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Britains Number Ones of the 50's
Label: Acrobatmusic, ACQCD7030
Format: CD, x4
Country: UK
Release: 2010
Editorial Reviews
This exclusive 4-CD collection brings together every Number One in the British charts from the launch of NME's first record sales chart in November 1952 through to the end of 1959. It includes all the NME No. 1s plus those that made No. 1 in the other music magazine charts that launched during the 50s (Melody Maker, Record Mirror & Disc). The 105 tracks chart the course of a momentous decade in popular music with the familiar domain of the traditional artists of dance bands, variety, radio and the movies being overtaken by the rock 'n' roll phenomenon, as mass media gave the baby boom generation a voice while the world emerged from post-war austerity. It's an extraordinary, fascinating and hugely entertaining kaleidoscope of popular music, especially in the later years as Tin Pan Alley's bosses simultaneously tried to exploit, deny, accommodate and manipulate the "passing fad" of rock 'n' roll. Some, inevitably also prompt the question "did we really buy that'" Needless to say, it features some of the biggest names and landmark recordings of the post-war era, and will be a fantastic souvenir to remind those of a certain age of their musical roots.
Tracklist:
Disc: 1
1 Al Martino – Here in My Heart
2 Jo Stafford – You Belong to Me
3 Kay Starr – Comes Along A-Love
4 Eddie Fisher – Outside of Heaven
5 Perry Como – Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
6 Guy Mitchell – She Wears Red Feathers
7 Stargazers – Broken Wings
8 Lita Roza – How Much Is That Doggie in the Window
9 Frankie Laine – I Believe
10 Eddie Fisher – I'm Walking Behind You
11 Mantovani – Moulin Rouge
12 Guy Mitchell – Look at That Girl
13 Frankie Laine – Hey Joe
14 David Whitfield – Answer Me
15 Frankie Laine – Answer Me
16 Eddie Calvert – Oh! My Pa-Pa (O Mein Papa)
17 Stargazers – I See the Moon
18 Doris Day – Secret Love
19 Johnnie Ray – Such a Night
20 David Whitfield/Mantovani – Cara Mia
21 Kitty Kallen – Little Things Mean a Lot
22 Frank Sinatra – Three Coins in the Fountain
23 Don Cornell – Hold My Hand
24 Vera Lynn – My Son My Son
25 Rosemary Clooney – This Ole House
Disc: 2
1 Winifred Atwell – Let's Have Another Party
2 Dickie Valentine – Finger of Suspicion
3 Rosemary Clooney – Mambo Italiano
4 Dean Martin – Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
5 Ruby Murray – Softly Softly
6 Tennessee Ernie Ford – Give Me Your Word
7 P?Rez Prado – Cherry Pink (And Apple Blossom White)
8 Tony Bennett – Stranger in Paradise
9 Eddie Calvert – Cherry Pink (And Apple Blossom White)
10 Jimmy Young – Unchained Melody
11 Alma Cogan – Dreamboat
12 Slim Whitman – Rose Marie
13 Jimmy Young – the Man from Laramie
14 Johnston Brothers – Hernando's Hideaway
15 Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around the Clock
16 Dickie Valentine – the Christmas Alphabet
17 Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
18 Dean Martin – Memories Are Made of This
19 The Dreamweavers – It's Almost Tomorrow
20 Kay Starr – Rock and Roll Waltz
21 Winifred Atwell – the Poor People of Paris
22 Ronnie Hilton – No Other Love
23 Pat Boone – I'll Be Home
24 Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall in Love
25 Doris Day – Que Sera Sera
26 Anne Shelton – Lay Down Your Arms
Disc: 3
1 Frankie Laine – a Woman in Love
2 Johnnie Ray – Just Walkin' in the Rain
3 Guy Mitchell – Singin' the Blues
4 Tommy Steele – Singin' the Blues
5 Frankie Vaughan – Garden of Eden
6 Tab Hunter – Young Love
7 Lonnie Donegan – Cumberland Gap
8 Guy Mitchell – Rock-A-Billy
9 Andy Williams – Butterfly
10 Johnnie Ray – Yes Tonight Josephine
11 Lonnie Donegan – Gamblin' Man
12 Lonnie Donegan – Putting on the Style
13 Elvis Presley – All Shook Up
14 Paul Anka – Diana
15 Elvis Presley – Party
16 The Crickets – That'll Be the Day
17 Harry Belafonte – Mary's Boy Child
18 Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire
19 Johnny Otis Show – Ma He's Making Eyes at Me
20 Elvis Presley – Jailhouse Rock
21 Michael Holliday – the Story of My Life
22 Perry Como – Magic Moments
23 Perry Como – Catch a Falling Star
24 Marvin Rainwater – Whole Lotta Woman
25 Connie Francis – Who's Sorry Now
26 Vic Damone – on the Street Where You Live
27 Everly Brothers – All I Have to Do Is Dream
Disc: 4
1 Everly Brothers – Claudette
2 Kalin Twins – When
3 Connie Francis – Carolina Moon
4 Connie Francis – Stupid Cupid
5 Everly Brothers – Bird Dog
6 Tommy Edwards – It's All in the Game
7 Lord Rockingham's XI – Hoots Mon
8 Conway Twitty – It's Only Make Believe
9 Jane Morgan – the Day the Rains Came
10 Elvis Presley – One Night
11 Elvis Presley – I Got Stung
12 Shirley Bassey – As I Love You
13 The Platters – Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
14 Russ Conway – Side Saddle
15 Buddy Holly – It Doesn't Matter Anymore
16 Elvis Presley – a Fool Such As I
17 Elvis Presley – I Need Your Love Tonight
18 Russ Conway – Roulette
19 Bobby Darin – Dream Lover
20 Cliff Richard – Living Doll
21 Craig Douglas – Only Sixteen
22 Jerry Keller – Here Comes Summer
23 Bobby Darin – Mack the Knife
24 Cliff Richard – Travellin' Light
25 Cliff Richard – Dynamite
26 Adam Faith – What Do You Want
27 Emile Ford & the Checkmates – What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me for
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