America'S Greatest Hits 1950 / Various America'S Greatest Hits 1950 / Various CD

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 format 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.

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 - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 13. Owen Bradley ; His Quintet - Blues Stay Away From Me 14. Phil Harris ; His Orchestra - The Old Master Painter 15. Tony Martin ; Fran Warren - I Said My Pajamas 16. Teresa Brewer - Music! Music! Music! 17. Edmundo Ros ; His Orchestra - The Wedding Samba 18. Patti Page Quartet - With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming 19. Lionel Hampton ; His Orchestra - Rag Mop 20. Frankie Laine - Cry Of The Wild Goose 21. Jimmy Dorsey - Johnson Rag 22. Sammy Kaye Orch. - It Isn't Fair 23. Vaughan Monroe - Bamboo 24. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Enjoy Yourself 25. Bing Crosby - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 26. Dick Todd - Daddy's Little Girl 27. Johnnie Lee Wills and His Boys - Rag Mop 28. Bing Crosby ; The Andrews Sisters - Quicksilver 29. Ralph Flanagan - Rag Mop 30. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake 31. Ames Brothers - Sentimental Me 32. Arthur Godfrey ; The Chordettes - Candy And Cake 33. Mary Martin ; Arthur Godfrey - Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep 34. Anton Karas - "The Third Man" Theme 35. Mindy Carson - Candy And Cake 36. Mills Brothers - Daddy's Little Girl 37. Frankie Laine - Swamp Girl 38. Mervin Shiner - Peter Cottontail 39. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - "The Third Man" Theme 40. Gene Autry - Peter Cottontail 41. Gordon Jenkins ; His Orch. - My Foolish Heart 42. Freddy Martin ; Orch. - Music! Music! Music! 43. Bill Snyder ; His Orchestra - Bewitched 44. Ray Bolger ; Ethel Merman - Dearie 45. Billy Eckstine - My Foolish Heart 46. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Chinese Mule Train 47. Perry Como ; the Fontane Sisters - Hoop Dee Doo 48. Jo Stafford ; Gordon MacRae - Dearie 49. Mindy Carson - My Foolish Heart 50. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Dearie 51. Russ Morgan ; the Morganaires - Sentimental Me 52. Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye with Tony Alamo - Wanderin' 53. Gordon Jenkins, His Piano, Orch. ; Chorus with Bonnie Lou Williams - Bewitched 54. Andrews Sisters - I Wanna Be Loved 55. Hoagy Carmichael ; Cass Daley - The Old Piano Roll Blues 56. Sammy Kaye ; the Kaydets - Roses 57. Doris Day and The Mellomen - Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 58. Kay Starr - Hoop-Dee-Doo 59. Nat "King" Cole - Mona Lisa 60. Billy Eckstine - I Wanna Be Loved 61. Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra - Count Every Star 62. Patti Page - I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine 63. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra ; The Weavers - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 64. Larry Green ; His Orchestra - Bewitched 65. Kay Starr - Bonaparte's Retreat 66. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra ; The Weavers - Goodnight, Irene 67. Les Paul - Nola 68. Gary Crosby ; Friend - Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) 69. Bing Crosby ; Gary Crosby - Play A Simple Melody 70. Art Lund - Mona Lisa 71. Vic Damone - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 72. Mariners - Sometime 73. Mitch Miller ; His Orchestra ; Chorus - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 74. Joe "Fingers" Carr ; The Carr-Hops - Sam's Song 75. Ames Brothers - Can Anyone Explain (No, No, No!) 76. Victor Young ; His Orchestra and Don Cherry - Mona Lisa 77. Frank Sinatra - Goodnight, Irene 78. Tony Martin - La Vie En Rose 79. Jo Stafford - No Other Love 80. Kay Starr ; Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'll Never Be Free 81. Richard Hayes ; Kitty Kallen - Our Lady Of Fatima 82. Dick Haymes ; Artie Shaw - Count Every Star 83. Patti Page - All My Love (Bolero) 84. Dean Martin - I'll Always Love You 85. Sammy Kaye Orch. withTony Alamo ; The Kaydets - Harbor Lights 86. Red Foley - Cincinnati Dancing Pig 87. Frankie Laine - Music, Maestro, Please 88. Gordon Jenkins ; Artie Shaw - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 89. Perry Como - Patricia 90. Don Cherry - Thinking Of You 91. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Harbor Lights 92. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - All My Love 93. Nat "King" Cole ; Stan Kenton - Orange Colored Sky 94. Paul Weston ; His Orch. With The Norman Luboff Choir - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 95. Perry Como ; Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck 96. Eddie Fisher - Thinking Of You 97. Phil Harris - The Thing 98. Mills Brothers - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 99. Kay Starr - Oh Babe 100. Margaret Whiting ; Jimmy Wakely - A Bushel And A Peck 101. Ray Anthony ; His Orchestra - Harbor Lights 102. Bing Crosby - All My Love 103. Bing Crosby - Harbor Lights 104. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer