30 Best of 1956 -- click on the column header to sort the table.

Rank title artist highest ranking Date Highest Rank Weeks in Top Twenty weeks on chart Rating 1 Don't Be Cruel Elvis Presley 1 9/15/1956 19 23 5 2 Why Do Fools Fall in Love Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers 6 3/24/1956 13 16 5 3 Be-Bop-a-Lula Gene Vincent 7 8/4/1956 10 15 5 4 The Great Pretender The Platters 1 2/18/1956 18 19 5 5 I Walk the Line Johnny Cash 17 11/10/1956 3 11 5 6 Roll Over Bethoven Chuck Berry 29 0 1 5 7 Memories Are Made of This Dean Martin 1 1/14/1956 17 19 5 8 My Prayer The Platters 1 8/18/1956 16 20 4 9 Brown Eyed Handsome Man Chuck Berry 0 4 10 I'll Remember (In the Still of the Night) The Five Satins 24 0 6 4 11 Speedo The Cadillacs 17 0 5 4 12 Since I Met you Baby Ivory Joe Hunter 12 1/5/1957 7 15 4 13 Juke Box Baby Perry Como 10 4/7/1956 7 10 4 14 Allegheny Moon Patti Page 2 8/18/1956 17 22 4 15 Oh What a Night The Dells 0 4 16 Blue Suede Shoes Carl Perkins 2 5/1/1956 14 17 4 17 Tutti-Frutti Little Richard 17 0 5 4 18 Too Young To Go Steady Nat King Cole 21 0 6 4 19 Honky Tonk (Part 2) Bill Doggett 2 10/13/1956 16 22 4 20 Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley 1 5/1/1956 18 22 4 21 Long Tall Sally Little Richard 6 5/12/1956 7 12 4 22 Whatever Will Be, Will Be Doris Day 2 8/18/1956 19 22 4 23 Ivory Tower Otis Williams & The Charms 11 5/12/1956 8 15 4 24 Hey Jealous Lover Frank Sinatra 3 12/22/1956 14 17 4 25 Devil or Angel The Clovers 0 4 26 Teenage Prayer Gale Storm 6 1/21/1956 12 12 4 27 Blueberry Hill Fats Domino 2 12/22/1956 19 21 4 28 My Blue Heaven Fats Domino 19 0 13 4 29 Eddie My Love The Teen Queens 14 0 0 3 30 Hound Dog Elvis Presley 1 9/8/1956 16 23 4