2:59
1953 Johnny Ace - The Clock (#1 R&B hit for 5 weeks)
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2:51
1953 Faye Adams - Shake A Hand (#1 R&B hit for 10 weeks)
2:48
1953-54 Faye Adams - I’ll Be True (#1 R&B hit)
2:58
1953 Ames Brothers - Lonely Wine
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2:32
1953 Ray Anthony - Thunderbird
1953 Ray Anthony - Street Scene
2:09
1953 Ray Anthony - Wild Horses (Jo Ann Greer, vocal)
2:20
1953 Louis Armstrong - Dummy Song
3:37
1953 Beneath The Southern Cross from “Victory At Sea” - Robt. Russell Bennett & NBC Symphony
3:16
1953 single version: Blue Jays - White Cliffs Of Dover
2:19
1953 Bonnie Lou - Seven Lonely Days
2:31
1953 Bonnie Lou - Tennessee Wig Walk
3:02
1st RECORDING OF: Teach Me Tonight - Janet Brace (1953)
2:18
1953 Les Brown - From This Moment On (instrumental)
3:00
1953 Les Brown - Midnight Sun (instrumental)
2:53
1953 Ruth Brown - (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean (#1 R&B hit for 5 weeks)
1953 Mindy Carson - Tell Me You’re Mine
RIP Jay North: 1953 Rosemary Clooney & Jimmy Boyd - Dennis The Menace
2:45
1953 OSCAR-NOMINATED SONG: My Flaming Heart - Nat King Cole
4:02
1953 Al “Jazzbo” Collins - Three Little Pigs
2:30
1953 Jerry Colonna - Ebb Tide
3:01
1953 Perry Como - Idle Gossip
1953 Don Cornell - Please Play Our Song (Mister Record Man)
2:49
1953 Coronets - Nadine
1953 Wally Cox - There Is A Tavern In The Town
2:36
1953 Floyd Cramer - Fancy Pants (original version)
1953 Davis Sisters - I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know (#1 C&W hit for 8 wks)
3:11
1953 Doris Day - The Second Star To The Right
1st RECORDING OF: The Crazy Otto Medley - Der schräge Otto (1953)
2:39
1953 Fats Domino - Please Don’t Leave Me
2:29
1953 Fats Domino - Going To The River
2:14
1953 Fats Domino - Rose Mary
1953 Tommy Dorsey - The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (sorta instrumental with vocal effects))
2:57
1953 Drifters - Money Honey (featuring Clyde McPhatter) (#1 R&B hit for 11 weeks)
2:46
1953 Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters - The Way I Feel (45)
3:07
1953 Billy Eckstine - Coquette
1953 Tommy Edwards - (Now And Then There’s) A Fool Such As I
2:21
1953 Esquire Boys - Guitar Boogie Shuffle
1953 Bill Farrell - Kaw-Liga
1953 The “5” Royales - Baby Don’t Do It (#1 R&B hit)
3:03
1953 The “5” Royales - Help Me Somebody (#1 R&B hit)
3:15
1953 Flamingos - Golden Teardrops
1953 Ralph Flanagan - A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E (Flanagan & The Singing Winds, vocal)
2:37
1953 Red Foley - Hot Toddy
1953 Four Aces - Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)
1953 Four Freshmen - Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)
1953 Four Lads - I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder
1:58
1953 Four Lads - He Who Has Love
1st RECORDING OF: Angels In The Sky - Dick Glasser (1953 version)
3:14
1953 Jackie Gleason theme - Melancholy Serenade
2:56
1953 Benny Goodman - I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again (Helen Ward, vocal)
2:42
1953 Dolores Gray - Big Mamou
1953 Buddy Greco - You’re Driving Me Crazy
2:44
1953 OSCAR-NOMINATED SONG: Sadie Thompson’s Song (Blue Pacific Blues) (soundtrack--Jo Ann Greer)
1953 Bill Haley - Farewell--So Long--Goodbye
1953 Les Harris - And The Bull Walked Around Olay
1953 Richard Hayman - Dansero
2:16
1953 Eddy Howard - Gomen-Nasai (Forgive Me)
1953 Betty Hutton - Goin’ Steady
2:40
1953 June Hutton - Say You’re Mine Again
3:12
1953 Spike Jones - Dragnet
3:20
1950/1953 Spike Jones-Homer & Jethro - Pal-Yat-Chee
1953 Louis Jordan - I Want You To Be My Baby
2:38
1953 Stan Kenton - Hush-A-Bye (with vocal ensemble)
1953 B. B. King - Please Love Me (#1 R&B hit)
1953 King Pleasure - Red Top (with Betty Carter)
3:32
1953 Eartha Kitt - I Want To Be Evil
1953 Frankie Laine - Answer Me, Lord Above (aka Answer Me, My Love) (#1 UK hit)
1953 Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd - The Little Boy And The Old Man
1953 'Party Record': Larry Lartz (Cliff Norton) - This Is No Shit
1953 Peggy Lee - Baubles, Bangles And Beads
1st RECORDING OF: Blue Monday - Smiley Lewis (1953)
2:06
1953 Liberace - 12th Street Rag
3:21
1953 Liberace - Chopsticks
2:22
1st RECORDING OF: Mystery Train - Little Junior’s Blue Flames (1953)
1st RECORDING OF: Kansas City (as 'K.C. Loving') - Little Willie Littlefield (1952)
2:28
1953 Hank Locklin - Let Me Be The One (a #1 C&W hit)
2:35
1953 Jim Lowe - Gambler’s Guitar
3:08
1953 Willie Mabon - I Don’t Know (#1 R&B hit for 8 weeks)
1953 Willie Mabon - I’m Mad (#1 R&B hit)
1953 Gordon MacRae - C’est Magnifique
2:08
1953 Bob Manning - It’s All Right With Me
1953 Mantovani - Swedish Rhapsody
1953 Ralph Marterie - Warsaw Concerto
1953 Ralph Marterie - The Creep
1953 Ralph Marterie - Crazy, Man, Crazy (Larry Ragon & The Smarty-Airs, vocal)
1953 HITS ARCHIVE: Caribbean - Tony Martin
1953 Al Martino - Rachel
2:27
1st RECORDING OF: Ebb Tide - Robert Maxwell (1953 harp instrumental)
1953 & 1957 THE ORIGINAL! Song Of The Nairobi Trio (aka “Solfeggio”) by Robert Maxwell
