Popular Music - Timeline 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Vocal Jazz Ella Fitzgerald Perry Como Frank Sinatra Paul Anka LPs & Singles for sale Rock 'n' Roll 1955 -Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets Buddy Holly First Fender Guitar Dixieland / Trad Jazz Revival - Kenny Ball Cool Jazz 1949-Mid 1970s John Coltrane Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie Musical & Movie Soundtracks Doris Day Oklahoma King & I Frank Sinatra Big Band Jazz Duke Ellington Count Basie Stan Kenton Elvis Presley Hound Dog King Creole Be-bop Coleman Hawkins Charlie "Bird" Parker Dies Dizzy Gillespie Country Slim Whitman Conway Twitty Pop Cliff Richard Adam Faith Skiffle/Folk Lonnie Donnegan Carl Perkins Howlin' Wolf AS Music Miles Davis Four on "Blue Haze" Album Honey Don't I'm Leavin' You Duke Ellington 1952 Slim Whitman 1954 Lonnie Donnegan 1956 Howlin' Wolf 1959 Elvis 1959