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