3:28
1953 Mitch Miller - Under Paris Skies
1953 Mitch Miller - Without My Lover (Bolero Gaucho)
2:50
1953 Guy Mitchell - Look At That Girl (#1 UK Hit)
3:19
1953 Modernaires - New Juke Box Saturday Night
3:17
1953 Vaughn Monroe - Ruby (vocal by Vaughn Monroe)
1953 Jaye P. Morgan - Just A Gigolo
2:24
1953 Jaye P. Morgan - Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
1953 Orioles - In The Mission Of St. Augustine
2:54
1953 Patti Page - This Is My Song
1953 Paulette Sisters - Never Smile At A Crocodile (Larry Clinton Orch.)
2:52
1953 Gayla Peevey - Are My Ears On Straight?
1st RECORDING OF: Just Walkin’ In The Rain - Prisonaires (1953)
1953 Jim Reeves - Mexican Joe (#1 C&W hit for 9 weeks)
2:15
1953 Lita Roza - (How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window (#1 UK Hit)
1953 OSCAR-NOMINATED SONG: The Moon Is Blue - Sauter-Finegan Orch. (Sally Sweetland & chorus, voc)
1953 Let Me Go, Devil - Georgie Shaw
1953 Lu Ann Simms - Moving Away
2:33
1953 Frank Sinatra - Lean Baby
3:10
1953 Frank Sinatra - My One And Only Love
1953 Carl Smith - Hey Joe! (#1 C&W hit for 8 weeks)
1953 Jo Stafford - Without My Lover (Bolero Gaucho)
1953 Stargazers - Broken Wings (#1 UK Hit)
1953 Kay Starr - When My Dreamboat Comes Home
1953 Sunshine Ruby - Too Young To Tango
1953 Super-Sonics - New Guitar Boogie Shuffle
1953 Rufus Thomas - Bear Cat
1953 version: Mitchell Torok - Caribbean (#1 C&W hit for 2 wks)
1953 Joe Turner - Honey Hush (#1 R&B hit for 8 weeks)
3:06
1953 Vocaleers - Is It A Dream
1953 Ruth Wallis - Dear Mr. Godfrey
1953 Billy Ward and his Dominoes - These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
2:41
1953 Billy Ward & his Dominoes (Jackie Wilson, vocal) - Rags To Riches
2:25
1953 Dinah Washington - TV Is The Thing (This Year)
2:34
1953 Bernie Wayne - Zsa-Zsa
1953 Bobby Wayne - Gone
1953 Weavers - Rock Island Shuffle (Rock Island Line)
1953 David Whitfield - Answer Me (#1 UK Hit)
1953 Hank Williams - Your Cheatin’ Heart (#1 C&W hit for 6 wks)
1st RECORDING OF: I Feel So Bad - Chuck Willis (1953)
1953 Hugo Winterhalter - Music Box In Blue
1953 Faron Young - Goin’ Steady (a #2 C&W hit)
1:57
1953 Vicki Young - I Love You So Much
3:22
1953 Amos ‘N’ Andy – The Lord’s Prayer
1953 Louis Armstrong & The Commanders - Zat You, Santa Claus?
1953 Louis Armstrong & The Commanders - Cool Yule
1953 Gene Autry - Up On The House Top (Ho! Ho! Ho!)
2:01
1953 Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville) - Let’s Have A Merry, Merry Christmas
1953 Mel Blanc - Yah Das Ist Ein Christmas Tree
2:05
1953 Teresa Brewer - I Just Can’t Wait Till Christmas
1953 Teresa Brewer - Too Fat For The Chimney
1953 Rosemary Clooney - Happy Christmas, Little Friend
2:07
1953 Nat King Cole - Mrs. Santa Claus
1953 Nat King Cole - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
1953 Jerry Colonna - Too Fat For The Chimney
1953 Billy Eckstine - What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve
3:04
1953 version: Eddie Fisher - Christmas Eve In My Home Town
1953 Fontane Sisters - Kissing Bridge (with Perry Como)
1953 version: Fontane Sisters – Silver Bells
1953 version: Homer & Jethro - All I Want For Christmas Is My Upper Plate
1953 Homer & Jethro - I Saw Mommy Smoochin’ Santy Claus
3:09
1953 Joni James - Nina-Non
1953 Joni James - Christmas And You
1953 Spike Jones - Where Did My Snowman Go? (Linda Strangis, vocal)
1953 Peggy Lee - It’s Christmas Time Again
1953 Liberace - Christmas Medley (White Christmas-Jingle Bells-O Come All Ye Faithful-Silent Night)
1953 Dean Martin - The Christmas Blues
2:17
1953 Les Paul & Mary Ford - Jungle Bells (Dingo-Dongo-Day)
1953 Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
1953 Judy Valentine - A Ride In Santa’s Sleigh
