Artist	Song
The Moonglows	Sincerely (#1, #20)
The Five Keys	Ling Ting Tong (#5, 1954 #28)
Laverne Baker	Tweedlee Dee (#4, #14)
"Big" Joe Turner	Flip Flop and Fly (#2)
Ruth Brown	Bye Bye Young Men (#13)
Gene & Eunice	Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So) (#6)
Ray Ch_arles	I've Got A Woman (#1)
The Spiders	21 (#9)
Little Walt_er	My Babe (#1)
The Ch_arms	Two Hearts (#8)
Etta James	The Wallflower (Dance with Me Henry) (#1)
Johnny Ace	Pledging My Love (#1, #17)
The Five Keys	Close Your Eyes (#5)
B.B. King	Sneakin' Around (#14)
Arthur Gunter	Baby Let's Play House (#12)
Jimmy Reed	You Don't Have To Go (#5)
Ray Ch_arles	Come Back (Baby) (#4)
The Cardinals	The Door Is Still O_pen (To My Heart) (#4)
Fats Domino	Don't You Know (#7)
The Moonglows	Most Of All (#5)
The Clovers	Blue Velvet (#14)

Comment:

These songs came from the first few months of the year of 1955, that would have played at the time of my birth (April 15). I did a similar mix with pop songs three and a half years ago. That one had less satisfactory results, since R&B was starting to take off in popularity, finally be_ginning to cross over onto the pop ch_arts, while the white folks music was stagnating. Some of the better songs in that arena actually were stolen from the R&B ch_arts (such as tracks 1, 3, 6, 12, 15, and eventually track 21). Track 21 just barely made it onto the R&B Ch_arts (back then there was only ch_art numbers 1 through 15 and that song was on the ch_arts only for 1 week, a week before I was born). Bobby Vinton had a number 1 hit with that song in 1963. Four songs on this mix ch_arted on both the R&B and Pop lists (tracks 1, 2, 3 & 12, all but one of them being adopted by white artists).One song that didn't make it into the mix (originally slated to be track 1) was Earth Angel by the Penguins (another song that crossed over into the Pop ch_arts and was adopted by white artists). I decided to d_rop it because it has been played nearly to death. The length of this mix is 57m23s. The picture is of The Five Keys in 1955.

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