Billboard Hit 1956

The Billboard Annual Top Records 1956
Published on: 26th January 1957

1956’s Top Popular Records

* A Tear Fell - Theresa Brewer
(According to Sales: 49, Disk Jockey: 41, Juke Box: 22)
* Allegheny Moon – Patti Page
(According to Sales: 24, Disk Jockey: 16, Juke Box: 17)
* Band of Gold – Don Cherry
(According to Sales: 38, Disk Jockey: 27, Juke Box: 31)
* Be-Bop-A-Lulla – Gene Vincent
(According to Sales: 27, Juke Box: 43)
* Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins
(According to Sales: 18, Disk Jockey: 24, Juke Box: 12)
* Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 41, Juke Box: 47)
* Born to be With You – Chordettes
(According to Sales: 37, Disk Jockey: 22, Juke Box: 37)
* Canadian Sunset – Andy Williams
(According to Disk Jockey: 40)
* Canadian Sunset – Eddie Heywood, Hugo Winterhalter
(According to Sales: 17, Disk Jockey: 15, Juke Box: 26)
* Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 2, Disk Jockey: 8, Juke Box: 7)
* Eddie My Love – Fontane Sisters
(According to Juke Box: 45)
* Flying Saucer – Buchnan and Goodman
(According to Sales: 30)
* Fool – Stanford Clark
(According to Sales: 42, Juke Box: 42)
* Friendly Persuasion – Pat Boone
(According to Disk Jockey: 39)
* Glendora – Perry Como
(Disk Jockey: 49)
* Great Pretender – Platters
(According to Sales: 12, Disk Jockey: 4, Juke Box: 4)
* Green Door – Jim Lowe
(According to Sales: 19, Disk Jockey: 19, Juke Box: 24)
* Happy Whistler – Don Robertson
(According to Sales: 43, Disk Jockey: 32, Juke Box: 46)
* Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 1, Disk Jockey: 6, Juke Box: 5)
* Honky Tonk – Bill Doggett
(According to Sales: 21, Disk Jockey: 45, Juke Box: 25)
* Hot Diggity – Perry Como
(According to Sales: 16, Disk Jockey: 9, Juke Box: 14)
* Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 6, Disk Jockey: 23, Juke Box: 15)
* I Almost Lost My Mind – Pat Boone
(According to Sales: 13, Disk Jockey: 13, Juke Box: 11)
* I Hear You Knocking – Gale Storm
(According to Juke Box: 40)
* I Want You, I Need You, I Love You – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 14, Disk Jockey: 26, Juke Box: 19)
* It Only Hurts for a Little While – Ames Brothers
(According to Sales: 48, Juke Box: 38)
* It’s Almost Tomorrow – Dream Weavers
(According to Juke Box: 49)
* Ivory Tower – Cathy Carr
(According to Sales: 32, Disk Jockey: 33, Juke Box: 20)
* Ivory Tower – Gale Storm
(According to Disk Jockey: 31, Juke Box: 39)
* Ivory Tower – Otis Williams
(According to Disk Jockey: 44)
* I’ll be Home – Pat Boone
(According to Sales: 34, Disk Jockey: 14, Juke Box: 16)
* I’m in Love Again – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 25, Disk Jockey: 36, Juke Box: 33)
* Juke Box Baby – Perry Como
(According to Juke Box: 44)
* Just Walking in the Rain – Johnnie Ray
(According to Sales: 23, Disk Jockey: 28, Juke Box: 28)
* Lisbon Antigua – Nelson Riddle
(According to Sales: 3, Disk Jockey: 7, Juke Box: 2)
* Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
(According to Sales: 45)
* Long Tall Sally – Pat Boone
(According to Juke Box: 50)
* Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 15, Disk Jockey: 20, Juke Box: 36)
* Magic Touch – Platters
(According to Sales: 36, Disk Jockey: 29, Juke Box: 29)
* Memories Are Made of This – Dean Martin
