m. Philip Springer
• "I Could Have Danced All Night
  I Could Have Danced All Night
  
  "I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the Musical theatre My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, published in 1956 in music....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  . Performed in the 1964
  1964 in music
  
  Events*January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.*January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show....
   film by Marni Nixon
  Marni Nixon
  
  Marni Nixon is an American soprano whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in well known movie musicals earned her the sobriquet "The Ghostess with the Mostess", and also "The Voice of Hollywood"....
   dubbing for Audrey Hepburn
  Audrey Hepburn
  
  Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
  .
• "I Dreamed
  I Dreamed
  
  "I Dreamed" is a popular music song with music by Charles Randolph Grean and lyrics by Marvin Moore. It was published in 1956 in music.The biggest hit version was done by Betty Johnson in 1956 in music....
  "      w. Marvin Moore m. Charles Grean
  Charles Randolph Grean
  
  Charles Randolph Grean was a producer and composer. His first work was as a copyist in several big bands, including Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, and Charlie Spivak....
  
• "I Love You, Samantha
  I Love You, Samantha
  
  "I Love You, Samantha" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby.In the United Kingdom, an instrumental version of the song recorded by the Pete Moore Orchestra has been used as a theme tune by BBC Radio 2 presenter David Jacobs for many years....
  "     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
   Introduced by Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
   in the film High Society.
• "I Walk the Line
  I Walk the Line
  
  "I Walk the Line" is a song written by Johnny Cash and recorded in 1956. A I Walk the Line drama of the same name, starring Gregory Peck, featured a soundtrack of Johnny Cash songs including the title song....
  "     w.m. Johnny Cash
  Johnny Cash
  
  Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
  
• "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
  I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
  
  "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" is a popular song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff, and most famously performed by Elvis Presley....
  "     w. George Mysels m. Ira Kosloff
• "I Was The One"     w.m. Claude Demetrius
  Claude Demetrius
  
  Claude Demetrius was an African American songwriter.two decades, Claude Demetrius made a reasonably good living but in 1956 his income would change dramatically after he began writing for Gladys Music, Inc.....
  , Bill Peppers, Hal Blair, Aaron Schroeder
  Aaron Schroeder
  
  Aaron Schroeder born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. USA...
  
• "If I Had My Druthers"     w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
   m. Gene De Paul
• "I'm An Ordinary Man"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe Introduced by Rex Harrison
  Rex Harrison
  
  Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  
• "I'm Walkin"'     w.m. Antoine "Fats" Domino & Dave Bartholomew
• "I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas"     Spike Milligan
  Spike Milligan
  
  Terence Alan Patrick Se?n Milligan KBE , known as Spike Milligan, was an England-Ireland comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright....
  , T. Carbone
• "In the Still of the Nite"     w.m. Fred Parris
• "It Only Hurts For A Little While
  It Only Hurts for a Little While
  
  "It Only Hurts for a Little While" is a 1956 popular music song with music by Fred Spielman and lyrics by Mack David.The recording by The Ames Brothers was released by RCA Victor Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 20-6481....
  "     w. Mack David
  Mack David
  
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television in the 1960s, particularly his work on the Walt Disney Pictures films Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland ....
   m. Fred Spielman
• "It's Not For Me To Say
  It's Not for Me to Say
  
  "It's Not for Me to Say" is a 1957 popular music song with music by Robert Allen and lyrics by Al Stillman. It was written for the 1957 in film Film Lizzie starring Eleanor Parker....
  "     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
  I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
  
  "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" is a song from the 1956 in music musical theatre My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Rex Harrison
  Rex Harrison
  
  Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  .
• "Ivory Tower
  Ivory Tower (1956 song)
  
  "Ivory Tower" is a popular music song written by Jack Fulton and Lois Steele. Popular versions by Cathy Carr and Gale Storm, and a rhythm & blues version by Otis Williams all received major popularity in 1956 in music....
  "     w.m. Jack Fulton & Lois Steele
• "Joey, Joey, Joey"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "Jubilation T. Cornpone"     w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
   m. Gene De Paul. Introduced by Stubby Kaye
  Stubby Kaye
  
  Stubby Kaye was an United States comic actor. He was born Bernard Kotzin in New York City on West 114th Street in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan to first generation Jewish-Americans originally from Russia and Austria....
   in the musical Li'l Abner
  Li'l Abner (musical)
  
  Li'l Abner is a musical theater with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad parody of hillbilly but is also a pointed satire taking on any number of topics, ranging from an incompetent United Sta...
  .
• "Juke Box Baby"     w. Noel Sherman m. Joe Sherman
• "Just In Time
  Just in Time (song)
  
  "Just in Time" is a popular music song with the melody written by Jule Styne and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The song was published in 1956 in music....
  "     w. Betty Comden
  Betty Comden
  
  Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
   & Adolph Green
  Adolph Green
  
  Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  . Introduced by Judy Holliday
  Judy Holliday
  
  File:Judy Holliday.jpgJudy Holliday was an United States Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning actress....
   and Sydney Chaplin
  Sydney Chaplin
  
  Sydney Chaplin , born as Sidney John Hill, was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Earle Chaplin , who was named after him....
   in the musical Bells Are Ringing
  Bells Are Ringing (musical)
  
  Bells Are Ringing is a musical theater with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there....
  
