Highlights

• Hayden Fry returns home to become head football coach at Odessa High. His OHS teams post records of 4-6 in 1956, 7-3 in 1957 and 5-5 in 1958. Fry later wins fame as successful college head coach at SMU, North Texas State and Iowa

Top Ten Songs of 1956

1. Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
2. Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
3. Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
4. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard
5. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
6. My Prayer - The Platters
7. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
8. My Blue Heaven - Fats Domino
9. Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell
10. Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley

Top Movies of 1956

• Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Todd, producer (United Artists)*

•  Friendly Persuasion, William Wyler, producer (Allied Artists)

•  Giant, George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg, producers (Warner Bros.)

•  The King and I, Charles Brackett, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)

•  The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille, producer (Paramount)

      *Best Motion Picture