List of Top 25 singles for 1959 in Australia
Table:
#	Title	Artist	Highest pos . reached	weeks at No . 1

1	Smoke Gets in Your Eyes	The Platters	1	10

2	Joey 's Song	Bill Haley and the Comets	1	8 ( pkd # 1 in 1959 & 60 )

3	A Fool Such as I	Elvis Presley	1	6

4	The Battle of New Orleans	Johnny Horton	1	6

5	Personality	Lloyd Price	1	5

6	Oh Yeah Uh Huh	Col Joye and the Joy Boys	1	4

7	The Three Bells	The Browns	1	5

8	I 'll Never Fall in Love Again	Johnnie Ray	1	2

9	Venus	Frankie Avalon	1	2

10	Mona Lisa	Conway Twitty	1	2

11	Petite Fleur	Chris Barber 's Jazz Band	1	1

12	Bye Bye Baby ( Goodbye )	Col Joye and the Joy Boys	3

13	Morgen ( One More Sunrise )	Ivo Robic	2

14	Beep Beep	The Playmates	2

15	Bimbombey	Jimmie Rodgers	3

16	Shout	Johnny O'Keefe	2

17	Got ta Travel On	Billy Grammer	6

18	She Was Only Seventeen	Marty Robbins	2

19	Clementine	Col Joye and the Joy Boys	3

20	The Children 's Marching Song ( Nick Nack Paddy Whack )	Cyril Stapleton ; Mitch Miller	2

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta . The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin . Its first recorded performance was by Gertrude Niesen , who recorded the song with orchestral direction from Ray Sinatra , Frank Sinatra 's second cousin , on October 13 , 1933 . Niesen 's recording of the song was released by Victor , with the B-side , Jealousy , featuring Isham Jones and his Orchestra . Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song on the record charts in 1934 . The song was reprised by Irene Dunne , who performed it in the 1935 film adaptation of the musical co-starring Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , and Randolph Scott . The song was also included in the 1952 remake of Roberta , Lovely to Look At , in which it was performed by Kathryn Grayson , and was a number 1 chart hit in 1959 for The Platters .
The Platters are an American vocal group formed in 1952 . They are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era . Originally , their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre . The act has gone through several personnel changes , with one of the most successful incarnations comprising lead tenor Tony Williams , Paul Robi , Herb Reed , and Zola Taylor . The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1955 and 1967 , including four number-one hits . The Platters are one of the first African-American groups to be accepted as a major chart group and are one of the most successful vocal groups in the world .
Joey 's Song is a 1959 instrumental single released by Bill Haley & His Comets . It was one of the band 's last successful commercial releases .
Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band , founded in 1952 and continued until Haley 's death in 1981 . The band was also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley 's Comets ( and variations thereof ) . From late 1954 to late 1956 , the group placed nine singles in the Top 20 , one of those a number one and three more in the Top Ten . The single Rock Around the Clock became the biggest selling rock and roll single in the history of the genre . Bandleader Bill Haley had previously been a country music performer ; after recording a country and western-styled version of Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats Rocket 88 , a rhythm and blues song , he changed musical direction to a new sound which came to be called rock and roll . Although several members of the Comets became famous , Bill Haley remained the star . With his spit curl and the band 's matching plaid dinner jackets and energetic stage behavior , many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time as the Beatles were a decade later . Following Haley 's death , no fewer than seven different groups have existed under the Comets name , all claiming ( with varying degrees of authority ) to be the continuation of Haley 's group . As of the end of 2014 , four such groups were still performing in the United States and internationally .
( Now and Then There 's ) A Fool Such as I is a popular song written by Bill Trader and was published in 1952 . Recorded as a single by Hank Snow it peaked at number four on the US country charts early in 1953 . Since the original Snow version , Fool Such as I - as the song is sometimes known - has been recorded and released as singles several times , by artists as diverse as Jo Stafford , Elvis Presley , Bob Dylan , and Baillie & the Boys .
Elvis Aaron Presley [ a ] ( January 8 , 1935 - August 16 , 1977 ) , also known simply as Elvis , was an American singer and actor . Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century , he is often referred to as the King of Rock and Roll or simply The King . Presley was born in Tupelo , Mississippi , and relocated to Memphis , Tennessee , with his family when he was 13 years old . His music career began there in 1954 , recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips , who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience . Presley , on rhythm acoustic guitar , and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black , was a pioneer of rockabilly , an uptempo , backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues . In 1955 , drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley 's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker , who would manage him for more than two decades . Presley 's first RCA single , Heartbreak Hotel , was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States . With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records , he became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll . His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style , combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations , made him enormously popular - and controversial . In November 1956 , Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender . Drafted into military service in 1958 , Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work . He held few concerts however , and guided by Parker , proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums , most of them critically derided .
