List of top-ten songs for the 1950s in Mexico
For the monthly number-one songs of the decade, see List of number-one songs from the 1950s (Mexico).
This is a list of the 10 most popular songs in Mexico for each year between 1950 and 1960, as published in the book "El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana", by Fernando Mejía Barquera.[1]
Overview
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In addition to the continued prominence of bolero music (typically performed by tríos) which had been popular since the previous decade, Mexican music in the 50s was dominated by domestic ranchera music and Cuban dance genres, such as mambo and danzón.
Ranchera music, generally associated with rural Mexico but popular in urban areas as well, got a considerable boost from the massive popularity of Pedro Infante (an actor and ranchera singer who was present on the Mexican music charts from the beginning of the decade until his death in 1957) and the emergence of songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez (who, after writing many hit songs for other ranchera singers, eventually began to record his own songs).
The successful 1950 recording "Qué rico mambo", by Dámaso Pérez Prado and his orchestra, is considered as having initiated the boom of mambo music in Mexico.[2][3] This genre became so popular with Mexican audiences that many Cuban performers (such as the aforementioned Pérez Prado and Beny Moré) moved to Mexico and appeared in Mexican movies, and it also paved the way for other Cuban musicians (such as the Sonora Matancera) who played genres other than mambo to find success in Mexico. The mambo craze of the 50s in Mexico, specially in urban areas where it became linked to the pachuco subculture,[4] has been compared to the rock and roll craze that would sweep the United States in the same decade.[5]
The year 1960 marked the beginning of a new era, with the appearance of the first nationwide rock and roll hits: "La hiedra venenosa" (a cover of The Coasters' "Poison Ivy") by Los Rebeldes del Rock, and "La plaga" (a cover of Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly") by Los Teen Tops, paving the way for rock and roll music (usually through Spanish-language covers of American and British songs) to become the dominant genre in the Mexican charts of the 60s.
Year-end charts
[edit]The following year-end charts were elaborated by Mejía Barquera, based on weekly charts that were published on the magazine Selecciones musicales as compiled on Roberto Ayala's 1962 book "Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión"; those charts were, according to Ayala, based on record sales, jukebox plays, radio and television airplay, and sheet music sales[a].[6] Mejía Barquera then took one chart from the second week of every month of a calendar year, so as to have twelve charts per year, and assigned "points" to the songs on those charts based on their ranking (from 10 points for a first place to 1 point for a tenth place), adding up the points to make his year-end charts.[7]
The charts published by Selecciones Musicales and compiled in the Musicosas book only include the song titles and the names of the composers; the performers credited in this article are included for reference and where many performers are listed for the same song, the performers appear in alphabetical order, which may not reflect whose version was the most popular[b].
1950
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pobre corazón" | Chucho Monge | Pedro Infante |
| 2 | "Viajera" | Luis Arcaraz | Luis Arcaraz y su Orquesta |
| 3 | "Tú, solo tú" | Felipe Valdés Leal | Pedro Infante / Beny Moré / Trío Calaveras |
| 4 | "Quinto patio" | Luis Arcaraz | Luis Arcaraz y su Orquesta |
| 5 | "Qué rico mambo"[c] | Dámaso Pérez Prado | Pérez Prado y su Orquesta |
| 6 | "Soy feliz" | Juan Bruno Tarraza | María Victoria con Orquesta de Luis Arcaraz |
| 7 | "La múcura" | Antonio Fuentes | Beny Moré con la Orquesta de Pérez Prado |
| 8 | "Yo" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Andrés Huesca y sus Costeños |
| 9 | "El gavilán pollero" | Ventura Romero | Pedro Infante |