(According to Sales: 9, Disk Jockey: 46, Juke Box: 6)
* Moonglow and Theme from Picnic – George Cates
(According to Sales: 31, Disk Jockey: 21, Juke Box: 30)
* Moonglow and Theme from Picnic – Morris Stataff
(According to Sales: 11, Disk Jockey: 5, Juke Box: 27)
* More – Perry Como
(According to Sales: 39, Disk Jockey: 35, Juke Box: 41)
* My Prayer – Platters
(According to Sales: 4, Disk Jockey: 10, Juke Box: 9)
* No Not Much – Four Lads
(According to Sales: 20, Disk Jockey: 3, Juke Box: 10)
* On the Street Where You Live – Vic Damone
(According to Sales: 35, Disk Jockey: 18)
* Poor People of Paris – Les Baxter
(According to Sales: 7, Disk Jockey: 25, Juke Box: 3)
* Rock and Roll Waltz – Kay Starr
(According to Sales: 10, Disk Jockey: 2, Juke Box: 1)
* Rock Island Line – Lonnie Donegan
(According to Sales: 50)
* See You Later Alligator – Bill Hailey
(According to Sales: 33, Disk Jockey: 30, Juke Box: 23)
* Singing the Blues – Guy Mitchell
(According to Sales: 40)
* Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie
(According to Sales: 22, Disk Jockey: 11, Juke Box: 18)
* Song for a Summer Night – Mitch Miller
(According to Disk Jockey: 50)
* Standing on the Corner – Four Lads
(According to Sales: 29, Disk Jockey: 17, Juke Box: 34)
* Sweet Old Fashioned Girl – Theresa Brewer
(According to Sales: 46, Disk Jockey: 47, Juke Box: 35)
* Teen Age Prayer – Gale Storm
(According to Disk Jockey: 48)
* Theme from the Three Penny Opera – Dick Haymes
(According to Disk Jockey: 37)
* Tonight You Belong to Me – Patience and Prudence
(According to Sales: 26, Disk Jockey: 34, Juke Box: 32)
* Transfusion – Norvus Nervous
(According to Sales: 47)
* True Love – Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly
(According to Sales: 44, Disk Jockey: 42)
* Tutti Frutti – Pat Boone
(According to Juke Box: 48)
* Wayward Wind – Gogi Grant
(According to Sales: 5, Disk Jockey: 1, Juke Box: 8)
* Whatever will be will be (Que Sera Sera) – Doris Day
(According to Sales: 8, Disk Jockey: 12, Juke Box: 13)
* Why do Fools Fall in Love – Gale Storm
(According to Disk Jockey: 43)
* Why Do Fools Fall in Love – Teen Agers
(According to Sales: 28, Disk Jockey: 37, Juke Box: 21)

1956’s Top Country and Western Records

* According to Your Heart – Jim Reeves
(According to Disk Jockey: 42)
* Any Old Time – Webb Pierce
(According to Sales: 43, Disk Jockey: 35, Juke Box: 45)
* Be-Bop-A-Lulla – Gene Vincent
(According to Sales: 20, Disk Jockey: 41, Juke Box: 24)
* Beautiful Lies – Jean Shepard
(According to Sales: 41, Juke Box: 49)
* Blackboard of My Heart – Hank Thompson
(According to Sales: 19, Disk Jockey: 18, Juke Box: 22)
* Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Parkins
(According to Sales: 4, Disk Jockey: 4, Juke Box: 2)
* Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 23)
* Boppin’ the Blues – Carl Perkins
(According to Sales: 45, Juke Box: 35)
* Cause I Love You – Webb Pierce
(According to Sales: 36, Disk Jockey: 45, Juke Box: 27)
* Conscience I’m Guilty – Hank Snow
(According to Sales: 28, Disk Jockey: 39, Juke Box: 33)
* Crazy Arms – Ray Price
(According to Sales: 1, Disk Jockey: 1, Juke Box: 3)
* Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 7, Disk Jockey: 12, Juke Box: 8)
* Eat, Drink and be Merry – Porter Wagoner
(According to Sales: 22, Disk Jockey: 25, Juke Box: 12)
* Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
(According to Sales: 32, Disk Jockey: 19, Juke Box: 29)
* For Rent – Sonny James
(According to Sales: 42, Disk Jockey: 20, Juke Box: 47)
* Green Door – Jim Lowe
(According to Sales: 44)
* Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 2, Disk Jockey: 3, Juke Box: 1)
* Hold Everything – Red Sovine and Webb Pierce
(According to Juke Box: 49)
* Honky Tonk Man – Johnny Horton
(According to Sales: 34, Disk Jockey: 24)
* Hoping that You’re Hoping – Louvin Brothers
(According to Disk Jockey: 32)
* Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 11, Disk Jockey: 26, Juke Box: 14)
* How Far is Heaven – Kitty Wells
(According to Sales: 39, Disk Jockey: 34)
* I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby – Louvin Brothers
(According to Sales: 17, Disk Jockey: 9, Juke Box: 18)
* I Feel Like Cryin’ – Carl Smith
(According to Sales: 47, Disk Jockey: 50, Juke Box: 46)
* I Forgot to Remember to Forget – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 9, Disk Jockey: 16, Juke Box: 5)
* I Take the Chance – J. E. and Maxine Brown
(According to Sales: 18, Disk Jockey: 11, Juke Box: 25)
* I Walk the Line – Johnny Cash
(According to Sales: 3, Disk Jockey: 2, Juke Box: 4)
* I Want to be Loved – Johnny and Jack
(According to Disk Jockey: 43)
* I Want You, I Need You, I Love You – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 6, Disk Jockey: 22, Juke Box: 11)
* I was the One – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 27, Disk Jockey: 44)
* I’m a One Woman Man – Johnny Horton
(According to Sales: 50, Disk Jockey: 38, Juke Box: 48)
* I’m so in Love with You – Wilburn Brothers
(According to Disk Jockey: 48)
* I’ve Changed – Carl Smith
(According to Sales: 48, Disk Jockey: 50)
* I’ve Got Five Dollars and It’s Saturday Night – Faron Young
(According to Sales: 25, Disk Jockey: 33, Juke Box: 20)
* It’s a Great Life – Faron Young
(According to Disk Jockey: 47)
* Just Call Me Lonesome – Eddy Arnold
(According to Sales: 37, Juke Box: 26)
* Just One More – George Jones
(According to Juke Box: 41)
* Little Rosa – Red Sovine and Webb Pierce
(According to Sales: 26, Disk Jockey: 23, Juke Box: 40)
* Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 31, Juke Box: 43)
* Love Love Love – Web Pierce
(According to Sales: 16, Disk Jockey: 10, Juke Box: 13)
* My Baby Left Me – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 49, Juke Box: 29)
* My Lips are Sealed – Jim Reeves
(According to Sales: 35, Disk Jockey: 27, Juke Box: 38)
* Mystery Train – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 33, Juke Box: 31)
* Poor Man’s Riches – Benny Barnes
(According to Juke Box: 28)
* Run Boy – Ray Price
(According to Disk Jockey: 28, Juke Box: 42)
* Searching – Kitty Wells
(According to Sales: 5, Disk Jockey: 13, Juke Box: 9)
* Seasons of My Heart – Jim Newman
(According to Disk Jockey: 36, Juke Box: 39)
* Singing the Blues – Marty Robbins
(According to Sales: 10, Disk Jockey: 17, Juke Box: 17)
* Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie
(According to Sales: 15, Disk Jockey: 15, Juke Box: 7)
* So Doggone Lonesome – Johnny Cash
(According to Sales: 14, Juke Box: 19)
* These Hands – Hank Snow
(According to Sales: 46, Disk Jockey: 29, Juke Box: 37)
* Twenty Feet of Muddy Water – Sonny James
