Bullshit the color lines hadn't started to disintegrate. Sarah Vaughn, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, the Drifters, the Coasters, Ray Charles--ALL were in the charts at the time.

Problem with you Ron, is you love to play the expert about things you don't know about, and state your opinion as fact. It was the kids themselves that desegregated pop music in the 50s. So I don't know what river in Egypt you are floating down with that "pop music was a wasteland in the 50s" crap.

Not all white kids were listening to Pat Boone and Connie Francis. And to suggest they were simply demonstrates your ignorance, particularly about race and music in the 50s and 60s.

Here are just a few songs from the 1959 Top 100:

Almost Grown - Chuck Berry (#32)

Along Came Jones - The Coasters (#9)

Back In The USA - Chuck Berry (#37)

I Loves You Porgy - Nina Simone (#18)

I Want To Walk You Home - Fats Domino (#8)

I'm Moving On - Ray Charles (#40)

Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson (#7)

Only Sixteen - Sam Cooke (#28)

Say Man - Bo Diddley (#20)

There Goes My Baby - The Drifters (#2)

And that was just the black folks.