In July in New Zealand there’s a curious phenomenon called “mid-winter Xmas” – where some people have a faux Xmas celebration to recognise the fact that its Winter, given that the real one falls during mid-summer down under. Of course it’s still not snowing or anything so it’s additionally odd. But there you go! All of this is to point out that it’s nearly Xmas in 2021 but in 1955 we’e just hitting July. So no Xmas tunes on this week’s playlist…
The songs of July, 1955
“A Blossom Fell” – Nat King Cole & The Four Knights
“A Story Untold” – Crew-Cuts
“Ain’t That A Shame” – Fats Domino*
“Ain’t That A Shame” – Pat Boone*
“Alabama Jubilee” – Ferko String Band
“Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White” – Perez Prado
“Dance With Me Henry” – Georgia Gibbs
“Domani” – Julius Larosa*
“Hard To Get” – Gisele Mackenzie
“Heart” – Eddie Fisher
“Hey Mr. Banjo” – Sunnysiders
“Honey-Babe” – Art Mooney Orchestra
“Hummingbird” – Les Paul & Mary Ford*
“I’ll Never Stop Loving You” – Doris Day*
“It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie” – Somethin’ Smith & The Redheads
“Learnin’ The Blues” – Frank Sinatra
“Love Me Or Leave Me / Something’S Gotta Give” – Sammy Davis Jr.
“My One Sin” – Nat King Cole*
“Razzle Dazzle / Two Hound Dogs” – Bill Haley & The Comets*
“Rock Around The Clock” – Bill Haley
“Seventeen” – Boyd Bennett*
“Something’s Gotta Give / Love Me Or Leave Me” – Sammy Davis Jr.*
“Something’S Gotta Give” – Mcguire Sisters
“Sweet And Gentle” – Alan Dale*
“That Old Black Magic” – Sammy Davis Jr.*
“The Ballad Of Davy Crockett” – Bill Hayes
“The Ballad Of Davy Crockett” – Fess Parker
“The Ballad Of Davy Crockett” – Tennessee Ernie Ford
“The Breeze And I” – Caterina Valente
“The House Of Blue Lights” – Chuck Miller
“The Kentuckian Song” – Hilltoppers*
“The Man In The Raincoat” – Priscilla Wright
“Unchained Melody” – Al Hibbler
“Unchained Melody” – Les Baxter
“Unchained Melody” – Roy Hamilton
“Whatever Lola Wants” – Sarah Vaughan
* = New to the chart this week.
We’ll pad out the playlist with a top 10 from the UK charts of the same month:
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link or embedded below:
This month in history
Happy days (see what i did there?) in 1955 as the original Disneyland launches on July 17. You can see a video about this below:
Not to be outdone, on July 26th Ted Allen threw a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers:
Different times eh.
What’d Sadie think?
It’s one more week at the top for “Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White” by Perez Prado before Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock” storms the charts and changes pop for good. Maybe? We’ll see…
Love ’em
“Ain’t That A Shame” – Fats Domino
“My One Sin” – Nat King Cole
“Something’s Gotta Give / Love Me Or Leave Me” – Sammy Davis Jr.
“That Old Black Magic” – Sammy Davis Jr.
Where Will The Dimple Be? – Rosemary Clooney And The Mellomen
Stranger In Paradise – Tony Bennett
Like ’em
“I’ll Never Stop Loving You” – Doris Day
“Razzle Dazzle / Two Hound Dogs” – Bill Haley & The Comets
“Seventeen” – Boyd Bennett
“Sweet And Gentle” – Alan Dale
Dreamboat – Alma Cogan
I Wonder. – Dickie Valentine
Evermore – Ruby Murray
Cool Water – Frankie Laine With The Mellomen
Lose ’em
“Domani” – Julius Larosa
“Hummingbird” – Les Paul & Mary Ford
“The Kentuckian Song” – Hilltoppers
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.