This release continues the series which we re-established last year with a 4-CD set of "The Greatest Country Hits of 1958" and which comprises selected annual collections of the biggest US country hits of each year. This great-value 116-track collection follows on from that 1958 anthology, and includes every record that appeared in the Top 20 of the Billboard country charts during 1959, excluding those records which had already made the Top 20 and which therefore appeared in the 1958 set (there was insufficient space to include them again in this collection). The country chart had been rationalised in October 1958 into a single "Hot C&W Sides" Top 30 listing. With the new format and research basis, there are fewer pop and rock 'n' roll records featured in the country charts this year, and it provides a platform for the top country artists of the day, as well as a number of more obscure tracks which have not been widely available on CD. With an in-depth 10-000+ word booklet with background notes on every record, it gives a solid overview of the most popular country music of the year.

Tracklist:

Country Music Is Here to Stay - Simon Crum
Billy Bayou - Jim Reeves
Life to Go - Stonewall Jackson
You're Making a Fool Out of Me - Jimmy Newman
Come Walk with Me - Stoney Cooper ; Wilma Lee
I've Run Out of Tomorrows - Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys
Dark Hollow - Luke Gordon
My Baby's Gone - Louvin Brothers
Problems - Everly Brothers 1
I'd Like to Be - Jim Reeves 1
Which One Is to Blame - Wilburn Brothers 1
Cigarettes and Coffee Blues - Lefty Frizzell 1
What Am I Living for - Ernest Tubb 1
When It's Springtime in Alaska - Johnny Horton 1
That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome - Ray Price 1
Gotta Travel on - Billy Grammer 1
Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash 1
Dark Hollow - Jimmy Skinner 1
So Many Times - Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys 2
The Best Years of Your Life - Carl Smith 2
That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome - Bill Anderson 2
The Knoxville Girl - Wilburn Brothers 2
Long Time Ago - Faron Young 2
Who Cares? - Don Gibson 2
Last Night at a Party - Faron Young 2
My Reason for Living - Ferlin Husky 2
Beyond the Shadow - the Browns 2
Yankee Go Home - Goldie Hill 2
White Lightning - George Jones 3
Gotta Travel on - Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys 3
I'm in Love Again - George Morgan 3
Mommy for a Day - Kitty Wells 3
All the Time - Kitty Wells 3
Chip Off the Old Block - Eddy Arnold 3
Knoxville Girl - Louvin Brothers 3
Set Him Free - Skeeter Davis 3
Luther Played the Boogie - Johnny Cash 3
Hanging Tree - Marty Robbins 3
Poor Old Heartsick Me - Margie Bowes 4
Home - Jim Reeves 4
Doggone That Train - Hank Snow 4
A Thousand Miles Ago - Webb Pierce 4
Thanks a Lot - Johnny Cash 4
How Can I Think of Tomorrow - James O'Gwynn 4
Am I That Easy to Forget - Carl Belew 4
So Soon - Jimmy Newman 4
Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 4
That's the Way It's Gotta Be - Faron Young 4
Blackland Farmer - Frankie Miller 5
Frankie's Man Johnny - Johnny Cash 5
Heartaches By the Number - Ray Price 5
Frankie's Man Johnny - Johnny Sea 5
I Cried a Tear - Ernest Tubb 5
You Dreamer You - Johnny Cash 5
Lonesome Old House - Don Gibson 5
Big Midnight Special - Wilma Lee ; Stoney Cooper 5
Anybody's Girl - Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys 5
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson 5
It's All My Heartaches - Carl Smith 6
Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell 6
Somebody's Back in Town - Wilburn Brothers 6
I'll Catch You When You Fall - Charlie Walker 6
Chasin' a Rainbow - Hank Snow 6
Tennessee Stud - Eddy Arnold 6
Draggin' the River - Ferlin Husky 6
You Take the Table and I'll Take the Chairs - Bob Gallion 6
Ninety - Nine 6
Come and Knock (On the Door of My Heart) - Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys 6
Cabin in the Hills - Lester Flatt ; Earl Scruggs 7
Half Breed - Marvin Rainwater 7
Your Wild Life's Gonna Get You Down - Kitty Wells 7
Who Shot Sam - George Jones 7
Ten Thousand Drums - Carl Smith 7
I Ain't Never - Webb Pierce 7
Katy Too - Johnny Cash 7
Country Girl - Faron Young 7
Grin and Bear It - Jimmy Newman 7
Partners - Jim Reeves 7
Three Bells (Les Trois Cloches) - the Browns 8
John Wesley Hardin - Jimmie Skinner 8
I Got Stripes - Johnny Cash 8
Sailor Man - Johnny ; Jack 8
Little Dutch Girl - George Morgan 8
Soldier's Joy - Hawkshaw Hawkins 8
Sal's Got a Sugar Lip - Johnny Horton 8
Five Feet High and Rising - Johnny Cash 8
Johnny Reb - Johnny Horton 8
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Mac Wiseman 8
Don't Tell Me Your Troubles - Don Gibson 9
Til I Kissed You - Everly Brothers 9
Old Moon - Betty Foley 9
My Love and Little Me - Margie Bowes 9
Under Your Spell Again - Buck Owens 9
Homebreaker - Skeeter Davis 9
Family Man - Frankie Miller 9
Same Old Me - Ray Price 9
The Last Ride - Hank Snow 9
I'm Beginning to Forget You - Jim Reeves 9
Deck of Cards - Wink Martindale 10
Are You Willing, Willie - Marion Worth 10
Next Time - Ernest Tubb 10
There's a Big Wheel - Wilma Lee ; Stoney Cooper 10
A Woman's Intuition - Wilburn Brothers 10
Amigo's Guitar - Kitty Wells 10
Riverboat - Faron Young 10
El Paso - Marty Robbins 10
Under Your Spell Again - Ray Price 10
Chain Gang - Fred Hart 10
Face to the Wall - Faron Young 11
Scarlet Ribbons - the Browns 11
He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves 11
Money to Burn - George Jones 11
I'm Movin' on - Don Gibson 11
No Love Have I - Webb Pierce 11
Timbrook - Lewis Pruitt 11
Big Harlan Taylor - George Jones

UPC: 824046709624
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 3.11.16
Format: CD

Greatest Country Hits Of 1959 / Various - Greatest Country Hits Of 1959 / Various (CD)