America'S Greatest Hits 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 1953 edition (ACRCD181) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 108-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes Charts, Billboard's Honor Roll of Hits or the Cash Box chart, during 1954 (it omits certain records which peaked in 1954 and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1954 collection and some which were big hits in 1952, 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 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 12,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and it's a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies

1. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como and the Ramblers 2. Why Don't You Believe Me - Joni James 3. Till I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer 4. Keep It a Secret - Jo Stafford 5. Oh Happy Day - Don Howard 6. Why Don't You Believe Me - Patti Page 7. Tell Me You're Mine - the Gaylords 8. Have You Heard - Joni James 9. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Karen Chandler 10. Bye Bye Blues - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 11. My Baby's Coming Home - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 12. Mister Tap Toe - Doris Day 13. Pretend - Ralph Marterie and His Orchestra 14. Oh Happy Day - Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music 15. Even Now - Eddie Fisher 16. Oh Happy Day - the Four Knights 17. Hot Toddy - Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra 18. Side By Side - Kay Starr 19. Doggie in the Window - Patti Page 20. Anywhere I Wander - Julius la Rosa 21. Wild Horses - Perry Como 22. Pretend - Nat King Cole 23. (Now and Then There's) a Fool Such As I - Jo Stafford 24. She Wears Red Feathers - Guy Mitchell 25. I Believe - Frankie Laine 26. Your Cheatin' Heart - Joni James 27. Downhearted - Eddie Fisher 28. No Help Wanted - Rusty Draper 29. Seven Lonely Days - Georgia Gibbs 30. Tell Me a Story - Frankie Laine ; Jimmy Boyd 31. Caravan - Ralph Marterie and His Down Beat Orchestra 32. Gomen-Nasai (Forgive Me) - Columbia Tokyo Orchestra 33. I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 34. I Believe - Jane Froman 35. April in Portugal - Les Baxter and His Orchestra 36. The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart) - Percy Faith and His Orchestra 37. Say It with Your Heart - Bob Carroll 38. Ruby - Richard Hayman ; His Orchestra 39. Somebody Stole My Gal - Johnnie Ray 40. Say You're Mine Again - Perry Como and the Ramblers 41. April in Portugal - Richard Hayman ; His Orchestra 42. Anna (El Negro Zumbon) - Silvana Mangano 43. Ramona - the Gaylords 44. Almost Always - Joni James 45. The Ho Ho Song - Red Buttons 46. April in Portugal - Vic Damone 47. I'm Walking Behind You - Frank Sinatra 48. Strange Things Are Happening (Ho, Ho, Hee,...) - Red Buttons 49. I'm Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher 50. The Moulin Rouge Theme (Where Is Your Heart) - Mantovani and His Orchestra 51. Crazy Man Crazy - Bill Haley and His Comets 52. Big Mamou - Pete Hanley 53. April in Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade) - Freddy Martin ; His Orchestra 54. My Flaming Heart - Nat King Cole 55. Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer Vigil) - Percy Faith and His Orchestra 56. My One and Only Heart - Perry Como 57. Ruby - Les Baxter and His Orchestra 58. Terry's Theme from Limelight - Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra 59. Uska Dara - a Turkish Tale - Eartha Kitt 60. Just Another Polka - Eddie Fisher 61. The Breeze (That's Bringing My Honey to Me) - Trudy Richards 62. No Other Love - Perry Como 63. Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You) - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 64. Gambler's Guitar - Rusty Draper 65. Half a Photograph - Kay Starr 66. P.S. I Love You - the Hilltoppers/Jimmy Sacca 67. I'd Rather Die Young (Than Grow Old Without You) - the Hilltoppers/Jimmy Sacca 68. Allez Vous en - Kay Starr 69. You You You - the Ames Brothers 70. With These Hands - Eddie Fisher 71. Butterflies - Patti Page 72. Crying in the Chapel - Rex Allen 73. C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) - Eartha Kitt 74. Oh - Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra 75. Crying in the Chapel - Darrell Glenn 76. Crying in the Chapel - June Valli 77. Hey, Joe - Frankie Laine 78. My Love, My Love - Joni James 79. Dragnet - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra 80. Crying in the Chapel - the Orioles 81. God Bless Us All - Brucie Weil 82. Ebb Tide - Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra 83. Tropicana - Monty Kelly and His Orchestra 84. A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard 85. Eh, Cumpari - Julius la Rosa 86. Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett 87. The Story of Three Loves - Jerry Murad 88. St. George and the Dragonet - Stan Freberg 89. Little Blue Riding Hood - Stan Freberg 90. Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay) - Teresa Brewer 91. Love Walked in - the Hilltoppers 92. Ebb Tide - Vic Damone 93. Many Times - Eddie Fisher 94. To Be Alone - the Hilltoppers 95. I See the Moon - the Mariners 96. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - the Four Lads 97. You Alone (Solo Tu) - Perry Como 98. That's Amore - Dean Martin 99. I Love Paris - Les Baxter and His Orchestra 100. The Velvet Glove - Hugo Winterhalter ; Henri Rene 101. In the Mission of St Augustine - Swing and Sway ; Sammy Kaye 102. Changing Partners - Patti Page 103. The Gang That Sang 'Heart of My Heart' - Don Cornell, Alan Dale ; J Desmond 104. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt 105. Oh Mein Papa - Eddie Calvert 106. Stranger in Paradise - Al Alberts ; the Four Aces 107. Changing Partners - Kay Starr 108. Off Shore - Leo Diamond