1 Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin
2 Whatever Will Be Will Be - Doris Day
3 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
4 Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
5 Just Walkin' In The Rain - Johnnie Ray
6 Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
7 Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley
8 Rock And Roll Waltz - Kay Starr
9 Yellow Rose Of Texas - Mitch Miller
10 The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
11 Hot Diggity - Perry Como
12 Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
13 I'll Be Home - Pat Boone
14 Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell
15 Poor People Of Paris - Les Baxter
16 The Great Pretender - Platters
17 Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle
18 Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
19 It's Almost Tomorrow - Dreamweavers
20 Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley
21 My Prayer - Platters
22 A Woman In Love - Frankie Laine
23 Mack The Knife -Louis Armstrong
24 Moonglow And Love Theme Picnic- Morris Stoloff
25 I Want You I Need You I Love You - Elvis Presley
26 Sixteen Tons - Frankie Laine
27 No Other Love - Ronnie Hilton
28 He - Al Hibbler
29 Ivory Tower - Cathy Carr
30 Lay Down Your Arms - Anne Shelton
Top BillBoard Albums of 1956
1. CALYPSO Harry Belafonte Victor
2. MY FAIR LADY Original Cast Columbia
3. KING AND I Soundtrack Capitol
4. EDDIE DUCHIN STORY Soundtrack Decca
5. ELVIS PRESLEY Elvis Presley Victor
The Tony's (Musicals) 1956
Outstanding Musical: Damn Yankees
Outstanding Musical Actor: Ray Walston, Damn Yankees
Outstanding Musical Actress: Gwen Verdon, Damn Yankees
Outstanding Supporting or Featured Musical Actor: Russ Brown, Damn Yankees
Outstanding Supporting or Featured Musical Actress: Lotte Lenya, The Threepenny Opera
Outstanding Choreographer: Bob Fosse. Damn Yankees
Country & Western 1956
I Walk The Line - This song insured that Johnny Cash was no one hit wonder boy. Though Folsom Prison Blues did well and held up through the years, this song became a number one hit on Billboard charts and remained on the record charts for over 43 weeks selling over 2 million copies. Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins on guitar and bass. I walk the line
Elvis Presley appeared on national television singing Hound Dog on the Steve Allen Show, the Milton Berle Show and the Ed Sullivan Show. Though Rock & Roll had existed since at least 1951 under the R & B banner of "Jump Blues" it was not until Elvis Presley - who had learned the music first hand in black bars and churches - presented it to white audiences that it became the music of all subsequent generations. Elvis Aaron Presley.
Popular 1956
Guy Mitchell - Singing the Blues
Why Do Fools Fall In Love - 14 year old soprano Frankie Lymon was the lead singer for the first top selling Do-wop group, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. This song was their biggest hit with 10 more before the year was out. Lymon went on his own in 1957, became addicted to heroin at 15 and died of of an overdose in 1968. Frankie Lymon Story
Rock & Roll 1956
Little Richard had been doing R&B since 1951 often performing Tutti Frutti with its original lyrics to gay audiences. In 1955 Specialty Records gave it a rewrite and added the line "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" and it became an instant Rock & Roll hit and a model for all subsequent Little Richard songs. Little Richard
Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent & the Bluecaps
Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
Rhythm & Blues 1956
The Great Pretender - Platters
Please, Please, Please - James Brown
In The Still Of The Nite - Five Satins
I Walk The Line -
Why Do Fools Fall In Love -
Little Richard 