• "Knee Deep In The Blues"     w.m. Melvin Endsley
• "Lay Down Your Arms"     w.(Eng) Paddy Roberts
  Paddy Roberts (songwriter)
  
  John Godfrey Owen Roberts was a popular songwriter and singer, having previously been a lawyer and a Aviator .Roberts enjoyed success with a number of songs in the 1950s and 1960s and wrote songs for several films....
   (Swed) Ake Gerhard m. Ake Gerhard & Leon Land
• "Let The Good Times Roll
  Let the Good Times Roll
  
  Let the Good Times Roll may refer to:*Let the Good Times Roll *Let the Good Times Roll *Let the Good Times Roll , a 1999 album by B.B. King...
  "     w.m. Leonard Lee
• "Long Before I Knew You"     w. Betty Comden
  Betty Comden
  
  Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
   & Adolph Green
  Adolph Green
  
  Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  . Introduced by Judy Holliday
  Judy Holliday
  
  File:Judy Holliday.jpgJudy Holliday was an United States Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning actress....
   and Sydney Chaplin
  Sydney Chaplin
  
  Sydney Chaplin , born as Sidney John Hill, was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Earle Chaplin , who was named after him....
   in the musical Bells Are Ringing
  Bells Are Ringing (musical)
  
  Bells Are Ringing is a musical theater with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there....
  
• "Long Tall Sally
  Long Tall Sally
  
  "Long Tall Sally" is a rock and roll 12-bar blues song written by Robert "Bumps" Blackwell, Enotris Johnson and Richard Penniman , recorded by Little Richard and released March 1956 on the Specialty Records label....
  "     w.m. Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman & Robert A. Blackwell
• "Look Homeward Angel"     w.m. Wally Gold
• "Love Me Tender
  Love Me Tender (song)
  
  "Love Me Tender" is a song sung by Elvis Presley, to the tune of "Aura Lee" , a sentimental American Civil War ballad with music by George R. Poulton and words by W.W....
  "     w. Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
   & Vera Matson m. George R. Poulton
• "Love Me
  Love Me (Leiber/Stoller song)
  
  "Love Me" is sentimental song composed by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and popularized by Elvis Presley in 1956. Conceived as a parody of a country western music, it was initially interpreted by R&B duo Willy and Ruth in 1954 , then by Georgia Gibbs the same year....
  "     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "Lucky Lips
  Lucky Lips
  
  Lucky Lips is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Ruth Brown in 1957, and in 1963 by Cliff Richard, whose german version "Rote Lippen soll man k?ssen" was a #1 hit in West Germany....
  "     w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
• "The Magic Touch"     w.m. Buck Ram
  Buck Ram
  
  Buck Ram was an United States songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.He was born Samuel Ram to Jewish parents. It has been written that the history of rock and roll could not be written without Buck Ram's contributions....
  
• "Mama From The Train
  Mama from the Train
  
  "Mama From the Train" also known as Mama From the Train is a popular music song. written by Irving Gordon and published in 1956 in music....
  "     w.m. Irving Gordon
• "Mama, Teach Me To Dance
  Mama, Teach Me to Dance
  
  The song is best known in a 1956 recording by Eydie Gorm?....
  "     w.m. Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriter's Hall Of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for many number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today....
   & Dick Manning
  Dick Manning
  
  Dick Manning was a Russian-born United States songwriter, best known for his many collaborations with Al Hoffman.Mr. Manning co-wrote many popular songs, among them "Takes Two to Tango," "Fascination" and "Papa Loves Mambo." His works were published in 27 languages and sung by such artists as Perry Como, Jimmy Durante, Kate Smith and other...
  
• "Mangos
  Mangos (song)
  
  "Mangos" is a 1956 in music popular music song written by Sid Wayne and Dee Libbey.It was recorded by Rosemary Clooney, and is a follow-on to her earlier hit "Come On-a My House" in style and subject matter....
  "     w.m. Sid Wayne
  Sid Wayne
  
  Sid Wayne was a song writer, lyricist and composer who wrote a number of well-known songs in the 1950's-'80's. He worked closely with Ben Weisman and Dolores Fuller....
   & Dee Libbey
• "Maria
  Maria (1956 song)
  
  "Maria" is a song from the Broadway theater musical play West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The song was published in 1956 in music....
  "     w. Stephen Sondheim
  Stephen Sondheim
  
  Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for theatre and film, winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards and the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize....
   m. Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  
• "Marianne"     w.m. Terry Gilkyson
  Terry Gilkyson
  
  Hamilton H. "Terry" Gilkyson III was a singer, composer, and lyrics....
  , Frank Miller
  Frank Miller (singer)
  
  Frank Miller is a singer and songwriter. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.With Terry Gilkyson and Richard Dehr, he wrote the song "Marianne ." As a group called The Easy Riders , Dehr and Miller accompanied Gilkyson on the best-selling recording of the song in 1956 in music....
   & Richard Dehr
• "Married I Can Always Get"     w.m. Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Jenkins
  
  Gordon Hill Jenkins was an United States arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements....
  
• "Mary's Boy Child
  Mary's Boy Child
  
  "Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 in music Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston.It was first recorded by Harry Belafonte in 1956, for his album An Evening With Belafonte ....
  "     w.m. Jester Hairston
• "Mind If I Make Love to You?
  Mind if I Make Love to You?
  
  "Mind if I Make Love to You?" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was sung by Frank Sinatra to Grace Kelly....
  " w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  . Introduced by Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
   in the film High Society
• "The Money Tree"     w. Cliff Ferre m. Mark McIntyre
• "Moonlight Gambler"     w. Bob Hilliard
  Bob Hilliard
  
  Bob Hilliard was an United States lyricist, born in New York City....
   m. Philip Springer
• "More
  More (1956 song)
  
  The best known version of the song was recorded by Perry Como on May 8, 1956. It was issued as a single and reached #4 on the United States charts and #10 on the United Kingdom charts....
  "     w. Tom Glazer m. Alex Alstone
• "The Most Happy Fella
  The Most Happy Fella
  
  The Most Happy Fella is a musical theater with music, lyrics and book by Frank Loesser. The story is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard....
  "     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "Mutual Admiration Society
  Mutual Admiration Society (song)
  
  "Mutual Admiration Society" is a popular music song published in 1956 in music.The song's music was written by Harold Karr, the lyrics by Matt Dubey....
  "     w. Matt Dubey m. Harold Karr. Introduced by Ethel Merman
  Ethel Merman
  
  Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
   and Virginia Gibson
  Virginia Gibson
  
  Virginia Gibson is a film and stage singer, dancer, and vocalist....
   in the musical Happy Hunting
  Happy Hunting
  
  Happy Hunting is a musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey, and music by Harold Karr. It opened on Broadway theatre at the Majestic Theatre on December 6, 1956 and closed on November 30, 1957 after playing 412 performances....
  
