Greatest Country Hits Of 1959 / Various Greatest Country Hits Of 1959 / Various CD

This release continues the series which we re-established last year with a 4-CD set of "The Greatest Country Hits of 1958" and which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great-value 116-track collection follows on from that 1958 anthology, and includes every record that appeared in the Top 20 of the Billboard country charts during 1959, excluding those records which had already made the Top 20 and which therefore appeared in the 1958 set (there was insufficient space to include them again in this collection). The country chart had been rationalised in October 1958 into a single "Hot C&W Sides" Top 30 listing. With the new format and research basis, there are fewer pop and rock 'n' roll records featured in the country charts this year, and it provides a platform for the top country artists of the day, as well as a number of more obscure tracks which have not been widely available on CD. With an in-depth 10-000+ word booklet with background notes on every record, it gives a solid overview of the most popular country music of the year.

1. Country Music Is Here to Stay - Simon Crum 2. Billy Bayou - Jim Reeves 3. Life to Go - Stonewall Jackson 4. You're Making a Fool Out of Me - Jimmy Newman 5. Come Walk with Me - Stoney Cooper ; Wilma Lee 6. I've Run Out of Tomorrows - Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys 7. Dark Hollow - Luke Gordon 8. My Baby's Gone - Louvin Brothers 9. Problems - Everly Brothers 10. I'd Like to Be - Jim Reeves 11. Which One Is to Blame - Wilburn Brothers 12. Cigarettes and Coffee Blues - Lefty Frizzell 13. What Am I Living for - Ernest Tubb 14. When It's Springtime in Alaska - Johnny Horton 15. That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome - Ray Price 16. Gotta Travel on - Billy Grammer 17. Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash 18. Dark Hollow - Jimmy Skinner 19. So Many Times - Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys 20. The Best Years of Your Life - Carl Smith 21. That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome - Bill Anderson 22. The Knoxville Girl - Wilburn Brothers 23. Long Time Ago - Faron Young 24. Who Cares? - Don Gibson 25. Last Night at a Party - Faron Young 26. My Reason for Living - Ferlin Husky 27. Beyond the Shadow - the Browns 28. Yankee Go Home - Goldie Hill 29. White Lightning - George Jones 30. Gotta Travel on - Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys 31. I'm in Love Again - George Morgan 32. Mommy for a Day - Kitty Wells 33. All the Time - Kitty Wells 34. Chip Off the Old Block - Eddy Arnold 35. Knoxville Girl - Louvin Brothers 36. Set Him Free - Skeeter Davis 37. Luther Played the Boogie - Johnny Cash 38. Hanging Tree - Marty Robbins 39. Poor Old Heartsick Me - Margie Bowes 40. Home - Jim Reeves 41. Doggone That Train - Hank Snow 42. A Thousand Miles Ago - Webb Pierce 43. Thanks a Lot - Johnny Cash 44. How Can I Think of Tomorrow - James O'Gwynn 45. Am I That Easy to Forget - Carl Belew 46. So Soon - Jimmy Newman 47. Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 48. That's the Way It's Gotta Be - Faron Young 49. Blackland Farmer - Frankie Miller 50. Frankie's Man Johnny - Johnny Cash 51. Heartaches By the Number - Ray Price 52. Frankie's Man Johnny - Johnny Sea 53. I Cried a Tear - Ernest Tubb 54. You Dreamer You - Johnny Cash 55. Lonesome Old House - Don Gibson 56. Big Midnight Special - Wilma Lee ; Stoney Cooper 57. Anybody's Girl - Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys 58. Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson 59. It's All My Heartaches - Carl Smith 60. Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 61. Somebody's Back in Town - Wilburn Brothers 62. I'll Catch You When You Fall - Charlie Walker 63. Chasin' a Rainbow - Hank Snow 64. Tennessee Stud - Eddy Arnold 65. Draggin' the River - Ferlin Husky 66. You Take the Table and I'll Take the Chairs - Bob Gallion 67. Ninety - Nine 68. Come and Knock (On the Door of My Heart) - Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys 69. Cabin in the Hills - Lester Flatt ; Earl Scruggs 70. Half Breed - Marvin Rainwater 71. Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down - Kitty Wells 72. Who Shot Sam - George Jones 73. Ten Thousand Drums - Carl Smith 74. I Ain't Never - Webb Pierce 75. Katy Too - Johnny Cash 76. Country Girl - Faron Young 77. Grin and Bear It - Jimmy Newman 78. Partners - Jim Reeves 79. Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches) - the Browns 80. John Wesley Hardin - Jimmie Skinner 81. I Got Stripes - Johnny Cash 82. Sailor Man - Johnny ; Jack 83. Little Dutch Girl - George Morgan 84. Soldier's Joy - Hawkshaw Hawkins 85. Sal's Got a Sugar Lip - Johnny Horton 86. Five Feet High and Rising - Johnny Cash 87. Johnny Reb - Johnny Horton 88. Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Mac Wiseman 89. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles - Don Gibson 90. Til I Kissed You - Everly Brothers 91. Old Moon - Betty Foley 92. My Love and Little Me - Margie Bowes 93. Under Your Spell Again - Buck Owens 94. Homebreaker - Skeeter Davis 95. Family Man - Frankie Miller 96. Same Old Me - Ray Price 97. The Last Ride - Hank Snow 98. I'm Beginning to Forget You - Jim Reeves 99. Deck of Cards - Wink Martindale 100. Are You Willing, Willie - Marion Worth 101. Next Time - Ernest Tubb 102. There's a Big Wheel - Wilma Lee ; Stoney Cooper 103. A Woman's Intuition - Wilburn Brothers 104. Amigo's Guitar - Kitty Wells 105. Riverboat - Faron Young 106. El Paso - Marty Robbins 107. Under Your Spell Again - Ray Price 108. Chain Gang - Fred Hart 109. Face to the Wall - Faron Young 110. Scarlet Ribbons - the Browns 111. He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves 112. Money to Burn - George Jones 113. I'm Movin' on - Don Gibson 114. No Love Have I - Webb Pierce 115. Timbrook - Lewis Pruitt 116. Big Harlan Taylor - George Jones