| 10 | "Amorcito corazón" | Manuel Esperón & Pedro de Urdimalas | Pedro Infante / Trío Los Panchos |
1951
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Usted" | Gabriel Ruiz & José Antonio Zorrilla | Los Tres Diamantes |
| 2 | "Llévame" | Gonzalo Curiel | Elvira Ríos / Emilio Tuero |
| 3 | "Pecado" | Enrique Mario Francini, Armando Pontier & Carlos Bahr | Orquesta Francini-Pontier / Trío Los Panchos |
| 4 | "Ella" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Pedro Infante |
| 5 | "Condición" | Gabriel Ruiz | Los Tres Diamantes |
| 6 | "La que se fue" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Pedro Infante |
| 7 | "Tu castigo" | Ventura Romero | Lola Beltrán / Pedro Infante |
| 8 | "Bolero" | Paul Durand & Henri Contet | Paul Durand |
| 9 | "El fronterizo" | Miguel Ángel Castilla & José Ángel Castilla | Pedro Infante |
| 10 | "Carta a Eufemia" | Rubén Méndez & Rubén Fuentes | Pedro Infante |
1952
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pénjamo" | Rubén Méndez | Pedro Infante |
| 2 | "Nube gris" | Eduardo Márquez Talledo | Pedro Infante |
| 3 | "Amor, qué malo eres" | Luis Marquetti | Lucho Gatica / Los Tres Diamantes / Pedro Vargas |
| 4 | "Las coronelas" | Bonifacio Collazo | Various artists |
| 5 | "Peso sobre peso" | Chava Flores | Chava Flores / Pedro Infante |
| 6 | "El plebeyo" | Felipe Pinglo Alva | Pedro Infante / Fernando Fernández |
| 7 | "Carta a Eufemia" | Rubén Méndez & Rubén Fuentes | Pedro Infante |
| 8 | "Mi cafetal" | Crescencio Salcedo | Hermanas Lima |
| 9 | "La interesada" | Chava Flores | Various artists |
| 10 | "¿Dónde está mi saxofón?"[d] | Fernando Rosas | Various artists |
1953
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| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Piel canela" | Bobby Capó | Bobby Capó con la Sonora Matancera / Lucho Gatica / Pedro Vargas |
| 2 | "Tu recuerdo y yo" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Pedro Infante |
| 3 | "El jinete" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Jorge Negrete |
| 4 | "Ruega por nosotros" | Alberto Cervantes & Rubén Fuentes | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Lucho Gatica / Pedro Infante |
| 5 | "Candilejas" | Charles Chaplin | Los Tecolines |
| 6 | "Cerezo Rosa (Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White)" | Louiguy & Antoine Leonardi | Los Tecolines / Pérez Prado y su orquesta / Trío los Panchos |
| 7 | "Tienes que pagar" | Alberto Cervantes & Rubén Fuentes | Pedro Infante |
| 8 | "Ni por favor" | Alberto Cervantes & Rubén Fuentes | Pedro Infante |
| 9 | "Bonito y sabroso" | Beny Moré | Beny Moré con Orquesta Rafael de Paz |
| 10 | "Vaya con Dios" | Larry Russell, Inez James & Buddy Pepper | Pedro Infante / Nat King Cole |
1954
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Cien años" | Alberto Cervantes & Rubén Fuentes | Pedro Infante |
| 2 | "Contigo en la distancia" | César Portillo de la Luz | Lucho Gatica / Pedro Infante / Andy Russell |
| 3 | "Ruega por nosotros" | Alberto Cervantes & Rubén Fuentes | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Lucho Gatica / Pedro Infante |
| 4 | "Camino de Guanajuato" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Pedro Infante |
| 5 | "Espinita" | Nico Jiménez | Ana María González / Virginia López / Trío Los Panchos |
| 6 | "La engañadora" | Enrique Jorrín | Enrique Jorrín y orquesta |
| 7 | "¿Quién será?" | Pablo Beltrán Ruiz | Pedro Infante / Sonora Matancera con Nelson Pinedo |
| 8 | "Gorrioncillo pecho amarillo" | Tomás Méndez | Lola Beltrán / Pedro Infante |
| 9 | "Bailando el Charleston"[e] | Fred Raymond & Emilio Donato Uranga | Various artists |
| 10 | "Doce cascabeles" | Ricardo Freire | Los Churumbeles |
1955
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Mi último fracaso" | Alfredo Gil | Trío Los Panchos |
| 2 | "Llegaste tarde" | Wello Rivas | Los Tres Ases [es] |
| 3 | "La del rebozo blanco" | Rafael Cárdenas & Rubén Fuentes | Various artists |
| 4 | "Mil besos" | Emma Elena Valdelamar | María Victoria |
| 5 | "Un mundo raro" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Pedro Infante / Trío Calaveras |