• "My Heart Is So Full Of You"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "My Lucky Charm
  My Lucky Charm
  
  My Lucky Charm ???? is a 25 episode China drama shown on MediaCorp TV Channel 8 in Singapore and was telecast in January 2005. The show stars Huang Biren, Chew Chor Meng, Chen Hanwei, Jeanette Aw, Michelle Chong, Cavin Soh, Jesseca Liu and Allan Wu....
  "     Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   & Nicholas Brodszky
• "Namely You"     w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
   m. Gene De Paul
• "Now You Has Jazz
  Now You Has Jazz
  
  "Now You Has Jazz" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong....
  "     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  . Introduced by Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
   and Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
   in the film High Society.
• "Oh What A Nite"     w.m. Marvin Junior & John Funches
• "On The Street Where You Live
  On the Street Where You Live
  
  "On the Street Where You Live" is a song from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady . The song later garnered great popularity as a single release....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Michael King
  Michael King
  
  Michael King, Order of the British Empire was a widely respected New Zealand popular historian, author and biographer....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  .
• "Our Language Of Love"     w.m. Monte Norman, David Heneker, Julian More, Alexander Breffort & Marguerite Monnot
  Marguerite Monnot
  
  Marguerite Monnot was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by ?dith Piaf and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce ....
  
• "Pardners" w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   m. Jimmy Van Heusen. Introduced by Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
   and Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
   in the film
  Pardners
  
  Pardners is a movie starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and was released on July 25, 1956 by Paramount Pictures....
   of the same name
• "The Party's Over
  The Party's Over (1956 song)
  
  "The Party's Over" is a popular music song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It was introduced in the 1956 musical comedy Bells Are Ringing by Judy Holliday....
  "     w. Betty Comden
  Betty Comden
  
  Betty Comden , was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, librettos, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful musical films and Broadway theatre shows of the mid-20th century....
   & Adolph Green
  Adolph Green
  
  Adolph Green was an United States lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, during the genre's heyday....
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  
  Jule Styne was a United Kingdom-born United States songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway theatre musical theatre, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows....
  . Introduced by Judy Holliday
  Judy Holliday
  
  File:Judy Holliday.jpgJudy Holliday was an United States Academy Awards- and Tony Award-winning actress....
   in the musical Bells Are Ringing
  Bells Are Ringing (musical)
  
  Bells Are Ringing is a musical theater with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there....
  .
• "The Portuguese Washerwomen" (Original title "Las Lavanderas De Portugal")     m. André Popp & Roger Lucchesi
• "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)
  Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Qué Será, Será)
  
  "Que Sera, Sera " first published in 1956, is a popular music song which was written by the Jay Livingston and Ray Evans songwriting team.The song was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film, The Man Who Knew Too Much , with Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles....
  "     w.m. Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  
  Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
   & Ray Evans
• "The Rain in Spain
  The Rain in Spain
  
  "The Rain in Spain" is a song from the musical theatre My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The song was published in 1956 in music....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
  , Rex Harrison
  Rex Harrison
  
  Sir Reginald ?Rex? Carey Harrison was an England actor of theatre and film, who won both an Academy Award and Tony Award....
   and Robert Coote
  Robert Coote
  
  Robert Coote was an England actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  .
• "Rock With The Caveman"     Steele, Pratt, Lionel Bart
  Lionel Bart
  
  Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
  , Frank Chacksfield
  Frank Chacksfield
  
  Frank Chacksfield was a popular English people conductor in the easy listening style. From the 1950s onwards, Chacksfield was one of Britain's most famous orchestra band leader, and his fame spread around the world....
  
• "Roll Over Beethoven
  Roll Over Beethoven
  
  "Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 hit single by Chuck Berry originally released on Chess Records, with "Drifting Heart" as the b-side. The lyrics of the song mention rock and roll and the desire for rhythm and blues to replace classical music....
  " - w.m. Chuck Berry
  Chuck Berry
  
  Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....
  
• "A Rose and a Baby Ruth
  A Rose and a Baby Ruth
  
  "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" is a popular music song. It was written by John D. Loudermilk. The song was published in 1956 in music. The best-known version was recorded by George Hamilton IV....
  " - w.m. John D. Loudermilk
  John D. Loudermilk
  
  John D. Loudermilk is an United States singer and songwriter....
  
• "Round and Round
  Round and Round (Shapiro/Stallman song)
  
  "Round and Round" is a popular song by Joe Shapiro and Lou Stallman published in 1956. A version of the song recorded by Perry Como was a big hit in 1957....
  " - w.m. Lou Stallman & Joe Shapiro
• "Shape of Things"     w.m. Sheldon Harnick
• "Show Me
  Show Me
  
  Show Me can refer to:* Show Me!, a sex education book* Show Me , a 1987 British TV game show hosted by Joe Brown* Show Me , a 1987 album by Canadian rock band 54-40...
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  
• "Singing the Blues
  Singing the Blues
  
  "Singing the Blues" is a popular music song. It was written by Melvin Endsley and was published in 1956 in music.The best-known recording of the song, released in October 1956 by Guy Mitchell, spent 9 weeks at #1 on the Billboard magazine chart from December 8, 1956 in music - February 2, 1957 in music, despite competition from rival versio...
  "     w.m. Melvin Endsley
• "(A Little Boy Called) Smiley"     Clyde Collins
• "Soft Summer Breeze"     w. Judy Spencer m. Eddie Heywood
  Eddie Heywood
  
  Eddie Heywood was a jazz pianist who became very popular in the 1940s. His father, Eddie Heyward, Sr. was also a jazz musician from the 1920s. Heywood, Jr....
  
