Time Machine

Born in 1927

Your twenties, 1947–1956: how old you were and the songs that were playing, year by year.

Play 1947–1956

You were 20in 194740s
12 songs
Huggin' and Chalkin'
Hoagy Carmichael
Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
Dick Haymes
I'll Dance at Your Wedding
Buddy Clark
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Bill Monroe
Feudin' and Fightin'
Dorothy Shay
You were 21in 194840s
6 songs
One for My Baby
Frank Sinatra
Well, You Needn't
Thelonious Monk
Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore
It's Magic
Doris Day
Manteca
Dizzy Gillespie
Serenade of the Bells
Sammy Kaye
You were 22in 194940s
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Hank Williams
Ran Kan Kan
Tito Puente
La Vie en Rose
Édith Piaf
Tennessee Waltz
Pee Wee King
You were 23in 195050s
I Love You a Thousand Ways
Lefty Frizzell
Rollin' Stone
Muddy Waters
You were 24in 195150s
5 songs
3 O'Clock Blues
B.B. King
Get Happy
Judy Garland
Mom and Dad's Waltz
Lefty Frizzell
Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk
Too Young
Nat King Cole
You were 25in 195250s
You Belong to Me
Jo Stafford
You were 26in 195350s
Woke Up This Morning
B.B. King
Your Cheatin' Heart
Hank Williams
Hound Dog
Big Mama Thornton
You were 27in 195450s
9 songs
That’s All Right
Elvis Presley
The Man That Got Away
Judy Garland
I Fall in Love Too Easily
Chet Baker
Lullaby of Birdland
Sarah Vaughan
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley
Earth Angel
The Penguins
You were 28in 195550s
5 songs
Mack the Knife
Louis Armstrong
Maybellene
Chuck Berry
Only You
The Platters
Tutti-Frutti
Little Richard
You were 29in 195650s
15 songs
Blue Moon
Elvis Presley
Drown in My Own Tears
Ray Charles
Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry
Please, Please, Please
James Brown
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Doris Day
Slippin' and Slidin'
Little Richard