# Recommend some old-timey songs for me

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 28, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-old-timey-songs-for-me/623381 "2012-05-28T21:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-old-timey-songs-for-me/623381/41 "2012-06-01T02:39:42Z")

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Here’s the last of the time period:

1956:

Blueberry Hill  
Blue Suede Shoes  
Chain Gang  
Don’t Be Cruel  
Fever (the Little Willie John version - Peggy Lee’s version came two years later)  
Folsom Prison Blues  
Get Me to the Church on Time  
The Great Pretender  
Heartbreak Hotel  
Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)  
I Could Have Danced All Night  
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face  
I Walk the Line  
Long Tall Sally  
Love Me, Tender  
Mack the Knife  
Moonglow (revived that year for the movie “Picnic”)  
On the Street Where You Live  
The Party’s Over  
Que Sera Sera  
The Rain in Spain  
Rock Island Line  
Roll Over Beethoven  
This Land Is Your Land  
The Wayward Wind  
With a Little Bit of Luck

1957:  
All Shook Up  
All the Way (Sinatra)  
America (West Side Story)  
The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)  
Diana (Paul Anka)  
Gee, Officer Krupke  
Goodnight My Someone (The Music Man)  
Great Balls of Fire  
Honeycomb (Jimmie Rodgers)  
I Feel Pretty  
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Billy Williams revived it that year)  
I’m Walking (Fats Domino)  
Jailhouse Rock  
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine  
Marian the Librarian  
Peggy Sue  
Seventy-Six Trombones (really the same melody as Goodnight My Someone)  
Silhouettes (The Rays)  
Susie-Q  
(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear  
That’ll Be the Day  
Wake up Little Susie  
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

That’s it!

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-old-timey-songs-for-me/623381/42 "2012-06-01T04:48:50Z")

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[Pig Foot Pete.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEAOxDihOrw)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-old-timey-songs-for-me/623381/43 "2012-06-01T04:52:09Z")

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[Nagasaki!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAsNZwO0I8w) (Warning: Not too PC . . .)

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