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Top 10 Decade Defining Songs: 1950s

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Hitch up your skirts and loosen your neckties! It's time to let your hair down and let your dancing speed up! Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 decade defining songs of the 1950s. Special thanks to our users Jack Morris, Awesome One, Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Pérez, neeljoshi, Kenneth Gibson, Gary Jordan and Oliver Swen for submitting the idea on our Suggest Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest! This video is part of a new series called 'Decade Defining Songs' where we've picked 10 songs that were the most successful, had the most inlfuence and best represent the time period. You know, they "defined" the decade! If you want to suggest an idea for a WatchMojo video, check out our interactive Suggestion Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest :) Check us out at / watchmojo and / watchmojo We have T-Shirts! Be sure to check out http://www.WatchMojo.com/store for more info.

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Intro

"Blueberry Hill" 1956 Fats Domino

"Summertime Blues" (1958) Eddie Cochran-Saimmertime Blues

"Peggy Sue" (1957) Buddy Holly

BA Great Balls of Fire (1987) Jerry Lee Lewis

"La Bamba" (1958) Ritchie Valens

"I Walk the Line" (1956) Johnny Cash

Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash

"Rock Around the Clock" (1954) jatching Bill Haley & His Comets

Hound Dog Elvis Presley

Honorable Mentions

"Mack the Knife" (1959) Bobby Darin

"Johnny B. Goode" (1958) Chuck Berry

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Top 10 Decade Defining Songs: 1950s

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2014May 31

Hitch up your skirts and loosen your neckties! It's time to let your hair down and let your dancing speed up! Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 decade defining songs of the 1950s. Special thanks to our users Jack Morris, Awesome One, Jaime Enrique Gutierrez Pérez, neeljoshi, Kenneth Gibson, Gary Jordan and Oliver Swen for submitting the idea on our Suggest Page at WatchMojo.com/suggest! This video is part of a new series called 'Decade Defining Songs' where we've picked 10 songs that were the most successful, had the most inlfuence and best represent the time period. You know, they "defined" the decade! If you want to suggest an idea for a WatchMojo video, check out our interactive Suggestion Tool at http://www.WatchMojo.com/suggest :) Check us out at / watchmojo and / watchmojo We have T-Shirts! Be sure to check out http://www.WatchMojo.com/store for more info.

Intro

"Blueberry Hill" 1956 Fats Domino

"Summertime Blues" (1958) Eddie Cochran-Saimmertime Blues

"Peggy Sue" (1957) Buddy Holly

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