1. Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets
2. Love and Marriage - Frank Sinatra
3. Earth Angel - Penguins
4. Only You - Platters
5. Ain't That A Shame - Fats Domino
6. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
7. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White - Perez Prado
8. Same Old Saturday Night - Frank Sinatra
9. Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin
10. Yellow Rose Of Texas - Mitch Miller
11. Sincerely - McGuire Sisters
12. Learnin' The Blues - Frank Sinatra
13. Hearts Of Stone - Fontaine Sisters
14. Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
15. The Ballad of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes
16. Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
17. Tina Marie - Perry Como
18. Let Me Go Lover - Patti Page
19. Ain't That A Shame - Pat Boone
20. Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
21. Daddy-O - Fontane Sisters
22. Melody Of Love - Frank Sinatra & Ray Anthony
23. It's A Sin To Tell a Lie - Somethin' Smith and The Redheads
24. Tweedlee Dee - LaVern Baker
25. Dance With Me Henry - Georgia Gibbs
26. Good and Lonesome - Kay Starr
27. The Shifting Whispering Sands - Billy Vaughn
28. Whatever Lola Wants - Sarah Vaughan
29. Suddenly There's A Valley - Gogi Grant
30. The Popcorn Song - Cliffie Stone
31. If I May - Nat King Cole
32. Teenage Prayer - Gale Storm
33. Seventeen - Fontane Sisters
34. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - Four Aces
35. The Breeze And I - Caterina Valente
36. Are You Satisfied? - Rusty Draper
37. I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm
38. Unchained Melody - June Valli
39. Wake The Town and Tell The People - Les Baxter
40. The Bandit (O' Cangaceirno) - Eddie Barclay
Top Albums of 1955
Miles Davis does 6 albums
Day Dreams - Doris Day
Blue Moods - Miles Davis
Clifford Brown with Strings - Clifford Brown
Cloud 7 - Tony Bennett
Concert by the Sea - Erroll Garner
Dinner in Caracas - Aldemaro Romero
Doris Day in Hollywood - Doris Day
Eddie Fisher Sings Academy Award Winning Songs - Eddie Fisher
Especially for You... - Teresa Brewer
Four Brothers - The Ames Brothers
Happy Holiday - Jo Stafford
The Hi-Lo's, I Presume - The Hi-Lo’s
I Cry for You - Johnnie Ray
I Love You - Eddie Fisher
I'm in the Mood for Love - Eddie Fisher
In a Blue Mood - Kay Starr
In a Romantic Mood - Oscar Peterson
In the Land of Hi-Fi - Sarah Vaughan
In the Wee Small Hours - Frank Sinatra
Jazz Spectacular - Frankie Laine & Buck Clayton
Julie Is Her Name - Julie London
Love Me or Leave Me - Doris Day
Lovers' Laine - Frankie Laine
Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant - Betty Carter and Ray Bryant
Memory Songs - Jo Stafford
Miles Davis Volume 1 - Miles Davis
Miles Davis Volume 2 - Miles Davis
Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet - Miles Davis
The Misty Miss Christy - June Christy
Moments to Remember - The Four Lads
Music Ala Carte - The Crew Cuts
Musings of Miles - Miles Davis
Noël Coward at Las Vegas - Noël Coward
Oklahoma! - Original Broadway Cast
Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie - Oscar Peterson
The One, the Only Kay Starr - Kay Starr
Quintet/Sextet - Miles Davis
Rain or Shine - Dick Haymes
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
Romance on the Range - Patti Page
Satch Plays Fats - Louis Armstrong
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & His Comets
So Smooth - Perry Como
Soft and Sentimental - Jo Stafford
Songs of Scotland - Jo Stafford
Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues - Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald
Study in Brown - Clifford Brown and Max Roach
Swingin' Down Yonder - Dean Martin
Thelonious Monk plays the Music of Duke Ellington - Thelonious Monk
Voice of our Choice - Guy Mitchell
The Tony's (Musicals) 1955
Outstanding Musical: The Pajama Game
Outstanding Musical Actor: Walter Slezak, Fanny
Outstanding Musical Actress: Mary Martin, Peter Pan
Outstanding Supporting or Featured Musical Actor: Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan
Outstanding Supporting or Featured Musical Actress: Carol Haney, The Pajama Game
Outstanding Choreographer: Bob Fosse, The Pajama Game
The first American Bandstand was broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV. Substitute host Dick Clark became the regular host in 1956. American Bandstand
WINS radio and Disc Jockey Allan Freed announced they would not play white cover versions of Black R&B artists. Namely the rollicking Ain't It A Shame version by Fats Domino would be played rather than the Pat Boone version which was a pile of crap.
Elvis Presley appeared on television for the first time on the show Louisiana Hayride.
Popular 1955
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
R & B / Rock & Roll 1955
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Teenagers
Ain't It A Shame - Fats Domino
Country & Western 1955
Folsom Prison Blues was the first hit song by Johnny Cash. He had written it while in the Army in 1951 after seeing a movie of the same name. The mix of country, trains, prison and a bit of the emerging Rock and Roll made it his signature song for the rest of his life. Folsom City Blues
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Folsom Prison Blues
