← The 1950s

Music of 1956

95 songs from 1956 analyzed for sensory sensitivity. Average intensity: 6.1.

45
Safe
35
Moderate
15
Intense

Safest picks from 1956 (45)

Standing on the Corner
Dean Martin
safe
Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Love Is Here to Stay
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Blue Moon
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Manhattan
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Where or When
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Spring Is Here
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
I Could Write a Book
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
Love Me Tender
Elvis Presley
safe
Cheek to Cheek
Louis Armstrong
safe
Touch the Hem of His Garment
Sam Cooke
safe
You Don't Know What Love Is
Sonny Rollins
safe
Just in Time
Tony Bennett
safe
Almost Blue
Chet Baker
safe
Alone Together
Chet Baker
safe
There Will Never Be Another You
Chet Baker
safe
But Not for Me
Chet Baker
safe
Everything Happens to Me
Chet Baker
safe
Moonlight Becomes You
Chet Baker
safe
Bye Bye Blackbird
Chet Baker
safe
Little Girl Blue
Chet Baker
safe
The Lady Is a Tramp
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
The Way You Look Tonight
Frank Sinatra
safe
A Foggy Day
Frank Sinatra
safe
I Walk the Line
Johnny Cash
safe
Blueberry Hill
Louis Armstrong
safe
Search Me Lord
Mahalia Jackson
safe
My Prayer
The Platters
safe
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But Not for Me
Ahmad Jamal
safe
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Night Mist Blues
Ahmad Jamal
safe
♪
Blue Moon
Ahmad Jamal
safe
When I Fall in Love
Celine Dion
safe
Tiny Capers
Clifford Brown
safe
Darn That Dream
Clifford Brown
safe
Jacqui
Clifford Brown
safe
Soft and Sweet
Clifford Brown
safe
Little Girl Blue
Ella Fitzgerald
safe
You Make Me Feel So Young
Frank Sinatra
safe
Pennies from Heaven
Frank Sinatra
safe

Moderate (35)

Bring It to Jerome
Bo Diddley
moderate
Dimples
John Lee Hooker
moderate
Sweet Little Angel
B.B. King
moderate
Who Do You Love?
Bo Diddley
moderate
Diddy Wah Diddy
Bo Diddley
moderate
I'm Bad
Bo Diddley
moderate
Cops and Robbers
Bo Diddley
moderate
Down Home Special
Bo Diddley
moderate
Roll Over Beethoven
Chuck Berry
moderate
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Chuck Berry
moderate
Don't Be Cruel
Elvis Presley
moderate
Summertime/Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Mahalia Jackson
moderate
Forty Days and Forty Nights
Muddy Waters
moderate
St. Thomas
Sonny Rollins
moderate
Tenor Madness
Sonny Rollins
moderate
Pent Up House
Sonny Rollins
moderate
My Man
Billie Holiday
moderate
Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday
moderate
Too Much Monkey Business
Chuck Berry
moderate
Joy Spring
Clifford Brown
moderate
Daahoud
Clifford Brown
moderate
Blues Walk
Clifford Brown
moderate
Pent Up House
Clifford Brown
moderate
I Get a Kick Out of You
Ella Fitzgerald
moderate
I've Got You Under My Skin
Frank Sinatra
moderate
Just One More
George Jones
moderate
Please Please Please
James Brown
moderate
Mi chiamano Mimi
Maria Callas
moderate
Raga Kafi
Ravi Shankar
moderate
Strode Rode
Sonny Rollins
moderate
Saxophone Colossus
Sonny Rollins
moderate
Moritat (Mack the Knife)
Sonny Rollins
moderate
El Cumbanchero
Tito Puente
moderate
How High the Moon
Ella Fitzgerald
moderate
Tu che le vanità
Maria Callas
moderate

Most intense (15)

Smokestack Lightning
Howlin' Wolf
intense
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Charles Mingus
intense
Hound Dog
Elvis Presley
intense
Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin')
Little Richard
intense
Ready Teddy
Little Richard
intense
The Girl Can't Help It
Little Richard
intense
She's Got It
Little Richard
intense
I'm Just a Lonely Guy
Little Richard
intense
Raga Bageshree
Ravi Shankar
intense
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
Duke Ellington
intense
Long Tall Sally
Little Richard
intense
Rip It Up
Little Richard
intense
Heeby-Jeebies
Little Richard
intense
Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Goin' Back to Birmingham)
Little Richard
intense
Raga Todi
Ravi Shankar
intense
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