Decade

1950s

36 albums, oldest first

The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Benny Goodman, 1950 Why Not / Fancy Meeting You Count Basie And His Orchestra, 1952 Symphony No. 7 In A Major, Opus 92 Beethoven, Vienna Symphonic Society Orchestra, Kurt Wöss, 1953 Also Sprach Zarathustra Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1954 Mambo! Yma Sumac, 1954 Mister Sandman / Set A Spell Chet Atkins and his Galloping Guitar, 1954 Thirteen Women / (We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley And His Comets, 1954 In The Wee Small Hours Frank Sinatra, 1955 Julie Is Her Name Julie London, 1955 Rock-A-Beatin’ Boogie / Burn That Candle Bill Haley And His Comets, 1955 The Golden Age Of Benny Goodman Benny Goodman And His Orchestra, 1955 The Magnificent Charlie Parker Charlie Parker, 1955 Calypso Harry Belafonte, 1956 Dinner In Colombia Aldemaro Romero And His Salon Orchestra, 1956 Elvis Presley Elvis Presley, 1956 The Saints Rock ‘N Roll / R-O-C-K Bill Haley And His Comets, 1956 Vol. 2 Leroy Anderson “Pops” Concert Orchestra, 1956 A Night At The “Village Vanguard” Sonny Rollins, 1957 Bass On Top Paul Chambers Quartet, 1957 Concerto In F / Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin, Eugene List ; Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Howard Hanson, 1957 Here’s Little Richard Little Richard, 1957 Music From The Sound Track Of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” Elmer Bernstein, 1957 Sabor La’Serie, 1957 The Best Of Little Walter Little Walter, 1957 At Newport Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday, 1958 Basie (E = MC²) Count Basie Orchestra + Neal Hefti, 1958 Donna / La Bamba Ritchie Valens, 1958 Pictures At An Exhibition Moussorgsky / Ravel, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1958 Rumble / The Swag Link Wray & His Ray Men, 1958 The Bridge On The River Kwai Malcolm Arnold, 1958 Violin Concerto In E Major / Violin Concerto In A Minor / Concerto For Two Violins In D Minor Bach – I Musici, 1958 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, 1959 Kind Of Blue Miles Davis, 1959 Mingus Ah Um Charles Mingus, 1959 The Planets, Op. 32 Holst / Sir Adrian Boult / Vienna Academy Chorus, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, 1959 Time Out The Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959