| | 1961 "Travelin' Man" is an American popular song, best known as a 1961 hit single sung by Ricky Nelson. Singer-songwriter Jerry Fuller wrote it with Sam Cooke in mind, but Cooke's manager was unimpressed and did not keep the demo, which eventually wound up being passed along to Nelson. His version reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. |
| 1962 "Sherry" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and recorded by The Four Seasons. It was the band's first nationally released single and their first number one hit, reaching the top of the U.S.Billboard Hot 100\on September 15, 1962. It remained at number one for five consecutive weeks, and number one on the R&B charts for one week. | |
| | 1957 "Jailhouse Rock" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit to Elvis Presley. The song as recorded by Presley is #67 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of all Time and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, it finished at #21 on AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. |
| 1959 "Lonely Teardrops" is a song recorded and released as a single in 1958 by R&B, Soul, and Rock and Roll singer Jackie Wilson. on the Brunswick label. It is a 1999 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductee. The song became an across-the-board national Top 10 Pop smash (# 7),a # 1 hit on the R&B charts, and is ranked #315 on Rolling Stone Magazines's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is ranked as the 57th biggest U.S. hit of 1959. "Lonely Teardrops" is also listed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "The 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". | |
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