Top Ranking Songs of the Past: 1955
Nappy Brown – Don’t Be Angry
Chuck Miller – The House of Blue Lights
Smiley Lewis – I Hear You Knocking
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
Chuck Berry – Maybellene
Bill Haley & the Comets – (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
Little Richard – Tutti Frutti
Buddy Holly – Down the Line
Fats Domino – Ain’t That A Shame
Carl Perkins – Honey Don’t
The Penguins – Earth Angel
Eddy Arnold – Cattle Call
Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
Bobby Darin – Splish Splash
The Turbans – When You Dance
Hank Thompson – Don’t Take It Out On Me
The Robins – Smokey Joe’s Cafe
Frank Sinatra – Love and Marriage
Chuck Berry – No Money Down
Elvis Presley – Baby, Let’s Play House
Nappy Brown – Piddily Patter Patter
Webb Pierce – In the Jailhouse Now
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm
Big Joe Turner – Flip, Flop, & Fly
Bill Haley & the Comets – Shake Rattle & Roll
The Platters – Only You
Young Jessie – Mary Lou
Little Walter – My Babe
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
Chuck Berry – Thirty Days
Elvis Presley – Mystery Train
Smiley Lewis – One Night
Faron Young – Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
Johnston Brothers – Hernando’s Hideaway
Johnny Cash – Cry Cry Cry
LaVern Baker – Tweedle Dee
Porter Wagoner – A Satisfied Mind
Ray Charles – Blackjack
Patsy Cline – Hdin’ Out
Fats Domino – Poor Me
Ferlin Husky – I Feel Better All Over
The Platters – The Great Pretender
Jim Reeves – Drinking Tequila
Georgia Gibbs – Dance with me Henry
Freddie Bell and the Bellboys – Hound Dog
Ray Charles – Greenbacks
Billy Lee Riley – Red Hot
Webb Pierce – I Don’t Care
The Clovers – Blue Velvet
Johnny Cash – Trail to Mexico
Clifford Brown and Max Roach – The Blues Walk
Merle Travis & Hank Thompson – Wildwood Flower
The Spiders – Witchcraft
Webb Pierce – Love, Love, Love
The Cadillacs – Speedoo
Johnny Cash – So Doggone Lonesome
Nat ‘King’ Cole – Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
Elvis Presley – I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
The Drifters – Adorable
George Jones – Why Baby Why
Sarah Vaughan – How High the Moon
Mitch Miller – Yellow Rose of Texas
Bo Diddley – Diddley Daddy
Lefty Frizzell – I Love You Mostly
Clifford Brown & Max Roach – What Am I Here For?
Frank Sinatra – In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Ray Charles – This Little Girl of Mine
Jim Reeves – Penny Candy
Sammy Davis, Jr. – That Old Black Magic
Elvis Presley – Milk Cow Blues Boogie
The Drifters – What’cha Gonna Do
Patti Page – How Much is that Doggie in the Window
Nat King Cole – A Blossom Fell
Jim Reeves – Yonder Comes A Sucker
Ray Charles – Come Back Baby
Elvis Presley – I Forgot To Remember
Bo Diddley – Pretty Thing
Ray Charles – A Fool For You
NEED:
The Valentines – I Love You Baby
Rosco Gordon – The Chicken
Bill Haley & the Comets – Real Rock Drive
The Clovers – Love Bug
Ernest Tubb – The Yellow Rose of Texas
The Moonglows – Lover, Love Me
Dinah Shore – Whatever Lola Wants
Hank Snow – Mainliner
The Clovers – In the Morning Time
The Moonglows – She’s Gone
The Valentines – Lily Maebelle
Bill Haley & the Comets – Birth of the Boogie
The Moonglows – Sincerely
Chuck Miller – Hawk-Eye
The Spaniels – You Painted Pictures
Pete Seeger – Deila’s Go
B.B. King – Everyday I Have the Blues
The Moonglows – Most of All
Bill Haley & the Comets – Razzle Dazzle
The Spiders – Is It True
Ray Price – Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
Rosco Gordon – Love For You Baby
The Ink Spots – Melody of Love
Bill Haley & the Comets – Dim Dim the Lights
Etta James – Good Rockin’ Daddy
Slim Whitman – Roll Along Silvery Moon
Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie – April in Paris
Kitty Wells – There’s Poison in Your Heart
Etta James – The Wallflower
Ferlin Husky – I’ll Baby Sit With You
Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Cherokee
Slim Whitman – Rose Marie
Eddie Snow – Ain’t That Right
Hank Thompson – Most of All
Etta James – Number One
Frank Sinatra – Learnin’ the Blues
The Clovers – Nip Sip
Perez Prado – Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
The Moonglows – In My Diary
Lonnie Donegan – Rock Island Line
Al Hibbler – Unchained Melody
Smokey Joe Baugh – Signifying Monkey
Sarah Vaughan – Whatever Lola Wants
The Miller Sisters – There’s No Right Way To Do Me Wrong
Georgia Gibbs – 24 Hours a Day
The Penguins – Don’t Do It
The Five Tinos – Don’t Do That
Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Take the A-Train
The Penguins – Baby Let’s Make Some Love
Georgia Gibbs – Goodbye to Rome
The Turbans – Let Me Show You Around My Heart