1950s Love Songs from 50s Music

Love songs are what fill dance floors. They bring back memories and invoke a true feeling of love from within. Typically, couples will always dance to slow songs at wedding receptions. This post is focused on the most popular love songs of the 1950s. We have selected songs that also make fantastic first dance songs for brides and grooms.

The fifties were the dawn of Rock and Roll. However, the mainstream included Doo-Wop, Rhythm and Blues, Rockabilly, Country, and many vocalists or Jazz artists. Billboard nominated Elvis Presley as the artist of the decade of the Fifties. If you are looking for a complete list of the best wedding songs from the 1950s, please visit our Top 100 Songs of the 1950s.

Other Decade Love Songs Lists to Read:

• 1960s Love Songs
• 1970s Love Songs
• 1980s Love Songs
• 1990s Love Songs
• 2000s Love Songs

1950s Love Songs

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A Kiss To Build A Dream On – Louis Armstrong
1951, Jazz

Give me a kiss to build on and my
Imagination will thrive upon that kiss

All The Way – Frank Sinatra
1951, Jazz

But if you’ll let me love you
It’s for sure I’m gonna love you, all the way, all the way

That’s Amore – Dean Martin
1953, Pop

When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You’re in love

Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) – The Penguins
1954, Doo-Wop

I fell for you, and I knew
The vision of your love’s loveliness
I hope and I pray, that someday
I’ll be the vision, the vision of your happiness

Pledging My Love – Johnny Ace
1955, R&B

I’ll forever love you
For the rest of my days
I’ll never part from you
Or your loving ways

Let It Be Me – The Everly Brothers
1955, Vocal

I bless the day I found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you
Let it be me

Only You – The Platters
1955, R&B

I understand the magic that you do
You’re my dream come true
My one and only you

In The Still of The Night – Five Satins
1956, Doo-Wop

I’ll hope and I’ll pray
To keep
Your precious love
Well before the light

Love Is Here To Stay – Frank Sinatra
1956, Vocal

But oh my dear, our love is here to stay
Together we’re goin’ a long, long way

One in a Million – The Platters
1956, R&B

Though it may be rare, you and I do share
This love that has happened to few
For there’s one in a million like you

Memories Are Made Of This – Dean Martin
1956, Pop

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine
Memories are made of this

Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
1956, Rock

Love me tender, love me long
Take me to your heart
For it’s there that I belong
And we’ll never part

When I Fall In Love – Nat King Cole
1956, R&B

When I give my heart it will be completely
Or I’ll never give my heart
And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too
Is when I fall in love with you

You Send Me – Sam Cooke
1957, R&B

Now I find myself wanting
To marry you and take you home

The Twelfth of Never – Johnny Mathis
1957, Country

I’ll love you ’til the poets run out of rhyme
Until the Twelfth of Never and that’s a long, long time

Chances Are – Johnny Mathis
1957, Country

The moment you come into view
Chances are you think that I’m in love with you

To Know Him is To Love Him – The Teddy Bears
1958, Pop

Yes, just to know him
Is to love love love him
And I do

To Be Loved – Jackie Wilson
1958, R&B

To be loved (to be loved)
Oh what a feeling
To be loved

For Your Precious Love – Jerry Butler & the Impressions
1958, R&B

And of all the things that I want,
In this whole wide world, is
Just for you to say that you’ll be my girl

I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingos
1959, R&B

Maybe millions of people go by
But they all disappear from view
And I only have eyes for you

This I Swear – The Skyliners
1959, Doo-Wop

My love for you will last
Till time itself is through
Oh, my darling, oh, my darling
This I swear is true

Come Rain or Come Shine – Ray Charles
1959, Blues

You’re gonna love me
Like no one’s loved me
Come rain or come shine

Never Be Anyone Else But You – Ricky Nelson
1959, Rock

There’ll never be anyone else
But you for me
Never ever be
Just couldn’t be
Anyone else but you

We Belong Together – Ritchie Valens
1959, Rock

You’re mine
And we belong together
Yes, we belong together
For eternity

Put Your Head On My Shoulder – Paul Anka
1959, Doo-Wop

Won’t you kiss me once, baby?
Just a kiss goodnight, maybe
You and I will fall in love (you and I will fall in love)

Do you have a favorite 50s love song? Please share your song below in the comments!

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