• "Somebody Up There Likes Me
  Somebody Up There Likes Me (song)
  
  "Somebody Up There Likes Me" is a song written and performed by David Bowie for his Young Americans album in 1975 in music. The song was featured in the 2004 hit video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which was played on the fictional radio station K-DST....
  "     w. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   m. Bronislau Kaper
• "Somebody Somewhere
  Somebody Somewhere (song)
  
  "Somebody Somewhere" is a popular music song written by Frank Loesser. The song was published in 1956 in music....
  "     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "Song For A Summer Night"     w.m. Robert Allen
• "Standing on the Corner
  Standing on the Corner (show tune)
  
  "Standing on the Corner" is a popular music song written by Jimmy Arnold and Frank Loesser and published in 1956 in music. It was introduced by Shorty Long, Alan Gilbert, John Henson, and Roy Lazarus in the Broadway theatre musical theater, The Most Happy Fella....
  "     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  . Introduced by Shorty Long
  Shorty Long
  
  Frederick Earl "Shorty" Long was an African-American soul music singer, songwriter, and record producer for Motown's Soul Records imprint. He was a native of Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and a 1980 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame....
  , Alan Gilbert
  Alan Gilbert
  
  Professor Alan David Gilbert Order of Australia, born in Brisbane on 11 September 1944, once a historian is now President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester....
  , John Henson
  John Henson
  
  John Morris Henson is an American comedian, talk show host, and actor. He is the co-host of ABC Network's Wipeout , a prime-time 2008 summer series game show....
   and Roy Lazarus in the musical The Most Happy Fella
  The Most Happy Fella
  
  The Most Happy Fella is a musical theater with music, lyrics and book by Frank Loesser. The story is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard....
  .
• "Sweet Heartaches"     w.m. Nat Simon & Jimmy Kennedy
  Jimmy Kennedy
  
  Jimmy Kennedy , O.B.E., was a songwriter, predominantly a lyricist putting words to existing music like "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with composers such as Michael Carr , Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon among others....
  
• "A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl"     w.m. Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill
  
  Bob Merrill was an United States songwriter, theatre composer and lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  
• "A Tear Fell
  A Tear Fell
  
  "A Tear Fell" is a popular music song. It was written by Eugene Randolph and Dorian Burton and released in 1956 in music.The best-known version of the song was recorded by Teresa Brewer the same year, peaking at #2 in the British charts....
  "     w.m. Eugene Randolph & Dorian Burton
• "Teen Age Crush"     w.m. Audrey Allison & Joe Allison
• "Theme from Picnic
  Theme from Picnic
  
  "Theme from Picnic" is a popular music song, originated in the 1956 in film movie Picnic . It is often referred to simply as "Picnic"....
  "     w. Steve Allen
  Steve Allen (comedian)
  
  Steve Allen, born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen , was an United States television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer....
   m. George Duning
• "There's Never Been Anyone Else But You"     w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  
  Paul Francis Webster was an United States lyrics who won three Academy Award for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award....
   m. Dimitri Tiomkin
  Dimitri Tiomkin
  
  Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a film score composer and conductor. Along with Max Steiner, Mikl?s R?zsa and Franz Waxman, Tiomkin was one of the most productive and decorated film music writers of Hollywood....
  
• "This Could Be The Start Of Something
  This Could Be the Start of Something
  
  "This Could Be the Start of Something" is a popular music song by Steve Allen , published in 1956 in music.Originally, the song was written as part of the score for the 1954 television musical production of "The Bachelor"....
  "     w.m. Steve Allen
  Steve Allen (comedian)
  
  Steve Allen, born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen , was an United States television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer....
  
• "This Is What I Call Love"     w. Matt Dubey m. Harold Karr
• "A Thousand Miles Away
  A Thousand Miles Away
  
  "A Thousand Miles Away" is a 1957 song recorded by 1950s American doo-wop group The Heartbeats.The song was written by James Sheppard and William H....
  "     J. Shephard, N. H. Miller
• "Too Close For Comfort"     w. Larry Holofcener & George David Weiss
  George David Weiss
  
  George David Weiss is an United States songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America....
   m. Jerry Bock
  Jerry Bock
  
  Jerrold Lewis Bock is an American musical theatre composer....
  
• "Too Much
  Too Much (Elvis Presley song)
  
  "Too Much" is a hit song recorded by Elvis Presley. The song was highly popular in early 1957, reaching #1 and #2 on Cashbox and Billboard magazine charts, respectively. It was written by Bernard Weinman & Lee Rosenberg....
  "     w.m. Lee Rosenberg & Bernard Weinman
• "A Town Like Alice
  A Town Like Alice
  
  A Town Like Alice is a novel by the England author Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Jean Paget; as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and then her return to Malaya after the war where she discovers something that leads her on the search for romance and to a small outback community in Australia where she sets out to turn it...
  "     w.m. Letty Katts
• "Transfusion
  Transfusion
  
  Transfusion may refer to:* Blood transfusion, the introduction of blood directly into an individual?s blood circulation through a vein* Transfusion , an EP by Powderfinger...
  "     w.m. Jimmy Drake
• "True Love
  True Love (song)
  
  "True Love" is a popular music song written by Cole Porter and was published in 1956 in music.The song was introduced by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in the musical film High Society. The Crosby-Kelly version was also a popular recorded version of the song, peaking at #5....
  "     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  . Introduced by Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
   and Grace Kelly
  Grace Kelly
  
  Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
   in the film High Society.
• "Two Different Worlds
  Two Different Worlds (1956 song)
  
  "Two Different Worlds" is a popular music song with music by Al Frisch and the lyrics by Sid Wayne, published in 1956 in music.The biggest U.S....
  "     w. Sid Wayne
  Sid Wayne
  
  Sid Wayne was a song writer, lyricist and composer who wrote a number of well-known songs in the 1950's-'80's. He worked closely with Ben Weisman and Dolores Fuller....
   m. Al Frisch
• "Walk Hand In Hand
  Walk Hand in Hand
  
  "Walk Hand in Hand" is a popular music song by Johnny Cowell, published in 1956 in music.The biggest-selling version recorded of the song was sung by Tony Martin , reaching #10 on the United States Billboard charts in 1956 in music....
  "     w.m. Johnny Cowell
• "Warm All Over"     w.m. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the scores to the Broadway theatre hits Guys And Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others....
  
• "The Wayward Wind
  The Wayward Wind
  
  "The Wayward Wind" is a country music song written by Stan Lebowsky and Herb Newman.In 1956 in music versions were recorded by Gogi Grant, Tex Ritter, and Jimmy Young , of which Grant's was the biggest seller in the United States and Ritter's in the United Kingdom....
  "     w.m. Stan Lebowsky & Herb Newman
• "When Sunny Gets Blue"     w. Jack Segal m. Marvin Fisher
• "Who Needs You"     w. Al Stillman
  Al Stillman
  
  Al Stillman was an United States lyrics.Stillman was born in New York City. His name was originally Albert Silverman. Stillman collaborated with a number of composers: Fred Ahlert, Robert Allen , Percy Faith, George Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona, Paul McGrane, Kay Swift, and Arthur Schwartz....
   m. Robert Allen
• "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (song)
  
  "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm....
  "     w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  . Introduced by Celeste Holm
  Celeste Holm
  
  Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
   and Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
   in the film High Society.
• "With A Little Bit Of Luck"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Stanley Holloway
  Stanley Holloway
  
  Stanley Augustus Holloway was an England actor and entertainer famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred Doolittle in My Fair Lady....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  .
• "Without You"     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  .
• "Wouldn't It Be Loverly
  Wouldn't It Be Loverly
  
  "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play My Fair Lady.The song is sung by flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends....
  "     w. Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   m. Frederick Loewe. Introduced by Julie Andrews
  Julie Andrews
  
  Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and Cultural icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards honours....
   in the musical My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  . Performed in the 1964
  1964 in music
  
  Events*January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.*January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show....
   film by Marni Nixon
  Marni Nixon
  
  Marni Nixon is an American soprano whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in well known movie musicals earned her the sobriquet "The Ghostess with the Mostess", and also "The Voice of Hollywood"....
   dubbing for Audrey Hepburn
  Audrey Hepburn
  
  Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born, Dutch-raised actress of British and Dutch ancestry.Born in Brussels, Hepburn lived in Arnhem in The Netherlands during her childhood and for the duration of the World War II....
  .
• "Wringle, Wrangle"     w.m. Stan Jones. Introduced by Fess Parker
  Fess Parker
  
  Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. is an American film and television actor best known for his 1950s portrayals of Davy Crockett for Walt Disney and of Daniel Boone in the late 1960s....
   in the film Westward Ho, The Wagons!
  Westward Ho, The Wagons!
  
  Westward Ho, the Wagons! is a 1956 in film live-action Disney western film, aimed at family audiences. Based on Mary Jane Carr novel Children of the Covered Wagon, the film was produced by Bill Walsh , directed by William Beaudine, and released to theatres on December 20, 1956 by Buena Vista....
  
• "Written on the Wind
  Written on the Wind
  
  Written on the Wind is a 1956 in film United States drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman was based on Robert Wilder 's 1945 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Smith Reynolds....
  "     w.m. Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  
  Sammy Cahn was a 4-time Academy Award-winning United States lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway theatre songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others....
   & Victor Young
  Victor Young
  
  Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
  
• "Ying Tong Song
  Ying Tong Song
  
  The "Ying Tong Song" was a notable song written by Spike Milligan and performed by The Goons, usually sung by Harry Secombe. It was a hit in the UK on two occasions; its highest position was #3 in the UK charts in 1956, reaching a position of #9 when re-issued in 1973....
  "     w.m. Spike Milligan
  Spike Milligan
  
  Terence Alan Patrick Se?n Milligan KBE , known as Spike Milligan, was an England-Ireland comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright....
  
• "Young Love"     w.m. Carole Joyner & Ric Cartey

Classical music

• Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
   - Summer Music for wind quintet
  Wind quintet
  
  A wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players . The term also applies to a composition for such a group....
  
• Reginald Smith Brindle
  Reginald Smith Brindle
  
  Reginald Smith Brindle was a United Kingdom composer and writer.Smith Brindle began learning the piano at the age of six, and later took up the clarinet, saxophone and guitar ....
   - El Polifemo de Oro
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentina-United States composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions called Synchronisms, which in live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds played from a tape....
   - Three Pieces for Woodwind Quartet, Noneti for Nine Instruments
• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
  
  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs was an England composer.He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he himself taught musical composition and music theory from 1921 to 1939....
   - Threnody
• Glenn Gould
  Glenn Gould
  
  Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his remarkable technical proficiency, his unorthodox musical philosophy, and his eccentric personality and piano technique....
   releases The Goldberg Variations (Gould Album)
  The Goldberg Variations (Gould album)
  
  Bach: The Goldberg Variations is the 1955 debut recording of the Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould. It offered a passionate and fresh interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations , launched Gould's career as a renowned international pianist, and became one of the most well-known piano recordings....
   (Goldberg Variations
  Goldberg Variations
  
