| "The Battle of New Orleans" is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood. The song describes the 1815 Battle of New Orleans from the perspective of an American soldier. The song scored number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959. Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1959 |
"Sleep Walk" is an instrumental steel guitar-based song written, recorded, and released in 1959 by brothersSanto & Johnny Farina, with their uncle Mike Dee playing the drums.[2]) It was recorded at Trinity Music inManhattan, New York City. "Sleep Walk" entered Billboard's Top 40 on August 17, 1959. It rose to the number 1 position for the last two weeks in September[3] and remained in the Top 40 until November 9. | |
| "Charlie Brown" is a popular Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller song that was a top-ten hit for The Coasters[1] in the spring of 1959 (released in January, coupled with "Three Cool Cats," Atco 6132).[2] It went to #2 on the BillboardHot 100 singles charts, and was the first of three top-ten hits for the Coasters that year. |
"There Goes My Baby" is a song written by Ben E. King (Benjamin Nelson), Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters. The song reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard R&B chart and on the Cash Box sales chart for two weeks, in the summer of 1959. | |
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