The Battle of New Orleans is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood . The song describes the Battle of New Orleans from the perspective of an American soldier ; the song tells the tale of the battle with a light tone and provides a rather comical version of what actually happened at the battle . It has been recorded by many artists , but the singer most often associated with this song is Johnny Horton . His version scored number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 ( see 1959 in music ) . Billboard ranked it as the No . 1 song for 1959 , it was very popular with teenagers in the late 50s/early 60s in an era mostly dominated by rock and roll music . In Billboard magazine 's rankings of the top songs in the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart , The Battle of New Orleans was ranked as the 28th song overall and the number-one country music song to appear on the chart . Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time .
John LaGale Horton ( April 30 , 1925 - November 5 , 1960 ) was an American country music , honky tonk and rockabilly singer and musician , during the 1950s and early 1960s , best known for his international hits beginning with the 1959 single The Battle of New Orleans , which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording . The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 ranked No . 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America 's Songs of the Century . His first No . 1 country song was in 1959 , When It 's Springtime in Alaska ( It 's Forty Below ) . Horton 's music usually encompassed folk ballads based on American historic themes and legend . He had two successes in 1960 with both Sink the Bismarck and North to Alaska utilized over the opening credits for the John Wayne film of the same name . Horton died in November 1960 at the peak of his fame in a traffic collision , less than two years after his breakthrough . Horton is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame .
Personality is a 1959 R & B , pop hit with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price . It was released as a single by Price , and became one of Lloyd Price 's most popular crossover hits . The single reached # 2 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 , and was kept from the # 1 spot by The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton . The song was also a # 1 U.S. R & B hit , maintaining the top spot for four weeks . Billboard ranked it as the No . 3 song for 1959 . The song reached # 9 in the U.K .
Lloyd Price ( born March 9 , 1933 ) is an American R & B vocalist , known as Mr . Personality , after his 1959 million-selling hit , Personality . His first recording , Lawdy Miss Clawdy , was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952 . He continued to release records , but none were as popular until several years later , when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits . He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 . He is also the earliest solo act who is still alive to earn a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single with Stagger Lee .
Colin Frederick Jacobsen AM ( born 13 April 1937 ) , better known by his stage name Col Joye , is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter , musician and entrepreneur , ( he has also recorded various other cross-over styles such as country music ) , with a career spanning some sixty years . Joye was the first Australian rock and roll singer to have a number one record Australia-wide and experienced a string of chart successes in the early Australian rock and roll scene , that was emerging from the US and the United Kingdom .
The Three Bells , also known as The Jimmy Brown Song , Little Jimmy Brown , or simply Jimmy Brown , is a song made popular by the Browns in 1959 . The single reached number one in the U.S. on Billboard 's Hot C & W Sides chart and the Billboard Hot 100 chart . The version by the Browns also hit number ten on Billboard 's Hot R & B Sides chart . It was based on French-language song Les trois cloches written and composed by Swiss artist Jean Villard Gilles in 1939 , who offered it to Édith Piaf in 1945 . Piaf did the first recording of this song , with arrangements by Marc Herrand . This version , interpreted by Édith Piaf together with Les Compagnons de la chanson , was a major hit in 1946 . The English lyrics were written by Bert Reisfeld and first recorded by the Melody Maids in 1948 . The song documents three stages of the life of Jimmy Brown - his birth , his marriage , and his death . The Browns ' male vocalist , Jim Ed Brown , coincidentally had the same name as the song 's character .
The Browns were an American country and folk music vocal trio best known for their 1959 Grammy-nominated hit , The Three Bells . The group , composed of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters Maxine and Bonnie , had a close , smooth harmony characteristic of the Nashville sound , though their music also combined elements of folk and pop . They disbanded in 1967 and were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2015 .
