VA - The Late '50s: The Top 10 Collection (4CD Set, 1998) - Repost

They were the most popular songs, the songs you danced and romanced to. Here are 75 original hits by the original artists - the Top Ten hits of each year from 1955 to 1959 - from the greatest guys, gals and groups of that unforgettable era…

Those were the days, the late '50s! Every time you turned the radio dial or passed a jukebox, your favorite tunes were there. They were your songs — they were our songs — the original hits we danced, romanced and fell in love to. In this collection, you'll find not just any hits of the era. Rather, you'll find the 10 biggest hits of each year from 1955 to 1959, the certified favorites of the only critics that count—music fans, just like you and me. who voted for their favorites by buying them in stores, playing them on jukeboxes and requesting them on radio. Here at last are the 10 most memorable hits of each year — the original recordings by the original stars — just the way you remember them. In addition, you'll hear sample songs by the Top 10 male stars (everyone from Elvis Presley and Pat Boone to Chuck Berry and Fats Domino) and the Top 10 female stars (from Patti Page and Peggy Lee to Connie Francis and Georgia Gibbs). As a bonus, we've even added five extra songs at the end to help us remember the era's golden groups, such as The Diamonds, The Four Preps and Buddy Holly and The Crickets. This album is a musical time capsule: the best of the best of the years from 1955 through 1959 - But it's not just an assemblage of dusty, dated "souvenirs in sound". As long as love is a many-splendored thing, kisses are sweeter than wine, there are teenagers in love, dancers get all shook up, there are lonely boys in lonesome towns, couples draw love letters in the sand, folks are singing the blues, there is young love and couples try to rock around the clock … these songs will live. They spoke for our hearts in the late '50s. And they still work today.

– Gary Theroux, Reader's Digest Senior Music Editor

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Disc 1:
01. Bill Haley And His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
02. The Ames Brothers With Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra - The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane
03. The McGuire Sisters - Sincerely
04. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
05. Roger Williams - Autumn Leaves
06. Bill Hayes - The Ballad Of Davy Crockett
07. The Platters - Only You
08. The Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts - Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
09. Perez Prado And His Orchestra - Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
10. Les Baxter And His Orchestra - Unchained Melody
11. Gogi Grant - The Wayward Wind
12. Nelson Riddle And His Orchestra - Lisbon Antigua
13. Kay Starr With Hugo Winterhalter, His Orchestra And Chorus - Rock And Roll Waltz
14. Dean Martin With The Easy Riders - Memories Are Mode Of This
15. Morris Stoloff And The Columbia Pictures Orchestra - Moonglow And Theme From Picnic
16. Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues
17. Les Baxter And His Orchestra - The Poor People Of Paris
18. Pat Boone - I Almost Lost My Mind



Disc 2:
01. Jim Lowe With The High Fives - Green Door
02. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - Don't Be Cruel
03. Johnny Mathis With Ray Conniff And His Orchestra - Chances Are
04. Andy Williams With Orchestra Conducted By Archie Bleyer - Butterfly
05. Paul Anka - Diana
06. Perry Como With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra And The Ray Charles Singers - Round And Round
07. Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb
08. Buddy Holly And The Crickets - That'll Be The Day
09. The Everly Brothers - Wake Up, Little Suzie
10. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
11. Debbie Reynolds - Tammy
12. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
13. Tommy Edwards - It's All In The Game
14. Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
15. The Champs - Tequila
16. Domenico Modugno - Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
17. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - Don't
18. The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
19. David Seville - Witch Doctor



Disc 3:

01. Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
02. Ricky Nelson - Poor Little Fool
03. Danny And The Juniors - At The Hop
04. Johnny Horton - The Battle Of New Orleans
05. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - A Big Hunk O' Love
06. Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
07. Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
08. The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
09. Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
10. Frankie Avalon - Venus
11. The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
12. Paul Anka - Lonely Boy
13. The Crests - 16 Candles
14. Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
15. Dean Martin - Return To Me (Ritorna A Me)
16. Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires - All Shook Up
17. Perry Como And The Ray Charles Singers With Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra - Juke Box Baby
18. Jimmie Rodgers - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
19. Pat Boone - Don't Forbid Me
20. Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On



Disc 4:
01. Fats Domino - I'm In Love Again
02. Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town
03. Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
04. Georgia Gibbs - Dance With Me, Henry
05. Teresa Brewer With The Dick Jacobs Orchestra - A Tear Fell
06. Sarah Vaughan - Broken-Hearted Melody
07. Gale Storm - Ivory Tower
08. The McGuire Sisters - Sugartime
09. Patti Page - Allegheny Moon
10. The Chordettes - Lollipop
11. Peggy Lee - Fever
12. The Fontane Sisters - Hearts Of Stone
13. Connie Francis - Who's Sorry Now
14. Dion And The Belmonts - A Teenager In Love
15. The Diamonds - The Stroll
16. The Four Preps - Twenty-Six Miles (Santa Catalina)
17. Buddy Holly And The Crickets - Oh Boy!
18. Bill Haley And His Comets - See You Later, Alligator



Tracks 10.1 - 1.10 - The Top 10 Hits of 1955
1.11 - 2.02 - The Top 10 Hits of 1956
2.03 - 2.12 - The Top 10 Hits of 1957
2.13 - 3.03 - The Top 10 Hits of 1958
3.04 - 3.13 - The Top 10 Hits of 1959
3.14 - 4.03 - The Top 10 Guys
4.04 - 4.13 - The Top 10 Girls
4.14 - 4.18 - The Top 10 Groups

Album created by Gary Theroux.
Digitally remastered for superior sound quality.
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