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'Fifties' Theme Dances
Compiled by Charlie Eskin
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Dance Name
Original Artist
Date
A White Sport Coat
Marty Robbins
04/27/57
A Wonderful Time Up There
Pat Boone
02/17/58
All Shook Up
Elvis Presley
04/06/57
American Bandstand
Barry Manilow
1958
Answer Me, My Love
Nat King Cole
1954
Apple Blossom Time
Tab Hunter
2/59
Autumn Leaves
Roger Williams
08/20/55
Beyond The Sea
Bobby Darin
1959
Big Chief Buffalo Nickel
Skeets Mcdonald
Birth Of The Blues
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Blue Monday
Fats Domino
C'est Si Bon
Eartha Kitt
1953
Catch A Falling Star
Perry Como
01/13/58
Changing Partners
Patti Page
1953
Chanson D'Amour
Art & Dotty Todd
04/21/58
Chattanooga Shoe-Shine Boy
Red Foley
1950
Deep Purple
Billy Ward & His Dominoes
10/57
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
MM
1953
Don't Be Cruel
Elvis Presley
08/04/56
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Bobby Darin
Dream Awhile (La Golondrina)
David Carrol
1957
Dream Lover
Bobby Darin
05/04/59
Edelweiss
Ed Ames
Everybody Likes To Cha Cha Cha
Sam Cooke
03/30/59
Fascination
Jane Morgan
09/09/57
Fever
Peggy Lee
07/21/58
Fools Fall In Love
Drifters
Four Walls
Jim Reeves
05/06/57
Glow Worm (Firefly)
Mills Brothers
1952
Good Night My Love
Ray Peterson
Green Door
Jim Lowe
09/29/56
Hang Up My R And R Shoes
Chuck Willis
05/26/58
Here Comes Summer
Brian Hyland
1959
Hernando's Hideaway
Archie Bleyer
1954
Hey Jealous Lover
Frank Sinatra
11/03/56
How Little We Know
Frank Sinatra
06/02/56
I Could Have Danced All Night
Sylvia Syms
06/16/56
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Tony Bennett
I'm Confessin'
Kay Starr
If
?
1934, Revived In 1951
It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Somethin' Smith
04/02/55
It's All In The Game
Tommy Edwards
08/25/58
It's Almost Tomorrow
Jo Stafford
12/03/55
Just In Time
1956
Kansas City
Wilbert Harrison
04/27/59
Kewpie Doll
Perry Como
4/58
Ko Ko Mo
Perry Como
02/05/55
Laura
Ed Ames
Lisbon Antigua
Nelson Riddle
12/31/55
Lollipop
Chordettes
03/10/58
Love And Marriage
Frank Sinatra
11/05/55
Magic Moments
Perry Como
01/20/58
Maria Elena
?
(1932) 1/9/58
Memories Of You
Goodman/Clooney
(1925) 03/17/56
Moon River
Andy Williams
1961
Moonglow
Morris Stoloff
04/21/56
More
Perry Como
1956/1963
Music! Music! Music!
Teresa Brewer
1950
My Foolish Heart
1950
My Funny Valentine
Johnny Mathis
1936/1952
My Man
Peggy Lee
1957
Never On Sunday
Chordettes
Night Train
Buddy Morrow
Nola
Billy Williams
02/16/59
Orange Colored Sky
Nat King Cole
Patricia
Perez Prado
06/23/58
Perfidia
Xavier Cugat
Pink Shoe Laces
Dodie Stevens
3/59
Primrose Lane
Jerry Wallace
09/07/59
Red Sails In The Sunset
Five Keys
Reet Petite
Jackie Wilson
Remember When
Burt Kaempfert
Rock And Roll Waltz
Kay Starr
01/07/56
Rockin' Robin
Bobby Day
08/04/58
Round And Round
Perry Como
Sam's Song
Bing Crosby
1950
September In The Rain
?
1959
Sh-Boom
Chords & Crewcuts
1954
Slow Walk
Bill Doggett
12/15/56
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Platters
Song From Moulin Rouge
Percy Faith
1953
Spanish Eyes
Al Martino
Splish Splash
Bobby Darin
06/30/58
Stranger In Paradise
Tony Bennett
1953
Stuck On You
Elvis Presley
1959
Stupid Cupid
Connie Francis
08/04/58
Sweet Nothins'
Brenda Lee
1959
Tammy
Debbie Reynolds
07/22/57
Tea For Two Cha Cha
Tommy Dorsey
09/15/58
Tenderly
Rosemary Clooney
1952
Tequila
Champs
1957
Third Man Theme
Guy Lombardo
1950
Treat Me Nice
Elvis Presley
10/21/57
Tweedle Dee
Georgia Gibbs
01/29/55
Village Of St. Bernadette
Andy Williams
12/28/59
Volare
Dean Martin
08/11/58
Wake Up Little Susie
Everly Brothers
09/30/57
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Nat King Cole
1952
Waltz Across Texas
Ernest Tubb
1955
Where Or When
Dion And The Belmonts
1959
Whispering
Les Paul & Mary Ford
White Lilacs
Billy Vaughn
09/08/56
Witchcraft
Frank Sinatra
01/20/58
You Make Me Feel So Young
Sinatra
1946/1956
Young Love
Tab Hunter
01/19/57
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Last updated Thursday 21 February 2008