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Acrobat's America's Greatest Hits series is a great collection of songs from the fifties, featuring many songs previously unavailable on CD. The sound quality is excellent, with clear vocals and instruments, and the booklet includes detailed information on the songwriters and arrangers. The set is a great bargain, with one CD of the same song being recorded elsewhere.

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 y…

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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. Track List: Disc: 1 1. Andrews Sisters - I Can Dream, Can't I' 2. Bing Crosby - Dear Hearts And Gentle People 3. Bing Crosby - Mule Train 4. Dinah Shore - Dear Hearts And Gentle People 5. Dick Haymes - The Old Master Painter 6. Tony Martin - There's No Tomorrow 7. Richard Hayes - The Old Master Painter 8. Jo Stafford ; Gordon MacRae - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) 9. Jack Teter Trio - Johnson Rag 10. Ames Brothers - Rag Mop 11. Buddy Clark - A Dreamer's Holiday 12. Red Foley - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 13. Owen Bradley ; His Quintet - Blues Stay Away From Me 14. Phil Harris ; His Orchestra - The Old Master Painter 15. Tony Martin ; Fran Warren - I Said My Pajamas 16. Teresa Brewer - Music! Music! Music! 17. Edmundo Ros ; His Orchestra - The Wedding Samba 18. Patti Page Quartet - With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming 19. Lionel Hampton ; His Orchestra - Rag Mop 20. Frankie Laine - Cry Of The Wild Goose 21. Jimmy Dorsey - Johnson Rag 22. Sammy Kaye Orch. - It Isn't Fair 23. Vaughan Monroe - Bamboo 24. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Enjoy Yourself 25. Bing Crosby - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 26. Dick Todd - Daddy's Little Girl Disc: 2 1. Johnnie Lee Wills and His Boys - Rag Mop 2. Bing Crosby ; The Andrews Sisters - Quicksilver 3. Ralph Flanagan - Rag Mop 4. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake 5. Ames Brothers - Sentimental Me 6. Arthur Godfrey ; The Chordettes - Candy And Cake 7. Mary Martin ; Arthur Godfrey - Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep 8. Anton Karas - "The Third Man" Theme 9. Mindy Carson - Candy And Cake 10. Mills Brothers - Daddy's Little Girl 11. Frankie Laine - Swamp Girl 12. Mervin Shiner - Peter Cottontail 13. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - "The Third Man" Theme 14. Gene Autry - Peter Cottontail 15. Gordon Jenkins ; His Orch. - My Foolish Heart 16. Freddy Martin ; Orch. - Music! Music! Music! 17. Bill Snyder ; His Orchestra - Bewitched 18. Ray Bolger ; Ethel Merman - Dearie 19. Billy Eckstine - My Foolish Heart 20. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Chinese Mule Train 21. Perry Como ; the Fontane Sisters - Hoop Dee Doo 22. Jo Stafford ; Gordon MacRae - Dearie 23. Mindy Carson - My Foolish Heart 24. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Dearie 25. Russ Morgan ; the Morganaires - Sentimental Me Disc: 3 1. Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye with Tony Alamo - Wanderin' 2. Gordon Jenkins, His Piano, Orch. ; Chorus with Bonnie Lou Williams - Bewitched 3. Andrews Sisters - I Wanna Be Loved 4. Hoagy Carmichael ; Cass Daley - The Old Piano Roll Blues 5. Sammy Kaye ; the Kaydets - Roses 6. Doris Day and The Mellomen - Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 7. Kay Starr - Hoop-Dee-Doo 8. Nat "King" Cole - Mona Lisa 9. Billy Eckstine - I Wanna Be Loved 10. Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra - Count Every Star 11. Patti Page - I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine 12. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra ; The Weavers - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 13. Larry Green ; His Orchestra - Bewitched 14. Kay Starr - Bonaparte's Retreat 15. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra ; The Weavers - Goodnight, Irene 16. Les Paul - Nola 17. Gary Crosby ; Friend - Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) 18. Bing Crosby ; Gary Crosby - Play A Simple Melody 19. Art Lund - Mona Lisa 20. Vic Damone - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 21. Mariners - Sometime 22. Mitch Miller ; His Orchestra ; Chorus - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 23. Joe "Fingers" Carr ; The Carr-Hops - Sam's Song 24. Ames Brothers - Can Anyone Explain (No, No, No!) 25. Victor Young ; His Orchestra and Don Cherry - Mona Lisa 26. Frank Sinatra - Goodnight, Irene Disc: 4 1. Tony Martin - La Vie En Rose 2. Jo Stafford - No Other Love 3. Kay Starr ; Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'll Never Be Free 4. Richard Hayes ; Kitty Kallen - Our Lady Of Fatima 5. Dick Haymes ; Artie Shaw - Count Every Star 6. Patti Page - All My Love (Bolero) 7. Dean Martin - I'll Always Love You 8. Sammy Kaye Orch. withTony Alamo ; The Kaydets - Harbor Lights 9. Red Foley - Cincinnati Dancing Pig 10. Frankie Laine - Music, Maestro, Please 11. Gordon Jenkins ; Artie Shaw - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 12. Perry Como - Patricia 13. Don Cherry - Thinking Of You 14. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Harbor Lights 15. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - All My Love 16. Nat "King" Cole ; Stan Kenton - Orange Colored Sky 17. Paul Weston ; His Orch. With The Norman Luboff Choir - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 18. Perry Como ; Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck 19. Eddie Fisher - Thinking Of You 20. Phil Harris - The Thing 21. Mills Brothers - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 22. Kay Starr - Oh Babe 23. Margaret Whiting ; Jimmy Wakely - A Bushel And A Peck 24. Ray Anthony ; His Orchestra - Harbor Lights 25. Bing Crosby - All My Love 26. Bing Crosby - Harbor Lights 27. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

