Top 10 Albums 1958

The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by
Henry Mancini. It was the first album ever to win the
Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959.
Gigi is a 1958 American musical film directed
by Vincente Minnelli. The screenplay by Alan Jay
Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same
name by Colette. The film features songs with
lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
- The album consists of a haunting
collection of melancholic ballads about
sadness and loss. At the time of the
recording, Sinatra's divorce from Ava
Gardner had been finalised, and the
arranger of the album, Nelson Riddle, had
recently suffered the deaths of his mother
and daughter.
The Music Man is a musical with book, music,
and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is
based on a story by Willson and Franklin
Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold
Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and
leader and sells band instruments and
uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping
town with the cash.

Come Fly with Me is an album by American
singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958.
King Creole is the sixth album by Elvis Presley,
issued on RCA Victor Records, LPM 1884, in
September 1958, recorded in three days at Radio
Recorders in Hollywood. It contains songs
written and recorded expressly for the film, and
peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums
chart. It followed the film release by over ten
weeks.

South Pacific is a 1958 film
adaptation of the Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical South
Pacific, which was based on James
A. Michener's Tales of the South
Pacific.
Elvis' Golden Records - It is a compilation
of hit singles released in 1956 and 1957,
and is widely believed to be the first
greatest hits album in rock and roll history.
It is the first of five Elvis' Golden/Gold
Records compilatons, four of which would
be released during Presley's lifetime. It
peaked at #3 on the Billboard Top Pop
Albums chart.

Moanin' is a jazz album by Art Blakey and the
Jazz Messengers, recorded in 1958.
This was Blakey's first album for Blue Note in
several years, after a period of recording for a
miscellany of labels, and marked both a
homecoming and a fresh start.
Lady in Satin is an album by jazz singer Billie
Holiday released in 1958 on Columbia Records,
catalogue CL 1157 in mono and CS 8048 in
stereo. It is the final album completed by the
singer and released in her lifetime. The original
album was produced by Irving Townsend, and
engineered by Fred Plaut.

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