The year in music
Best Songs of 1959
Berry Gordy starts the label that becomes Motown, Miles Davis records “Kind of Blue”, and Ray Charles has “What’d I Say”. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper die in a plane crash.
Play 1959
23 songs
Back in the U.S.A.
Chuck Berry
All Blues
Miles Davis
Blue in Green
Miles Davis
So What
Miles Davis
Uptown
Roy Orbison
Long Black Veil
Lefty Frizzell
Peter Gunn
Duane Eddy
Charlie Brown
The Coasters
Poison Ivy
The Coasters
Dream Lover
Bobby Darin
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darin
Dedicated to the One I Love
The Shirelles
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Charles Mingus
Ne me quitte pas
Jacques Brel
Personality
Lloyd Price
Brand New Cadillac
Vince Taylor
I Only Have Eyes for You
The Flamingos
Money (That's What I Want)
Barrett Strong
Sea of Love
Phil Phillips
Sleep Walk
Santo & Johnny
Sweet Nothin's
Brenda Lee
Take Five
Dave Brubeck
Venus
Frankie Avalon
1959 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 23 songs first released in 1959. Rock, Jazz and Pop lead the year. Miles Davis, Bobby Darin and The Coasters are among the voices of 1959.
Artists of 1959
- Miles Davis3
- Bobby Darin2
- The Coasters2
- Barrett Strong
- Brenda Lee
- Charles Mingus
- Chuck Berry
- Dave Brubeck
- Duane Eddy
- Frankie Avalon
- Jacques Brel
- Lefty Frizzell
- Lloyd Price
- Phil Phillips
- Roy Orbison
- Santo & Johnny
- The Flamingos
- The Shirelles
- Vince Taylor