Country Hits 1955-1960

 

Below are the top country hits for the years 1955-1957. If you click on years, you will be taken to a YouTube playlist of the hits for that year. Some of the videos are fan tributes (song plays while photos of artist are shown) and some are from television performance from that era.

1955

  1. Loose Talk – Carl Smith
  2. Let Me Go, Lover – Hank Snow
  3. In the Jailhouse Now – Webb Pierce
  4. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young – Faron Young
  5. A Satisfied Mind – Porter Wagoner
  6. I Don’t Care – Webb Pierce
  7. The Cattle Call – Eddy Arnold
  8. Love, Love, Love – Webb Pierce
  9. That Do Make It Nice – Eddy Arnold
  10. Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie Ford

1956

  1. Why Baby Why – Red Sovine and Webb Pierce
  2. I Forgot to Remember to Forget – Elvis Presley
  3. Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley
  4. I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby – Louvin Brothers
  5. Blue Suede Shoes – Carl Perkins
  6. Crazy Arms – Ray Price
  7. I Want You, I Need, I Love You – Elvis Presley
  8. I Walk the Line – Johnny Cash
  9. Don’t Be Cruel – Elvis Presley
  10. Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
  11. Singing the Blues – Marty Robbins

1957

  1. Young Love – Sonny James
  2. There You Go - Johnny Cash
  3. Gone – Ferlin Husky
  4. All Shook Up – Elvis Presley
  5. White Sport Coast (And a Pink Carnation) - Marty Robbins
  6. Honky Tonk Song - Webb Pierce
  7. Four Walls - Jim Reeves
  8. Bye Bye Love - Everly Brothers
  9. Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear – Elvis Presley
  10. Whole Lotta Shakin’ – Jerry Lee Lewis
  11. Fraulein – Bobby Helms
  12. My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You – Ray Price
  13. Wake Up Little Susie - Everly Brothers
  14. Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
  15. My Special Angel – Bobby Helms

1958

  1. The Story of My Life – Marty Robbins
  2. Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
  3. Ballad of a Teenage Queen – Johnny Cash
  4. Oh Lonesome Me – Don Gibson
  5. Just Married – Marty Robbins
  6. All I Have to Do Is Dream – Everly Brothers
  7. Guess Things Happen That Way – Johnny Cash
  8. Alone with You – Faron Young
  9. Blue Blue Day – Don Gibson
  10. Bird Dog – Everly Brothers
  11. City Lights – Ray Price

1959

  1. Billy Bayou – Jim Reeves
  2. Don’t Take Your Guns to Town – Johnny Cash
  3. When It’s Springtime n Alaska (It’s Forty Below) – Johnny Horton
  4. White Lightning – George Jones
  5. The Battle of New Orleans – Johnny Horton
  6. Waterloo – Stonewall Jackson
  7. The Three Bells – The Browns
  8. Country Girl – Faron Young
  9. The Same Old Me – Ray Price
  10. El Paso – Marty Robbins

1960

  1. He’ll Have to Go – Jim Reeves
  2. Please Help Me, I’m Falling – Hank Locklin
  3. Alabam – Cowboy Copas
  4. Wings of a Dove – Ferlin Husky
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