Golden Oldies Music

The year was 1956. It was a very good year — for some. There was an increased standard of living, with a big push onto higher education. One in three high school graduates went off to college. There were disposable diapers as well as new non-stick frying pans. Heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retired without losing a professional boxing match. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis called it quits after ten years as a comedy team. Norma Jean Mortenson legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe and, later in the year, married playwright Arthur Miller. The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opened in New York City. Cecil B. DeMille released his epic film The Ten Commandments, which starred Charlton Heston as Moses. There were new TV shows, including As the World Turns, The Price is Right, and The Huntley-Brinkley Report. Elvis Presley appeared on the Milton Berle and Ed Sullivan shows. Elvis entered the national music charts with “Heartbreak Hotel.” He also released his first album Elvis Presley, which went gold.

1. “Be-Bop-A-Lula” by Gene Vincent
2. “Blue Suede Shoes” by Carl Perkins
3. “Church Bells May Ring” by The Willows
4. “Come Go with Me” by The Dell Vikings
5. “Heartbreak Hotel” by Elvis Presley
6. “Honky Tonk Pts. 1 & 2” by Bill Doggett
7. “Hound Dog” by Elvis Presley
8. “In the Still of the Night” by The Five Satins
9. “I Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash
10. “I Want You To Be My Girl” by Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
11. “Little Girl of Mine” by The Cleftones
12. “Long Tall Sally” by Little Richard
13. “My Prayer” by The Platters
14. “Oh What a Nite” by The Dells
15. “See You Later, Alligator” by Bill Haley & His Comets
16. “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford
17. “A Thousand Miles Away” by The Heartbeats
18. “Tonight You Belong to Me” by Patience and Prudence
19. “The Wayward Wind” by Gogi Grant

If you would like to listen to another set of songs, please click here for “Golden Oldies Playlist for 1957.”

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The Daily Doo Wop Rec Room has daily featured doo wop, rock and roll, R&B, or rockabilly songs that were hits during the first era of rock and roll (that is, from about 1952 until the British invasion in 1964). After a song is featured, it then goes into the juke box. You are welcome to listen to any of the 40+ selections there. Every weekend, there is a Golden Oldies Juke Box Saturday Night, and the juke box is full of song requests from the 1950s and 1960s.

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