Various Artists - America's Greatest Hits 1941 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

We continue our highly popular and successful America's Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, this time with an expanded 4-CD set edition to sit alongside the existing single CD 1951 edition (ACRCD177) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD in recent years. This great-value 105-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Cash Box chart during 1951, along with all those that made the Top 10 of the Juke Box and Disc Jockey charts (it omits certain records which peaked in 1952 and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1952collection and some which were big hits in 1950, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection). As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year and all the biggest names in American pop of that era, so it very much captures the spirit of the times, but also includes a number of lesser known records which are not heard very often and which have not been readily available on CD. As always, it includes a substantial 15,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and it's a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies. Album Tracks 1. Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz 2. Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries for You 3. Mario Lanza - Be My Love 4. Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra & the Weavers - So Long (It's Been Good to Know Ya) 5. Guy Mitchell - the Roving Kind 6. Dinah Shore - My Heart Cries for You 7. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Tennessee Waltz 8. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Tennessee Waltz 9. Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters - (I Wonder Why) You're Just in 10. Perry Como - If 11. Vic Damone - My Heart Cries for You 12. Jimmy Wakely - My Heart Cries for You 13. Dinah Shore - Nobody's Chasing Me 14. The Weavers - the Roving Kind 15.

We continue our highly popular and successful America's Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, now reaching the point at the turn of the decade, this time with an expanded 4-CD edition to sit alongside the existing single CD 1950 edition (ACRCD176) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD in recent years. This great-value 104-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Honor Roll Of Hits and the Top 10 in the Cash Box chart during 1951. It omits certain records which peaked in 1951and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1951 collection and some which were big hits in 1949, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection. As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year and all the biggest names in American pop of that era, at a time when the USA was emerging from post-war austerity into a more optimistic decade but was about to become embroiled in the Korean War, and it very much captures the spirit of the times. It also includes a number of lesser known records which are not heard very often and which have not been readily available on CD. As always, it includes a substantial 15,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and it's a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies. Album Tracks 1. Andrews Sisters - I Can Dream, Can't I' 2. Bing Crosby - Dear Hearts and Gentle People 3. Bing Crosby - Mule Train 4. Dinah Shore - Dear Hearts and Gentle People 5. Dick Haymes - the Old Master Painter 6. Tony Martin - There's No Tomorrow 7. Richard Hayes - the Old Master Painter 8. Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) 9. Jack Teter Trio - Johnson Rag 10. Ames Brothers - Rag Mop 11. Buddy Clark - a Dreamer's Holiday 12. Red Foley - Chattanoogi

We continue our popular and successful series devoted to the biggest chart records of each calendar year in the early chart era as we focus on 1945, the fifth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940 - and the first year to feature a Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart. This great value 94-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart during the year, plus those which entered the Top 10 in the final weeks of the year. For reasons of space, it excludes those records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1944, and so are included in our existing 1944 collection. It was another vintage year for Bing Crosby, who had 9 hits during the year, while Dick Haymes and Harry James with Kitty Kallen had six. Johnny Mercer had three No. 1s, one with Jo Stafford, and Doris Day made her chart debut with two No. 1s. Others who featured at No.1 were The Andrews Sisters, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, Harry James, Sammy Kaye and Freddy Martin, while there were also many highly collectable lesser-known records by some artists we don't hear too much about these days. It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII came to a close, celebrated by a number of both sentimental and celebratory hits. It includes a 12,000+ word booklet with a commentary on every record as well as full discographical and chart information. Album Tracks 1. Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive 2. The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola 3. Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - Don't Fence Me in 4. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Georgia Carroll - There Goes That 5. Kate Smith - Don't Fence Me in 6. Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Carl Grayson - Cocktails for Two 7. Frank Sin