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The Oldies Music of
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FIFTIES WEB Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1959
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The decade ended much as it had
begun. Homogenized. Predictable. No raws edges. No surpises. |
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Rock's rougher edges had all but disappeared by 1959. Jerry Lee Lewis had been blacklisted after his marriage to his 13 year old cousin. Chuck Berry would be arrested for an offense with an underage girl. Little Richard had turned to his church. |
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Elvis Presley would return from the Army in 1960, never again to be the naughty rebel he had been in the Fifties. Under Colonel Parker's control, Elvis would remain a huge star, but he would never realize his full potential as an actor or musician. Go to The ELVIS SECTION |
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Further, in February of 1959, a plane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Perhaps the most eloquent chronicler of the demise of Rock's early spirit is Don McLean. His epic parable, American Pie, refers not only to the deaths of Holly, Valens and the Bopper, but to the changes in Rock as well. For more information on the crash and its victims, go to THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED. Ever wonder what the words to American Pie mean? GO HERE. |
 Buddy Holly  Ritchie Valens |
 Bobby Darin  Paul Anka |
1959 belonged to the Teen Idols. The number one hit of the year was Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife. Ironically, Darin resisted releasing the 1928 Three Penny Opera song as a single. Also in the Top Ten that year was Frankie Avalon's Venus. Paul Anka scored with Lonely Boy and Put Your Head on My Shoulder. Fabian had hits with Turn Me Loose and Tiger. Annette Funicello made the charts with Tall Paul. In 1960 Annette's real life boyfriend, Paul Anka, would write Puppy Love about their relationship. Go to The TEEN IDOL SECTION |
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Speaking of dreamboats... Capitalizing on his 77 Sunset Strip popularity, Edd Byrnes with Connie Stevens had a hit called Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb. And in the process gave us all a new vocabulary. Go to the 77 Sunset Strip Page Go to the SLANG SECTION |
 Edd Brynes "Kookie" |
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