1950
- World Events: Korean War Begins McCarthy Hearings begin
- Popular Music: Mona Lisa-Nat King Cole
- Rock n’ Roll: The Fat Man -Fats Domino
- Jazz: Rollin’ Stone-Muddy Waters
- Country: Tennessee Waltz-Patti Page
1951
- World Events: Transcontinental TV, Color TV introduced
- Music News: Radio Stations ban Dean Martin’s Wham Bam for suggestive lyrics
- Popular Music: Cry-Johnnie Ray Jazz Three O’clock Blues – BB King
- Country: Cold cold Heart-Hank Williams
- Movie Music: I Got Rhythm-Gene Kelly from American in Paris
1952
- Popular Music: My Song -Johnny Ace
- Rock n’ Roll: Lawdy Miss Clasdy-Lloyd Prince
- Jazz: Goin Home – Fats Domino
- Country: Jambalaya – Hank Williams
- Movie Music: Singing in the Rain – Gene Kelly, Make ‘em Laugh-Donald O’ Connor, Good Morining -Kelly, O’connor, Reynolds from Sining in the Rain
1953
- World Events: DNA discovered, Hillary climbs Mt. Everest
- Movie Music: Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend-Marilyn Monroe from Gentlemen Prefer Bondes
1954
- Music News: First Newport Jazz Festival
- Popular Music: Earth Angel-Penguins
- Rock n’ Roll: Rock Around the Clock – bill Haley & the Comets
1955
- World Events: Dr. Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat and challenges segregation laws, Disneyland Opens, Warsaw Pact Signed, Emmett till Murdered
- Popular Music: The Great Pretenders – Platters
- Rock n’ Roll: Tutti-Frutti – Little Richard
- Country: Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
1956
- World Events: Suez Crisis, Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco
- Music News: Elvis Shakes his hips on the Ed Sullivan Show, Million Dollar Quartet meets Dec 4, 1956
- Rock n’ Roll: Hound Hog -Elvis, Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis
- Movie Music: Que Sera, Sera-Doris Day from The Man Who Knew Too Much
1957
- World Events: Soviet Union Launches Sputnic and begins Space Age
- Music News: American Bandstand Begins
- Rock n’ Roll: Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly & the Crickets All Shook Up-Elvis
- Jazz: Blue Train -John Coltrane
- Country: Kisses Sweeter Then Wine – Jimmie Rodgers
- Movie Music: Jailhouse Rock-Elvis from Jailhouse Rock
1958
- World Events: US Satellite orbits earth Hula Hoops
- Popular Music: Lonely Teardrops-Jackie Wilson
- Rock n’ Roll: Johnnyt B. Goode-Chuck Berry, La Bamba-Ritchie Valens
- Country: All I Have to Do is Dream – Everly Brothers
1959
- World Events: Castro becomes Dictator of Cuba, US Quiz Show Scandal, Charles Lincoln Van Doren admits to cheating on NBC’s 21 Game Show
- Music News: The Day the Music Died’-Plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Balens and J.P. Richardson, First Grammy Awards
- Popular Music: I Only Have Eyes for You – Flamingos, Mack the Knife – Bobby Darin