(According to Disk Jockey: 49)
* Uncle Pen – Porter Wagoner
(According to Disk Jockey: 46)
* What am I worth – George Jones
(According to Juke Box: 34)
* What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House) – Porter Wagoner
(According to Sales: 30)
* Why Baby Why – George Jones
(According to Sales: 29, Disk Jockey: 30, Juke Box: 23)
* Why Baby Why – Red Savine and Webb Pierce
(According to Sales: 8, Disk Jockey: 7, Juke Box: 6)
* Yes I Know Why – Webb Pierce
(According to Sales: 21, Disk Jockey: 5, Juke Box: 10)
* You and Me – Red Foley and Kitty Wells
(According to Sales: 12, Disk Jockey: 6, Juke Box: 15)
* You are the One – Carl Smith
(According to Sales: 24, Disk Jockey: 14, Juke Box: 21)
* You Don’t Know Me – Eddy Arnold
(According to Sales: 40)
* You Done Me Wrong – Ray Price
(According to Disk Jockey: 31)
* You Gotta be My Baby – George Jones
(According to Disk Jockey: 40, Juke Box: 32)
* You’re Free to Go – Carl Smith
(According to Sales: 38, Disk Jockey: 37, Juke Box: 35)
* You’re Still Mine – Feron Young
(According to Disk Jockey: 21)

1956’s Top Rhythm and Blues Records

* Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby – Jimmy Reed
(According to Sales: 38, Disk Jockey: 17, Juke Box: 23)
* Bad Luck – B. B. King
(According to Sales: 42, Juke Box: 49)
* Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins
(According to Sales: 9, Disk Jockey: 21, Juke Box: 10)
* Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 25, Disk Jockey: 16, Juke Box: 28)
* Bo Weevil – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 31, Disk Jockey: 29, Juke Box: 34)
* Canadian Sunset – Eddie Heywood and Hugo Winterhalter
(According to Sales: 40)
* Casual Look – Six Teens
(According to Sales: 32)
* Corrine Corrina – Joe Turner
(According to Sales: 26, Disk Jockey: 27, Juke Box: 14)
* Devil or Angel – Clovers
(According to Sales: 35, Disk Jockey: 28, Juke Box: 19)
* Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 14, Disk Jockey: 13, Juke Box: 25)
* Down in Mexico – Coasters
(According to Disk Jockey: 45, Juke Box: 33)
* Drown in My Own Tears - Ray Charles
(According to Sales: 13, Disk Jockey: 8, Juke Box: 8)
* Eddie My Love – Teen Queens
(According to Sales: 16, Disk Jockey: 14, Juke Box: 15)
* Fever – Little Willie
(According to Sales: 4, Disk Jockey: 4, Juke Box: 6)
* Flying Saucer – Buchanan and Goodman
(According to Sales: 33)
* Forty Days and Forty Nights – Muddy Waters
(According to Juke Box: 39)
* Great Pretender – Platters
(According to Sales: 5, Disk Jockey: 2, Juke Box: 1)
* Hallelujah I Love Her so – Ray Charles
(According to Sales: 34, Juke Box: 44)
* Hands Off – Joy McShann and Priscilla Bowman
(According to Sales: 43, Disk Jockey: 31, Juke Box: 17)
* Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 19, Disk Jockey: 24, Juke Box: 37)
* Honky Tonk – Biil Doggett
(According to Sales: 1, Disk Jockey: 5, Juke Box: 13)
* Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 21, Disk Jockey: 25, Juke Box: 15)
* I Can’t Love You Enough – LaVern Baker
(According to Disk Jockey: 49)
* I Wanna do More – Ruth Brown
(According to Disk Jockey: 48)
* I Want You, I Need You, I Love You – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 36, Disk Jockey: 39, Juke Box: 18)
* I Want You to be My Girls – Teen Agers
(According to Sales: 7, Disk Jockey: 31, Juke Box: 38)
