(Among the story-song artists of yore)
1954:
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
1955:
Rock Around the Clock
The Ballad of Davy Crockett
Maybellene
1956:
Blue Moon
The Wayward Wind
1957:
The Green Door
A White Sport Coat
1958:
Wake Up Little Susie
Jailhouse Rock
Magic Moments
Tom Dooley
Johnny B. Goode
Summertime Blues
Bimbombey
1959:
The Little Drummer Boy
Only Sixteen
Mack the Knife
Stagger Lee
The Battle of New Orleans
Waterloo
1960:
Running Bear
Mr. Custer
El Paso
Sink the Bismarck
North to Alaska
1961:
Calendar Girl
Travelin’ Man
Running Scared
Michael
Moody River
Big Bad John
The Boll Weevil Song
1962:
Walk on By
Wolverton Mountain
Monster Mash
1963:
Puff The Magic Dragon
It’s My Party
1964:
Dead Man’s Curve
Memphis
House of the Rising Sun
1965:
Like a Rolling Stone
Positively 4th Street
1966:
Elusive Butterfly
Paperback Writer
I Am a Rock
Yellow Submarine
1967:
A Whiter Shade of Pale
1968:
Monterey
Mrs. Robinson
Abraham, Martin, and John
Wichita Lineman
1969:
Atlantis
Ballad of John and Yoko
In the Ghetto
Suspicious Minds
1970:
Cecilia
Spill the Wine
Lola
1971:
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
American Pie
1972:
Alone Again Naturally
Saturday in the Park
1973:
You’re So Vain
The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Big, Bad Leroy Brown
Kodachrome
1974:
Seasons in the Sun
I Shot the Sheriff
Carefree Highway
Cat’s in the Cradle
1975:
Lyin’ Eyes
1976:
Rhiannon
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
1977:
Hotel California
1978:
MacArthur Park
My Life
1979:
The Logical Song
1980:
The Coward of the County
1983:
Billie Jean
Every Breath You Take
Allentown
King of Pain
1987:
Luka
1989:
We Didn’t Start the Fire