The #1 song on August 2, 1955

Rock Around the Clock

By Bill Haley & His Comets

Other #1 songs on August 2, 1955
Across genres and charts

#1 country song

I Don't Care

Webb Pierce

#1 R&B song

Ain't That a Shame

Fats Domino

#1 song in the UK

Rose Marie

Slim Whitman

Notable August 2 Birthdays
Born in the 1950s

Andrew Gold

Singer, Musician and Songwriter

Butch Patrick

Actor and Musician

Fulvio Melia

Physicist

Jacky Rosen

Politician

Jim Doughan

Actor, Teacher and Writer

Burgess Owens

Politician & Football Player

Joe Lynn Turner

Singer

Victoria Jackson

Comedian

Apollonia Kotero

Singer and Actress