The #1 song in the UK on December 14, 1955

Rock Around the Clock

By Bill Haley & His Comets

Other #1 songs on December 14, 1955
Across genres and charts

#1 country song

Sixteen Tons

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#1 R&B song

Hands Off

Priscilla Bowman with Jay McShann and his Orchestra

#1 song

Sixteen Tons

Tennessee Ernie Ford with Orchestra Conducted by Jack Fascinato

Notable December 14 Birthdays
Born in the 1950s

John Brown

Basketball Player

John Lurie

Musician, Painter and Actor

Wade Davis

Anthropologist

Alan Kulwicki

Racing Driver

Bob Paris

And Canadian Writer, Actor, Civil Rights Activist and Retired Pro Athlete

Steve MacLean

Astronaut