Make a compilation album from 1956 tracks

We are almost at the beginning of the road for the modern era of music and although I enjoy music from before this time period also when we get to 1954 I will probably leave movement in this direction for someone else...

So for now.
What are you favourite songs the you could compile in whatever way you choose from 1956
They don't have to be singles
They don't have to be anything like mine

Rock and Roll
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
I Got A Woman - Elvis Presley
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley
Tryin To Get To You - Elvis Presley
Money Honey - Elvis Presley
Paralyzed - Elvis Presley
Be Bop a Lula - Gene Vincent
Race With The Devil - Gene Vincent

Ballads/Love Songs/Mellow
I Want You I Need You I Love You - Elvis Presley
Hallelujah I Love Her So - Ray Charles
I Love You Because - Elvis Presley
Why Do Fools Fall InLove - The Teenagers
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Love Me - Elvis Presley
Wouldn't It Be Loverly - Julie Andrews

56 was the year Elvis took over the world. There is probably a lot more great music in 56, but this is the stuff that I'm most familiar with.

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Someone should make a late 50s essential thread, because quite frankly it's difficult to find what's really good in the gap through 1955-1964

(i'm 22 please don't bite)

 

No biting mate.
If you go to the listed years, there are a lot of suggestions of great songs in that period. A lot of it will depend on whether you like the fifties rock and roll sound.
There is a ton of great jazz, and I have some of it, but I am not fully fluent in jazz and don't pretend to be an expert.
If you don't hate Elvis Presley, Elvis Is Back is quite stunning sounding for a 1960 recording and has some great music on it. Don't let the seventies popular portrayal of Elvis taint your ability to hear great music
Ray Charles is always worth a listen. There were guys like Link Wray, Duanne Eddy and Eddie Cochran doing some cool guitar stuff.
Being a keyboard player, you may like some Jerry Lee Lewis stuff, of course back here everything was leaning towards the piano, but Jerry was a very solid player.

Edit - can't forget Little Richard either. Probably the first inspiration for the hard rock vocal and also a good piano player

 

Big Joe Turner - Corina Corina
Bill Haley & His Comets - See You Later, Alligator
Bill Haley & His Comets - R-O-C-K
Bill Haley & His Comets -Don't Knock The Rock
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
Carl Perkins - Honey Don't
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry - Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Ain't Got No Home
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel
Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender
Elvis Presley - Shake, Rattle & Roll / Flip, Flop & Fly
Elvis Presley - Ready Teddy
Elvis Presley - Blue Suede Shoes
Elvis Presley - I Want You, I Need You, I Love you
Elvis Presley - Love Me
Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill
Fats Domino - Blue Monday
The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - The ABC's Of Love
Gene Vincent - Be Bop A Lula
Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'
James Brown & The Famous Flames - Please Please Please
Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm
Lavern Baker - Jim Dandy
Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
Little Richard - Slippin' And Slidin'
Little Richard - Ready Teddy
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
Little Richard - Rip It Up
The Platters - (You Got) The Magic Touch
Roy Brown - Saturday Night
Roy Orbison - Ooby Dooby
Sammy Masters - Pink Cadillac
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Shirley & Lee - Let The Good Times Roll

 

My 60-minute playlist is actually 1956-1957. I hope that's not too much of a problem; it's all sequenced and everything and I can't be bothered finding out which is which. I like it because it strays pretty far afield from R&R:

• Raga Simhendra Madhyamam - Ravi Shankar
• Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
• Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
• That'll be the day - The Crickets
• Why do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
• I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
• Suzie Q - Dale Hawkins
• I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
• March from the River Kwai - Mitch Miller
• America (from West Side Story) - Leonard Bernstein
• Banana Boat (Day-O) - Harry Belafonte
• Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald
• Gesang der Junglinge - Karlheinz Stockhausen

 

That's eclectic! Would you have room for Pat Bone and his cover of I Almost Lost My Mind?

 

I might add Lloyd Price ''Just Because". Because, you know, it's great, and John Lennon recorded it too.

BTW I'd exclude Ooby Dooby. I think it only gets selected because of Roy's later stature.

 

I go by my Dad's record collection for these 50's lists. I only add songs that are in my collection (or in this case, most are in my Dad's collection).

 

Here's a list of twenty songs from 1956 (in no particular order):

1. "Let the Good Times Roll" - Shirley & Lee
2. "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" - Harry Belafonte
3. "Heartbreak Hotel" - Elvis Presley
4. "Blueberry Hill" - Fats Domino
5. "I Walk the Line" - Johnny Cash
6. "Lonely Avenue" - Ray Charles
7. "Just Walking in the Rain" - Johnny Ray
8. "Long Tall Sally" - Little Richard
9. "Ooby Dooby" - Roy Orbison
10. "Without Love (There Is Nothing)" - Clyde McPhatter
11. "Be-Bop-A-Lula" - Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps
12. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" - Chuck Berry
13. "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" - Lerner & Loewe
14. "I Put A Spell On You" - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
15. "Love Me" - Buddy Holly
16. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
17. "Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" - Doris Day
18. "Since I Met You Baby" - Ivory Joe Hunter
19. "Night Lights" - Nat King Cole
20. "Who Do You Love?" - Bo Diddley
Could probably fit ten of these on each LP side, or do a CD version.