Top 10 Albums 1956

Songs For Swingin' Lovers! is an album by Frank
Sinatra, recorded in the KHJ Studios, Hollywood.
released in 1956.
Elvis Presley was the name of Elvis Presley's
debut LP. The album spent ten weeks at #1 on the
Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in 1956, the first
rock 'n' roll album ever to make it to the top of the
charts.

Calypso is an album by Harry Belafonte,
released by RCA Victor in 1956. The album is
number four on Billboard's "Top 100 Album"
list for having spent 31 weeks at number 1, 58
weeks in the top ten, and 99 weeks on the U.S.
charts.
The King and I - The soundtrack album, first
released on Capitol Records, restored three
songs recorded from the film but not
included in the final release print. The
soundtrack album was an instant success
and continues to be a best seller to this day.

Elvis is the second album by Elvis Presley,
released on RCA Victor Records in mono, LPM
1382, in October 1956. It spent four weeks at #1 on
the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart that year.
Saxophone Colossus is one of Sonny Rollins'
most acclaimed albums. Recorded and released
in 1956, it has been awarded a rare Crown by
The Penguin Guide to Jazz, and is widely
considered the masterpiece of his mid-1950s
series of recordings for Prestige Records and
one of the greatest albums ever issued on that
label.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook
is a 1956 album by the American jazz singer Ella
Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and
arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs
written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Concert by the Sea is a 1955 live album by Erroll
Garner, which was recorded in Carmel,
California. The recording also features Eddie
Calhoun on bass and Denzil Best on drums, and
although it was produced using relatively
primitive sound equipment, Garner's
inventiveness and musical talent have ensured
the album has become one of his most notable.

At Carnegie Hall is the second album by The
Weavers. The concert was recorded live at
Carnegie Hall in New York City on Christmas
Eve 1955. At the time the concert was a come-
back for the group following the inclusion of
the group on the entertainment industry
blacklist.
Ella and Louis is a 1956 studio album by Ella
Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and the
Oscar Peterson Quartet.

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