Billboard Top R&B Records of 1956

Billboard Top R&B Records of 1956 is made up of three year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales, disc jockey plays, and juke box plays.[1]

Retail Juke
box		 Disk
jockey		 Title Artist(s) Label
1135"Honky Tonk"Bill DoggettKing
221"I'm in Love Again"Fats DominoImperial
333"Long Tall Sally"Little RichardSpecialty
464"Fever"Little Willie JohnKing
512"The Great Pretender"The PlattersMercury
696"Why Do Fools Fall in Love"The TeenagersGee
73831"I Want You to Be My Girl"The TeenagersGee
8712"My Prayer"The PlattersMercury
91021"Blue Suede Shoes"Carl PerkinsSun
101110"Let the Good Times Roll"Shirley & LeeAladdin
112118"Rip It Up"Little RichardSpecialty
1247"Tutti Frutti"Little RichardSpecialty
1388"Drown in My Own Tears"Ray CharlesAtlantic
142513"Don't Be Cruel"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
151215"Treasure of Love"Clyde McPhatterAtlantic
161514"Eddie My Love"The Teen QueensRPM
174820"Please, Please, Please"James BrownFederal
182034"Speedoo"The CadillacsJosie
193724"Heartbreak Hotel"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
203326"It's Too Late"Chuck WillisAtlantic
211525"Hound Dog"Elvis PresleyRCA Victor
222930"In the Still of the Night"The Five SatinsEmber
23511"Seven Days"The DriftersAtlantic
242319"(You've Got) The Magic Touch"The PlattersMercury
252816"Blueberry Hill"Fats DominoImperial
261427"Corrine, Corrina"Big Joe TurnerAtlantic
273523"My Blue Heaven"Fats DominoImperial
282738"Stranded in the Jungle"The CadetsModern
29NR37"Need Your Love So Bad"Little Willie JohnKing
30418"Slippin' and Slidin'Little RichardSpecialty

See also

References
  1. "1956's Top Rhythm & Blues Records". The Billboard. January 26, 1957. p. 70.
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