US & UK hit charts
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#1
08/1956 [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
#2
10/1956
#3
03/1956
#4
12/1956
#5
06/1956
#6
09/1956
#7
07/1956
#8
02/1956
#9
03/1956
#10
02/1956
#11
04/1956
#12
12/1956
#13
10/1956
#14
10/1956
#15
09/1956
#16
05/1956
#17
02/1956 [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #95]
[Sun 234]
written by
Carl Perkins
#18
02/1956
#19
04/1956
#20
09/1956
#21
04/1956
#22
09/1956
#23
06/1956
#24
08/1956
[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
#25
04/1956
#26
06/1956
#27
04/1956
#28
01/1956
#29
06/1956
#30
06/1956
#31
12/1956
#32
12/1956
#33
08/1956
#34
04/1956
instrumental [Capitol 3391] written by Don Robertson
#35
02/1956
#36
04/1956
#37
08/1956
#38
10/1956
#39
11/1956
US: from Elvis, Volume 1 EP [RCA Epa-992+] written by Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
#40
12/1956
[Imperial 5417] written by Antoine Domino & Dave Bartholomew
#41
04/1956
#42
03/1956
#43
12/1956
written by Melvin Endsley
#44
07/1956
#45
06/1956
#46
01/1956
as Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group
[London 1650]
written by
Lead Belly
#47
03/1956
#48
01/1956
#49
06/1956
[Mercury 70878] written by Al Hoffman & Dick Manning
#50
03/1956
#51
01/1956
#52
04/1956
written by traditional
#53
08/1956
#54
08/1956
#55
08/1956
#56
04/1956
as Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group
written by traditional & Lonnie Donegan
#57
11/1956
written by Bob Davie & Marvin Moore
#58
06/1956
#59
03/1956
#60
04/1956
#61
10/1956
#62
07/1956
#63
06/1956
#64
04/1956
[Dot 15457] written by Enotris Johnson, Robert Blackwell & Richard Penniman
#65
04/1956
instrumental written by Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills, Will Hudson, George Duning & Steve Allen
#66
11/1956
#67
10/1956
#68
03/1956
#69
09/1956
#70
02/1956
with His All-Stars written by Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht
#71
04/1956
#72
04/1956
#73
09/1956
written by Alex Alstone & Tom Glazer
#74
06/1956
written by Terence Milligan & Tony Carbone
#75
09/1956
#76
04/1956
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #423] [EP] [RCA 47-6492 (u)] written by Carl Perkins
#77
07/1956
#78
10/1956
as Vince Martin with The Tarriers [Glory 247] written by Robert Barron & Burt Long
#79
03/1956
#80
06/1956
[Capitol 3430] written by Stan Lebowsky & Herb Newman
#81
05/1956
#82
09/1956
written by Ande Rand
#83
02/1956
#84
09/1956
#85
12/1956
#86
11/1956
#87
04/1956
[Dot 45-15458] written by Jack Fulton & Lois Steele
#88
10/1956
#89
07/1956
[Specialty 579] written by Robert Blackwell & John Marascalco
#90
06/1956
#91
01/1956
[Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #43]
[Specialty 561]
written by Richard Penniman &
Dorothy LaBostrie
#92
06/1956
#93
09/1956
#94
08/1956
#95
12/1956
US: from Elvis, Volume 1 EP [RCA Epa-992+] written by Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley
#96
11/1956
[Atlantic 1111] written by Ivory Joe Hunter
#97
03/1956
#98
10/1956
written by various
#99
09/1956
as Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group written by Huddie Ledbetter & Lonnie Donegan
#100
05/1956