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 1954 edition (ACRCD198) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 109-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard or Cash Box Sellers, or the Billboard Honor Roll of Hits, or in the Top 10 Top of Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes during 1954 (it omits certain records which peaked in 1955 and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1955 collection and some which were big hits in 1953, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection). As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year, 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:
- Eddie Fisher - Oh My Papa
- Tony Bennett - Rags To Riches
- Dean Martin - That's Amore
- Teresa Brewer - Ricochet
- Patti Page - Changing Partners
- Tony Bennett - Stranger In Paradise
- Eddie Calvert - Oh Mein Papa
- Johnny Desmond - Woman (Uh-Huh)
- Mills Brothers - The Jones Boy
- Four Aces - The Gang That Sang "Heart of My Heart"
- Doris Day - Secret Love
- "Deacon" Andy Griffith - What It Was, Was Football (Parts I and II)
- Frankie Laine - Granada
- Three Suns - The Creep
- Gaylords - The Strings Of My Heart
- Teresa Brewer - Bell Bottom Blues
- Hilltoppers - Till Then
- Georgie Shaw - Till We Two Are One
- Jo Stafford - Make Love To Me!
- Four Knights - I Get So Lonely (When I Dream About You)
- Gaylords - From The Vine Came The Grape
- Frank Sinatra - Young-At-Heart
- Eartha Kitt - Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell
Disc 2:
- Lou Monte - Darktown Strutters' Ball
- Hilltoppers - Time Will Tell
- Patti Page - Cross Over The Bridge
- Perry Como - Wanted
- Nat King Cole - Answer Me, My Love
- Tony Bennett - There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
- Crows - Gee
- Tony Martin - Here
- Eddie Fisher - A Girl, A Girl (Zoom-Ba Di Alli Nella)
- Ames Brothers - The Man With The Banjo
- Eddie Fisher - Anema E Core (With All My Heart and Soul)
- Ronnie Gaylord - Cuddle Me
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - I Really Don't Want To Know
- Kay Starr - The Man Upstairs
- Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot
- Hilltoppers - Poor Butterfly
- Teresa Brewer - Jilted
- Kay Starr - If You Love Me (Really Love Me)
- Frank Weir - Happy Wanderer
- Gaylords - Isle Of Capri
- Four Aces - Three Coins In The Fountain
- Archie Bleyer and Maria Alba - Hernando's Hideaway
- Eddie Fisher - Green Years
- June Valli - I Understand (Just How You Feel)
- Four Tunes - Sugar Lump
Disc 3:
- Henri Rene's Musette & Chorus - The Happy Wanderer (Val-De Ri, Val-De Ra)
- Crew Cuts - Crazy 'Bout You Baby
- Patti Page - Steam Heat
- Jo Stafford - Thank You For Calling
- Eddie Fisher - My Friend
- Stan Freberg & Daws Butler - Point Of Order
- Gaylords - The Little Shoemaker
- Frankie Laine - Some Day
- Chords - Sh-Boom
- McGuire Sisters - Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
- Kitty Kallen - In The Chapel In The Moonlight
- Kitty Kallen - Take Everything But You
- Rosemary Clooney - Hey, There
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - I'm A Fool To Care
- Betty Madigan - Joey
- Leroy Holmes & his Orchestra - The High And The Mighty
- Tony Bennett - Cinnamon Sinner
- Patti Page - I Cried
- Four Aces - Dream
- Patti Page - What A Dream
- Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House
- Lou Monte - Italian Hucklebuck
- Vaughn Monroe - They Were Doin' The Mambo
- Four Lads - Skokiaan (South African Song)
Disc 4:
- Ralph Marterie - Skokiaan
- Nat (King) Cole - Smile
- Dean Martin - Sway (Quien Sera)
- Bill Haley & His Comets - Shake, Rattle, and Roll
- Doris Day - If I Give My Heart To You
- Eddie Fisher - I Need You Now
- Don Cornell - Hold My Hand
- Crew Cuts - Oop Shoop
- David Whitfield - Cara Mia
- Perry Como - Papa Loves Mambo
- Perry Como - The Things I Didn't Do
- Les Paul & Mary Ford - Whither Thou Goest
- De Castro Sisters - Teach Me Tonight
- The Chordettes - Mister Sandman
- Nat King Cole - Hajji Baba (Persian Lament)
- McGuire Sisters - Muskrat Ramble
- Rosemary Clooney - Mambo Italiano
- Patti Page - The Mama Doll Song
- Four Aces - It's A Woman's World
- Eddie Fisher - Count Your Blessings
- Cheers - I Need Your Lovin' (Bazoom)
- Patti Page - Let Me Go, Lover
- Perry Como - (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
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