100 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 50'S
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Top 50 Songs of the '50s. Author: Clarkone68. Top fitty songs of the fitties.
The biggest hits of the 1950s according to Billboard Magazine. Source: _Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits_ compiled by Fred Bronson (c)1995. 0-8230-7646-6 ..
The man behind The Champs' one and only hit (a massive one, mind you – No.1 in the US, No.5 in the UK) was Danny Flores, who played the wild sax solo and blurted out "tequila!", as you do. But Flores was under contract elsewhere and the writing credit had to go to one 'Chuck Rio'. Still, his salsa-tinged instrumental lives on, a cheeky soundtrack to shenanigans the world over.