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| * [[Cry Me a River]] by Julie London | * [[Cry Me a River]] by Julie London | ||
| * ''[[Le marteau sans maître]]'' by Pierre Boulez | * ''[[Le marteau sans maître]]'' by Pierre Boulez | ||
| + | This is a list of ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine's top popular songs of [[1953 in music|1953]] by retail sales.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/50s/1953/Billboard%201953-12-19.pdf |title=1953's Top Popular Records according to Retail Sales |volume=65 |issue=51 |page= 29 |date=December 19, 1953 |journal=The Billboard}}</ref> | ||
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| + | |1 || "[[The Song from Moulin Rouge]]" || [[Percy Faith]] | ||
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| + | |2 || "[[Vaya con Dios (song)|Vaya con Dios]]" || [[Les Paul]] & [[Mary Ford]] | ||
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| + | |3 || "[[(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?]]" || [[Patti Page]] | ||
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| + | |4 || "[[I'm Walking Behind You]]" || [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]] | ||
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| + | |5 || "[[You, You, You]]" || [[Ames Brothers]] | ||
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| + | |6 || "[[Till I Waltz Again with You]]" || [[Teresa Brewer]] | ||
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| + | |7 || "[[April in Portugal (song)|April in Portugal]]" || [[Les Baxter]] | ||
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| + | |8 || "[[No Other Love (1953 song)|No Other Love]]" || [[Perry Como]] | ||
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| + | |9 || "[[Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes]]" || [[Perry Como]] | ||
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| + | |10 || "[[I Believe (1953 song)|I Believe]]" || [[Frankie Laine]] | ||
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| + | |11 || "[[O (Oh!)|Oh]]" || [[Pee Wee Hunt]] | ||
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| + | |12 || "[[Ebb Tide (song)|Ebb Tide]]" || [[Frank Chacksfield]] | ||
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| + | |13 || "[[Pretend (1952 song)|Pretend]]" || [[Nat King Cole]] | ||
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| + | |14 || "[[Ruby (Ruby Gentry theme)|Ruby]]" || [[Richard Hayman]] | ||
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| + | |15 || "[[St. George and the Dragonet]]" || [[Stan Freberg]] | ||
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| + | |16 || "[[P.S. I Love You (1934 song)|P.S. I Love You]]" || [[The Hilltoppers (band)|The Hilltoppers]] | ||
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| + | |17 || "[[Tell Me You're Mine]]" || [[The Gaylords (American vocal group)|The Gaylords]] | ||
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| + | |18 || "[[Eh, Cumpari!]]" || [[Julius La Rosa]] | ||
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| + | |19 || "[[Rags to Riches (song)|Rags to Riches]]" || [[Tony Bennett]] | ||
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| + | |20 || "Anna" || [[Silvana Mangano]] | ||
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| + | |21 || "[[Say You're Mine Again]]" || [[Perry Como]] | ||
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| + | |22 || "[[Dragnet (theme music)|Dragnet]]" || [[Ray Anthony]] | ||
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| + | |23 || "[[Tell Me a Story (Terry Gilkyson song)|Tell Me a Story]]" || [[Jimmy Boyd]] & [[Frankie Laine]] | ||
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| + | |24 || "[[Crying in the Chapel]]" || [[June Valli]] | ||
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| + | |25 || "[[Why Don't You Believe Me?]]" || [[Joni James]] | ||
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| + | |26 || "[[Your Cheatin' Heart]]" || [[Joni James]] | ||
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| + | |27 || "[[Eternally (1952 song)|Limelight (Terry's Theme)]]" || [[Frank Chacksfield]] | ||
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| + | |28 || "[[With These Hands (song)|With These Hands]]" || [[Eddie Fisher (singer)|Eddie Fisher]] | ||
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| + | |29 || "[[C'est si bon]]" || [[Eartha Kitt]] | ||
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| + | |30 || "[[Have You Heard?]]" || [[Joni James]] | ||
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| + | *[[1953 in music]] | ||
| + | *[[List of number-one singles of 1953 (U.S.)]] | ||
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1955 (MCMLV) is the 955th year of the 2nd millennium, the 55th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1950s decade.
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Art and culture
Literature
Non-fiction
- Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
- Le moyen âge fantastique, a book on fantastic art in the Middle Ages, Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Visual culture
- Broadway and 103rd Street. New York by William Klein
- The Citroën DS (also known as Déesse) is introduced
- Kroger Babb buys the U.S. rights to Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika
- Jasper Johns - Flag
Film
- Summer with Monika is released in the United States
- Night and Fog by Alain Resnais
- The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
- Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich
Music
- Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
- Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
- Cry Me a River by Julie London
- Le marteau sans maître by Pierre Boulez
This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1953 by retail sales.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Births
- January 4 – Mark Hollis, English musician (d. 2019)
- January 18 – Frankie Knuckles, American DJ (d. 2014)
- January 21 – Jeff Koons, American artist
- February 12 – Bill Laswell, American bass player and producer
- April 16 – DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American DJ.
- April 22 – Arthur Baker, American record producer and DJ
- March 4 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
- March 9 - Ornella Muti, Italian actress
- March 19 - Pino Daniele, Italian music artist (d. 2015)
- May 26 – Adam Curtis, British documentary filmmaker
- June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and world wide web inventor
- June 27 - Isabelle Adjani, French actress
- July 21 - Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director
- July 22 - Willem Dafoe, American actor
- August 6 - Earl Smith, Jamaican Reggae guitarist
- October 5 - Caroline Loeb, French singer and actress
- November 13 – Whoopi Goldberg, African-American actress and comedian
- November 30 - Billy Idol, born William Broad, British rock musician
Deaths
- José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
- Robert Warshow (1917 - 1955)
- Charlie Parker, American saxophonist (b. 1920)
- Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
- Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
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