1950s Party Ideas: Oldies Music, Sock Hops and Rock and Roll
1950s Party Ideas are fun for everyone. Those oldies fans can't get enough of 1950s music and fun. The fifties were a great time for greasers, music, cars and giant milkshakes. And let's not forget poodle skirts and saddle shoes! Many party themes are based on this era!
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1950s Party Theme Ideas
If you like the idea of a 1950s party but want to get a more specific theme here are some fun party ideas for you.
A Sock Hop
Rock and Roll
Grease
Classic Cars
Decorating for your fifties party, no matter what the theme is, can be extremely easy. You can decorate with pink, silver, white, and black décor. You can also include a jukebox instead of a compact disc player.
You can dress up in 1950s retro style clothes, you know, saddle shoes and poodle skirts or go for the "greaser" look.
With 1950s party ideas you have many decorating and theme options available to you.
These options can include:
A Picture Board (which can have a poster board cutout for people's faces and that has lots of '50s stuff on the front)
Milkshakes and a buffet
Dancing to Oldies but Goodies
1950s Bingo Game (make bingo cards with nineteen fifties inspired words, people, places, events, and songs)
A Nineteen Fifties scavenger hunt
1950s Trivia
1950s Charades...act out your favorite songs and stars, like Shanana Fonzi or James Dean!
1950s Karaoke get a karaoke machine and print out lyrics of 1950s Oldies but Goodies
Classic car show (either real cars or matchbox cards of '50s cars)
Want more 1950s party ideas?
How about 1950s:
Fashions
Hairstyles remember the B52?
Cars
Movies in the 1950s
Need some fifties costume ideas? A great costume ideas is a poodle skirt and some saddle shoes!
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The Fifties were fun years and a great era and when you host your own 1950s party, you will instantly go back in time to the days of James Dean and Happy Days, Bowser and Sha Na Na and Greased Lightning.
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1950s party ideas are not the only decade worth celebrating. You can use 1960s, 1970s and 1980s too. Wether you were at a school dance in the 50s, 60s, 70s or 80s, you will find some great party ideas here at Party Ideas Parade.
One thing that you really need for 1950s party ideas is oldies music! Yes, the music of the era can bring life to your party! It was certainly a time of some great songs that still are popular today. Here is a list of the top ten pop chart hits from each year of the 1950s. Read it over and you will smile at the memories each hit tune brings back. "Those Oldies but Goodies Remind Me of You"...
Top Ten Hits of 1950
1950 Oldies Music
1. The Fat Man - Fats Domino
2. Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield
3. Teardrops From My Eyes - Ruth Brown
4. Mona Lisa - Nat "King" Cole
5. Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
6. Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams
7. Mardi Gras In New Orleans - Professor Longhair
8. I'm Movin' On - Hank Snow
9. Rollin' Stone - Muddy Waters
10. Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis (Little Esther & the Robins)
Top Ten Hits of 1951
1951 Oldies Music
1. Sixty Minute Man - Dominoes
2. Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston
3. Dust My Broom - Elmore James
4. Cry - Johnnie Ray
5. Too Young - Nat "King" Cole
6. Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams
7. Glory Of Love - Five Keys
8. Three O'Clock Blues - B.B. King
9. Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams
10. How High The Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Top Ten Hits of 1952
1952 Oldies Music
1. Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price
2. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) - Hank Williams
3. Have Mercy Baby - Dominoes
4. One Mint Julep - Clovers
5. Night Train - Jimmy Forrest
6. My Song - Johnny Ace
7. Goin' Home - Fats Domino
8. Moody Mood For Love - King Pleasure
9. Juke - Little Walter
10. Baby, Don't Do It - "5" Royales
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7. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown
8. Hound Dog - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton
9. Kaw-Liga - Hank Williams
10. The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim
Top Ten Hits of 1954
1954 Oldies Music
1. Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
2. Shake, Rattle And Roll - Joe Turner / Bill Haley & His Comets
3. Earth Angel - Penguins
4. Sh-Boom - Chords
5. That's All Right - Elvis Presley with Scotty and Bill
6. Pledging My Love - Johnny Ace
7. Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite - Spaniels
8. I've Got A Woman - Ray Charles
9. White Christmas - Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter
10. Work With Me Annie - Royals / Midnighters
Top Ten Hits of 1955
1955 Oldies Music
1. Tutti-Frutti - Little Richard
2. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
3. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
4. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Teenagers
5. The Great Pretender - Platters
6. Ain't It A Shame - Fats Domino
7. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
8. Speedoo - Cadillacs
9. Story Untold - Nutmegs
10. My Babe - Little Walter
Top Ten Hits of 1956
1956 Oldies Music
1. Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
2. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
3. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins / Elvis Presley
4. Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
5. Be-Bop-A-Lula - Gene Vincent & the Bluecaps
6. Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
7. In The Still Of The Nite - Five Satins
8. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
9. Please, Please, Please - James Brown & the Famous Flames
10. I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two
Top Ten Hits of 1957
1957 Oldies Music
1. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
2. Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis
3. That'll Be The Day - Crickets
4. Bye Bye Love - Everly Brothers
5. Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
6. School Day - Chuck Berry
7. Rock And Roll Music - Chuck Berry
8. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
9. Lucille - Little Richard
10. Rocking Pneumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns
Top Ten Hits of 1958
1958 Oldies Music
1. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
2. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
3. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
4. For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler & the Impressions
5. Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry
6. Yakety Yak - Coasters
7. La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
8. Since I Don't Have You - Skyliners
9. Rumble - Link Wray
10. Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson
Top Ten Hits of 1959
1959 Oldies Music
1. What'd I Say - Ray Charles
2. I Only Have Eyes For You - Flamingos
3. Mack The Knife - Bobby Darin
4. There Goes My Baby - Drifters
5. Shout - Isley Brothers
6. Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
7. Poison Ivy - Coasters
8. Money - Barrett Strong
9. Love Potion No. 9 - Clovers
10. You're So Fine - Falcons
1950s Party Ideas bring back those good old days and we remember a more innocent time in our lives. Oldies Music really brings us on a walk down memory lane! What a good feeling it is to take a step back in time with the decorations, the costumes and the music. 1950s party ideas are fun for adult party ideas and kids parties too. Do you remember all these songs? Why not include a song trivia contest as a fun party game with your 1950s party ideas.