John Alvin Ray ( January 10 , 1927 - February 24 , 1990 ) was an American singer , songwriter , and pianist . Highly popular for most of the 1950s , Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what would become rock and roll , for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage personality . Tony Bennett called Ray the father of rock and roll , and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre . Raised in The Dalles , Oregon , Ray , who was partially deaf , began singing professionally at age fifteen on Portland radio stations . He would later gain a local following singing at small , predominantly African-American nightclubs in Detroit , where he was discovered in 1951 and subsequently signed to Columbia Records . He rose quickly from obscurity in the United States with the release of his debut album , Johnnie Ray ( 1952 ) , as well as with a 78 rpm single , both of whose sides reached the Billboard magazine 's Top Hot 100 songs of 1952 : Cry and The Little White Cloud That Cried . In 1954 , Ray made his first and only major motion picture , There 's No Business Like Show Business , in which he , Ethel Merman , Marilyn Monroe and others were part of an ensemble cast . His career in his native United States began to decline in 1957 , and his American record label dropped him in 1960 . He never regained a strong following there and rarely appeared on American television after 1973 . His fanbases in the United Kingdom and Australia , however , remained strong until his death in 1990 of complications from liver failure . British Hit Singles & Albums noted that Ray was a sensation in the 1950s , the heart-wrenching vocal delivery of 'Cry ' . influenced many acts including Elvis and was the prime target for teen hysteria in the pre-Presley days .
Venus is a song written by Ed Marshall . The most successful and best-known recording of the track was done by Frankie Avalon and released in 1959 , where it reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 ( see 1959 in music ) .
Frankie Avalon ( born Francis Thomas Avallone ; September 18 , 1940 ) is an American actor , singer , and former teen idol . Avalon had 31 charted U.S . Billboard singles from 1958 to late 1962 , including the number one hits Venus and Why in 1959 .
Mona Lisa is a popular song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey , U.S.A. ( 1950 ) . The title and lyrics refer to the renaissance portrait Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci . The song won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1950 .
Harold Lloyd Jenkins ( September 1 , 1933 - June 5 , 1993 ) , better known by his stage name Conway Twitty , was an American country music singer . He also had success in the rock and roll , R & B , and pop genres . From 1971 to 1976 , Twitty received a string of Country Music Association awards for duets with Loretta Lynn . He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame .
Petite Fleur is an instrumental written by Sidney Bechet and recorded by him in January 1952 , first with the Sidney Bechet All Stars and later with Claude Luter and his Orchestra . In 1959 it was an international hit as a clarinet solo by Monty Sunshine with Chris Barber 's Jazz Band . This recording peaked at No . 5 on the US Hot 100 and No . 4 in the UK charts . Outside UK Chris Barber 's version was extremely big in Sweden topping the Swedish best selling chart for no least than 12 weeks according to the branch paper Show Business . Their version was in A♭ minor , in contrast to Bechet 's , which was in G minor . There was also another recording by Bob Crosby and the Bobcats . Following the Chris Barber instrumental recording , lyrics were added by Fernand Bonifay and Mario Bua in the same year . A different set of lyrics was written by Paddy Roberts and the song was recorded by Teddy Johnson and Pearl Carr in 1959 . Petula Clark recorded the song in French and it was included in her album Hello Paris ( 1962 ) .
Donald Christopher Barber OBE ( born 17 April 1930 ) is an English jazz musician , best known as a bandleader and trombonist . As well as scoring a UK top twenty trad jazz hit , he helped the careers of many musicians , notably the blues singer Ottilie Patterson , who was at one time his wife , and Lonnie Donegan , whose appearances with Barber triggered the skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit , Rock Island Line , while with Chris Barber 's band . His providing an audience for Donegan and , later , Alexis Korner makes Barber a significant figure in the British rhythm and blues and beat boom of the 1960s .
Ivo Robić ( 28 January 1923 - 9 March 2000 ) was a Croatian singer-songwriter .
Beep Beep is a novelty song by The Playmates , released in 1958 by Roulette Records ( catalog number 4115 ) as the B-side to Your Love .
The Playmates were an American late 1950s vocal group led by the pianist Chic Hetti ( born Carl Cicchetti , 26 February 1930 ) , drummer Donny Conn ( born Donald Claps , 29 March 1930 - September 2 , 2015 ) , and Morey Carr ( 31 July 1932 - 1987 ) , all from Waterbury , Connecticut , United States .
James Frederick Rodgers ( born September 18 , 1933 in Camas , Washington ) is an American singer . Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s . His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles , Hot Country and Western Sides and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts ; in the 1960s , Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary music . He is not related to the earlier country singer Jimmie C. Rodgers , who coincidentally died the same year the younger Rodgers was born . Among country audiences , the younger Rodgers is often known as Jimmie F. Rodgers to differentiate the two .
Shout is a popular American song , originally recorded by the Isley Brothers . Released in 1959 , it was written by the brothers themselves as a call and response answer to Jackie Wilson 's Lonely Teardrops , which they would occasionally cover in live performances .