  The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, are a set of an aria and 30 Variation for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. First published in 1741 as the fourth in a series Bach called Bach compositions printed during the composer's lifetime, "keyboard practice", the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of Variation for...
  )
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a Germany composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphony of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries....
   - Symphony No. 1 Versuch eines Requiems
• Lars-Erik Larsson
  Lars-Erik Larsson
  
  Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson was an important Sweden composer of the 20th century.Lars-Erik Larsson wrote the score of the well-known God in Disguise, a religious orchestral song cycle written by Malm? poet Hjalmar Gullberg....
   - Concertino for Violin
• Gian-Francesco Malipiero - Dialoghi VII for two pianos and orchestra
• Peter Mennin
  Peter Mennin
  
  Peter Mennin was an United States composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the The Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role....
   - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Sonata Concertante, for Violin and Piano
• Luigi Nono
  Luigi Nono
  
  Luigi Nono was an Italy avant-garde composer of classical music, one of the most important composers of the 20th century....
   - Il Canto Sospeso
• Vincent Persichetti
  Vincent Persichetti
  
  Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
   - Symphony No. 6 for Band
• Francis Poulenc
  Francis Poulenc
  
  Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
   - Dernier poème
• Ned Rorem
  Ned Rorem
  
  Ned Rorem is an American composer and Personal journal. He is best known and praised for his song settings.He was born in Richmond, Indiana, Indiana and received his early education in Chicago at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the American Conservatory and then Northwestern University....
   - Symphony No. 2
• Miklós Rózsa
  Miklós Rózsa
  
  Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
   - Concerto for Violin
• Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  
  Edmund Rubbra was a United Kingdom composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras....
   - Piano Concerto in G Op. 85, Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra Op. 89
• Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an USA composer, critic and teacher of music.Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14....
   - Piano Concerto
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
   - String Quartet No. 6 in G major
  String Quartet No. 6 (Shostakovich)
  
  Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G major was composed in 1956. It was premiered by the Beethoven Quartet but carries no dedication....
  Op. 101
• Sándor Szokolay
  Sándor Szokolay
  
  S?ndor Szokolay is a Hungarian composer and a professor of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Budapest....
   - Violin Concerto Op. 13
• Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  
  Mieczyslaw Weinberg was an important USSR composer of Poland-Jewish origin.He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust....
   - Piano Sonata No. 5 in A minor op. 58
• William Walton
  William Walton
  
  Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
   - Cello Concerto

• Lukas Foss
  Lukas Foss
  
  Lukas Foss was a German-born United States composer, conducting, pianist, and professor....
   - Griffelkin (opera in three acts, libretto by A. Reed after H. Foss, premiered on November 6, 1956, on NBC television)
• Douglas Moore - The Ballad of Baby Doe
• Robert Ward
  Robert Ward
  
  Robert Ward is an United States composer....
   - He Who Gets Slapped (libretto by Bernard Stambler}

• At The Drop Of A Hat
  At the Drop of a Hat
  
  At the Drop of a Hat is a musical theatre revue by Flanders and Swann, described by them as "An After-Dinner Farrago". In the show, they both sang, accompanied by Swann on the piano....
       London revue Starring Michael Flanders
  Michael Flanders
  
  Michael Henry Flanders Order of the British Empire, was an England actor, Broadcast journalism, and writer and performer of Novelty song. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann performing as the double act Flanders and Swann....
   and Donald Swann
  Donald Swann
  
  Donald Ibrah?m Swann was a United Kingdom composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing Novelty song with Michael Flanders ....
  , opened at the New Lindsey Theatre on December 31 and transferred to the Fortune Theatre
  Fortune Theatre
  
  The Fortune Theatre is a 432 seat West End theatre in Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, built in 1922-4 by Ernest Schaufelberg for impresario Laurence Cowen....
   on January 24, 1957 for a total run of 808 performances
• Bells Are Ringing
  Bells Are Ringing (musical)
  
  Bells Are Ringing is a musical theater with a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne. The story revolves around Ella, who works at an answering service and the characters that she meets there....
       Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   production opened at the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S....
   on November 29 and ran for 924 performances
• Candide (Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  
  Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
  ) - Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 1 and ran for 73 performances
• Fanny
  Fanny (musical)
  
  For the movie see Fanny .Fanny is a 1954 Broadway musical theatre with book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, and music and lyrics by Harold Rome....
       London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
  
  The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a London borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane....
   on November 15 and ran for 347 performances
• Grab Me a Gondola London production opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on November 27 and ran for 673 performances
• Happy Hunting
  Happy Hunting
  
  Happy Hunting is a musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey, and music by Harold Karr. It opened on Broadway theatre at the Majestic Theatre on December 6, 1956 and closed on November 30, 1957 after playing 412 performances....
  Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   production opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 6 and ran for 412 performances
• Irma La Douce
  Irma la Douce
  
  Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
       Paris production opened at the Théâtre Gramont on November 12
• Li'l Abner
  Li'l Abner (musical)
  
  Li'l Abner is a musical theater with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad parody of hillbilly but is also a pointed satire taking on any number of topics, ranging from an incompetent United Sta...
  (Gene De Paul
  Gene de Paul
  
  Gene de Paul was an United States pianist, composer and songwriter....
   and Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
  ) - Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre
  St. James Theatre
  
  The St. James Theatre is located at 246 W. 44th St. Broadway , New York City, New York. It was built by Abe Erlanger, theatrical producer and a founding member of the Theatrical Syndicate, on the site of the original Sardi's restaurant....
   on November 15 and ran for 693 performances
• The Most Happy Fella
  The Most Happy Fella
  
  The Most Happy Fella is a musical theater with music, lyrics and book by Frank Loesser. The story is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard....
       Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre
  Imperial Theatre
  
  The Imperial Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 249 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The theatre seats up to 1417 people...
   on May 3 and ran for 676 performances
• Mr Wonderful     Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre
  Broadway theatre
  
