Your favorite music from 1956?

Rudy Moore


aka Rudy Ray Moore
Rudy Moore - The Buggy Ride

 

Varetta Dillard


Varetta Dillard - Got You On My Mind

 

Big Maybelle


'That's a Pretty Good Love'
78 Record: Big Maybelle - Candy (1956)
with Mickey "Guitar Baker"; the male voice may be the tenor sax player Buddy Lucas aka "Big" Buddy Lucas
https://www.discogs.com/artist/258508-Buddy-Lucas

 

'A Thousand Miles Away' - the Heartbeats


first released on Hull, September, 1956
The Heartbeats [Doo Wop] - A Thousand Miles Away
subsequently released on Rama in November
The Heartbeats [Doo Wop] - A Thousand Miles Away
Cover versions of A Thousand Miles Away written by William Miller, James Sheppard | SecondHandSongs

 

Jerry McCain and his Upstarts


Jerry McCain And His Upstarts - Things Ain't Right

 

Billy "The Kid" Emerson - 'Every Woman I Know'


... is crazy 'bout an automobile ...

(internet sources suggest that the 78 was released in November, 1956; with the 45 following in January, 1957)
78 Record: Billy "The Kid" Emerson - Tomorrow Never Comes (1956)
https://www.discogs.com/Billy-The-K...-I-Know-Tomorrow-Never-Comes/release/14208344
Cover versions of Every Woman I Know written by Billy "The Kid" Emerson | SecondHandSongs

 

I remember being a boy and liking Don't Be Cruel, The Wayward Wind, Sixteen Tons, The Great Pretender, and Singing The Blues. By the time I got to high school I really liked Long Tall Sally, Heartbreak Hotel, and Blue Suede Shoes.

And with all due respect to Doris Day, I never liked Que Sera, Sera.

 

Skeets McDonald


Harlan Howard song .... with Eddie Cochran - guitar (told to "rock it, but don't ruin it")
Skeets McDonald - You Oughta See Grandma Rock

 

The El Dorados


'Bim Bam Boom'; an "answer record" to their own 1955 hit 'At My Front Door'
78 Record: The El Dorados - Bim Bam Boom (1956)

 

'Chicken Hop' - Billy Bland


Sonny Terry - harmonica
Billy Bland - Oh, You For Me
early release by the singer of 'Let the Little Girl Dance' (#7 in 1960)

 

Only thing I know from '56 (I was one year old for most of the year), but it's a good one.

 

I've always liked Buddy Holly's first single, 'Love Me.'

 

He looks exactly like Noah Cyrus

 

The Robins


The group that had previously recorded for Leiber & Stoller on the Spark Label (but now without Carl Gardner and Bobby Nunn who had left to form the Coasters)
https://www.discogs.com/The-Robins-Merry-Go-Rock-Hurt-Me/release/11634767
song first released by Denise Lor; and also recorded by Wynona Carr
Cover versions of Hurt Me written by Edwin Greines, Jerry Freeman | SecondHandSongs

 

Lula Reed


https://www.discogs.com/Lula-Reed-Sample-Man-Three-Men/release/12466150

 

Nolan Strong and the Diablos


Nolan Strong And The Diablos - A Teardrop From Heaven

 

I found Julie to be a bit 'samey' no disrespect, but she wasn't a versatile singer.

 

The Dells


The Dells - Oh What A Nite
the song became a hit for a second time for the Dells with a 1969 re-recorded version

 

'See You Soon Baboon' - Dale Hawkins



https://www.discogs.com/Dale-Hawkins-See-You-Soon-Baboon-Four-Letter-Word/release/10023092

 

Little Clydie and the Teens


https://www.discogs.com/Little-Clydie-And-The-Teens-Oh-Me-A-Casual-Look/release/2794236
First recording by Clydie King (aged 12) in Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers mode
Clydie King - Wikipedia

 

'The Midnite Creeper - Johnny Otis Orchestra


Part II -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik_b5g47eys&ab_channel=CrisVangel1958
guitarist - Pete "Guitar" Lewis (or Jimmy Nolen?)

Johnny Otis Orchestra - The Midnite Creeper Part I

 

Linda Hopkins

'They raided the joint' from the film "Rockin' the Blues"

Rockin' the Blues (1956) - IMDb
song first recorded in 1946 by Hot Lips Page and his orchestra
Cover versions of They Raided the Joint written by Roy Eldridge, Hot Lips Page | SecondHandSongs

 

King Pleasure


with unnamed female vocalist
King Pleasure - D B Blues

 

Most of the number ones,inckuding
MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS, Dean Martin
THE GREAT PRETENDER, Platters
THE POOR PEOPLE OF PARIS (Jean's Song),Les Baxter, Orchestra nad Chrous
YOUNG LOVE, either Tab Hunter or Sonny James
GREEN DOOR, Jim Lowe
WAYWARD WIND, Gogiu Grant

 

Lowell Fulson


Lowell Fulson - It's Your Fault Baby
Cover versions of It's Your Fault Baby written by Lowell Fulson | SecondHandSongs