* I’ll be Home - Flamingos
(According to Juke Box: 31)
* I’m in Love Again – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 2, Disk Jockey: 1, Juke Box: 2)
* In the Still of the Night – Satins
(According to Sales: 22, Disk Jockey: 30, Juke Box: 29)
* It’s too Late – Chuck Willis
(According to Sales: 20, Disk Jockey: 26, Juke Box: 33)
* Ivory Tower – Otis Williams
(According to Sales: 37, Disk Jockey: 22)
* Jivin’ Around – Ernie Freeman
(According to Sales: 47, Juke Box: 22)
* Let the Good Times Roll – Shirley and Lee
(According to Sales: 10, Disk Jockey: 10, Juke Box: 11)
* Little Girl of Mine – Cleftones
(According to Sales: 48)
* Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
(According to Sales: 3, Disk Jockey: 3, Juke Box: 3)
* Love Love Love – Clovers
(According to Sales: 39, Disk Jockey: 33, Juke Box: 40)
* Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
(According to Sales: 41, Disk Jockey: 44)
* Magic Touch – Platters
(According to Sales: 24, Disk Jockey: 19, Juke Box: 24)
* My Blue Heaven – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 27, Disk Jockey: 23, Juke Box: 35)
* My Happiness Forever - LaVern Baker
(According to Disk Jockey: 42)
* My Prayer – Platters
(According to Sales: 8, Disk Jockey: 12, Juke Box: 7)
* Need You Love so Bad – Little Willie John
(According to Sales: 29, Disk Jockey: 37)
* No Money Down – Chuck Berry
(According to Disk Jockey: 47)
* Only You – Platters
(According to Disk Jockey: 43, Juke Box: 45)
* Please Please Please – James Brown
(According to Sales: 17, Disk Jockey: 20, Juke Box: 48)
* Pleadin’ for Love – Larry Birdsong
(According to Sales: 50)
* Poor Me – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 45, Disk Jockey: 50, Juke Box: 32)
* Ready Teddy – Little Richard
(According to Disk Jockey: 40, Juke Box: 50)
* Rip it Up – Little Richard
(According to Sales: 11, Disk Jockey: 18, Juke Box: 21)
* Roll over Beethoven – Chuck Berry
(According to Juke Box: 26)
* See Saw – Moonglows
(According to Juke Box: 41)
* See You Later Alligator – Bill Haley
(According to Disk Jockey: 46)
* Seven Day’s – Drifters
(According to Sales: 23, Disk Jockey: 11, Juke Box: 5)
* Slippin’ and Slidin’ – Little Richard
(According to Sales: 30, Disk Jockey: 8, Juke Box: 41)
* Speedoo – Cadilacs
(According to Sales: 18, Disk Jockey: 34, Juke Box: 20)
* So Long – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 44, Disk Jockey: 35)
* Still – LaVern Baker
(According to Disk Jockey: 41)
* Stranded in the Jungle – Cadets
(According to Sales: 28, Disk Jockey: 38, Juke Box: 27)
* Too Much Monkey Business – Chuck Berry
(According to Juke Box: 41)
* Treasure of Love – Clyde McPhatter
(According to Sales: 15, Disk Jockey: 15, Juke Box: 12)
* Tutti Fruitti – Little Richard
(According to Sales: 12, Disk Jockey: 7, Juke Box: 4)
* Up on the Mountain – Magnificents
(According to Sales: 49)
* Whatcha Gonnna Do When Your Baby Leaves You – Fats Domino
(According to Sales: 46)
* When My Dream Boat Comes Home – Fats Domino
(According to Disk Jockey: 36, Juke Box: 30)
* When You Dance – Turbans
(According to Juke Box: 46)
* Who – Little Walter
(According to Juke Box: 47)
* Why Do Fools Fall in Love – Teen Agers
(According to Sales: 6, Disk Jockey: 6, Juke Box: 9)

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