The CASH BOX Best Selling Pop Albums
Week ending JULY 28, 1956
TWTITLE | Artist (Label LP / EP) LWWKS
 1MY FAIR LADY
  Original Broadway Cast (Columbia Masterworks OL 5090)
 115
 2CALYPSO
  Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1248 / EPB-1248)
 2 7
 3SONGS FOR SWINGIN’ LOVERS!
  Frank Sinatra (Capitol W 653 / EAP 653)
 419
 4ELVIS PRESLEY
  Elvis Presley (RCA Victor LPM 1254 / EPB 1254)
 319
 5THE KING AND I
  Original Sound Track (Capitol W 740 / EDM-740)
 7 2
 6THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
  Original Cast (Columbia Masterworks OL 5118 / A 5118)
18 2
 7THE PLATTERS
  Platters (Mercury MG-20146)
 9 6
 8OKLAHOMA!
  Sound Track (Capitol SAO 595 / FDM 595)
1048
 9THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY
  Original Sound Track / Carmen Cavallaro (Decca DL 8289 / ED 844)
1411
10CAROUSEL
  Sound Track (Capitol W 694 / EDM-694)
 525
11SINGS THE COLE PORTER SONG BOOK
  Ella Fitzgerald (Verve MG V-4001-2)
12 6
12SAY IT WITH MUSIC
  Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57041 / EC 57041)
21 2
13BELAFONTE
  Harry Belafonte (RCA Victor LPM 1150 / EPB 1150 / EPA-693,4,5)
 824
14PICNIC
  Original Sound Track / Morris Stoloff (Decca DL 8320 / ED 846)
 613
15BUBBLES IN THE WINE
  Lawrence Welk & Champagne Music (Coral CRL 57083 / EC 57083)
1715
16LONELY GIRL
  Julie London (Liberty LRP 3012 LEP-1,2,3-3012)
15 5
17GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED! (A Complete Minstrel Show)
  Various Artists (Epic LN 3238)
1311
18FOUR FRESHMEN AND 5 TROMBONES
  Four Freshmen (Capitol T 683 / EAP 683)
1623
19CASTLES IN SPAIN
  Michel LeGrand & Orchestra (Columbia CL 888 / B 888)
11 7
20MUSIC FROM “MY FAIR LADY”
  Percy Faith & Orchestra (Columbia CL 895 / B 895)
23 5
21HIGH SOCIETY
  Original Sound Track (Capitol W 750 / EDM-750)
 1
22NIGHT WINDS
  Jackie Gleason (Capitol W 717 / EAP 1,2,3,4-717)
19 9
23WALTZES OF IRVING BERLIN
  Mantovani & Orchestra (London LL 1452)
2010
24SONGS OF THE SOUTH
  Norman Luboff Choir (Columbia CL 860 / B 860)
 7
25THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
  Sound Track / Elmer Bernstein & Orchestra (Decca DL 8257 / ED 2335,6,7)
2220
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