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
   on March 22 and ran for 383 performances
• My Fair Lady
  My Fair Lady
  
  My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
  (Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  
  Alan Jay Lerner was an United States Broadway theatre lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre....
   and Frederick Loewe) - Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre
  Mark Hellinger Theatre
  
  The Mark Hellinger Theatre was a Legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan until it was converted into the Times Square Church in 1989....
   on March 15 and ran for 2717 performances
• Plain and Fancy
  Plain and Fancy
  
  Plain and Fancy is a musical theatre comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague....
       London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
  
  The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a London borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane....
   on January 25 and ran for 217 performances

• Anything Goes
  Anything Goes (film)
  
  Anything Goes is a 1936 in film musical film released by Paramount Pictures adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse Anything Goes....
  starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
   and Donald O'Connor
  Donald O'Connor
  
  Donald David Dixon Ronald O?Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
  
• Carousel
  Carousel (film)
  
  Carousel is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel which, in turn, was based on Ferenc Molnar's non-musical play Liliom....
  starring Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae
  
  Albert Gordon MacRae was an USA actor and singer, best known for his appearances in musical theater of the 1950s.Born in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II....
   and Shirley Jones
  Shirley Jones
  
  Shirley Mae Jones is an United States singer and character actress of stage , film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma , Carousel , and The Music Man ....
  
• The Court Jester
  The Court Jester
  
  The Court Jester is a 1956 comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, and Angela Lansbury. The movie was screen writer, film director, and film producer by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama....
  starring Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  
  Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
  , Glynis Johns
  Glynis Johns
  
  Glynis Johns is a British people stage and film actor, dancer, pianist and singer . With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the "complete actress", who happens to be a trained pianist and singer....
  , Basil Rathbone
  Basil Rathbone
  
  Basil Rathbone, Military Cross , was a South African Republic England actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro , Captain Blood , and The Adventures of Robin Hood ....
   and Angela Lansbury
  Angela Lansbury
  
  Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom actor and singer whose career has spanned six decades. She made her first film appearance in Gaslight , for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and expanded her repertoire to Broadway theatre and television in the 1950s....
  
• The Girl Can't Help It
  The Girl Can't Help It
  
  The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 in film comedy film/musical film, starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay written by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel Do Re Me by Garson Kanin....
  starring Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield
  
  Jayne Mansfield was an United States actor working both on Broadway theatre and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s, Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years....
   and Tom Ewell
  Tom Ewell
  
  Tom Ewell was an United States Tony Award-winning actor.Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, Ewell began acting in Summer Stock in 1928 with Don Ameche, before moving to New York, New York in 1931....
  , and featuring Julie London
  Julie London
  
  Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  , Ray Anthony
  Ray Anthony
  
  Ray Anthony is an United States bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.As a child Anthony moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he began studying the trumpet with his father....
  , Fats Domino
  Fats Domino
  
  Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino is a classic Rhythm and blues and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter....
   and The Platters
  The Platters
  
  The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  .
• High Society starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  , Grace Kelly
  Grace Kelly
  
  Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
  , Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
  , Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  
  Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
   and Celeste Holm
  Celeste Holm
  
  Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, with an Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve ....
  
• It's a Wonderful World
  It's a Wonderful World (1956 film)
  
  It's a Wonderful World is a 1956 British musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, George Cole and Kathleen Harrison....
  starring George Cole
  George Cole
  
  George Edward Cole OBE is an England actor.In an interview included in the 2007 DVD release of A Christmas Carol he recounts that he was given up for adoption at the age of ten days, and adopted by Mr and Mrs George Cole....
   and featuring Ted Heath
  Ted Heath (bandleader)
  
  George Edward 'Ted' Heath was the most famous England bandleader of the 40s, 50s and early 60s.Heath was born at 76 Atheldene Avenue, Wandsworth, South London; he started playing the trombone at the age of fourteen, and his early career involved stints with Bert Firman, Jack Hylton, Ambrose , Sid Lipton, and Gerald Bright....
   and Dennis Lotis
• It's Great to Be Young
  It's Great To Be Young
  
  It's Great to Be Young is a 1956 in film musical film comedy film film about a school music teacher, starring Cecil Parker and John Mills....
  starring John Mills
  John Mills
  
  Sir John Mills Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades....
   and Cecil Parker
  Cecil Parker
  
  Cecil Parker was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969....
  
• The King and I
  The King and I (1956 film)
  
  The King and I is a 1956 in film musical film made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F....
  starring Yul Brynner
  Yul Brynner
  
  Yul Brynner was a Russian-born actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Thailandese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The King and I on both stage and screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B....
   and Deborah Kerr
  Deborah Kerr
  
  Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
  
• Pardners
  Pardners
  
  Pardners is a movie starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and was released on July 25, 1956 by Paramount Pictures....
  starring Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  
  Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
  , Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
   and Lori Nelson
  Lori Nelson
  
  Lori Nelson is an American actress born in Santa Fe, New Mexico on August 15, 1933. She began as a performer, dancing at the young age of 4, as well as winning a Little Miss America title....
  
• A Touch of the Sun starring Frankie Howerd
  Frankie Howerd
  
  Frankie Howerd Order of the British Empire , was a distinctive England comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades....
  , Ruby Murray
  Ruby Murray
  
  Ruby Murray , from Northern Ireland, was one of the most popular singing in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. In the year of 1955 alone, she secured seven Top 10 UK hit singles....
   and Dennis Price
  Dennis Price
  
  Dennis Price was an English people actor who is mainly remembered for his suave screen roles....
  