| 6 | "A los cuatro vientos" | Tomás Méndez | Miguel Aceves Mejía |
| 7 | "Dime de quién es tu corazón"[f] | José de Jesús Morales | Los Cuatro Soles / Marilú |
| 8 | "Rogaciano" | Valeriano Trejo | Miguel Aceves Mejía |
| 9 | "Grito prisionero" | Gabriel Ruiz & Gabriel Luna de la Fuente | Pedro Infante |
| 10 | "Segundas partes" | Vicente Garrido | Hermanos Martínez Gil [es] |
1956
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "No me platiques más"[g] | Vicente Garrido | Lucho Gatica / Pedro Infante / Los Tres Ases[h] [es] |
| 2 | "Que seas feliz" | Consuelo Velázquez | Lola Beltrán / Libertad Lamarque / Los Tres Ases |
| 3 | "Grítenme, piedras del campo" | Cuco Sánchez | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Amalia Mendoza / Rosita Quintana |
| 4 | "Historia de un amor" | Carlos Almarán | Libertad Lamarque / Los Tres Ases / Pérez Prado y su Orquesta / Sonora Matancera con Leo Marini |
| 5 | "Échenme la tierra encima" | Rodolfo de la Garza | Pedro Infante |
| 6 | "Alma de acero" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Lola Beltrán / Pedro Infante / Trío Calaveras |
| 7 | "Amor mío" | Álvaro Carrillo | Lucho Gatica / Los Tres Diamantes |
| 8 | "Angustia" | Orlando Brito | Sonora Matancera con Bienvenido Granda |
| 9 | "Vanidad" | Armando Gónzález Malibrán | Genaro Salinas / Los Tres Ases |
| 10 | "Estoy perdido" | Víctor Manuel Mato | Los Tres Ases |
1957
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "El reloj" | Roberto Cantoral | Los Tres Caballeros |
| 2 | "Ay, cosita linda" | Francisco Galán | Pacho Galán y su Orquesta / Sonora Matancera con Carlos Argentino |
| 3 | "Tú me acostumbraste" | Frank Domínguez | Olga Guillot |
| 4 | "Te me olvidas" | Vicente Garrido | Olga Guillot / Los Tres Caballeros / José Antonio Méndez |
| 5 | "En la orilla del mar" | José Berroa | Sonora Matancera con Bienvenido Granda |
| 6 | "Espérame en el cielo" | Paquito López | Lucho Gatica / Pedro Vargas / Trío Los Panchos |
| 7 | "La cama de piedra" | Cuco Sánchez | Cuco Sánchez |
| 8 | "La barca" | Roberto Cantoral | Los Tres Caballeros |
| 9 | "Marcelino, pan y vino"[i] | Virgilio Savona, Tata Giacobetti & Barzizza | Various artists |
| 10 | "La pastora" | Alfredo D'Angelis & José Rótulo | Tony Camargo |
1958
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sabrás que te quiero" | Teddy Fregoso | Los Tres Ases / Raúl Shaw Moreno / Javier Solís |
| 2 | "Regálame esta noche" | Roberto Cantoral | Los Tres Caballeros |
| 3 | "Rumbo perdido" | Mario Álvarez | Los Tres Ases [es] / Javier Solís |
| 4 | "Échame a mí la culpa" | José Ángel Espinoza | Amalia Mendoza / Javier Solís |
| 5 | "Fascinación" | Fermo Dante Marchetti | Tito Guízar / Trío Hermanos Michel / Sara Montiel / Los Cuatro Hermanos Silva |
| 6 | "Corazón de melón" | Carlos Rigual | Los Hermanos Rigual |
| 7 | "Todo y nada" | Vicente Garrido | Los Tres Ases / Lucho Gatica |
| 8 | "Cuando tú me quieras" | Mario Barrios & Raúl Shaw Moreno | Los Tres Ases / Raúl Shaw Moreno / Javier Solís |
| 9 | "Lágrimas de amor" | Raúl Shaw Moreno | Olimpo Cárdenas / Raúl Shaw Moreno |
| 10 | "Nel blu dipinto di blu" | Franco Migliacci & Domenico Modugno | Domenico Modugno |
1959
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "La margarita" | Mariano Mercerón | Mariano Mercerón y su Orquesta |
| 2 | "Bala perdida" | Tomás Méndez | Lola Beltrán |
| 3 | "Me extraña" | Luis Martínez Serrano | Los Tres Caballeros |
| 4 | "Nuestro juramento" | Benito de Jesús | Julio Jaramillo |
| 5 | "Jacaranda" | Enrique Fabregat & Mario Molina Montes | Los Tres Ases [es] / Trío Los Santos |
| 6 | "Lágrimas del alma" | Bonny Villaseñor | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Lucho Gatica / Flor Silvestre / Javier Solís |
| 7 | "Qué bonito amor" | José Alfredo Jiménez | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Elvira Ríos / Flor Silvestre / Javier Solís |
| 8 | "Decídete" | Ramón Inclán | Los Dandys |
| 9 | "Un telegrama" | Alfredo & Gregorio García Segura | Monna Bell |
| 10 | "Gema" | Güicho Cisneros | Los Dandys |
1960
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sabor a mí" | Álvaro Carrillo | Rolando Laserie / Los Tres Ases [es] |
