The CASH BOX Best Selling Pop Albums
Week ending DECEMBER 22, 1956
TWTITLE | Artist (Label LP / EP) LWWKS
 1ELVIS
  Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1382 / EPB 1382)		 1 8
 2CALYPSO
  Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1248 / EPB-1248)		 228
 3MY FAIR LADY
  Original Broadway Cast (Columbia Masterworks OL 5090)		 336
 4THE KING AND I
  Original Sound Track (Capitol W 740 / EDM-740)		 623
 5THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
  Original Sound Track / Carmen Cavallaro (Decca DL 8289 / ED 844)		 432
 6HIGH SOCIETY
  Original Sound Track (Capitol W 750 / EDM-750)		 522
 7OKLAHOMA!
  Sound Track (Capitol SAO 595 / FDM 595)		 769
 8JERRY LEWIS JUST SINGS
  Jerry Lewis (Decca DL 8410 / ED 2455,6,7)		17 2
 9ELVIS PRESLEY
  Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1254 / EPB 1254)		 840
10SAY IT WITH MUSIC
  Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57041 / EC 57041)		1023
11MANHATTAN TOWER
  Gordon Jenkins & Orchestra (Capitol T 766 / EDM-766)		 9 7
12BELAFONTE
  Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1150 / EPB 1150 / EPA-693,4,5)		1145
13SONGS FOR SWINGIN’ LOVERS!
  Frank Sinatra (Capitol W 653 / EAP 653)		1240
14THIS IS SINATRA
  Frank Sinatra (Capitol T 768)		14 4
15CALENDAR GIRL
  Julie London (Liberty SL 9002 / LEP-1,2,3-9002)		13 3
16MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM LAWRENCE WELK AND HIS CHAMPAGNE MUSIC
  Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57093 / EC 82032)		21 2
17THE PLATTERS
  Platters (Mercury MG-20146)		1527
18ELLA AND LOUIS
  Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (Verve MG V-4003)		18 9
19THE PLATTERS—VOLUME TWO
  Platters (Mercury MG 20216)		23 2
20GIANT
  Original Sound Track / Dimitri Tiomkin (Capitol W 773 / EAP 773)		22 2
21HOWDY!
  Pat Boone (Dot DLP-3030)		1613
22THE ELGART TOUCH
  Les Elgart & Orchestra (Columbia CL 875 / B-8751,2,3)		20 8
23FRESHMEN FAVORITES
  Four Freshmen (Capitol T 743 / EAP 1,2,3-743)		1917
24SONGS OF CHRISTMAS
  Norman Luboff Choir (Columbia CL 926 / EPA 926)		— 1
25MERRY CHRISTMAS
  Jackie Gleason (Capitol W 758 / EAP 1,2,3-758)		24 3
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