• The Vagabond King
  The Vagabond King
  
  This article is about the operetta, for the films see: The Vagabond King and The Vagabond King The Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta by Rudolf Friml, with a book and lyrics by Brian Hooker and W.H....
  starring Kathryn Grayson
  Kathryn Grayson
  
  Kathryn Grayson is an American actress and operatic soprano singer. Trained as an opera singer from the age of twelve, Grayson was contracted to MGM and established a career in films from the early 1940s....
  

• January 3 - Alexander Gretchaninov
  Alexander Gretchaninov
  
  Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic music composer....
  , composer
• January 5 - Mistinguett
  Mistinguett
  
  Mistinguett was a France actor and singer, with the birth name of Jeanne Bourgeois....
  
• January 27 - Erich Kleiber
  Erich Kleiber
  
  Erich Kleiber was an Austrian Conducting.Born in Vienna, Kleiber studied in Prague. In 1923, after conducting a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Berlin State Opera, he became that institution's music director....
  , conductor
• February 2 - Charles Grapewin
  Charles Grapewin
  
  Charles E. Grapewin was an United States vaudeville performer and a theatre and film actor, perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of Uncle Henry in the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz ....
  , vaudeville performer
• February 18 - Gustave Charpentier
  Gustave Charpentier
  
  Gustave Charpentier was a France composer, best known for his opera Louise .He was born in Dieuze, the son of a baker, and after studying at the conservatoire in Lille entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1881....
  , composer
• February 21 - Edwin Franko Goldman
  Edwin Franko Goldman
  
  Edwin Franko Goldman is one of America's prominent band composers of the early 20th century. He composed over 150 works, more notably his marches....
  , band composer
• February 26 - Elsie Janis
  Elsie Janis
  
  Elsie Janis was an United States singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" ....
  , singer, songwriter and actress
• March 11 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko
  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko
  
  Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko was a Russian composer and musical teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism.Vassilenko originally studied Law at Moscow University, but then changed direction and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1896 to 1901 as a pupil of Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov....
  , Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  n composer
• June 11 - Frankie Trumbauer
  Frankie Trumbauer
  
  Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played C-melody saxophone, which in size is between an alto and tenor saxophone....
  , US saxophonist, bandleader and sometime singer
• June 23 - Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Glière
  
  Reinhold Moritzevich Gli?re was a Ukraine, Soviet Union composer of Germans-Poland descent.Gli?re was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier from Saxony, who emigrated to Kiev and married J?zefa Korczak , the daughter of his master, from Warsaw ....
  , composer
• June 26:
• Clifford Brown
  Clifford Brown
  
  Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
  , jazz trumpeter; car accident
• Richie Powell
  Richie Powell
  
  Richie Powell was an United States bebop jazz piano.Powell was born into a musical family in New York City, and was the younger brother of Bud Powell ....
  , jazz pianist; car accident
• July 18 - Violet Loraine
  Violet Loraine
  
  Violet Loraine was an English musical theatre actress and singer.She was born Violet Mary Tipton in Kentish Town, London, in 1886 and went on the stage as a chorus girl at the age of sixteen....
  , musical theatre star
• September 27 - Gerald Finzi
  Gerald Finzi
  
  Gerald Raphael Finzi was a Great Britain composer, whose popularity has increased considerably in the years since his death....
  , composer
• October 1 - Albert Von Tilzer
  Albert Von Tilzer
  
  Albert Von Tilzer was an United States songwriter, the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"....
  , songwriter
• October 12 - Don Lorenzo Perosi
  Don Lorenzo Perosi
  
  Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his 20s, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios....
  , composer
• October 19 - Isham Jones
  Isham Jones
  
  Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, violinist, bassist and songwriter....
  , US bandleader and composer
• October 22 - Valda Valkyrien
  Valda Valkyrien
  
  Valda Valkyrien was a Denmark Ballerina and a silent film actress.Born Adele Eleonore Freed in Reykjav?k, Iceland, under the stage name Valda Valkyrien she was prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet....
  , ballerina
• November 5 - Art Tatum
  Art Tatum
  
  Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso.With an exuberant style that combined dazzling technique and sophisticated use of harmony, Art Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time....
  , jazz pianist
• November 10 - Victor Young
  Victor Young
  
  Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and Conductor . He was born in Chicago, Illinois....
  , violinist, conductor and composer
• November 24 - Guido Cantelli
  Guido Cantelli
  
  Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conducting....
  , conductor
• November 26 - Tommy Dorsey
  Tommy Dorsey
  
  Tommy Dorsey was an United States jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey....
  , bandleader
• November 30
• Ludvík Kuba
  Ludvík Kuba
  
  Ludv?k Kuba was a Czech landscape painter, musician, writer, professor in the Academy of Fine Arts Prague. He was a representative of the Late-Impressionism and he collected folk traditions....
  , artist and musician
• Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old. He took various music related jobs including demonstrating and selling sheet music in department stores before being hired full time by the Shapiro-Bernstein Publishing House of Tin Pan Alley as a staff pian...
  , songwriter
• December 7 - Henry Fillmore
  Henry Fillmore
  
  Henry Fillmore was an United States musician, composer, and publisher.A prolific composer, Fillmore wrote over 250 tunes and arranged orchestrations for hundreds more; he also published a great number of tunes under various pseudonyms....
  , composer and publisher
• date unknown - Rupert Hughes
  Rupert Hughes
  
  Rupert Hughes was a historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865....
  , composer
• date unknown - Little Jack Little
  Little Jack Little
  
  Jack Little was a composer, singer, actor and songwriter whose songs were featured in several film.He was born in London, United Kingdom but moved to the United States as a child....
  , composer, actor, singer and songwriter

Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition....

• Eurovision Song Contest 1956
  Eurovision Song Contest 1956
  
  The Eurovision Song Contest 1956 was the 1st Eurovision Song Contest, held in Lugano, Switzerland. This first contest was mainly a radio programme, though there were cameras in the studio for the benefit of the few Europeans who had television....