* 1999: His 1955 recording of his song " Bo Diddley " inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

* A Mighty Man is He ( 1955 ), play, wrote song Rag Me That Mendelssohn March

Dootone Records released The Penguins ' single " Hey Senorita " in late 1954 as the intended A-side, but a radio DJ flipped the record over to the B-side: " Earth Angel " worked its way up to # 1 on the Billboard charts ( the only Penguins song ever to fly that high ), and held that place for three weeks early in 1955.

* " Arrivederci Roma ", a 1955 popular song by Renato Rascel

It was not until 1955, when " Rock Around the Clock " was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, that the song truly took off.

The producers were looking for a song to represent the type of music the youth of 1955 was listening to, and the elder Ford borrowed several records from his son's collection, one of which was Haley's " Rock Around the Clock " and this was the song chosen.

The song re-entered the UK charts to reach number one in November 1955, and after a three-week break returned there for a further three weeks in January 1956.

The original theme song to Captain Kangaroo ( titled " Puffin ' Billy ") was used from 1955 to 1974.

The theme song, as recorded by The Four Aces, went to # 1 on the charts for four weeks in 1955 ( in the midst of the rock-and-roll era ) and won the Academy Award for Best Song.

The 1955 song " Mary Lee " by The Rainbows on Red Robin Records, a Washington DC regional hit on Pilgrim 703, contains the background " do wop de wadda ": the 1956 song " In the Still of the Night " by The Five Satins features a plaintive " doo-wop, doo-wah " refrain in the bridge.

Several weeks later, on December 19, 1955, Perkins and his band recorded the song during a session at Sun Studio in Memphis.

Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (" Go, cat, go ") and the band changed the end of the song to a " boogie vamp ". On Ozark Jubilee Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, " Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now.

The opening Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin sequence in the 1955 film Oklahoma !, with Gordon MacRae singing the famous song while riding a horse past the stalks of corn " as high as a elephant's eye ", was filmed in Amado.

The train station sequence in the 1955 film classic Oklahoma !, with Gene Nelson singing and dancing the song " Kansas City " partly atop a moving train, was filmed in Elgin.

Axton subsequently presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a country music convention in Nashville.

Presley had first performed " Heartbreak Hotel " during a live show in December 1955 during a tour of the Louisiana Hayride, but the song gained strong popularity after his appearance on Stage Show in March 1956.

The song was written in 1955 by Mae Boren Axton, a high school teacher with a background in musical promotion, and Jacksonville based singer – songwriter Tommy Durden.

With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was to be named the most promising male country star of 1955.

After signing with RCA on November 21, 1955, Presley accepted Axton's offer of a third of the royalties if he made the song his first single on his new label.

Presley performed the song for the first time in Swifton, Arkansas on December 9, 1955, and declared to the audience that it would be his first hit.

The soundtrack also contained use of the 1955 song " Unchained Melody ", composed by Alex North with lyrics by Hy Zaret, which appears in both instrumental form and the 1965 recording by The Righteous Brothers.

Produced by Milt Gabler, the recording was initially only moderately successful, but when it was used as the theme song for the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle, it became the first international rock and roll hit, and the first such recording to go to No. 1 on the American musical charts.

" Louie Louie " is an American rock ' n ' roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955.

He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

* 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics ' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1948 ) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ).

Between 1948 and 1959 seven of his plays were performed on Broadway: Summer and Smoke ( 1948 ), The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ), Camino Real ( 1953 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ), Orpheus Descending ( 1957 ), Garden District ( 1958 ), and Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1959 ).

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.

Although The Flowering Peach by Clifford Odets was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was at first considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., chairman of the Board, had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and thought it worthy of the drama prize.

* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 )

In 1955, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured the prize jury into presenting the Prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees (" amateurishly constructed ... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious "), instead of Clifford Odets ' The Flowering Peach ( their preferred choice ) or The Bad Seed, their second choice.

* 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams

Arkwright's stutter was not in the script ; Barker was inspired to use it by Melvyn's performance and use of a stutter in a 1955 play the two performed at the Palace Theatre called Hot Water.

His most notable Broadway performance ( later reprised in a 1958 movie ) was as " Big Daddy " Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 – 56 ).

Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era ( 1955 – 2012 ), based on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts.

* Dexter Blows Hot and Cool ( 1955 )

The first national drag racing meet, sponsored by the National Hot Rod Association was held on such an airfield near Great Bend, KS in 1955.

Lord was then cast as Brick in a replacement for Ben Gazzara in the 1955 – 1956 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

The Flowering Peach was the preferred choice of the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1955, but under pressure from Joseph Pulitzer Jr., the prize went instead to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees.

* From Hot War to Cold: The U. S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945 – 1955, by Jeffrey G. Barlow.

His outstanding works as director are Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) — for which he won an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) — In Cold Blood ( 1967 ) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ).

In 1955, Charlie Ryan wrote and performed a popular song known as " Hot Rod Lincoln ", about a kid who races his souped-up Lincoln against a Cadillac up the Grapevine Hill.

# Moonraker ( 1955 ) — first American paperback title: Too Hot to Handle

* Moonraker ( novel ), a 1955 James Bond novel renamed as Too Hot to Handle in the United States

A country music version by Marty Robbins peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1955.

With his 1924 Ford roadster, he won the first National Hot Rod Association ( NHRA ) Nationals that were held in Great Bend, Kansas, in 1955.