45s.com -- Search for Songs by Year - 1959

1959 was the year that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in an airplane crash.  The Grammys began.  Elvis was still in the Army, but he continued to have hit records.  

The top songs in 1959 were:

Mack The Knife -- Bobby Darin
The Battle Of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes -- The Platters
Heartaches By The Number -- Guy Mitchell
Venus -- Frankie Avalon
Mr. Blue -- The Fleetwoods
Lonely Boy -- Paul Anka
Stagger Lee -- Lloyd Price
A Lover's Question -- Clyde McPhatter
Donna -- Ritchie Valens
Lonely Teardrops -- Jackie Wilson
Come Softly To Me -- The Fleetwoods
Put Your Head On My Shoulder -- Paul Anka
Kansas City -- Wilbert Harrison
Dream Lover -- Bobby Darin
Sixteen Candles -- The Crests
Pink Shoe Laces -- Dodie Stevens
Charlie Brown -- The Coasters
Sea Of Love -- Phil Phillips with The Twilights
Lipstick On Your Collar -- Connie Francis
What A Diff'rence A Day Makes -- Dinah Washington
Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) -- The Impalas
There Goes My Baby -- The Drifters
Oh! Carol -- Neil Sedaka
The All American Boy -- Bill Parsons
A Teenager In Love -- Dion & The Belmonts
Never be Anyone Else But You -- Ricky Nelson
Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) -- Edward Byrnes and Connie Stevens
Poison Ivy -- The Coasters
Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat -- Paul Evans
Since I Don't Have You -- The Skyliners
What'd I Say -- Ray Charles
I Want To Walk You Home -- Fats Domino
So Fine -- The Fiestas

Click here to see all songs that hit the charts in 1959.

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