John Michael O'Keefe ( 19 January 1935 - 6 October 1978 ) was an Australian rock and roll singer whose career began in the 1950s . Some of his hits include Wild One ( 1958 ) , Shout ! and She 's My Baby . In his twenty-year career , O'Keefe released over fifty singles , 50 EPs and 100 albums . O'Keefe was also a radio and television entertainer and presenter Often referred to by his initials J.O.K . or by his nickname The Wild One , O'Keefe was the first Australian rock n ' roll performer to tour the United States , and the first Australian artist to make the local Top 40 charts . He had twenty-nine Top 40 hits in Australia between 1958 and 1973 . O'Keefe was the younger brother of Australian jurist Barry O'Keefe ( a former head of the New South Wales ICAC ) . His father , Alderman Ray O'Keefe , was Mayor of Waverley Council in the early 1960s . Through Barry , O'Keefe was the uncle of Australian television personality Andrew O'Keefe . O'Keefe died in 1978 from a drug overdose .
Got ta Travel On is a song written by Paul Clayton , The Weavers , Larry Ehrlich , and Dave Lazer and performed by Billy Grammer . It reached # 4 on the U.S. pop chart , # 5 on the U.S. country chart , # 6 in Australia , and # 14 on the U.S. R & B chart in 1959 . The song ranked # 53 on Billboard magazine 's Top 100 singles of 1959 .
Billy Wayne Grammer ( August 28 , 1925 - August 10 , 2011 ) was an American country music singer and accomplished guitar player . He recorded the million-selling Got ta Travel On , which made it onto both the country and pop music charts in 1959 . Grammer would become a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry , eventually designing , and marketing his namesake guitar after co-founding a guitar company , in Nashville , Tennessee .
The discography of country music singer Marty Robbins consists of 52 studio albums , 13 compilation albums , and 100 singles . In his career , Robbins has charted 17 Number One singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts , as well as 82 Top 40 singles . Robbins ' highest charting album is 1959 's Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs . It charted to # 6 on the all-genre Billboard 200 , and was also certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . The album 's first single , El Paso , become a hit on both the country and pop charts , charting to Number One on the Hot Country Songs as well as the Billboard Hot 100 . While that was his only pop Number One , in 1957 , A White Sport Coat charted to # 2 , and in 1961 , Do n't Worry charted to # 3 . Since his death in 1982 , four posthumous studio albums have been released , although they did not make an impact on the charts . His final Top 10 single was Honkytonk Man in 1982 , which is the title of the film Robbins had starred in . However , he died shortly before the release of the film .
Martin David Robinson ( September 26 , 1925 - December 8 , 1982 ) , known professionally as Marty Robbins , was an American singer , songwriter , actor , multi-instrumentalist , and NASCAR racing driver , and was one of the most popular and successful country and western singers for most of his nearly four-decade career , Robbins often topped the country music charts , and several of his songs also had crossover success as pop hits .
A clementine ( Citrus × clementina ) or easy peeler ( British English ) is a tangor , a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange ( C. × deliciosa ) and a sweet orange ( C. × sinensis ) , named for its late 19th-century discoverer . The exterior is a deep orange colour with a smooth , glossy appearance . Clementines can be separated into 7 to 14 segments . Similar to tangerines , they tend to be easy to peel . They are typically juicy and sweet , with less acid than oranges . Their oils , like other citrus fruits , contain mostly limonene as well as myrcene , linalool , α-pinene and many complex aromatics .
This Old Man is an English language children 's song , counting and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3550 .
Cyril Stapleton ( 31 December 1914 - 25 February 1974 ) was an English violinist and jazz bandleader . Born in Mapperley , Nottingham , England , Stapleton began playing violin at the age of seven , and played on local radio at the age of 12 . He performed on the BBC Radio often in his teenage years , and played in film orchestras accompanying silent films . He attended Trinity College of Music in London , and played in a dance band there led by Henry Hall . This ensemble also played on the BBC and made several recordings for EMI . After losing his position in the band , he went back to Nottingham and formed his own . In the 1930s , Stapleton toured South Africa with the Jack Payne Orchestra . Later in the decade Stapleton and his band relocated to London ; they won their own spot performing on the BBC in 1939 . World War II interrupted Stapleton 's musical career , as he joined the Royal Air Force late in 1939 . While enlisted , he played in the RAF Symphony Orchestra . Following the war , Stapleton played with the London Symphony Orchestra , the National Symphony Orchestra of London , and the Philharmonia Orchestra . In 1947 , he recreated his band , and quickly won back slots on the BBC ; among the singers he accompanied were Dick James and Frank Sinatra .
Mitchell William Miller ( July 4 , 1911 - July 31 , 2010 ) was an American oboist , conductor , record producer and record industry executive . He was involved in almost all aspects of the industry , particularly as a conductor , and artist and repertoire ( A & R ) man . Miller was one of the most influential people in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s , both as the head of A & R at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series , Sing Along with Mitch . A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s , Miller began his musical career as a player of the oboe and English horn , making numerous highly regarded classical and popular recordings . He was a choral conductor on television and a recordings executive .