1950s Karaoke Songs

Rock and roll dominated popular music in the 1950s. The musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music  in addition to country and western. 

In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase "rock and roll" to describe the music. (wikipedia) Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent released the initial early rock and roll hits. The 1950s saw the emergence of the electric guitar, and the beginning of a specifically rock and roll style of playing by Chuck Berry, Link Wray, and Scotty Moore. Chuck Berry, one of the pioneers of Rock and roll, refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on the genre.

1950s Blues music had a huge influence on American popular music in the 1950s with the playing styles of popular musicians like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, and influenced Rock and roll music. Ray Charles and Fats Domino help bring blues into the popular music scene. Domino provides a boogie-woogie style that heavily influences rock 'n' roll.