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!