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
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Perry Como with The Ramblers - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
- Joni James - Why Don't You Believe Me
- Teresa Brewer - Till I Waltz Again With You
- Jo Stafford - Keep It A Secret
- Don Howard - Oh Happy Day
- Gaylords - Tell Me You're Mine
- Joni James - Have You Heard
- Karen Chandler - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - Bye Bye Blues
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - My Baby's Coming Home
- Doris Day - Mister Tap Toe
- Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra - Pretend
- Eddie Fisher - Even Now
- Ralph Flanagan & His Orchestra - Hot Toddy
- Kay Starr - Side By Side
- Patti Page - Doggie In The Window
- Julius LaRosa - Anywhere I Wander
- Perry Como - Wild Horses
- Jo Stafford - (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
- Guy Mitchell - She Wears Red Feathers
- Frankie Laine - I Believe
- Joni James - Your Cheatin' Heart
- Eddie Fisher - Downhearted
- Rusty Draper - No Help Wanted
Disc 2:
- Georgia Gibbs - Seven Lonely Days
- Jimmy Boyd & Frankie Laine - Tell Me A Story
- Ralph Marterie And His "Down Beat" Orchestra - Caravan
- Columbia Tokyo Orchestra - Gomen-Nasai (Forgive Me)
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
- Les Baxter and His Orchestra - April In Portugal
- Percy Faith and His Orchestra - The Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)
- Bob Carroll - Say It With Your Heart
- Richard Hayman and His Orchestra - Ruby
- Johnnie Ray - Somebody Stole My Gal
- Perry Como & The Ramblers - Say You're Mine Again
- Silvana Mangano - Anna (El Negro Zumbon)
- Gaylords - Ramona
- Joni James - Almost Always
- Red Buttons - The Ho Ho Song
- Frank Sinatra - I'm Walking Behind You
- Red Buttons - Strange Things Are Happening (Ho Ho, Hee, …)
- Mantovani and His Orchestra - The Moulin Rouge Theme (Where Is Your Heart)
- Bill Haley with Haley's Comets - Crazy Man Crazy
- Pete Hanley - Big Mamou
- Freddy Martin and His Orchestra - April In Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)
- Nat "King" Cole - My Flaming Heart
- Percy Faith and His Orchestra - Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer Vigil)
Disc 3:
- Perry Como - My One And Only Heart
- Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra - Terry's Theme From "Limelight"
- Eartha Kitt - Uska Dara - A Turkish Tale
- Eddie Fisher - Just Another Polka
- Trudy Richards - The Breeze (That's Bringing My Honey To Me)
- Perry Como - No Other Love
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)
- Rusty Draper - Gambler's Guitar
- Kay Starr - Half A Photograph
- The Hilltoppers Featuring Jimmy Sacca - P. S. I Love You
- The Hilltoppers Featuring Jimmy Sacca - I'd Rather Die Young (Than Grow Old Without You)
- Kay Starr - Allez Vous En
- Ames Brothers - You You You
- Eddie Fisher - With These Hands
- Patti Page - Butterflies
- Rex Allen - Crying In The Chapel
- Eartha Kitt - C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)
- Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra - Oh
- Frankie Laine - Hey, Joe
- Joni James - My Love, My Love
- Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - Dragnet
- Brucie Weil - God Bless Us All
Disc 4:
- Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra - Ebb Tide
- Monty Kelly and His Orchestra - Tropicana
- Jean Shepard - A Dear John Letter
- Julius LaRosa - Eh, Cumpari
- Tony Bennett - Rags To Riches
- Jerry Murad - The Story Of Three Loves
- Stan Freberg - St. George And The Dragonet
- Stan Freberg - Little Blue Riding Hood
- Teresa Brewer - Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)
- Hilltoppers - Love Walked In
- Eddie Fisher - Many Times
- Hilltoppers - To Be Alone
- Mariners - I See The Moon
- Four Lads - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Perry Como - You Alone (Solo Tu)
- Dean Martin - That's Amore
- Les Baxter with His Orchestra & Chorus - I Love Paris
- Hugo Winterhalter & Henri Rene - The Velvet Glove
- Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye - In The Mission Of St. Augustine
- Patti Page - Changing Partners
- Don Cornell, Alan Dale, Johnny Desmond - The Gang That Sang "Heart Of My Heart"
- Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
- Eddie Calvert and His Golden Trumpet - Oh Mein Papa
- Four Aces feat. Al Alberts - Stranger In Paradise
- Leo Diamond - Off Shore
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