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Acrobat's America's Greatest Hits series is a great collection of songs from the fifties, featuring many songs previously unavailable on CD. The sound quality is excellent, with clear vocals and instruments, and the booklet includes detailed information on the songwriters and arrangers. The set is a great bargain, with one CD of the same song being recorded elsewhere.

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High sound quality
Includes rare tracks
Detailed liner booklet
Great for music lovers

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Some hard-to-find tracks

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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. Track List: Disc: 1 1. Andrews Sisters - I Can Dream, Can't I' 2. Bing Crosby - Dear Hearts And Gentle People 3. Bing Crosby - Mule Train 4. Dinah Shore - Dear Hearts And Gentle People 5. Dick Haymes - The Old Master Painter 6. Tony Martin - There's No Tomorrow 7. Richard Hayes - The Old Master Painter 8. Jo Stafford ; Gordon MacRae - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) 9. Jack Teter Trio - Johnson Rag 10. Ames Brothers - Rag Mop 11. Buddy Clark - A Dreamer's Holiday 12. Red Foley - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 13. Owen Bradley ; His Quintet - Blues Stay Away From Me 14. Phil Harris ; His Orchestra - The Old Master Painter 15. Tony Martin ; Fran Warren - I Said My Pajamas 16. Teresa Brewer - Music! Music! Music! 17. Edmundo Ros ; His Orchestra - The Wedding Samba 18. Patti Page Quartet - With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming 19. Lionel Hampton ; His Orchestra - Rag Mop 20. Frankie Laine - Cry Of The Wild Goose 21. Jimmy Dorsey - Johnson Rag 22. Sammy Kaye Orch. - It Isn't Fair 23. Vaughan Monroe - Bamboo 24. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Enjoy Yourself 25. Bing Crosby - Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 26. Dick Todd - Daddy's Little Girl Disc: 2 1. Johnnie Lee Wills and His Boys - Rag Mop 2. Bing Crosby ; The Andrews Sisters - Quicksilver 3. Ralph Flanagan - Rag Mop 4. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake 5. Ames Brothers - Sentimental Me 6. Arthur Godfrey ; The Chordettes - Candy And Cake 7. Mary Martin ; Arthur Godfrey - Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep 8. Anton Karas - "The Third Man" Theme 9. Mindy Carson - Candy And Cake 10. Mills Brothers - Daddy's Little Girl 11. Frankie Laine - Swamp Girl 12. Mervin Shiner - Peter Cottontail 13. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - "The Third Man" Theme 14. Gene Autry - Peter Cottontail 15. Gordon Jenkins ; His Orch. - My Foolish Heart 16. Freddy Martin ; Orch. - Music! Music! Music! 17. Bill Snyder ; His Orchestra - Bewitched 18. Ray Bolger ; Ethel Merman - Dearie 19. Billy Eckstine - My Foolish Heart 20. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Chinese Mule Train 21. Perry Como ; the Fontane Sisters - Hoop Dee Doo 22. Jo Stafford ; Gordon MacRae - Dearie 23. Mindy Carson - My Foolish Heart 24. