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"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You "/ "My Baby Left Me" Elvis Presley" by "The Wayward Wind" Gogi Grant
ending week: 1956-07-28 (total weeks: 1)
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" is a popular song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff. It is perhaps best known for being Elvis Presley's second RCA single release. It was released in...  [more]
"The Wayward Wind " Gogi Grant" by "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic" Morris Stoloff
ending week: 1956-06-16 (total weeks: 1)
"The Wayward Wind" is a country song written by Stan Lebowsky and Herb Newman. In 1956 versions were recorded by Gogi Grant, Tex Ritter, and Jimmy Young, of which Grant's was the biggest seller in...  [more]
"Heartbreak Hotel "/ "I Was the One" Elvis Presley" by "The Poor People of Paris" Les Baxter
ending week: 1956-04-21 (total weeks: 1)
genre: rock and roll, blues
"Heartbreak Hotel" is a rock and roll song recorded and performed by Elvis Presley. Recorded in January 1956 in Nashville, the song was Presley's first single for RCA Records and introduced him to...  [more]
"Lisbon Antigua " Nelson Riddle" by "The Great Pretender" The Platters
ending week: 1956-02-25 (total weeks: 1)
"Lisbon Antigua" is a popular song, arranged by Nelson Riddle, that was a number-one song in the United States during the year 1956. It topped the Billboard magazine chart on February 25, 1956 and...  [more]
"Rock and Roll Waltz " Kay Starr" by "The Great Pretender" The Platters
ending week: 1956-02-18 (total weeks: 1)
genre: vocal music
"(The) Rock and Roll Waltz" is a popular song. The music was written by Shorty Allen and the lyrics by Roy Alfred in 1955. The song is told from the point-of-view of a teenager who comes home early...  [more]
"Sixteen Tons " Tennessee Ernie" by "Memories Are Made of This" Dean Martin
ending week: 1956-01-07 (total weeks: 1)
"Sixteen Tons" is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album Folk Songs of the Hills the following year....  [more]
"Sixteen Tons " Tennessee Ernie" by "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie
ending week: 1955-11-26 (total weeks: 1)
"Sixteen Tons" is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album Folk Songs of the Hills the following year....  [more]
"Autumn Leaves " Roger Williams" by "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" Four Aces
ending week: 1955-10-29 (total weeks: 1)
"Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les feuilles mortes" (literally "The Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques...  [more]
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing " Four Aces" by "The Yellow Rose of Texas" Mitch Miller
ending week: 1955-10-08 (total weeks: 1)
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" is a popular song with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. (The same pair wrote "Secret Love", an earlier winner of the Academy Award for Best...  [more]
"The Yellow Rose of Texas " Mitch Miller" by "The Yellow Rose of Texas" Mitch Miller
ending week: 1955-09-03 (total weeks: 1)
"The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional folk song about a mulatto prostitute which has long been popular in the United States and is considered an unofficial state song of Texas. The actual...  [more]