Britain's Number Ones of the '50s (4-CD)
by Various Artists

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CD Details

  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Released: November 8, 2011
  • Originally Released: 2011
  • Label: Acrobat

Description by OLDIES.com:

This exclusive 4-CD collection brings together every Number One in the British charts from the launch of NME's first record sales chart in November 1952 through to the end of 1959. It includes all the NME No. 1s plus those that made No. 1 in the other music magazine charts that launched during the 50s (Melody Maker, Record Mirror & Disc). The 105 tracks chart the course of a momentous decade in popular music with the familiar domain of the traditional artists of dance bands, variety, radio and the movies being overtaken by the rock 'n' roll phenomenon, as mass media gave the baby boom generation a voice while the world emerged from post-war austerity. It's an extraordinary, fascinating and hugely entertaining kaleidoscope of popular music, especially in the later years as Tin Pan Alley's bosses simultaneously tried to exploit, deny, accommodate and manipulate the "passing fad" of rock 'n' roll. Some, inevitably also prompt the question "did we really buy that'" Needless to say, it features some of the biggest names and landmark recordings of the post-war era, and will be a fantastic souvenir to remind those of a certain age of their musical roots.

Tracks on Disc 1:

  • 1.Here In My Heart - Al Martino
  • 2.You Belong To Me - Jo Stafford
  • 3.Comes Along a-Love - Kay Starr
  • 4.Outside of Heaven - Eddie Fisher
  • 5.Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes - Perry Como
  • 6.She Wears Red Feathers - Guy Mitchell
  • 7.Broken Wings - Stargazers
  • 8.How Much is That Doggie In the Window - Lita Roza
  • 9.I Believe - Frankie Laine
  • 10.I'm Walking Behind You - Eddie Fisher
  • 11.Moulin Rouge - Mantovani
  • 12.Look At That Girl - Guy Mitchell
  • 13.Hey Joe - Frankie Laine
  • 14.Answer Me - David Whitfield
  • 15.Answer Me - Frankie Laine
  • 16.Oh! My Pa-Pa (O Mein Papa) - Eddie Calvert
  • 17.I See the Moon - Stargazers
  • 18.Secret Love - Doris Day
  • 19.Such a Night - Johnnie Ray
  • 20.Cara Mia - Mantovani / David Whitfield
  • 21.Little Things Mean a Lot - Kitty Kallen
  • 22.Three Coins In the Fountain - Frank Sinatra
  • 23.Hold My Hand - Don Cornell
  • 24.My Son My Son - Vera Lynn
  • 25.This Ole House - Rosemary Clooney

Tracks on Disc 2:

  • 1.Let's Have Another Party - Winifred Atwell
  • 2.Finger of Suspicion - Dickie Valentine
  • 3.Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney
  • 4.Naughty Lady of Shady Lane - Dean Martin
  • 5.Softly Softly - Ruby Murray
  • 6.Give Me Your Word - Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • 7.Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White) - P,rez Prado
  • 8.Stranger In Paradise - Tony Bennett
  • 9.Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White) - Eddie Calvert
  • 10.Unchained Melody - Jimmy Young
  • 11.Dreamboat - Alma Cogan
  • 12.Rose Marie - Slim Whitman
  • 13.Man From Laramie, The - Jimmy Young
  • 14.Hernando's Hideaway - The Johnston Brothers
  • 15.Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets
  • 16.Christmas Alphabet, The - Dickie Valentine
  • 17.Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • 18.Memories Are Made of This - Dean Martin
  • 19.It's Almost Tomorrow - The Dream Weavers
  • 20.Rock and Roll Waltz - Kay Starr
  • 21.Poor People of Paris, The - Winifred Atwell
  • 22.No Other Love - Ronnie Hilton
  • 23.I'll Be Home - Pat Boone
  • 24.Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
  • 25.Que Sera Sera - Doris Day
  • 26.Lay Down Your Arms - Anne Shelton

Tracks on Disc 3:

  • 1.A Woman In Love - Frankie Laine
  • 2.Just Walkin' In the Rain - Johnnie Ray
  • 3.Singin' the Blues - Guy Mitchell
  • 4.Singin' the Blues - Tommy Steele
  • 5.Garden of Eden - Frankie Vaughan
  • 6.Young Love - Tab Hunter
  • 7.Cumberland Gap - Lonnie Donegan
  • 8.Rock-a-Billy - Guy Mitchell
  • 9.Butterfly - Andy Williams
  • 10.Yes Tonight Josephine - Johnnie Ray
  • 11.Gamblin' Man - Lonnie Donegan
  • 12.Putting On the Style - Lonnie Donegan
  • 13.All Shook Up - Elvis Presley
  • 14.Diana - Paul Anka
  • 15.Party - Elvis Presley
  • 16.That'll Be the Day - The Crickets
  • 17.Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte
  • 18.Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
  • 19.Ma He's Making Eyes At Me - The Johnny Otis Show
  • 20.Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
  • 21.Story of My Life, The - Michael Holliday
  • 22.Magic Moments - Perry Como
  • 23.Catch a Falling Star - Perry Como
  • 24.Whole Lotta Woman - Marvin Rainwater
  • 25.Who's Sorry Now - Connie Francis
  • 26.On the Street Where You Live - Vic Damone
  • 27.All I Have To Do is Dream - The Everly Brothers

Tracks on Disc 4:

  • 1.Claudette - The Everly Brothers
  • 2.When - Kalin Twins
  • 3.Carolina Moon - Connie Francis
  • 4.Stupid Cupid - Connie Francis
  • 5.Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
  • 6.It's All In the Game - Tommy Edwards
  • 7.Hoots Mon - Lord Rockingham's XI
  • 8.It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
  • 9.Day the Rains Came, The - Jane Morgan
  • 10.One Night - Elvis Presley
  • 11.I Got Stung - Elvis Presley
  • 12.As I Love You - Shirley Bassey
  • 13.Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters
  • 14.Side Saddle - Russ Conway
  • 15.It Doesn't Matter Anymore - Buddy Holly
  • 16.A Fool Such As I - Elvis Presley
  • 17.I Need Your Love Tonight - Elvis Presley
  • 18.Roulette - Russ Conway
  • 19.Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
  • 20.Living Doll - Cliff Richard
  • 21.Only Sixteen - Craig Douglas
  • 22.Here Comes Summer - Jerry Keller
  • 23.Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
  • 24.Travellin' Light - Cliff Richard
  • 25.Dynamite - Cliff Richard
  • 26.What Do You Want - Adam Faith
  • 27.What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For - Emile Ford & the Checkmates
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