1950

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Years : 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 - 1950 - 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955


1950 is a year in the 20th century. It was a common year.

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Awards

[edit] Films released

[edit] Hit songs

  • "A-Razz-A-Ma-Tazz" - Georgia Gibbs
  • "All My Love (Bolero)" - Patti Page
  • "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" - Al Jolson
  • "Ballin' The Jack" - Georgia Gibbs
  • "Ballin' The Jack" - Danny Kaye
  • "Be My Love" - Mario Lanza
  • "Bewitched" - Doris Day
  • "Black Lace" - Frankie Laine
  • "Boo-Hoo" - Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio
  • "A Bushel And A Peck" - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
  • "Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)" - The Ames Brothers
  • "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" - Red Foley
  • "Cry Of The Wild Goose" - Frankie Laine
  • "Daddy's Little Girl" - The Mills Brothers
  • "Dear, Dear, Dear" - Frankie Laine
  • "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" - Frankie Laine
  • "A Dreamer's Holiday" - Buddy Clark & The Girlfriends
  • "Enjoy Yourself" - Guy Lombardo (Kenny Gardner& The Lombardo Trio vocals)
  • "Goodnight, Irene" - The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
  • "Harbor Lights" - Sammy Kaye
  • "Here Comes Santa Claus" - Andrews Sisters
  • "L'Hymne A L'Amour (Hymn To Love)" - Edith Piaf
  • "I Can Dream, Can't I?" - The Andrews Sisters
  • "I Love You For That" - Patti Page & Frankie Laine
  • "I Wanna Be Loved" - The Andrews Sisters
  • "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" - Eileen Barton
  • "I'm Moving On" - Hank Snow
  • "It Isn't Fair" - Sammy Kaye (Don Cornell vocal)
  • "Let's Go West Again" - Al Jolson
  • "A Man Gets Awfully Lonesome" - Frankie Laine
  • "Mona Lisa" - Nat King Cole
  • "Music, Maestro, Please" - Frankie Laine
  • "Music! Music! Music!" - Teresa Brewer
  • "My Heart Cries For You" - Guy Mitchell
  • "Nevertheless" - The Mills Brothers
  • "No Other Love" - Jo Stafford
  • "The Old Piano Roll Blues" Al Jolson & The Andrews Sisters
  • "Patricia" - Perry Como
  • "Play A Simple Melody" - Gary Crosby & Friend (Bing Crosby)
  • "Rag Mop" - The Ames Brothers
  • "Red Hot Mama" - Georgia Gibbs
  • "The Roving Kind" - Guy Mitchell
  • "Sentimental Me" - The Ames Brothers
  • "Sleepy Ol' River" - Frankie Laine
  • "Someday" - The Mills Brothers
  • "Someday" - Vaughn Monroe
  • "Sometime" - The Mariners
  • "Stars & Stripes Forever" - Frankie Laine
  • "Swingin' In A Hammock" - Guy Lombardo (Don Rodney & The Lombardo Trio vocals)
  • "The Tennessee Waltz" - Patti Page
  • "There's No Tomorrow" - Tony Martin
  • "The Thing" - Phil Harris
  • "The Third Man Theme" - Anton Karas
  • "The Third Man Theme" - Guy Lombardo
  • "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" - Patti Page

[edit] New books

  • Across the River and Into the Trees - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Adventurer - Mika Waltari
  • Beetlecreek - William Demby
  • Cabbagetown - Hugh Garner
  • The Cardinal - Henry Morton Robinson
  • The Child Who Never Grew - Pearl S. Buck
  • The Disenchanted - Budd Schulberg
  • The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli
  • The Town and the City - Jack Kerouac
  • Floodtide - Frank Yerby
  • Florence Nightingale - Cecil Woodham-Smith
  • The Grass Is Singing - Doris Lessing
  • I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
  • Joy Street - Frances Parkinson Keyes
  • Jubilee Trail - Gwen Bristow
  • Kon-Tiki - Thor Heyerdahl
  • The Liberal Imagination - Lionel Trilling
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
  • The Little World of Don Camillo - Giovanni Guareschi
  • The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
  • Parade's End - Ford Madox Ford
  • The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier
  • Reading and Criticism - Raymond Williams
  • Scenes from Provincial Life - William Cooper
  • Star Money - Kathleen Winsor
  • Summer In The Country - Edith Templeton
  • La vida breve (A Brief Life) - Juan Carlos Onetti
  • The Voyage of the Space Beagle - A. E. van Vogt
  • The Wall - John Hersey