Billboard Hot 100 #1 Hits of 1959

There were 16 different songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959. Given the artist and their respective issue dates, can you name every song?

The weeks are listed as "issue date," meaning the song was at #1 when the list was published on that Saturday

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Issue Date	#1 Hit	Artist
January 5	The Chipmunk Song	The Chipmunks with David Seville
January 12
January 19	Smoke Gets In Your Eyes	The Platters
January 26
February 2
February 9	Stagger Lee	Lloyd Price
February 16
February 23
March 2
March 9	Venus	Frankie Avalon
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 13	Come Softly to Me	The Fleetwoods
April 20
April 27
May 4
May 11	The Happy Organ	Dave "Baby" Cortez
May 18	Kansas City	Wilbert Harrison
May 25
June 1	The Battle of New Orleans	Johnny Horton
June 8
June 15
June 22
June 29
July 6
July 13	Lonely Boy	Paul Anka
July 20
July 27
August 3
August 10	A Big Hunk o' Love	Elvis Presley
August 17
August 24	The Three Bells	The Browns
August 31
September 7
September 14
September 21	Sleep Walk	Santo & Johnny
September 28
October 5	Mack the Knife	Bobby Darin
October 12
October 19
October 26
November 2
November 9
November 16	Mr. Blue	The Fleetwoods
November 23	Mack the Knife	Bobby Darin
November 30
December 7
December 14	Heartaches by the Number	Guy Mitchell
December 21
December 28	Why	Frankie Avalon