Various Artists - America's Greatest Hits 1954 / Various (CD)

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 1954 edition (ACRCD198) originally released in 2006 before we introduced the 4-CD format in recent years. This great-value 109-track collection comprises every record which charted in the Top 15 of the Billboard or Cash Box Sellers, or the Billboard Honor Roll of Hits, or in the Top 10 Top of Billboard's Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes during 1954 (it omits certain records which peaked in 1955 and which have already appeared in our America's Greatest Hits 1955 collection and some which were big hits in 1953, and had already peaked, so will appear in that collection). As with all these collections it features all the biggest hits of the year, 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 anthologies

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Oh My Papa (Eddie Fisher);
2. Rags to Riches (Tony Bennett);
3. That's Amore (Dean Martin);
4. Ricochet (Teresa Brewer);
5. Changing Partners (Patti Page);
6. Stranger in Paradise (Tony Bennett);
7. Oh Mein Papa (Eddie Calvert);
8. Stranger in Paradise (Four Aces);
9. Woman Uh - Huh (Johnny Desmond);
10. Changing Partners (Kay Starr);
11. The Jones Boy (Mills Brothers);
12. The Gang That Sang "Heart of My Heart" (Four Aces);
13. Stranger in Paradise (Tony Martin);
14. Secret Love (Doris Day);
15. What It Was, Was Football (Deacon Andy Griffith);
16. Granada (Frankie Laine);
17. The Creep (Three Suns);
18. The Strings of My Heart (Gaylords);
19. Bell Bottom Blues (Teresa Brewer);
20. Till Then (Hilltoppers);
21. Till We Two Are One (Georgie Shaw);
22. Make Love to Me! (Jo Stafford);
23. I Get So Lonely When I Dream About You (Four Knights);
24. From the Vine Came the Grape (Gaylords);
25. Young - at
26. Somebody Bad Stole Da Wedding Bell (Eartha Kitt);

Disc: 2

1. Darktown Strutters' Ball (Lou Monte);
2. From the Vine Came the Grape (Hilltoppers);
3. Time Will Tell (Hilltoppers);
4. Cross Over the Bridge (Patti Page);
5. Wanted (Perry Como);
6. Answer Me, My Love (Nat King Cole);
7. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight (Tony Bennett);
8. Gee (Crows);
9. Here (Tony Martin);
10. A Girl, a Girl (Eddie Fisher);
11. The Man with the Banjo (Ames Brothers);
12. With All My Heart and Soul (Eddie Fisher);
13. Cuddle Me (Ronnie Gaylord);
14. I Really Don't Want to Know (Les Paul ; Mary Ford);
15. The Man Upstairs (Kay Starr);
16. Little Things Mean a Lot (Kitty Kallen);
17. Poor Butterfly (Hilltoppers);
18. Jilted (Teresa Brewer);
19. If You Love Me Really Love Me (Kay Starr);
20. The Happy Wanderer (Frank Weir);
21. Isle of Capri (Gaylords);
22. Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces);
23. Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer and Maria Alba);
24. Green Years (Eddie Fisher);
25. I Understand Just How You Feel (June Valli);
26. Three Coins in the Fountain (Frank Sinatra);
27. I Understand Just How You Feel (Four Tunes);
28. Sugar Lump (Four Tunes);

Disc: 3

1. The Happy Wanderer (Henri Rene Orchestra);
2. Crazy 'Bout You Baby (Crew Cuts);
3. Steam Heat (Patti Page);
4. Thank You for Calling (Jo Stafford);
5. My Friend (Eddie Fisher);
6. Point of Order (Stan Freberg ; Daws Butler);
7. The Little Shoemaker (Gaylords);
8. Some Day (Frankie Laine);
9. SH - Boom (Chords);
10. SH - Boom (Crew Cuts);
11. Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight (McGuire Sisters);
12. In the Chapel in the Moonlight (Kitty Kallen);
13. Take Everything But You (Kitty Kallen);
14. Hey, There (Rosemary Clooney);
15. The Little Shoemaker (Hugo Winterhalter and a Friend);
16. I'm a Fool to Care (Les Paul ; Mary Ford);
17. Joey (Betty Madigan);
18. The High and the Mighty (Leroy Holmes ; His Orchestra);
19. Cinnamon Sinner (Tony Bennett);
20. I Cried (Patti Page);
21. The High and the Mighty (Victor Young ; His Singing Strings);
22. Dream (Four Aces);
23. The High and the Mighty (Les Baxter);
24. What a Dream (Patti Page);
25. This Ole House (Rosemary Clooney);
26. Italian Hucklebuck (Lou Monte);
27. They Were Doin' the Mambo (Vaughn Monroe);
28. Skokiaan (Four Lads);

Disc: 4

1. Hey, There (Sammy Davis, Jr.);
2. Skokiaan (Ralph Marterie);
3. Smile (Nat King Cole);
4. Sway (Dean Martin);
5. Shake, Rattle, and Roll (Bill Haley ; His Comets);
6. If I Give My Heart to You (Doris Day);
7. I Need You Now (Eddie Fisher);
8. Smile (Sunny Gale);
9. Hold My Hand (Don Cornell);
10. If I Give My Heart to You (Denise Lor);
11. If I Give My Heart to You (Connee Boswell);
12. Oop Shoop (Crew Cuts);
13. Cara Mia (David Whitfield);
14. Papa Loves Mambo (Perry Como);
15. The Things I Didn't Do (Perry Como);
16. Whither Thou Goest (Les Paul ; Mary Ford);
17. Teach Me Tonight (Decastro Sisters);
18. Mister Sandman (The Chordettes);
19. Hajji Baba, a Persian Lament (Nat King Cole);
20. Muskrat Ramble (McGuire Sisters);
21. Mambo Italiano (Rosemary Clooney);
22. The Mama Doll Song (David Whitfield);
23. Mister Sandman (Perry Como);
24. It's a Woman's World (Perry Como);
25. Count Your Blessings (Les Paul ; Mary Ford);
26. I Need Your Lovin' Bazoom (Decastro Sisters);
27. Let Me Go, Lover (The Chordettes);
28. There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays (Nat King Cole)