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 1951 edition (ACRCD177) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 105-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Cash Box chart during 1951, along with all those that made the Top 10 of the Juke Box and Disc Jockey charts (it omits certain records which peaked in 1952 and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1952collection and some which were big hits in 1950, 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 it 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 15,000-word booklet with a commentary on every track, and it's a must for collectors of our completist chart-based anthologies.

Tracklist:

Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz
Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries for You
Mario Lanza - Be My Love
Gordon Jenkins ; His Orchestra ; the Weavers - So Long (It's Been Good to Know Ya)
Guy Mitchell - the Roving Kind
Dinah Shore - My Heart Cries for You
Les Paul ; Mary Ford - Tennessee Waltz
Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Tennessee Waltz
Perry Como ; the Fontane Sisters - (I Wonder Why) You're Just in 1
Perry Como - If 1
Vic Damone - My Heart Cries for You 1
Jimmy Wakely - My Heart Cries for You 1
Dinah Shore - Nobody's Chasing Me 1
The Weavers - the Roving Kind 1
Mel Blanc (As Tweety Pie ; Sylvester) - I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat 1
Patti Page - Would I Love You (Love You, Love You) 1
Jo Stafford - If 1
Debbie Reynolds ; Carleton Carpenter - Aba Daba Honeymoon 1
Eddie Fisher - Bring Back the Thrill 2
Georgia Gibbs - I Still Feel the Same About You 2
Perry Como - Zing Zing Zoom Zoom 2
Les Paul ; Mary Ford - Mockin' Bird Hill 2
Guy Mitchell - Sparrow in the Tree Top 2
Patti Page - Mockin' Bird Hill 2
Bill Kenny - It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) 2
Tiny Hill ; His Orchestra - Hot Rod Race 2
Billy Eckstine - If 2
Rosemary Clooney - Beautiful Brown Eyes 2
Tony Martin ; Dinah Shore - a Penny a Kiss, a Penny a Hug 3
Billy Eckstine - I Apologise 3
Terry Gilkyson ; the Weavers - on Top of Old Smoky 3
Richard Hayes ; Kitty Kallen - Aba Daba Honeymoon 3
Les Paul ; Mary Ford - How High the Moon 3
The Pinetoppers with Beaver Valley Sweethearts - Mockin' Bird Hill 3
Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra with Stuart Foster - Across the Wide 3
Florian Zabach - the Hot Canary 3
Bing Crosby ; the Andrews Sisters - Sparrow in the Tree Top 3
Doris Day ; Harry James Orch. - Would I Love You (Love You, Love 3
Mario Lanza - the Loveliest Night of the Year 4
Nat King Cole - Too Young 4
Vaughn Monroe - Sound Off 4
Bing ; Gary Crosby - Moonlight Bay 4
Bing ; Gary Crosby - When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues 4
Leroy Anderson - the Syncopated Clock 4
Frankie Laine - Jezebel 4
Vaughn Monroe ; His Orchestra - Old Soldiers Never Die 4
Frankie Laine - Rose Rose I Love You 4
Vaughn Monroe ; His Orchestra - on Top of Old Smoky 4
Arthur Godfrey ; Laurie Anders - I Like the Wide Open Spaces 5
Burl Ives with Percy Faith and His Orchestra ; Chorus - on Top of Old 5
Patti Page - Down the Trail of Achin' Hearts 5
Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra - Rose, Rose I Love You 5
Patti Page - Mister and Mississippi 5
Guy Mitchell - My Truly Truly Fair 5
Eddie Fisher - Unless 5
Dennis Day - Mister and Mississippi 5
Vic Damone - My Truly Truly Fair 5
Tony Martin - I Get Ideas 5
Henri Rene ; His Orch. with April Stevens - I'm in Love Again 6
Jo Stafford ; Frankie Laine - Pretty Eyed Baby 6
Rosemary Clooney - Come On-A My House 6
Dinah Shore - Sweet Violets 6
Margaret Whiting - Hello Young Lovers 6
Tony Bennett - Because of You 6
Doris Day - (Why Did I Tell You I Was Going to) Shanghai 6
Les Paul - Josephine 6
Patti Page - Detour 6
Tony Bennett - Cold Cold Heart 6
Kay Starr - Come On-A My House 7
Tommy Edwards - the Morningside of the Mountain 7
Guy Mitchell - Belle Belle My Liberty Belle 7
Tony Bennett - I Won't Cry Anymore 7
Les Baxter - Because of You 7
Henri Rene ; His Orch. with April Stevens - Gimme a Little Kiss 7
Don Cherry - Vanity 7
Les Paul - Whispering 7
Del Wood - Down Yonder 7
Bing Crosby ; Jane Wyman - in the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening 7
Georgia Gibbs - While You Danced, Danced, Danced 8
Les Paul ; Mary Ford - the World Is Waiting for the Sunrise 8
Frank Sinatra ; Harry James - Castle Rock 8
The Four Aces - (It's No) Sin 8
Vic Damone - Longing for You 8
Patti Page - and So to Sleep Again 8
Eddy Howard ; His Orchestra - (It's No) Sin 8
Louis Armstrong - (When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas 8
Eddie Fisher - Turn Back the Hands of Time 8
Savannah Churchill - (It's No) Sin 8
Ames Brothers ; Les Brown - Undecided 9
Joe "Fingers" Carr - Down Yonder 9
Tony Martin - Domino 9
Les Paul ; Mary Ford - Just One More Chance 9
Tony Bennett - Blue Velvet 9
Frankie Laine - Jealousy (Jalousie) 9
Jo Stafford ; Frankie Laine - Hey, Good Lookin' 9
Vic Damone - Calla Calla 9
Pee Wee King ; Redd Stewart - Slow Poke 9
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable 9
Tommy Edwards - It's All in the Game 10
Ray Anthony and His Orchestra - Undecided 10
Jo Stafford ; Frankie Laine - Gambella (The Gamblin' Lady) 10
Mantovani - Charmaine 10
Johnnie Ray ; the Four Lads - Cry 10
Richard Hayes - Out in the Cold Again 10
Tony Bennett - Solitaire

UPC: 824046713621
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 6.7.19
Format: CD

Americas Greatest Hits 1951 / Various - America's Greatest Hits 1951 (CD)