Best Singles of 1959:

1. Buddy Holly Peggy Sue Got Married
2. Elvis Presley I Need Your Love Tonight
3. Brenda Lee Sweet Nothings
4. Rick Nelson Never Be Anyone Else
5. Gene Vincent Over the Rainbow
6. Eddie Cochran Teenage Heaven
7. Cliff Richard Living Doll
8. Marylin Monroe I Wanna Be Loved By You
9. Eddie Cochran Something Else
10. April Stevens Teach Me Tiger
11. Gene Vincent Wild Cat
12. Crickets When You Ask About Love
13. Cliff Richard Living Doll
14. Ray Charles What’d I Say
15. Dion & Belmonts Teenager in Love
16. The Avons Seven Little Girls
17. Roy Orbison Almost Eighteen
18. Johnny Kidd & Pirates Please Don’t Touch
19. Jan & Dean There’s a Girl
20. The Lana Sisters Seven Little Girls
21. Crickets Love’s Made a Fool of You
22. Wilbert Harrison Kansas City
23. Emile Ford What Do Want to Make Those Eyes at me For
24. Elvis Presley A Big Hunk of Love
25. Gene Vincent Right Now
26. The Lana Sisters Buzzin’
27. Freddy Cannon Tallahassee Lassie
28. The Everly Brothers Till I Kissed You
29. Marty Wilde Teenager in Love
30. Rick Nelson Just a Little too Much
31. The Shadows Saturday Dance
32. The Lana Sisters Mister Dee-Jay
33. The Everly Brothers Poor Jenny
34. Platters Sixteen Tons
35. Brenda Lee Let’s Jump the Broomstick
36. Neil Sedaka Oh Carol
37. Barrett Strong Money
38. Bobby Darin Dream Lover
39. Tommy Steele Tallahassee Lassie
40. Sam Cooke Only Sixteen
41. Roy Orbison Paper Boy
42. Eddie Cochran Hallelujah, I Love Her So
43. The Everly Brothers Let it Be Me
44. The Clovers Love Potion No.9
45. Johnny Burnette Settin’ the Woods on Fire
46. Gene Vincent Summertime
47. Wanda Jackson You’ve Turned to a Stranger
48. Paul Evans Seven Little Girls
49. Bobby Vee Suzie Baby
50. Connie Francis Lipstick on Your Collar
51. Sam Cooke Everybody Loves to Cha Cha Cha
52. Cliff Richard Livin’ Lovin’ Doll
53. Chuck Berry Back in the USA
54. Shirelles Dedicated to the One I Love
55. Sarah Vaughan Smooth Operator
56. Rick Nelson I Can’t Help it
57. Rick Nelson I Wanna Be Loved
58. Vince Taylor Brand New Cadillac
59. Ritchie Valens That’s My Little Suzie
60. Sam Cooke Happy in Love
61. Johnny Burnette Sweet Baby Doll
62. Roy Orbison Uptown
63. Patsy Cline Got a Lot Rhythm in my Soul
60. Sam Cooke Summertime
61. Chuck Berry Almost Grown
62. Buddy Holly It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
63. Carole King Baby Sittin’
64. Cliff Richard Mean Streak
65. Chuck Berry Broken Arrow
66. Ritchie Valens Little Girl
67. Jerry Lee Lewis Let's Talk About Us
68. Coasters Poison Ivy
69. Teddy Bears Wonderful Loveable You
70. Chordettes A Girl’s Work is Never Done
71. Shirelles A Teardrop and a Lollipop
72. Paul Anka Put Your Head on My Shoulder
73. Teddy Bears If You Only Knew
74. Chordettes Tall Paul
75. Carole King Short Mort
76. Paul Anka Lonely Boy
77. Teddy Bears Oh Why
78. The Everly Brothers Till I Kissed You
79. Tommy Steele You Were Mine
80. Sam Cooke Only Sixteen


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