Music in the 1950s

Music of the 1950s

Pop R&B Doo Wop Novelty Songs Blues Country Rockabilly Jazz Calypso Record Lables

Pop Music hits Peggy Lee, “Fever” Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” Bobby Darin, “Beyond the Sea” Rosemary Clooney, “Come on-a My

House”

R&B Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti” Joe Turner, “Shake, Rattle and Roll” Ray Charles, “What’d I Say”

Rock and Roll Link Wray, “Rumble” Bill Haley and the Comets

Rockabilly Carl Perkins Wanda Jackson

Doo Wop The Coasters, “Yakety Yak” Darlene Love, “Today I Met the Boy I’m

Gonna Marry”

Country Johnny Cash, “I Walk the Line” Hank Williams, “Cold, Cold Heart” Tennessee Ernie Ford, “16 Tons”

Jazz Nina Simone Lester Young Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Miles Davis John Coltrane Chet Baker

Record Lables Chess Records Stax Records Sar (Owned by Sam Cooke) Motown Records (Berry Gordy)