The CASH BOX Top 15 Country Best Sellers
Week ending DECEMBER 31, 1955
TWTITLE | Artist (Label) LWWKS
  1SIXTEEN TONS
    “Tennessee” Ernie Ford (Capitol 3262)
  1  7
  2LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
    Webb Pierce (Decca 29662)
  214
  3JUST CALL ME LONESOME
    Eddy Arnold (RCA Victor 47-6198)
  318
  4I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
    Elvis Presley (Sun 223 / RCA Victor 47-6357)
  412
  5EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY (Tomorrow You’ll Cry)
    Porter Wagoner (RCA Victor 47-6289)
  5  4
  6WHY BABY WHY
    Red Sovine & Webb Pierce (Decca 29739)
    George Jones (Starday 202)
  8
 
  2
  7
  7ALL RIGHT
    Faron Young (Capitol 3169)
1223
  8LONELY SIDE OF TOWN
    Kitty Wells (Decca 29728)
15  2
  9IT’S A GREAT LIFE (If You Don’t Weaken)
    Faron Young (Capitol 3258)
15  9
10DON’T TAKE IT OUT ON ME
    Hank Thompson & Brazos Valley Boys (Capitol 3275)
  7  2
11I DON’T CARE
    Webb Pierce (Decca 29480)
  628
12I’VE KISSED YOU MY LAST TIME
    Kitty Wells (Decca 29728)
  1
13BEAUTIFUL LIES
    Jean Shepard (Capitol 3222)
  9  6
14A SATISFIED MIND
    Porter Wagoner (RCA Victor 47-6105)
    Red Foley & Betty Foley (Decca 29526)
10
 
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27
15THE RICHEST MAN (In The World)
    Eddy Arnold with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra (RCA Victor 47-6290)
14  5
15BORN TO BE HAPPY
    Hank Snow & Rainbow Ranch Boys (RCA Victor 47-6269)
  2
15THIRTY DAYS (To Come Back Home)
    Ernest Tubb (Decca 29731)
  1
NOTE: On the original published chart, Cash Box appended five additional positions to its Top 10 Country Best Sellers chart, but included only the titles of those additional records. Artists/labels listed above in positions 11 through 15 are based on a record’s previous or subsequent appearance in the Top 10 or its appearance on the concurrent Billboard Country charts.
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