History of Number One Songs (134)

November 3 – 23, 1956
Jim Lowe
Green Door

August 18 – September 14, 1956
The Platters
My Prayer

June 23 – August 3, 1956
Gogi Grant
The Wayward Wind

March 24 – May 4, 1956
Les Baxter
The Poor People of Paris

February 18 – March 2, 1956
The Platters
The Great Pretender

December 3, 1955 – January 13, 1956
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Sixteen Tons

There is something about lists that bring out my obsessive-compulsive disorder. As a child, I would go through almanacs ranking the most inane things, and since this was well before the Internet age, and the development of Excel, I had hand written lists of varying topics in what felt like exhaustive research; or at least my eight year old self thought so.

My desk was littered with lined sheets of such arbitrary lists like the top 100 tallest buildings in North America or who had the most Home Runs in a season that did not win a MVP Award. In retrospect, it probably would have been a lot healthier for my wellbeing do be outside playing but whatever was on television was far more interesting as was almost anything non-fiction hence my very pale complexion and inability to master road hockey during my youth.