Various Artists - America's Greatest Hits 1950 (Various Artists) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The collection for 1959 is an excellent value 100-track 4-CD set which includes every record that appeared in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during the year including tracks by well-known artists alongside more obscure hits by artists that never saw the light of day outside the US, such as Billy Grammer, Travis & Bob, Phil Phillips with the Twilights, Jerry Wallace with the Jewels and the Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny. Album Tracks 1. Chipmunk Song 2. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 3. To Know Him Is to Love Him 4. One Night 5. Problems 6. Tom Dooley 7. Lonesome Town 8. Beep Beep 9. Lover's Question 10. Whole Lotta Loving 11. My Happiness 12. Gotta Travel on 13. Donna 14. Sixteen Candles 15. Stagger Lee 16. Lonely Teardrops 17. Goodbye Baby 18. All American Boy 19. Manhattan Spiritual 20. Charlie Brown 21. I Cried a Tear 22. Tall Paul 23. Petite Fleur 24. Peter Gunn 25. Venus 1. Alvin's Harmonica 2. I've Had It 3. It's Just a Matter of Time 4. Tragedy 5. Never Be Anyone Else But You 6. Come Softly to Me 7. Pink Shoelaces 8. It's Late 9. Guitar Boogie Shuffle 10. (Now and Then) There's a Fool Such As I 11. I Need Your Love Tonight 12. Happy Organ 13. Tell Him No 14. Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) 15. Turn Me Loose 16. Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb 17. Kansas City 18. Teenager in Love 19. Dream Lover 20. Battle of New Orleans 21. Quiet Village 22. Personality 23. Only You 24. Tallahassee Lassie 25. Lonely Boy 1. Along Came Jones 2. Lipstick on Your Collar 3. Waterloo 4. Bobby Sox to Stockings 5. Frankie 6. Tiger 7. My Heart Is An Open Book 8. Boy Without a Girl 9. Big Hunk of Love 10. There Goes My Baby 11. Forty Miles of Bad Road 12. Lavender Blue 13. Sweeter Than You 14. What a Difference a Day Makes 15. What's I Say 16. Three Bells

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 1943, the third full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940. This great value 98-track 4-CD set comprises almost every record which appeared in the Top 20 during the year - specifically it features the records which appeared in the Top 10 published in Billboard, plus those which are listed as having reached No. 11-20 in Joel Whitburn's well-known chart publications, which were based on analysis of regional charts. For reasons of space, it excludes those records which entered the Top 10 in 1942, and so are included in our existing 1942 collection, and also excludes a few titles for which mastering sources could not be found. One feature of this year was that the American Federation of Musicians' recording ban had come into force, and so there were a number of big hits which were performed a cappella, including some by Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes. In addition, the big names of the swing era were still very much in evidence, and among the big long-lasting No. 1s of the year were InchI've Heard That Song BeforeInch by Harry James & Helen Forrest, InchSunday Monday Or AlwaysInch by Bing Crosby and InchPaper DollInch by the Mills Brothers. In between, a host of other big names made their presence felt - Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Duke Ellington, Dinah Shore and others - alongside 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 the USA was fully embroiled in WWII and there were plenty of patriotic and sentimental wartime hits to give a period flavour, with prolific hitmaker Glenn Miller epitomising that particular strand. It i

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.