The 1950s
Free music recorded or released in the 1950s.
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Mr. Sandman
The Chordettes, Archie Bleyer, Pat Ballard · 1954
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
Vicki Dale, The Peter Pan Orchestra · 1953
Chop Suey Mambo
Alfredito and his Orchestra, Al Lang · 1954
Lollipop
The Chordettes, J. Dixon, B. Ross · 1958
La Vie En Rose
The Bernard Peiffer Trio, Bernard Peiffer, Bill Clark · 1952
SH-BOOM
THE CHORDS, Keyes, Feaster · 1954
LAS MANANITAS
Pedro Infante, Mariachi Los Mamertos · 1950
IN THE CANDLELIGHT
JOHNNIE RAY, Ray Connif & His Orch., P. Ballard · 1956
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Rusty's Riders, Fenton "Jonesy" Jones, Stan Jones · 1953
Get on board, little children
Prof. J. Earl Hines and his Goodwill singers, Jazz-Disques · 1952
Jenny, Jenny
Artie Malvin, Loren Becker with the Zig Zags Quartet, The Zig Zags Quartet · 1957
The Flying Saucer Part 1
Buchanan and Goodman, Buchanan & Goodman · 1956
Missouri Waltz
Lawrence (Piano Roll) Cook, Shannon, Eppel · 1950
Ungdoms Mynder (Childhood Memories)
Slim Jim and The Vagabond Kid · 1950
RULE, BRITANNIA
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY, THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, Arnold Grier · 1953
Christmas Chopsticks ('Twas The Night Before Christmas)
Fred Heider, Bobby Burns, Peter Pan Orchestra · 1953
I Hear A Rhapsody
Bette McLaurin with Rex Kearney Orch., Baker, Gasparre · 1952
Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
The Penguins, Curtis Williams · 1954
Maybe
The Chantels, Goldner, Casey · 1957
Oh, Happy Day
Koplow, Reed, Dick Erickson · 1952
"Chinatown, My Chinatown"
Geordie Hormel, Jerome, Schwartz · 1951
THE BRIDAL WALTZ
TONY MANGO, THE AIR LANE TRIO & THE ABBEYAIRES, Cirina · 1951
HINDUSTAN
Ray Bloch and His Orchestra, Wallace, Weeks · 1950
Love Is Strange
Mickey and Sylvia, Ethel Smith · 1956
Sabre Dance
Aram Khachaturian, VRK Symphony Orchestra, N. S. Golovanov · 1951
GOD SAVE THE KING
THE B.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, SIR ADRIAN BOULT · 1953
Try Me (I Need You)
James Brown And The Famous Flames, James Brown · 1958
None legible
1955
El Rossinyol (The Nightingale)
G. Terrago, Murcia, Majorca · 1950
That Girl
Eddie Bracken with Barbara Cooke, Bracken, Suesse · 1954
Let Her Go, Let Her Go
Ken Carson, Don Costa and his Orchestra, Heath · 1955
Seljancica Kolo
Devojacko, Banat Tamburitza Orchestra · 1950
Alice in Wonderland
1953
A Foggy Day
Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, Carmen McRae · 1953
"I'll Be A Good Boy"
Rufus Thomas, Thomas · 1950
Bye Bye Love
The Everly Brothers, B. Bryant, F. Bryant · 1957
Have You Seen My Baby?
Choker Campbell and his Band, Harold Young, Campbell · 1953
GAUDEAMUS IGITUR
MARIO LANZA, CONSTANTINE CALLINICOS · 1954
I Got A Wife
Peter Gunn, Petite Fleur, Charlie Brown · 1959
Night Train
Jimmy Forest and All Star Combo, Forrest · 1952
"Fats" Waller Stomp
"Fats" Waller, Morris' Hot Babies, Waller · 1953
West Virginia Polka
Frank Wojnarowski i Jego Orkiestra, Walter Yansick · 1955
Christmas Issue
Milwaukee Gas Light Company Quartet · 1957
Since I Met You Baby
Scat Man Crothers, The Wayne Sisters, Lew Raymond Orchestra · 1957
Las Muchachitas Del Cha, Cha, Cha
Alfredito and his Orchestra, Calixto Leices, Pollin' Rodriguez and Trio · 1954
Come My Little Baby
The Chantels, Lawrence, Alldred · 1957
Get A Job
Lee Jackson, Herbie Lane's Orchestra · 1958
Alegre Navidad
Bobby Capo, Trio Vegabajeno, Moncho Usera y Su Orquesta · 1951
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