Top Country Songs of the 1950s Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

[Capitol 3262]
written by Merle Travis

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #19] US: B-side to Don't Be Cruel; hit for Big Mama Thornton in 1953; charted as Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog in US Hot 100 charts
[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #45]
[RCA Victor 47-6420]
written by Mae Boren Axton, Thomas Durden & Elvis Presley

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #141] charted as All I Have to Do Is Dream / Claudette in UK charts
[Cadence 1348]
written by Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #352]
[RCA 47-6870]
written by Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #67]
[RCA Epa-4114+]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

Christmas
[Columbia 39871]
written by Tommie Connor

[Cadence 1350]
written by Boudleaux Bryant

[RCA 47-7280]
written by Claude Demetrius

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #311]
[Cadence 1337]
written by Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant

[RCA 47-7150]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #96]
[Sun 281]
written by Otis Blackwell & Jack Hammer

as Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
vocals by Redd Stewart
[RCA Victor 48-0489]
written by Chilton Price, Pee Wee King & Redd Stewart

[RCA 47-7000]
written by Kal Mann & Bernie Lowe

[Decca 64205]
written by Harry Stone & Jack Stapp

[RCA Victor 7555]
written by Jean Villard, Marc Herrand & Bert Reisfeld

[Mercury 5534]
written by Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King

B side to My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
[Imperial 5528]
written by Sharon Sheeley

[RCA 47-7240]
written by Bert Carroll & Russell Moody

[Cadence 1369]
written by Don Everly

[Decca 9-30642]
written by Jack Reardon & Paul Evans

hit for Smiley Lewis in 1956 ; charted as One Night / I Got Stung in UK charts
[RCA Victor 47-7410]
written by Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King & Anita Steiman

[Capitol 3602]
written by Ric Cartey & Carole Joyner

[RCA 47-6800]
written by Lee Rosenberg & Bernard Weinman

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #437] adapted from "Aura Lee", 1861
[RCA Victor 47-6643]
written by Vera Matson, Elvis Presley, George R. Poulton & Ken Darby

Grammy Award for Song of the Year 1960
[Columbia 41339]
written by Jimmie Driftwood

[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Maurice Mysels & Ira Kosloff

as Perez Prado & His Orchestra
[RCA Victor 47-7245]
written by Perez Prado & Bob Marcus

[Capitol 1373]
written by Vaughn Horton

written by traditional & Pete Seeger

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #95]
[Sun 234]
written by Carl Perkins

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #207]
[Cadence 1315]
written by Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant

[Capitol 3058]
written by George Bruns & Tom W. Blackburn

[RCA Victor 7643]
written by Joe Allison & Audrey Allison

[Columbia 41511]
written by Marty Robbins

[Cadence 1355]
written by Boudleaux Bryant & Felice Bryant

as Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie
[Capitol 1124]
written by Bennie Benjamin & George Weiss

instrumental
[Phillips Int'l 3519]
written by Bill Justis & Sid Manker

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #61]
[Sun 267]
written by Dave "Curlee" Williams & James Faye "Roy" Hall

[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #197] charted as Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog in US Hot 100 charts
[RCA Epa-940+]
written by Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley

as Gene Autry & The Pinafores
R Christmas
[Columbia 38610]
written by Johnny Marks

[Tennessee 775]
written by L. Wolfe Gilbert

[Roulette 4015]
written by Bob Merrill

[Roulette 4031]
written by The Weavers

[Columbia 38750]
written by Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins

[Columbia 41393]
written by John D. Loudermilk & Marijohn Wilkin

[Imperial 5483]
written by Dub Dickerson & Erma Herrold

[Atco 6117]
written by Bobby Darin & Murray Kaufman

charted as All I Have to Do Is Dream / Claudette in UK charts
[Cadence 1348]
written by Roy Orbison

[Imperial 8236]
written by Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II

[Sun 288]
written by Otis Blackwell

written by Frank Loesser

US: from Elvis, Volume 1 EP
[RCA Epa-992+]
written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller

[MGM 12609]
written by Marvin Rainwater

[Decca 46261]
written by Al Lewis & Guy Wood

as Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #102]
[Capitol 3450]
written by Gene Vincent, Donald Graves & Tex Davis

as Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys
Christmas
[Columbia 38907]
written by Jack Rollins & Steve Nelson

[Columbia 4-40864]
written by Marty Robbins

with Ferlin Husky
written by Billy Barton, Fuzzy Owen & Lewis Talley

instrumental
[Jamie 1104]
written by Duane Eddy & Lee Hazlewood

[Decca 9-46221]
written by Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins

as Johnnie Lee Wills & His Boys
[Bullet 696]
written by Johnnie Lee Wills & Deacon Anderson

[Dot 15968]
written by T. Texas Tyler

featuring The Anita Kerr Singers
[Decca 30423]
written by Jimmy Duncan

as Red Foley & Ernest Tubb
written by Gussie Davis & Lead Belly

[Roulette 4045]
written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore

instrumental
[Imperial 5474]
written by Bill Justis & Sid Manker

[King 1237]
written by Larry Coleman & Norman Gimbel

vocals by the Beaver Valley Sweethearts
[Coral 64061]
written by Vaughn Horton

[Imperial 5503]
written by Dorsey Burnette & Johnny Burnette

[Monument 400]
written by Paul Clayton, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Larry Ehrlich & Dave Lazer

[Capitol 3628]
written by Smokey Rogers

written by Arthur Herbert, Fred Stryker & Jimmy Wakely

[Valley 105]
written by Artie Glenn

[Mercury 70167]
written by Jim Lowe

as Jimmy Wakely & the Les Baxter Chorus
[Capitol 1393]
written by Jerry Capehart, Alton Delmore & Arthur Smith [Arthur Leroy Smith]

[Capitol 960]
written by Steve Allen [composer]

[Capitol 1295]
written by Tennessee Ernie Ford

[Decca 46234]
written by Hardrock Gunter

[Capitol 1328]
written by traditional, Carl Sigman & Percy Faith

[Sun 296]
written by Jerry Lee Lewis & Ron Hargrave

[Dot 45-15481]
written by Naomi Ford & Lee Hazlewood

[Capitol 40280]
written by Terry Gilkyson

[King 830]
written by Henry Bernard, Morry Burns, Lois Mann & Henry Thurston

[Decca 9-28758]
written by Artie Glenn

US B-side to Don't
[RCA 47-7150]
written by Rose Marie McCoy & Kelly Owens

[RCA Victor 7133]
written by Don Gibson

hit for Paul Whiteman in 1925
[Imperial 8156]
written by Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II

vocals by the Marlin Sisters & Ray Smith
[Coral 9-60508]
written by John Meyer

written by Irving Gordon

vocals by lloyd "cowboy" copas & rosalind patton
[King 15137]
written by Charles Kanter, Henry Glover & Lois Mann

as Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie
[Capitol 1567]
written by Hope Ryder & Lida Dolan

[Fabor 4018]
written by Ned Miller

[christmas]
[Decca 9-30513]
written by Joe Beal & Jim Boothe

[Capitol 800]
written by Bill Foreman & Roma Foreman

[Decca Faith 14526]
written by Gladys Gollahon

B side to Bird Dog
[Cadence 1350]
written by Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant

[King 986]
written by L. Wolfe Gilbert

[Decca 46241]
written by Billy Simmons & Curley Williams

[Capitol 1592]
written by Johnnie Roberts & Jimmie Davis