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1956's
Hit Music & Song Charts
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1956's
Biggest Artists, Albums and Songs
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Elvis Presley managed to do what noone had done
before - crossing over Pop, R&B and Country, all
while making Rock and Roll almost respectable. His single
Don't Be Cruel, with the reverse side Hound
Dog, spent most of the summer on '56 in the top
Billboard chart position across all popular genres.
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New Artists in the Pop Charts Included:
Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon, Johnny
Cash, Little Richard, Big Joe Turner, The Coasters and
a congenial fellow named Andy Williams. |
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1956's
Retro Pop Top 10 Hit List
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Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley |
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I Walk The Line
- Johnny Cash |
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Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin |
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Corrine Corrina - Big Joe Turner |
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Band of Gold - Don Cherry |
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Stranded In The Jungle - The
Jayhawks (or The Cadets) |
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Standing on the
Corner - The Four Lads |
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Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom) - Perry Como |
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Rock
and Roll Waltz - Kay Starr |
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Get Me To The Church On Time
- Julius LaRosa |
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1956's
One Hit Wonders &
'Money Song' Top 10 Hit List
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Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent |
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I Put A Spell On
You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins |
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Eddie My Love - Teen Queens |
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Churchbells May Ring - The Willows |
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April In Paris - Count Basie |
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Priscilla - Eddie Cooley |
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The Happy Whistler
- Don Robertson |
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Lovely Lies - Manhattan Brothers and Miriam Makeba |
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Moonglow
(& Theme From Picnic) - Morris Stoloff |
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Ivory Tower - Cathy Carr |
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1956's
Dance Top 10 Hit List
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Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley |
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Let The Good Times
Roll - Shirley and Lee |
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My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino |
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Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins |
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Tutti-Frutti - Little Richard |
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Hound Dog - Elvis Presley |
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Singin The Blues
- Guy Mitchell |
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See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley and His Comets |
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Deep
Purple - Nino Tempo & April Stevens |
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Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong |
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1956's
Doo Wop Song Top 10 Hit List
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In The Still Of The Nite - Five Satins |
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The ABC's Of Love
- Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers |
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Little Girl Of Mine - Cleftones |
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love -
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers |
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Oh What A Night - The Dells |
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My Prayer - The Platters |
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Ruby Baby - Drifters
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I Want You To Be My Girl - Frankie Lymon & the
Teenagers |
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Church Bells May
Ring - The Willows OR The Diamonds |
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(You've Got The Magic Touch)
- The Drifters |
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PCM's
1956 Top 10 Hit List
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Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley |
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Hound Dog - Elvis
Presley |
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My Prayer - The Platters |
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Long Tall Sally - Little Richard |
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love -
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers |
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Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong |
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Blue Suede Shoes
- Carl Perkins |
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My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino |
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Singing The Blues
- Guy Mitchell |
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In The Still of the Night -
The Five Satins |
Check Out the Full
PCM 1956
Annual Best
Music
Hits Here
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One Hit Wonders include artists with only one
song in Billboard's Top 40 Pop Charts,
songs of note and well-known hits that did not even make the Billboard Pop Charts.
Hot Pop Songs/PCM Charts are based on DJ requests and online suggestions.
Some songs are listed in multiple years because some charts list the
'release date' as the official date, while others list the chart 'peak date.'
Compromising that data, we try to list songs for the year they saw the most chart action.
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