1953

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Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Hit songs

  • "Allez-Vous-En" - Kay Starr
  • "Answer Me, O Lord" - Frankie Laine
  • "Bridge Of Sighs" - Georgia Gibbs
  • "Bye Bye Blues" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
  • "Changing Partners" - Patti Page
  • "Crying in the Chapel - Orioles
  • "The Doggie in the Window" - Patti Page
  • "Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" - Perry Como
  • "Dragnet" - Ray Anthony
  • "Eh Cumpari" - Julius LaRosa
  • "Even Now" - Eddie Fisher
  • "Floatin' Down To Cotton Town" - Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
  • "The Gang That Sang Heart Of My Heart" - The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
  • "Granada" - Frankie Laine
  • "Have You Heard" - Joni James
  • "Hey Joe!" - Frankie Laine
  • "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" - Leslie Caron & Mel Ferrer
  • "Home Lovin' Man" - Georgia Gibbs
  • "I Believe" - Frankie Laine
  • "I'm Walking Behind You" - Eddie Fisher
  • "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" - The Four Lads
  • "The Jones Boy" - The Mills Brothers
  • "The Kid's Last Fight" - Frankie Laine
  • "Make Her Mine" - Nat King Cole
  • "Make Love To Me" - Jo Stafford
  • "No Other Love" - Perry Como
  • "Oh! My Pa-Pa" - Eddie Fisher
  • "Pretend" - Nat King Cole
  • "Rags To Riches" - Tony Bennett
  • "Ricochet (Rick O'Shay)" - Teresa Brewer
  • "Same Old Saturday Night" - Frank Sinatra
  • "Secret Love" - Doris Day
  • "Seven Lonely Days" - Georgia Gibbs
  • "Side By Side" - Kay Starr
  • "The Song from Moulin Rouge" - Percy Faith (Felicia Sanders vocal)
  • "Stranger in Paradise" - Tony Bennett
  • "Tell Me A Story" - Frankie Laine & Jimmy Boyd
  • "That's Amore" - Dean Martin
  • "Three Coins In The Fountain" - Frank Sinatra
  • "The Typewriter" - Leroy Anderson & His Orchestra
  • "Vaya Con Dios" - Les Paul and Mary Ford
  • "Wishing Ring" - Joni James
  • "Young At Heart" - Frank Sinatra
  • "Your Cheatin' Heart" - Frankie Laine

[edit] Films released

  • Peter Pan
  • From Here to Eternity
  • The Wild One
  • All My Babies
  • The War of the Worlds

[edit] New books

  • The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
  • Battle Cry - Leon Uris
  • Beyond This Place - A.J. Cronin
  • The Bridges at Toko-Ri - James A. Michener
  • Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  • Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Cornerstone - Zoe B. Oldenbourg
  • The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
  • Désirée - Annemarie Selinko
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  • Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
  • Heartsnatcher - Boris Vian
  • The High and the Mighty - Ernest K. Gann
  • A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin
  • The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
  • Lord Vanity - Samuel Shellabarger
  • Madame de Pompadour - Nancy Mitford
  • Maud Martha - Gwendolyn Brooks
  • The Night of the Hunter - Davis Grubb
  • The Present and the Past - Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • The Robe - Lloyd C. Douglas
  • Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  • The Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis
  • The Sojourner - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Time and Time Again - James Hilton
  • The Unconquered - Ben Ames Williams
  • The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
  • The Universe Maker - A. E. van Vogt