[78-L] name that era

[Joe Scott]

Most popular tunes of the year per Billboard:
1955 Perez Prado "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White"
1957 Elvis Presley "All Shook Up" (numbers two through four by Pat Boone, Diamonds, Tab Hunter)
1959 Johnny Horton "The Battle Of New Orleans"
1961 Bobby Lewis "Tossin' And Turnin'"
1963 Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs "Sugar Shack"
1965 Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs "Wooly Bully"
1967 Lulu "To Sir With Love" (numbers two through four by Box Tops, Bobby Gentry, Association; Beatles "Penny Lane" was number fifty-five)
1969 Archies "Sugar Sugar"
1971 Three Dog Night "Joy To The World"
1973 Tony Orlando and Dawn "Tie A Yellow Ribbon..."
1975 Captain and Tenille "Love Will Keep Us Together"
1977 Rod Stewart "Tonight's The Night" (numbers two through four by Andy Gibb, Emotions, Streisand)
We can listen to Jerry Lee Lewis and Led Zeppelin now as much as we want if we want, but...
In Billboard's four top 100 listings of 1956 through 1959, Elvis Presley had a total of 19 tunes (some of them slow ballads -- btw the formula going on with "Love Me Tender," "I Want You I Need You I Love You" and "Loving You" was no more interesting than Pat Boone, was it?), Chuck Berry had 4, Little Richard had 3, Carl Perkins had 1, Eddie Cochran had 1. They were popular, but not representative of how most music of the era sounded.
Joseph Scott