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22 unusual facts about 1959 in music


A Date with The Smithereens

The album title is based on the 1959 album A Date with Elvis and the cover is based on a picture of four thugs standing on a street in New York featured in a book Dennis Diken owned.

Audition Records

The first Audition Records, with no connection to the Audition Records based in Berlin, was sold in October 1959 by Enoch Light to ABC-Paramount Records.

Beauty and the Beat!

Beauty and the Beat! is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, accompanied by the George Shearing Quintet.

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson

Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) studio album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, with the tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1959

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1959 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1959.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1959

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1959 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1959.

Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green

Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) album by Blossom Dearie, focusing on the work of lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

Effedia: Sulla mia cattiva strada

The compilation consists of two CDs with a selection of songs recorded between 1959 and 1998, and a DVD featuring a documentary about De André's life and works.

El Garrasí

El Garrasí is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music), with the record label Cymbal.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) five album set by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, focusing on the songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas

See Fancy Meeting You Here (1958), How the West Was Won, (1959), and Rendezvous (1969).

Living Strings

The Living Strings was an easy listening studio orchestra, founded in 1959.

Lucky Eleven Records

Lucky Eleven Records was a record label started in 1959 in Flint, Michigan by Otis Ellis and Chuck Slaughter.

Mala Records

Mala Records was a small record label founded as a Bell Records subsidiary in 1959.

N° 2

N° 2 is the second album by French musician Serge Gainsbourg, released in 1959.

Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook

Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music).

Rebel Records

The label was founded in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1959 by Dick Freeland, Bill Carroll and Sonny Compton.

Season's Greetings from Perry Como

Season's Greetings from Perry Como, originally released in 1959, was Perry Como's sixth RCA Victor 12" long-play album and the fourth recorded in full "living" stereophonic sound, as well as his first full-length Christmas album.

Songs of our Soil

It was originally released in September 1959 (see 1959 in music), and later re-issued on August 27, 2002 (see 2002 in music) with two bonus tracks.

The Legendary Buster Smith

The Legendary Buster Smith is the debut and only solo album released by saxophonist Buster Smith, recorded and released in 1959.

Things Are Swingin'

Things Are Swingin' is a 1959 album (see 1959 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall.

Three New England Sketches

Three New England Sketches by Walter Piston is a symphonic suite dating from 1959.