Obscure songs from the '50s that you love to share with people

A nice doo-wop ballad from 1956 by Lillian Leach and the Mellows - 'Moon of Silver'. Leach singing voice was one of the loveliest ever. The most well-known song by the group is probably 'Smoke from Your Cigarette' which is almost as great.

 

My favorite version of Wild Wild Women is Ruth Browns version from 1953:

 

Toby Stroud and the Blue Mountain Boys -- 'Jesse James' from 1953, is a killer Blue Grass recording:

 

I've loved this old 1958 B-side forever. It is actually the first record I ever owned when I was 5 years old. The A-side of course is The Chipmunk Song.

 

The Rovers – Orange Juice

This instrumental appeared on a budget-label compilation album along with Whitey (Dwight) Pullen's "Walk My Way Back Home." It's obvious that this band also did the back-up on Whitey's song. They've got some real chops, so they were kind of slumming with rockabilly to make a buck.

I've always loved how this track, all 1:40 of it, really smokes.

 

I'm partial to Rose Maddox's rockabilly take on it!

 

Honestly, with the crowd of youngsters I pave had about me, every song from the fifties has been an obscure one.

 

Flipside to Heart And Soul (UK) I think and was on the London label?

 

Jericho Brown - Lonesome Drifter

Singer from Port Arthur/Texas, whose real name was Robert Henry Hensley, who released some singles between 1957 and 1965.
"Lonesome Drifter" is his second single, released in 1958 on the Hollywood-based Del-Fi label.

 

Some rockin' Rockabilly by Dale Wright and the Rock-its, "She's Neat":

 

My kinda thread. I don’t know obscure this is but I discovered it from reading Peter Guralnick’s Sam Phillips bio (his brother’s label released it) and I’ve been hypnotized by it ever since. I’m gonna be poring over everything that shows up in this thread, because this era is THE sweet spot for me.