Music of the 1950s

Music
1920-1929 | 1930-1939 | 1940-1949 | 1950-1959 | 1960-1969 | 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999
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• The Andrews Sisters
• Paul Anka
• Louis Armstrong
• Dorothy Ashby
• Gene Autry
• Charles Aznavour
• Burt Bacharach
• Count Basie
• Shirley Bassey
• Tony Bennett
• Irving Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Chuck Berry
• The Big Bopper
• Bill Haley & His Comets
• Georges Brassens
• Jacques Brel
• James Brown
• John Cage
• Cab Calloway
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Johnny Cash
• Ray Charles
• Petula Clark
• Eddie Cochran
• John Coltrane
  • 1957 - Blue Train
• Nat King Cole
• Ornette Coleman:
  • 1959 - The Shape of Jazz to Come
• Connie Converse
• Sam Cooke
• Aaron Copland
• Bing Crosby
• Celia Cruz
• Dick Dale
• Bobby Darin
• Miles Davis
  • 1959 - Kind of Blue
• Bo Diddley
• Eric Dolphy
• Fats Domino
• Duke Ellington
• Bill Evans
• The Everly Brothers
• Fabian
• Art Farmer
• Eddie Fisher
• Flanders and Swann
• Tennessee Ernie Ford
• George Formby
• The Four Freshmen
• Four Tops
• Aretha Franklin
• Serge Gainsbourg
• João Gilberto
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Vince Guaraldi
• Woody Guthrie
• Coleman Hawkins
• Bernard Herrmann
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• Johnny Hodges
• Billie Holiday
  • 1958 - Lady in Satin
• Buddy Holly
• John Lee Hooker
• Johnny Horton
• Howlin' Wolf
  • 1959 - Moanin' in the Moonlight
• The Ink Spots.
• The Isley Brothers
• Antônio Carlos Jobim
• George Jones
• Quincy Jones
• Spike Jones
• B.B. King
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• Eartha Kitt
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Tom Lehrer
  • 1953 - Songs by Tom Lehrer
  • 1959 - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
• Leiber and Stoller
• Lerner and Loewe
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Liberace
• Little Richard
  • 1957 Here's Little Richard
• Vera Lynn
• Dean Martin
• Johnny Mathis
• Toshiro Mayuzumi
• Charles Mingus:
  • 1959 - Mingus Ah Um
• Thelonious Monk:
  • 1957 - Brilliant Corners
• Ricky Nelson
• Anthony Newley
• Alfred Newman
• Lionel Newman
• The Nutty Squirrels
• The Oak Ridge Boys
• Babatunde Olatunji
• Roy Orbison
• Charlie Parker
• Édith Piaf
• Cole Porter
• Elvis Presley
  • The Sun Sessions (recorded in 1954-1955, but only compiled on one record in 1976)
  • 1956 - Elvis Presley (The Album)
• Tito Puente
  • 1958 - Dance Mania Vol 1
• The Quintet
  • 1953 - Jazz at Massey Hall
• Jimmy Reed
• Django Reinhardt
• Debbie Reynolds
• Cliff Richard
• Marty Robbins
  • 1959 - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
• Roy Rogers
• Neil Sedaka
• Ravi Shankar
• The Sherman Brothers
• Dinah Shore
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Nina Simone
• Frank Sinatra
  • 1954 - Songs for Young Lovers
  • 1955 - In the Wee Small Hours
  • 1956 - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
• Jimmy Smith
  • 1959 - Home Cookin'
• Igor Stravinsky.
• Sun Ra
• Art Tatum
• Tom & Jerry
• Allen Toussaint
• Conway Twitty
• Ritchie Valens.
• Sarah Vaughan
  • 1954 - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (with Clifford Brown)
• Edgard Varèse
• Muddy Waters.
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson
• Lawrence Welk
• Kitty Wells
• Andy Williams
• Hank Williams

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