| 2 | "Limosnero de amor" | Alberto Videz | Alberto Beltrán / Javier Solís |
| 3 | "Bésame y olvídame" | Beatriz Jiménez | Javier Solís |
| 4 | "La boa" | Félix Reina & Carlos Lico[j] | Sonora Santanera |
| 5 | "Adiós" | Alfredo Carrasco | Los Tecolines |
| 6 | "No pidas más perdón" | Blas Hernández & Paul Márquez | Los Llopis / Sonora Matancera con Carlos Argentino |
| 7 | "Ayúdame, Dios mío" | Mario de Jesús | María Elena Sandoval |
| 8 | "Canción de Orfeo" | Luis Bonfá[k] | Los Tres Diamantes |
| 9 | "La plaga" | John Marascalco & Robert Blackwell[l] | Los Teen Tops |
| 10 | "La hiedra venenosa" | Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller[m] | Los Rebeldes del Rock |
| 11[n] | "El aguijón" | Ignacio Jaime | Charro Avitia / Lola Casanova / Emilio Domínguez / Hermanas Huerta |
Notes
[edit]- ^ (Translated from Spanish) "Record agencies all over the country, jukebox operators, music publishers, recording houses and correspondents for Selecciones Musicales send local reports every week. In the headquarters, each one of those reports is assessed and by means of a scoreboard each song is rated so as to determine the position that it is to occupy on the "Hit Parade".
- ^ While many times, like in other countries, a song would be popularized by one particular performer and it became identified with them, in the 1940s and 50s it was common practice in Mexico for a song to be recorded by various singers from different record labels around the same time; therefore, this article may not include all of the performers who recorded the songs around that period.
- ^ Also titled "Qué rico el mambo" in some releases
- ^ Also titled "¿En dónde está mi saxofón?" in some releases
- ^ The original title in German is "Ich hab' das Fräulein Helen baden seh'n" ("I Saw Miss Helen Bathing")
- ^ Usually abbreviated to "De quién es tu corazón".
- ^ Also titled "No me platiques ya" or "No me platiques" in some releases
- ^ According to the composer Vicente Garrido, Los Tres Ases were the first to make the song a success, leading Gatica and Infante to record their own versions shortly after.[9]
- ^ The original title in Italian is "Ricordate Marcellino". Versions with Spanish lyrics were recorded by many artists at the time.
- ^ The song is based on a Cuban instrumental danzón titled "Angoa", composed by Félix Reina. The Mexican musician Carlos Lico later wrote lyrics to it and recorded it with his group, Los Pao, with the new title "La boa", which became a nationwide hit when Sonora Santanera covered it.
- ^ Spanish lyrics by Mario Molina Montes.
- ^ Spanish lyrics by Los Teen Tops.
- ^ Spanish lyrics by Francisco Domínguez.
- ^ Mejía Barquera includes eleven songs for his 1960 year-end chart, instead of the ten songs that had been listed for other years.
References
[edit]- ^ Mejía Barquera, Fernando (June 2006). El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana: Radio y música popular en México D.F. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM. pp. 198–207.
- ^ Pérez-Firmat, Gustavo. "Mambo". Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ Pérez Firmat, Gustavo (2012). Life on the hyphen: the Cuban-American way (2nd ed.). University of Texas Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-292-73706-8.
- ^ CA, Maria Jose. "PACHUCOS, LOS VERDADEROS MAESTROS DEL DANZÓN, MAMBO Y RUMBA". MxCity. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ Díaz, Carlos A. (9 September 2020). "México: el reino del mambo". BiCentenario. El ayer y hoy de México (in Spanish) (49). Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ Ayala, Roberto (1962). Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión. p. 298.
- ^ Mejía Barquera, Fernando (June 2006). El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana: Radio y música popular en México D.F. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM. p. 193.
- ^ "Lyrics of "Bonito y sabroso" with English translation". Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ ""VICENTE GARRIDO" Su Musica Y Sus Interpretes (minute 22:25)". YouTube (in Spanish). MAMBISITOW. Retrieved 30 July 2023.