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Dearie 25. Russ Morgan ; the Morganaires - Sentimental Me Disc: 3 1. Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye with Tony Alamo - Wanderin' 2. Gordon Jenkins, His Piano, Orch. ; Chorus with Bonnie Lou Williams - Bewitched 3. Andrews Sisters - I Wanna Be Loved 4. Hoagy Carmichael ; Cass Daley - The Old Piano Roll Blues 5. Sammy Kaye ; the Kaydets - Roses 6. Doris Day and The Mellomen - Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 7. Kay Starr - Hoop-Dee-Doo 8. Nat "King" Cole - Mona Lisa 9. Billy Eckstine - I Wanna Be Loved 10. Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra - Count Every Star 11. Patti Page - I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine 12. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra ; The Weavers - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 13. Larry Green ; His Orchestra - Bewitched 14. Kay Starr - Bonaparte's Retreat 15. Gordon Jenkins Orchestra ; The Weavers - Goodnight, Irene 16. Les Paul - Nola 17. Gary Crosby ; Friend - Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) 18. Bing Crosby ; Gary Crosby - Play A Simple Melody 19. Art Lund - Mona Lisa 20. Vic Damone - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 21. Mariners - Sometime 22. Mitch Miller ; His Orchestra ; Chorus - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena 23. Joe "Fingers" Carr ; The Carr-Hops - Sam's Song 24. Ames Brothers - Can Anyone Explain (No, No, No!) 25. Victor Young ; His Orchestra and Don Cherry - Mona Lisa 26. Frank Sinatra - Goodnight, Irene Disc: 4 1. Tony Martin - La Vie En Rose 2. Jo Stafford - No Other Love 3. Kay Starr ; Tennessee Ernie Ford - I'll Never Be Free 4. Richard Hayes ; Kitty Kallen - Our Lady Of Fatima 5. Dick Haymes ; Artie Shaw - Count Every Star 6. Patti Page - All My Love (Bolero) 7. Dean Martin - I'll Always Love You 8. Sammy Kaye Orch. withTony Alamo ; The Kaydets - Harbor Lights 9. Red Foley - Cincinnati Dancing Pig 10. Frankie Laine - Music, Maestro, Please 11. Gordon Jenkins ; Artie Shaw - I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 12. Perry Como - Patricia 13. Don Cherry - Thinking Of You 14. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - Harbor Lights 15. Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians - All My Love 16. Nat "King" Cole ; Stan Kenton - Orange Colored Sky 17. Paul Weston ; His Orch. With The Norman Luboff Choir - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 18. Perry Como ; Betty Hutton - A Bushel And A Peck 19. Eddie Fisher - Thinking Of You 20. Phil Harris - The Thing 21. Mills Brothers - Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You) 22. Kay Starr - Oh Babe 23. Margaret Whiting ; Jimmy Wakely - A Bushel And A Peck 24. Ray Anthony ; His Orchestra - Harbor Lights 25. Bing Crosby - All My Love 26. Bing Crosby - Harbor Lights 27. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer