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

Tracklist:

Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como and the Ramblers
Why Don't You Believe Me - Joni James
Till I Waltz Again with You - Teresa Brewer
Keep It a Secret - Jo Stafford
Oh Happy Day - Don Howard
Why Don't You Believe Me - Patti Page
Tell Me You're Mine - the Gaylords
Have You Heard - Joni James
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - Karen Chandler 1
Bye Bye Blues - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 1
My Baby's Coming Home - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 1
Mister Tap Toe - Doris Day 1
Pretend - Ralph Marterie and His Orchestra 1
Oh Happy Day - Lawrence Welk and His Champagne Music 1
Even Now - Eddie Fisher 1
Oh Happy Day - the Four Knights 1
Hot Toddy - Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra 1
Side By Side - Kay Starr 1
Doggie in the Window - Patti Page 2
Anywhere I Wander - Julius la Rosa 2
Wild Horses - Perry Como 2
Pretend - Nat King Cole 2
(Now and Then There's) a Fool Such As I - Jo Stafford 2
She Wears Red Feathers - Guy Mitchell 2
I Believe - Frankie Laine 2
Your Cheatin' Heart - Joni James 2
Downhearted - Eddie Fisher 2
No Help Wanted - Rusty Draper 2
Seven Lonely Days - Georgia Gibbs 3
Tell Me a Story - Frankie Laine ; Jimmy Boyd 3
Caravan - Ralph Marterie and His Down Beat Orchestra 3
Gomen-Nasai (Forgive Me) - Columbia Tokyo Orchestra 3
I'm Sitting on Top of the World - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 3
I Believe - Jane Froman 3
April in Portugal - Les Baxter and His Orchestra 3
The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart) - Percy Faith and His Orchestra 3
Say It with Your Heart - Bob Carroll 3
Ruby - Richard Hayman ; His Orchestra 3
Somebody Stole My Gal - Johnnie Ray 4
Say You're Mine Again - Perry Como and the Ramblers 4
April in Portugal - Richard Hayman ; His Orchestra 4
Anna (El Negro Zumbon) - Silvana Mangano 4
Ramona - the Gaylords 4
Almost Always - Joni James 4
The Ho Ho Song - Red Buttons 4
April in Portugal - Vic Damone 4
I'm Walking Behind You - Frank Sinatra 4
Strange Things Are Happening (Ho, Ho, Hee,...) - Red Buttons 4
I'm Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher 5
The Moulin Rouge Theme (Where Is Your Heart) - Mantovani and His Orchestra 5
Crazy Man Crazy - Bill Haley and His Comets 5
Big Mamou - Pete Hanley 5
April in Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade) - Freddy Martin ; His Orchestra 5
My Flaming Heart - Nat King Cole 5
Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer Vigil) - Percy Faith and His Orchestra 5
My One and Only Heart - Perry Como 5
Ruby - Les Baxter and His Orchestra 5
Terry's Theme from Limelight - Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra 5
Uska Dara - a Turkish Tale - Eartha Kitt 6
Just Another Polka - Eddie Fisher 6
The Breeze (That's Bringing My Honey to Me) - Trudy Richards 6
No Other Love - Perry Como 6
Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You) - Les Paul ; Mary Ford 6
Gambler's Guitar - Rusty Draper 6
Half a Photograph - Kay Starr 6
P.S. I Love You - the Hilltoppers/Jimmy Sacca 6
I'd Rather Die Young (Than Grow Old Without You) - the Hilltoppers/Jimmy Sacca 6
Allez Vous en - Kay Starr 6
You You You - the Ames Brothers 7
With These Hands - Eddie Fisher 7
Butterflies - Patti Page 7
Crying in the Chapel - Rex Allen 7
C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) - Eartha Kitt 7
Oh - Pee Wee Hunt and His Orchestra 7
Crying in the Chapel - Darrell Glenn 7
Crying in the Chapel - June Valli 7
Hey, Joe - Frankie Laine 7
My Love, My Love - Joni James 7
Dragnet - Ray Anthony and His Orchestra 8
Crying in the Chapel - the Orioles 8
God Bless Us All - Brucie Weil 8
Ebb Tide - Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra 8
Tropicana - Monty Kelly and His Orchestra 8
A Dear John Letter - Jean Shepard 8
Eh, Cumpari - Julius la Rosa 8
Rags to Riches - Tony Bennett 8
The Story of Three Loves - Jerry Murad 8
St. George and the Dragonet - Stan Freberg 8
Little Blue Riding Hood - Stan Freberg 9
Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay) - Teresa Brewer 9
Love Walked in - the Hilltoppers 9
Ebb Tide - Vic Damone 9
Many Times - Eddie Fisher 9
To Be Alone - the Hilltoppers 9
I See the Moon - the Mariners 9
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - the Four Lads 9
You Alone (Solo Tu) - Perry Como 9
That's Amore - Dean Martin 9
I Love Paris - Les Baxter and His Orchestra 10
The Velvet Glove - Hugo Winterhalter ; Henri Rene 10
In the Mission of St Augustine - Swing and Sway ; Sammy Kaye 10
Changing Partners - Patti Page 10
The Gang That Sang 'Heart of My Heart' - Don Cornell, Alan Dale ; J Desmond 10
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt 10
Oh Mein Papa - Eddie Calvert 10
Stranger in Paradise - Al Alberts ; the Four Aces 10
Changing Partners - Kay Starr 10
Off Shore - Leo Diamond

UPC: 824046711429
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 8.4.17
Format: CD

Americas - Greatest Hits (CD)