Top 25 Music Albums of the 1950s
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- Chart updated: 10/03/2025 15:15
- (Created: 12/08/2011 04:54).
- Chart size: 25 albums.
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1957 – COLUMBIA
Produced By DON LAW
1. Flint Hill Special
2. Some Old Day
3. Earl’s Breakdown
4. Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy
5. Foggy Mountain Special
6. It Won’t Be Long
7. Shuckin’ The Corn
8. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
9. Randy Lynn Rag
10. Your Love Is Like A Flower
11. Foggy Mountain Chimes
12. Reunion In Heaven
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were members of Bill Monroe’s band, The Blue Grass Boys, in the mid to late 1940’s. They left Monroe and began performing as a duo in 1948. They continued together until 1969, when they split over creative differences…Scruggs wanted to embrace newer music by people like Bob Dylan, while Flatt was a staunch traditionalist. They released many singles, but their first album was this 1957 compilation. Foggy Mountain Jamboree contains songs released as singles between 1951 and 1955. The songs are all short…the longest track clocks in at 3:01, and so the album doesn’t even make it to thirty minutes. But the quality of the music here more than makes up for it. Flatt & Scruggs were simply one of the best American groups ever.
Flatt (guitar) and Scruggs (banjo) worked with some of the finest bluegrass players in history. Fiddler Paul Warren is a legend. As are Curly Seckler (mandolin), Uncle Josh Graves (dobro) and Jake Tullock (bass). Their better known songs are not on this album, but that’s okay. Workouts like “Flint Hill Special”, “Shuckin’ The Corn” and “Reunion In Heaven” are all worthwhile, and the album is a lesson in just how intricate, well written and well played American music from the south has always been. Flatt & Scruggs will forever be remembered for “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”, the themes for The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, and the Martha White flour jingle. But Foggy Mountain Jamboree is a classic, a truly great document of one of the greatest bluegrass bands ever assembled. [First added to this chart: 10/06/2024]
Produced By DON LAW
1. Flint Hill Special
2. Some Old Day
3. Earl’s Breakdown
4. Jimmie Brown, The Newsboy
5. Foggy Mountain Special
6. It Won’t Be Long
7. Shuckin’ The Corn
8. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
9. Randy Lynn Rag
10. Your Love Is Like A Flower
11. Foggy Mountain Chimes
12. Reunion In Heaven
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were members of Bill Monroe’s band, The Blue Grass Boys, in the mid to late 1940’s. They left Monroe and began performing as a duo in 1948. They continued together until 1969, when they split over creative differences…Scruggs wanted to embrace newer music by people like Bob Dylan, while Flatt was a staunch traditionalist. They released many singles, but their first album was this 1957 compilation. Foggy Mountain Jamboree contains songs released as singles between 1951 and 1955. The songs are all short…the longest track clocks in at 3:01, and so the album doesn’t even make it to thirty minutes. But the quality of the music here more than makes up for it. Flatt & Scruggs were simply one of the best American groups ever.
Flatt (guitar) and Scruggs (banjo) worked with some of the finest bluegrass players in history. Fiddler Paul Warren is a legend. As are Curly Seckler (mandolin), Uncle Josh Graves (dobro) and Jake Tullock (bass). Their better known songs are not on this album, but that’s okay. Workouts like “Flint Hill Special”, “Shuckin’ The Corn” and “Reunion In Heaven” are all worthwhile, and the album is a lesson in just how intricate, well written and well played American music from the south has always been. Flatt & Scruggs will forever be remembered for “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”, the themes for The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, and the Martha White flour jingle. But Foggy Mountain Jamboree is a classic, a truly great document of one of the greatest bluegrass bands ever assembled. [First added to this chart: 10/06/2024]
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Top 25 Music Albums of the 1950s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1950 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1951 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1952 | 1 | 4% | |
| 1953 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1954 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1955 | 3 | 12% | |
| 1956 | 3 | 12% | |
| 1957 | 6 | 24% | |
| 1958 | 3 | 12% | |
| 1959 | 9 | 36% |
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| Elvis Presley | 4 | 16% | |
| Frank Sinatra | 3 | 12% | |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 8% | |
| Cecil Taylor Quartet | 1 | 4% | |
| Johnny Cash | 1 | 4% | |
| Charles Mingus | 1 | 4% | |
| Buddy Holly | 1 | 4% | |
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From Sean 12/08/2011 03:24
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all u need for 50s
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