PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1956*
https://playback.fm/year/1956 No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 WHATEVER WILL BE,WILL BE (QUE SERA, SERA)-DORIS DAY-AUGUST 2 BLUEBERRY HILL-FATS DOMINO-November 3 HEARTBREAK HOTEL-ELVIS PRESLEY-May 4 HOUND DOG-ELVIS PRESLEY-September 5 DON'T BE CRUEL-ELVIS PRESLEY-October 6 THE GREAT PRETENDER-PLATTERS-February 7 MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS-DEAN MARTIN-January 8 SINGING THE BLUES-Guy Mitchell-December 9 JUST WALKING IN THE RAIN-Johnnie Ray-October 10 MY PRAYER-Platters-August 11 Love Me Tender-Elvis Presley-November 12 Blue Suede Shoes-Carl Perkins-May 13 Long Tall Sally-Little Richard-May 14 Why Do Fools Fall In Love-Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-March 15 Rock And Roll Waltz-Kay Starr-March 16 Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)-Perry Como-May 17 Be Bop A Lula-Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps-July 18 True Love-Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly-December 19 On The Street Where You Live-Vic Damone-July 20 I Walk The Line-Johnny Cash-November 21 Honky Tonk-Bill Doggett-October 22 Green Door-Jim Lowe-November 23 A Woman In Love-Frankie Laine-January 24 Wayward Wind-Gogi Grant-July 25 Roll Over Beethoven-Chuck Berry-June 26 Mack The Knife (Theme From The Threepenny Opera)-Louis Armstrong-May 27 See You Later,Alligator-Bill Haley & The Comets-February 28 It's Almost Tomorrow-Dream Weavers-January 29 I'll Be Home-Pat Boone-March 30 Heimweh-Freddy Quinn-July 31 Poor People Of Paris-Les Baxter-April 32 Moonglow & Theme From Picnic-Morris Stoloff-June 33 Cindy,Oh Cindy-Eddie Fisher-December 34 Lay Down Your Arms-Anne Shelton-October 35 Lisbon Antigua-Nelson Riddle-March 36 Young Love-Sonny James-December 37 No Other Love-Ronnie Hilton-May 38 I Almost Lost My Mind-Pat Boone-August 39 I Want You,I Need You,I Love You-Elvis Presley-July 40 Friendly Persuasion-Pat Boone-November 41 In The Still Of The Night-Five Satins-November 42 Rip It Up-Little Richard-August 43 Smokestack Lightning-Howlin' Wolf-March 44 La Corrida-Gilbert Becaud-July 45 Walk Hand In Hand-Tony Martin-June 46 Amour,Castagnettes Et Tango-Lucienne Delyle-July 47 Refrain-Lys Assia-July 48 A Tear Fell-Teresa Brewer-May 49 Canadian Sunset-Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood-October 50 Portuguese Washerwoman-Joe "Fingers" Carr-June 51 Too Young To Go Steady-Nat "King" Cole-June 52 Please,Please,Please-James Brown & The Famous Flames-April 53 I'm In Love Again-Fats Domino-July 54 Band Of Gold-Don Cherry-February 55 Innamorata (Sweetheart)-Dean Martin-May 56 More-Perry Como-July 57 Blue Monday-Fats Domino-December 58 Standing On The Corner-Four Lads-June 59 Rip It Up-Bill Haley & The Comets-December 60 R.O.C.K.-Bill Haley & The Comets-June 61 Rock Island Line-Lonnie Donegan-May 62 Jim Dandy-La Vern Baker & Gliders-December 63 Zambesi-Lou Busch-March 64 Blue Suede Shoes-Elvis Presley-May 65 Lost John-Lonnie Donegan-June 66 Poor People Of Paris-Winifred Atwell-March 67 My Blue Heaven-Fats Domino-June 68 Jamaica Farewell-Harry Belafonte-December 69 Let The Good Times Roll-Shirley & Lee-September 70 Rosalie-Freddy Quinn-July 71 Ich Weib,Was Dir Fehlt-Peter Alexander-July 72 Sixteen Tons-Frankie Laine-January 73 Stranded In The Jungle-Cadets-August 74 Race With The Devil-Gene Vincent And The Blue Caps-October 75 Anastasia-Pat Boone-Dot-December 76 Oh Johnny-Tante Leen-July 77 Au Revoir Rome-Lucienne Delyle-July 78 Whatever Will Be,Will Be (Que Sera Sera)-Jo Leemans-August 79 Sur Ma Vie-Charles Aznavour-July 80 Smokie-Die Sieben Raben-July 81 La Plus Belle Chose Au Monde-Luis Mariano-July 82 Maruzzella-Renato Carosone-July 83 Conceicao-Cauby Peixoto-July 84 Steig In Das Traumboot Der Liebe-Caterina Valente & Silvio Francesco-July 85 Kaspische Zee-Jaak De Voght-July 86 Chanson Pour L'Auvergnat-Georges Brassenst-July 87 Ballad Of Davy Crockett-Annie Cordy-January 88 Je Vais Revoir Ma Blonde-Dario Moreno-July 89 Tiritomba-Margot Eskens-July 90 Mack The Knife (Theme From The Threepenny Opera)-Dick Hyman Trio-May 91 I've Got You Under My Skin-Frank Sinatra-January 92 (You've Got) The Magic Touch-Platters-May 93 You'll Never Never Know-Platters-November 94 My September Love-Dave Whitfield-May 95 I Put A Spell On You-Screamin' Jay Hawkins-November 96 A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl-Teresa Brewer-July 97 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing-Nat "King" Cole-January 98 Treasure Of Love-Clyde McPhatter-August 99 Fever-Little Willie Johnt-June 100 Tonight You Belong To Me-Patience & Prudence-October *This list was compiled with charts from various western industrialized nations (primarily the USA,UK and Australia). a