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1958 novelty song from Sheb Wooley became a 6-week No. 1 hit, and still gets play 68 years later

The hit featured a bizarre creature with a surprisingly wholesome dream.
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1958 No. 1 Hit, Written by a Future Vice President, Is Still a Pop Classic 68 Years Later

Today, Sept. 29, marks the 68th anniversary of a pop classic with quite the stately backstory. A suave little ballad that arrived during the transition between 1950s orchestral pop and the emerging ...
American Songwriter

3 Surf Rock Songs From 1958 You’d Never Skip on the Radio

While surf rock music wasn’t as prominent in the 1950s as it would be in later decades, the era certainly helped to shape the style’s unique, breezy DNA. That’s just what we wanted to dive into here ...
American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonders From 1958 Who Should Have Been Huge

Let’s take a walk back into the past. Let’s go back seven-plus decades and visit the world of the 1950s. It was a time when rock and roll was just getting going. When commercial music was just finding ...
Billboard

Here’s Every Billboard Hot 100 Year-End No. 1 Song

"Die With a Smile" is the latest leader, dating to the Hot 100's 1958 launch. By Xander Zellner Billboard has been publishing weekly rankings in one form or another for more than a century. Early in ...
PBS

1958 | Volare by Domenico Modugno

The popular music of the late 1950s was dominated by Italian singers from the urban northeast — though you might never guess it with a cursory glance at their names. Besides the uncontested star of ...
Yahoo

1958 Rock Song Made Rare Chart History With Four Different Artists

A rock song hitting the charts once is an achievement. Doing it multiple times is rare. Doing it four separate times, each with a different artist, is something else entirely. That's exactly what ...