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Americas Greatest Hits 1950 Compilation Expanded edition
Americas Greatest Hits 1950
Compilation
We continue our highly popular and successful America's Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, now reaching the point at the turn of the decade, this time with an expanded 4-CD edition to sit alongside the existing single CD 1950 edition (ACRCD176) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 104-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard Best Sellers and Honor Roll Of Hits and the Top 10 in the Cash Box chart during 1951. It omits certain records which peaked in 1951and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1951 collection and some which were big hits in 1949, 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, at a time when the USA was emerging from post-war austerity into a more optimistic decade but was about to become embroiled in the Korean War, and it very much captures the spirit of the times. It 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.
.. GREATEST HITS 1950
| Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
| Number of discs | 4 |
| Released | July 3, 2020 |
| EAN/UPC | 0824046714826 |
| Label | ACROBAT ACQCD7148 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Dimensions | 141 × 168 × 23 mm · 211 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- I Can Dream, Can't I? - Andrews Sisters
- Dear Hearts and Gentle People - Bing Crosby
- Mule Train - Bing Crosby
- Dear Hearts and Gentle People - Dinah Shore
- The Old Master Painter - Dick Haymes
- There's No Tomorrow - Tony Martin
- The Old Master Painter - Richard Hayes
- Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo (The Magic Song) - Jo Stafford & Gordon
- Johnson Rag - Jack Teter Trio
- Rag Mop - Ames Brothers
- A Dreamer's Holiday - Buddy Clark
- Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley
- Blues Stay Away from Me - Owen Bradley & His Quintet
- The Old Master Painter - Phil Harris & His Orchestra
- I Said My Pajamas - Tony Martin & Fran Warren
- Music! Music! Music! - Teresa Brewer
- The Wedding Samba - Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra
- With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming - Patti Page Quartet
- Rag Mop - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
- Cry of the Wild Goose - Frankie Laine
- Johnson Rag - Jimmy Dorsey
- It Isn't Fair - Sammy Kaye Orch.
- Bamboo - Vaughan Monroe
- Enjoy Yourself - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
- Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Bing Crosby
- Daddy's Little Girl - Dick Todd
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2. CD
- Rag Mop - Johnnie Lee Wills and His Boys
- Quicksilver - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters
- Rag Mop - Ralph Flanagan
- If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake - Eileen Barto
- Sentimental Me - Ames Brothers
- Candy and Cake - Arthur Godfrey & the Chordettes
- Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep, Go to Sleep - Mary Martin & Arthur
- "The Third Man" Theme - Anton Karas
- Candy and Cake - Mindy Carson
- Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers
- Swamp Girl - Frankie Laine
- Peter Cottontail - Mervin Shiner
- "The Third Man" Theme - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
- Peter Cottontail - Gene Autry
- My Foolish Heart - Gordon Jenkins & His Orch.
- Music! Music! Music! - Freddy Martin & Orch.
- Bewitched - Bill Snyder & His Orchestra
- Dearie - Ray Bolger & Ethel Merman
- My Foolish Heart - Billy Eckstine
- Chinese Mule Train - Spike Jones and His City Slickers
- Hoop Dee Doo - Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters
- Dearie - Jo Stafford & Gordon Macrae
- My Foolish Heart - Mindy Carson
- Dearie - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
- Sentimental Me - Russ Morgan & the Morganaires
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3. CD
- Wanderin' - Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye with Tony Alamo
- Bewitched - Gordon Jenkins, His Piano, Orch. & Chorus with B
- I Wanna Be Loved - Andrews Sisters
- The Old Piano Roll Blues - Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley
- Roses - Sammy Kaye & the Kaydets
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Doris Day and the Mello
- Hoop-dee-doo - Kay Starr
- Mona Lisa - Nat "King" Cole
- I Wanna Be Loved - Billy Eckstine
- Count Every Star - Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra
- I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine - Patti Page
- Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - Gordon Jenkins Orchestra & the Weavers
- Bewitched - Larry Green & His Orchestra
- Bonaparte's Retreat - Kay Starr
- Goodnight, Irene - Gordon Jenkins Orchestra & the Weavers
- Nola - Les Paul
- Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) - Gary Crosby & Friend
- Play a Simple Melody - Bing Crosby & Gary Crosby
- Mona Lisa - Art Lund
- Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - Vic Damone
- Sometime - Mariners
- Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - Mitch Miller & His Orchestra & Chorus
- Sam's Song - Joe "Fingers" Carr & the Carr-hops
- Can Anyone Explain (No, No, No!) - Ames Brothers
- Mona Lisa - Victor Young & His Orchestra and Don Cherry
- Goodnight, Irene - Frank Sinatra
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4. CD
- La Vie en Rose - Tony Martin
- No Other Love - Jo Stafford
- I'll Never Be Free - Kay Starr & Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Our Lady of Fatima - Richard Hayes & Kitty Kallen
- Count Every Star - Dick Haymes & Artie Shaw
- All My Love (Bolero) - Patti Page
- I'll Always Love You - Dean Martin
- Harbor Lights - Sammy Kaye Orch. Withtony Alamo & the Kaydet
- Cincinnati Dancing Pig - Red Foley
- Music, Maestro, Please - Frankie Laine
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Gordon Jenkins & Artie Shaw
- Patricia - Perry Como
- Thinking of You - Don Cherry
- Harbor Lights - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
- All My Love - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians
- Orange Colored Sky - Nat "King" Cole & Stan Kenton
- Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) - Paul Weston & His Orch
- A Bushel and a Peck - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
- Thinking of You - Eddie Fisher
- The Thing - Phil Harris
- Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) - Mills Brothers
- Oh Babe - Kay Starr
- A Bushel and a Peck - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
- Harbor Lights - Ray Anthony & His Orchestra
- All My Love - Bing Crosby
- Harbor Lights - Bing Crosby